It is possible to grow passion fruit yourself even in regions with a cool climate, since this tropical plant usually lives in mountainous areas and does not like high temperatures.
As the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh explained, the natural habitat of passion fruit is tropical forests, where this powerful liana actively grows, using supports as support.
Passion fruit blooms on new year's shoots, like grapes, so a mature plant requires strong annual pruning and shaping.
The plant can survive the winter even at fairly low temperatures in winter gardens – when the thermometer drops to 10-12 degrees.
As a semi-deciduous plant, passion fruit sheds up to eighty percent of its leaves in the spring.
In order for passion fruit to bear fruit, two different plants need to bloom at the same time to allow for cross-pollination.
The passion fruit flower blooms for only one day. Pollination of the flowers should be done in the afternoon until three o'clock in the afternoon, when the pistils of the flower become active. With proper pollination, the passion fruit produces a large number of fruits: up to eighty percent of the buds form ovaries.
Perhaps this is the main condition that must be met for the fruiting of edible passion fruit. As experience shows, the plant is not too demanding in other respects and can “exist” in a pot without additional lighting with phytolamps.
Previously, we talked about the mistakes to avoid when caring for strawberries.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
