Grafted Passionfruit Pandora Panama Red

Passionfruit Vines are fast and "needy". To get them off to a great start you need to know these tips about.

1. Trellis and location.
2. Grafted Varieties which one to choose.
3. Heavy Feeders Location and Planting
4. Pruning - Keeping your vine fresh and "walking the line"
5. Frost Protection - We show you how to protect your vine for those very cold Winter mornings.

Featured in this youtube is the proven variety.
Passionfruit Panama Red Pandora Passionfruit for sale

Transcript

Now this beautiful passionfruit is the
Pandora Panama red passionfruit

because it has this beautiful red skin

and the aroma coming off this cut fruit

is just sensational

it's just mouth-wateringly beautiful is

all I can say about the smell of

passionfruit I absolutely adore them and

who doesn't and who doesn't want to grow

their own vine

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so how do you choose the right passion

fruit and what do you need to do when

you're planting one in your garden now

this is a grafted passion fruit and the

advantage of choosing a grafted passion

fruit like the Pandora is that you're

going to know exactly what you're going

to get when you pick your fruit so the

Pandora is a selection of the Panama red

and you can plant a Panama red seedling

which is great because they're vigorous

they're easier to grow they take a

little bit longer to fruit so seedling

will take about 12 to 18 months whereas

the Pandora is going to start to flower

and fruit in its first year and you're

going to be picking beautiful passion

fruits within 12 months they're also

going to be treated tight so you all the

fruit you pick off are going to have the

same quality so you can see this is a

beautiful full fruit it has lots of

seeds lots of juice and when you cut it

open that fruit is actually full of all

that beautiful passion fruit which is

what you're growing it for so select the

variety that best suits you and I've

chosen to grow this Pandora in my garden

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the passion fruit vines are heavy

feeders fast growers and then need

something some sort of support to climb

on so I've actually selected a carport

to grow this line on and it makes my

carport look like a better space it

softens the rough edges of the building

and it gives me beautiful fruit in the

morning when I arrive at work and I just

trim off all the edges as it grows what

you need to do when you plant your

passion fruit is have a trellis to grow

it on ready to go and plant it in a full

Sun free-draining rich site so there was

an old wives tale to plant a liver at

the bottom of the hole and the reason

being is your passion fruit is a heavy

feeder so it's kind of like lots of

nutrition as it grows so make sure that

you're able to feed it with a general

Npk fertilizer so nice rich balanced

fertilizer that's going to give you

foliage but is also going to support the

flowers and the fruit as they develop

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so the other really important thing to

do when you're growing passion fruit is

to know that pruning is important so all

the fruit and flowers are going to

appear on this new growth so what you

need to do as it comes into the new

growing season so at the end of winter

and the fruit are just about to finish

so once your fruit finish on your vine 

you need to give it a good prune if you

look at it you can see there's some dead

wood so these are just branches that

have died off you just prune out

anything like that take them right off

to where they're at the base of the vine

and then any of the very long shoots so

you need to actually follow your your

shoots up find out where the ends are

such as this on and then cut it back so

find where it comes on to the main stem

you might cut it back to where it's

making new growth so you can in that way

you can keep your vine happy on the

trellis take out any of the old growth

take out of any of the very woody growth

keep it short so that you're going to

produce lots of new shoots and on all

those new shoots you're going to get

loads of flower and lots of beautiful

fruit

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here in Kyogle would get a bit of cold

weather in the winter so it's not

unusual for us to get quite a few

Frost's so a sensitive plant like this

which is a warm loving passionfruit we

actually protect these from frost and

the worst area for frost is down near

ground level so what we've done is we've

actually wrapped the trunk of this

passion fruit with a bit of frost

protective material and it prevents the

stem from being ring bucked and it

ensures that your passion for it

survives any cool weather if you

actually live in a cold plate like

Victoria it might be that you look at

black passion fruits is your best option

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Passion Flower

There is a lovely place in our orchard at the moment near the passionfruit vines. The aroma is the first thing that I notice as I near the trellis, there is a heady spicy scent in the air. I am then stopped in my tracks by these strikingly beautiful flowers which are produced in great numbers. We have the hybrid vines in the orchard these are a cross between the Giant Grandilla, Passiflora quadrangularis and the Sweet Lilikoi, Passiflora alata, both of which have equally beautiful flowers. It can be a little difficult to get them to set fruit and often hand pollination with a soft paint brush is the only way to ensure fruit set but they are worth the effort for their delicious fruits and are stunning if grown for the flowers alone. Picked flowers can be used in shallow saucers as table decorations or they are gorgeous when used to scent rooms with their magnificent fragrance, I often bring them up to the office to enjoy both the amazing complicated flower and the unusual perfume.

Passionfruit in South Australia

Kieren from Hillbank in South Australia sent us in some great photos of how to go about setting up a passionfruit vine.

A site which receives part sun and shade was selected

The wire mesh was added for the passionfruit to grow along

Bricks were layed to contain the soil

The passionfruit vine was planted

Kieren selected both the Passionfruit - Granadilla and the Panama Red. My guess is that because passionfruit are fast growers the wire mesh will will be covered with the vine in a few months.

Passionfruit - Fast Growing

The passionfruit vine below is 1 year old and full of passionfruits. Simply by placing a trellace along the fence so that it can grow along the passionfruit will flourish in hot environments such as Queensland. There would at least be a hundred passionfruit ripening on this vine. I find that the large purple flowers appear for a day or two and then they form the fruit. You do need to be patient with the fruit because after appearing it takes a couple of months before they turn from green to purple. This passionfruit is a Passionfruit - Panama Red.

Passionfruit hybrid

Recently Les Jefferson from Harvey Bay hybridised a Passiflora quadrangularis with a Passiflora alata. He used pollen from the Granadilla to get his P. alata to set fruit, which was self infertile. He sent me seed of the resulting cross which I grew on and the picture is the resulting fruit. Smaller in size than the Giant Granadilla but with a very nice sweet flavour similar to the P. alata. Has anyone else tried to hybridise other passionfruit?