My Edible Fruit Trees: Passionfruit Vines WA

Passionfruit - Enduro Goldl (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - This is a new hybrid variety here. Produces huge yellow fruits that have a lovely flavour and sweetness. Starts fruiting in it's first season and prolifically. The fruit did tend to take awhile to ripen though and many were affected by the rainy and cool weather in late Autumn/winter. The vine was in a spot that was probably not ideal for winter. I have started a new vine in a much warmer/drier and sunnier (for winter) spot and will see if this works better.  

Planted: 2017

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release organic chook manure pellets, a couple of small side dressing of potash in summer, sometimes Acid lovers fertiliser. Mostly try not to overdo the nitrogen.

Passionfruit - Sunshine Special

Pollination: Self Pollination

Passionfruit (Grafted)

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

did you try a sunshine special? they seem to do well in WA. my theory is these are a bit finicky. when one goes, it will go nuts. I just planted 2 (panama red and gold) up the same fence a sunshine special is on. will be interesting to see what happens

Have put in three mor-two from seeds & one grafted-fingers crossed.

you need two lambs fry. bury one under your passionfruit as you plant it. lambs fry water is brilliant for the passionfruit = lambs fry water is what you soak the lambs fry in before you peel it. dont waste the second lambs fry - re-learn the great taste of lambs fry and onions. feed the plant with liver water onece or twice a year and things will improve.

Passionfruit - Panama Red (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

Why do I worship Passionfruit?? Let me count the ways:

Easy to grow, looks great/lush, perfect flower, no pests, versatile fruit - can even chuck the whole fruit in the freezer when there is a glut - no prep or packaging required!

In order to save space I have:

Panama Gold - grafted

Black/purples - grafted (Nelly kelly brand)

Pan Red seedling (photo)

Sunshine special seedling (has a mild woodiness virus)

Common red seedling (cinnabarina - sp?)

The panama red and golds are great. They do tend to flower much later in summer (as we are semi-tropical) and carry fruit right thru till next spring - with them slowing ripening and dropping thru winter. The winter ripened one's are not as sweet as in those that ripen in the warmer weather. The pan red seedling is out of control and fruits madly.

The purple Nellie Kellies: it took 4 vines before I got a "go-er" - I love the intense flavour of any of the purples the best.  Nov 2010: I am probably less than a month of harvest - so they are much earlier than the panamas.

The sunshine special is a lovely large fruit that tastes more like a purple. It's about a month behind the the NK purple. Lorna in Albany is growing these - so they can handle cool climates. Very tasty fruit and a little sweeter than NK purple.

My common red (Big Red) is a dud - produces very round, very heavy, yellow fruit that is as sour as a lemon! yukk.

I lavish lots of water and manure on my vines. They have very shallow and  searching roots so it doesn't pay to be tidy around them - I leave all the leaf litter and give them a wheelbarrow load of manure at a time (out to radius 2m from trunk)  Some late winter/early spring dynamic lifter or blood n bone, trace elements and potash good too. Need lots of water when holding a big crop. A little magnesium also helps to sweeten them. A very hungry and thirsty vine - and with the huge size they get to and the fruit load they can carry - it's not surprizing!?

I believe passionfruit like their roots in the shade and their head in full sun. They seem to appreciate a cool root run and training against a warm masonary wall is perfect in a cool climate.

I have not needed to hand pollinated to date.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Planted: 2008

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 7

Fruit Harvest: 30 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: See text

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None needed as yet.

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Just planted 2 of them 2 days ago August 3rd 2010 :)Mira

Passionfruit - Select Black

Comments: -

Nelly Kelly label from Tass1 in small pot in Dec 09. Intended to shade the metal shed, via training to a new 1.8m high picket and wire trellis. Put in ground Dec 23 09. Sandy soil, added clay (bentonite from kitty litter, zeolite, spongelite and cow manure. Within 2 weeks smal rootstock growth grew as much as the original nelly kelly. Cut off when planted out. Grafted variety then grew extremely quickly when gripped a bamboo stake, climbing that inside 2 weeks. Pinched out top growth above top wire Jan 24 2010, need it to split into 2 branches as only one leader grew. Cut back to wire after growth commenced at and slightly below desired height. Some yellow spotting of leaves, hopefully sucking pest rather than virus. Reached Across the middle of top wire May 2010. Previous leader and branch to the right stopped growing (for now?). Across all of the top September 2010. Hoping for branching falling down and then flowers and fruit - I've tried small cuts a couple buds, but not seen them shoot yet. Might be another year for fruit, but I won't be in this house to see them. A bit worried about rootstock shoots that I've needed to pull up. Hope this stops and doesn't happen the other side of the neighbours fence

Planted: 2009

Height 175 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

When I Fertilise: Spring

Comments

Flowered for the first time, just as I moved out October 2010. Good luck in the future