1. Good Organic Gardening - January-February 2016

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GROWING | Passionfruit Passionfruit Passiflora edulis Words Jennifer Stackhouse I’ve just been standing with a neighbour, Naomi, looking at the remains of her passionfruit vine. It’s a sad sight. What’s left is the unproductive, weedy understock. The productive vine succumbed to a cold snap, but the coldand disease-tolerant understock, Passiflora caerulea, can’t be halted. She has tried tearing it down and digging it out. The latest weapon is the family’s pet lamb, currently feeding around where the passionfruit understock is growing. Before the passionfruit died back, it produced buckets of passionfruit, so Naomi is keen to plant another vine, but she says it won’t be a grafted vine. Grafted vs own roots Passionfruit are usually sold as grafted plants. Grafting makes the vine more tolerant of poor soil and climate conditions but, as Naomi discovered, the graft can become a huge weed problem. As well as surviving when the main plant has died, suckering while the edible vine is still alive is also a problem. Although the suckering of varieties grafted on to P. caerulea is a potential garden problem, there are rootstocks that don’t sucker. Commercial vines are usually grafted onto P. edulis f. flavicarpa, a rootstock developed in Queensland that is disease-resistant and not prone to suckering. Some varieties are also grown from seed or cutting to overcome suckering problems. ‘Panama Red’ and ‘Pandora’ may be sold as seed-grown plants, which means they are growing on their own roots. Black passionfruit is also available on its own roots. Planting and care Passionfruit is one of Australia’s favourite backyard crops and a useful plant to grow as a living screen for shade or privacy. Although they are warm-climate plants, passionfruit grow in all but the very coldest parts of the country. Tropical, subtropical and warm coastal zones produce the best vines. In cold areas, select a warm, sheltered spot with free-draining soil. Cold conditions and wet soils lead to poor growth or vine death and poor fruiting. Fruit that does form can be very slow to ripen. These vines also need space for their extensive root systems and spreading branches. They are not suited to growing in pots and may be difficult to manage in confined spaces. In tropical and subtropical climates, passionfruit vines fruit within six months of planting, which can be done at any time of the year. In temperate zones, however, flowering and fruiting can take 18 months from planting, which is best done in spring or early summer. Feed vines in spring and summer with pelletised organic manure or citrus food, spreading the fertiliser along the root system. Water well, particularly after planting, while times are Shutterstock 72 | Good Organic Gardening
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