Author Topic: Can passion fruit grow in container (Read 1990 times)

pinkturtle · « **on:** April 15, 2020, 04:52:57 PM »

Someone gave me a passion fruit tree. First time try to grow it.

I am planning to put it in a 15 gal. Can I grow it in a container?
Do I nature trim every year?

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Thanks,
Al

Itay Gazit · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2020, 05:53:30 PM »

15G should work

palingkecil · « **Reply #2 on:** April 15, 2020, 06:12:56 PM »

Yes, you could grow it in a container and still get fruit. But in my experience they give a lot more fruits i grow them in the ground. Like triple amount of what they bear when they were in the container.

Orkine · « **Reply #3 on:** April 15, 2020, 06:23:02 PM »

They will grow and fruit in a pot. 15 gallon is plenty.

Dimitry Fisher · « **Reply #4 on:** April 15, 2020, 06:28:04 PM »

Quote from: Orkine on April 15, 2020, 06:23:02 PM

They will grow and fruit in a pot. 15 gallon is plenty.

Yes, indeed. Regular passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) fruited for me repeatedly in 5 gal container, but looked rather miserable. It's much more happy now that it's in the ground. 15 gal container should work just fine. Enjoy! Also: don't overfeed. If you overfeed you'll get great growth but no fruit (I'm speaking from firsthand experience here). Kindest wishes!

pinkturtle · « **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2020, 06:57:24 PM »

Thank you, everyone.

scottsurf · « **Reply #6 on:** April 16, 2020, 01:07:06 AM »

I had one in one of those half 55 gallon drums so like 20 gallons and I got 25 to 35 fruit from it.

ManVFruit · « **Reply #7 on:** April 16, 2020, 01:31:21 AM »

have seen them fruit in 5 gallon in many nurseries, but as every stated in ground best option for more, and more.

Kevin Jones · « **Reply #8 on:** April 16, 2020, 02:05:33 AM »

Maybe think of the five gallon pot as temporary... for a year maybe.
They really do thrive in the ground ... because they grow into a monster.
You can always take cuttings and start the cycle over again too.

Kevin Jones

pineislander · « **Reply #9 on:** April 16, 2020, 07:29:45 AM »

In ground the base of stem can get s thick as your arm and produce many hundreds of fruit. Why plant in a pot?

Kevin Jones · « **Reply #10 on:** April 16, 2020, 11:45:43 AM »

One possibility is... that you are living on the 2nd floor of an apartment building... but you still love to grow plants.
Containers might be your only practical option.
I know I did at one time.
As I recall... My only south facing window was covered up in passion flower vines.

Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones · « **Reply #11 on:** April 16, 2020, 01:36:20 PM »

Here's a pix I took this morning of a "Red Rover" growing in a 5 gallon pot in my greenhouse.
I've been hand pollinating the blooms:

Kevin Jones

850FL · « **Reply #12 on:** April 16, 2020, 01:42:14 PM »

You’ll need some type of large trellis stuck in the pot or behind it, if you want fruit. Passion love to climb and spread out.

Kevin Jones · « **Reply #13 on:** April 16, 2020, 05:13:20 PM »

That's true... mine are climbing on bamboo poles.

Kevin Jones

pinkturtle · « **Reply #14 on:** April 16, 2020, 05:16:06 PM »

How is everyone trellis look like? Gathering some info so I can build one.

Thanks,
Al

Kevin Jones · « **Reply #15 on:** April 16, 2020, 07:43:17 PM »

Mines pretty simple... short term solution for the summer.... 4ft bamboo pole stuck in the pot.
I weave the vines around onto themselves.
I'll have to come up with another solution eventually.
You could use 3 poles and creat a sort of mini tee pee style trellis.

I had Ruby Glows growing in pots in my old greenhouse... and they took root in the ground and now they live in the ground in the greenhouse year-round.

Kevin Jones

Triloba Tracker · « **Reply #16 on:** April 17, 2020, 10:39:45 AM »

totally agree, based on my experience with P. incarnata, that they do not thrive in pots.

I would love to grow P. edulis but I don't have a greenhouse. If they were as precocious as P. incarnata, i could just grow them as annuals. But i hear they take more than one season to start fruiting...

850FL · « **Reply #17 on:** April 17, 2020, 11:25:10 AM »

Lol. I plant most of my passion vines surrounding thickets of clumping bamboo on my property, or trellising up cypress and willow trees. many ways to do it. Twine would work too. Same concept with grapes..

Also I read that most ripe passions will just fall off their vines, so really no need to worry if your vines become way out of reach.

Kevin Jones · « **Reply #18 on:** April 17, 2020, 01:57:02 PM »

I bought some "Red Rover" (P. edulis) from Brad Spaugh last year and they rooted very easily.
Great seller by the way!
Over wintered them in a couple of 5 gallon pots and now they are blooming as pictured above.
They could have easily have been over wintered in your home with south facing windows.
After a year though... look out... they really take over!

Kevin Jones

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