I was finally able to grow three of these from seed this past spring. I'm very excited. The two survivors are waiting out the heat wave on a windowsill. Any tips for a first timer who doesn't want to kill them? I plan to transplant outdoors a soon as daytime highs drop below 90F.
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I love how these beauties look like some combination of a reverse satellite dish with Scavenger's Reign / LEO-style flora and fauna.
Yeah the flowers are absolutely wild! They only bloom for a day or two, but there are a lot of them and they're stunningly pretty.
That's a carpenter bee! I have these same flowers and same bees in my yard. I love them! If it's got a shiny butt, it's a carpenter bee. Fuzzy butt is a bumble bee. Are you from the southeast US by chance?
Yes I am! Ok, thanks for the note that makes sense because I've seen bees that look like them making holes in decks haha. Ill edit my post.
Have you gotten any fruit yet? I have a few, but they aren't ripe yet. I'm excited to spread the seeds.
Not that I've seen yet! But they only started blooming about 2 weeks ago so I'm still hopeful. They seem very healthy.
Update- I looked today and saw several unripe fruit. Can't wait to harvest them this fall! :)
I'm so jealous! I have a bunch of vines that I started to propagate in February. Most started to really take off this last month or so, but no flowers. Hopefully next year!
Got a similar idea to you, growing up the side of my house! Yeah mine didnt really get going until June, I got them when they were already a year old so hopefully next year! I will say yours look a bit more leggy than mine so they might benefit from more sun, if possible.
I am on a condo balcony fighting for more sun with everything else, and they have been deemed 2nd tier in the sun hierarchy. I should be moving at the end of the year (no idea where to) and one thing high on the wish list is backyard space.
Haha i remember those feels, good luck!
I used to have a peach and fig tree, but I had to off load them on the in-laws. The MIL killed the fig, but the peach is still going strong! It was getting super lopsided on the balcony. No amount of rotating was going to stop it. One day....
Passionflower is a useful herb to have. Taking it as a tea or tincture to help with relaxation and better sleep.
The flower itself? Or the leaves
The leaves can be used to make tea. The juice and the seeds also have a relaxation effect. I never heard about using the flowers, but even if they can be used, it's probably not worth to prevent one fruit from growing ^-^
Leaves and flowers and it will only my medicinal if it's a native version of Passiflora incarnata. But to harvest:
Harvest the long vines when they're begining to flower and haven't yet set much fruit. Let the vines sit in the shade for an hour to give the insects time to crawl off and inspect the vines for caterpillars. Hang to dry or prepare immediately as medicine
*The Healing Garden Juliet Blankespoor (pg. 346)
I make my own passionflower tea from the leaves. I just hang dry the whole branch with leaves in a dark dry place. Cut the leaves when they are dry to the size suitable for one's strainer.
It does help with anxiety, at least for me. And there is plenty to be anxious of these days.
thanks for the tip! i'm going out to restock the tea shelf anyways today, now i have a new flavor to test
Do these make the fruits?
They do! Apparently pasiflora incarnata fruits aren't quite as good as the kind you'd get in a supermarket but hopefully they're still tasty. Haven't gotten any fruits yet though.
they like ours a lot too. huh, i wonder if we could plant some honeysuckle on the other side of the fence from the jerk neighbor's pool and then overwhelm them with moths
I have some coral honeysuckle planted in my yard, too! No flowers on it this year though, hopefully next year...