frost tolerant passionfruit (forum)

Robert starts with ...
I like the traditional black passionfruit (ned kelly?)but I am concerned about frost tolerance. If not ned kelly which passion fruit would you recomend?
thanks,
Robert

Time: 28th August 2011 9:27am

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Jantina says...
Hi Robert, we have found seedling black passionfruit to be the hardiest ones and we grow our own replacements this way (we have found them easy from seed). If you lived closer you could have some we have growing in pots. Nelly Kelly tends to die back easily and then the wretched rootstock tries to take over your whole gerden and I would never recommend it. Somewhere on this site there is a whole thread of comments on passionfruits.

Time: 29th August 2011 1:08pm

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J says...
I'm going to second Jantina's comment on this. That nelly kelly rootstock blows big time. Do not let that thing near your garden. The past owner of my house had left it behind for me to deal with. Not much fun.
Nelly Kelly also do a non-grafted black passionfruit. This is also a bit sketchy. Out of the 8 of these I planted last spring, 1 survived (albiet that one is doing very well). But the rest of them got wiped out by this winter.
Seedlings grown directly from the a fruit seem to do quite well, as Jantina has stated above. Also you might want to look into "Banana Passionfruit" which is the most frost tolerant of the lot.

Time: 29th August 2011 1:50pm

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Robert says...
thanks for the info.
I'l have to try and source the o grafted seedlings locally
robert

Time: 16th September 2011 4:37pm

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Time: 11th October 2011 4:04pm

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