My Edibles: Vine VIC

Pitaya - Red Dragon Fruit (Cutting) ^6/10

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Easy to grow, even a cutting with rotten end can be successfully saved by removing the rotten bit and grow again. I had one flower last year and I noticed that the branch had the flower bending down so I have since made a proper stand for the vine to climb over. Hopefully, I will have some fruits this year. To speed up the growing process dolomite and dynamic lifter should be applied in growing season, just a bit every 2 months. so far no fruit set.

Planted: 2004

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

First Fruited: 5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 20% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Kiwifruit (Seedling)

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Plants almost died in full sun position. Moved to a more sheltered position with free draining soil, and they have picked up considerably.

Requires male and female plant. Only the female produces fruit.

Jan 2012 - No fruit or flowers as yet.

Planted: 1998

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Pitaya - Yellow Dragon Fruit (Cutting) ^7/10

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Passionfruit - Black ^10/10

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This one has been doing extremely well, with up to two hundred fruit each season. Some unripe fruit even have been staying on the vine over winter.

Planted: 2009

Height 3.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Powerfeed, chelated iron, blood

Pest Control:

Question:

Grape - Thompson Seedless

Grape - Golden Globe (Cutting)

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Got this as a cutting from dad 4 years ago.  It's in a pot and doing well.  No fruit yet.

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Passionfruit - Panama Gold ^5/10

Planted: 2010

Grape - Black Muscat ^8/10

Planted: 2011

Passionfruit - Black (Seedling) ^9/10

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Bought not long ago from bunnings.  Currently still in it's pot under my front veranda in shade.  Preparing area for planting.  So far doing well, it's trying to climb up my window pane.

Planted: 2011

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: No

Grapefruit - Ruby Red (Seedling) ^7/10

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I bought this from a nursery two years ago in a pot. This year I planted it in the ground with a mixture of dirt, cow manure and compost.  It doesn't seem to be doing so well.  The Tahitians lime next to it planted at the same with the same mixture seems to be doing fine.  It gets plenty of sun.  I think be the conifers growing behind in along the fence line in the neighbours back yard could be the reason. Or am over compensating with water because of the conifers. Don't know!

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Passionfruit hybrid

Grape Carolina Black Rose

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Oct 2009 Still tiny but growing. New leaves are a bit distorted and curled. Hope it will crawl up my patio support pole and onto the surrounding...will be very pretty sight.

Oct 2010 Sadly my dog decided to prune both leaders really hard last autumn. Fortunately it survived, to my amazement, and is growing again with a few new buds and now leaves.  Looking forward to have it crawl up my pongola again. :)

Sept 2011 Finally this spring this vine has produced lots of flower clusters. It's two leader vines are crawling on both sides of my roof beam.

Planted: 2009

Height 2.8 metres

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: blood and bone, homemade compost, seasol

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

None so far.

Organic Status:Organic

Question: Do I need to remove extra new season's shoots/ flower clusters so as to allow the stronger ones to develop into grapes?

Passionfruit - Panama Red Pandora (Grafted)

Height 4 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Passionfruit - Panama Gold Grafted (Grafted) ^7/10

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Using it to cover an ugly old garage. Erected a trellis , planted in large pot and it took off first summer. However with the cold weather and lack of sunshine, all growth has stopped but still looking healthy.  Waiting for sun and warmth to see if it will keep growing.  Main goal to cover garage with pretty greenery. If I can get it to flower and fruit that would be a BONUS!

Planted: 2011

Height 4 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Will these passionfruit become rootbound in their current large pot? Anyone else growing successfully in a pot?

Grapefruit - Star Ruby

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Fruit started to swell last summer then all dropped off.

Pitaya - Vietnam Dragon Fruit (Cutting)

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I took my kids for a walk around my area one day and saw a huge Pitaya plant grown in the front yard owned by an old Vietnamese couple. I asked the elderly man for a cutting and he ended upended a small cutting with the root intact for me. It was very nice of him. The Vietnam Dragon Fruit is sharing the same pot with the Yellow Dragon Fruit. I can't wait till ]my Yellow Dragon Fruit matures, so I can take some cuttings and give it to the elderly couple in return.

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Pitaya - Yellow Dragon Fruit (Cutting)

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I planted the Yellow Dragon Fruit in the same pot as the Red Dradon Fruit (white flesh).

Planted: 2011

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Kiwifruit - Male ^1/10

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Died - drought year

Planted: 2009

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Pitaya - Red Dragon Fruit

Pitaya - Vietnam Dragon Fruit

Passionfruit - Grafted Black (Grafted) ^8/10

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Grafted black Nellie Kelly bought from Bunnings in May, to use to screen the lattice fence seperating the carport/driveway from the back yard.  The lattice faces North West. Used lots of dynamic lifter to fertilise when it was planted.

Currently it receives only low sun, being shaded in the late afternoon by an exisiting gum tree (which I plan to remove) and in the morning by the carport (which I don't plan to!)

Looks a bit poorly but should improve with more sun.  The chickens enjoy scratching around it and I have planted broadbeans nearby for green fertiliser later on. (Although the chooks have been stripping the bean plants of most of their leaves)

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Organic Status:Organic

Passionfruit - Black Pearl

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Passionfruit - Banana

Planted: 2010

Growing: In a Pot

Passionfruit - Sweet Lilikoi

Growing: In the Ground

Pitaya - Red Dragon Fruit (Cutting)

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Grape -Red Globe

Grape - Black American (Cutting)

Grape - Black American (Cutting)

Grape - Thompson Seedless (Cutting)

Grape - Black Sultana (Cutting)