The Tropical Fruit Forum

I’ve been through 3 passiflora incarnata’s in the past couple years trying to get them established, and although they grow vigorously they all eventually end up devastated by gulf fritillary caterpillars. I sprayed BT once, but truthfully am not too interested in killing them or keeping up with the spraying schedule. In my research of the gulf fritillary I was sort of beginning to be under the impression that there may be other passiflora species that they tend to ignore or not favor as much as the incarnata. I certainly love passion fruit and would love to branch out into some other species... does anyone else grow other passiflora species in areas with the gulf fritillary and notice a difference in caterpillar damage? I know there’s a plethora of species and varieties out there so maybe one of them the caterpillars don’t like!