400+ Passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) Seeds Delicious Fruit Garden Plant
Brand: Seeds Of Strength

This large-fruited, red skinned passionfruit has just been released onto the market. A hardy, vigorous, evergreen vine for warm sunny positions. It bears extra large, sweet, passionfruit in abundance through Autumn, Winter and Spring.

Vigorous vine that can reach between 6 - 10 meters, very aromatic, of orange pulp, bright, sweet and very tasty.

It supports temperatures up to (- 5 ¡ã C) after well established and adapted very well at altitudes that can range from sea level up to 1500 meters.

The pulp of the fruit is very tasty, it has musk fragrance that is used to aromatize desserts and pies.

Its fruits are usually consumed in natura, in the preparation of juices, jams, jellies and ice creams.

Growing Instructions:
The seeds have a hard seed coat that has to be treated, or scarified, in order for water to enter the seeds so that they can sprout.

1. To scarify the seeds, sand the seed coat lightly with sandpaper.

2. Soak the seeds in warm water for 24 hours.

3. Plant the seeds ? to 1 inch deep in moist, well-drained potting soil.

4. Keep the seeds warm. The seeds have a better germination rate in temperatures between 70 to 85 degrees F.

4. Water the seeds.

5. Fertilize the plants when they have several leaves and then fertilize them every few weeks during the growing season.

Passiflora edulis, commonly called purple passion fruit, is a shallow-rooted, tendril-climbing, evergreen vine that typically grows to 10-15¡¯ long and to 3-5¡¯ wide and produces extremely showy bowl-shaped fragrant purple-white passionflowers (each to 3¡± wide) followed by edible, ovoid, purple passion fruits (to 2" across).
This vine clings to supports by coiled tendrils. Individual flowers bloom for one day.
Each flower has 5 greenish-white sepals, 5 white petals and a decorative corona of white filaments which are showy purple at the bases.
Ripe fruits are edible off the vine or incorporated into a variety of food products such as beverages, jellies, fruit salads and sherbets.
Three-lobed evergreen leaves (to 3-8" long) are finely-toothed, deep green and glossy above but dull green below. Young stems are tinged with red or purple. Glossy, three-lobed leaves (3-5" long) with serrate margins have two small glands on the stalks.