Spring time/Mamey apple time here, having fun tasting many different ones but this particular variety has been my favourite for decades. Some pics of the fruit peeled and cut up. The seeds come out of this one with our any hassle. All around goodness

Hate to break it to you, but if you see one rat then there's another 50 waiting somewhere else to forage your garden.
I had the same issue with rodents for several years, spent thousands, literally thousands of dollars on rodent control.

- Exterminators
- Live traps
- Sticky Traps
- Planks
- Water cannons
- Ultrasonic
- Alarms
- Pneumatic rods
The list goes on

Killed dozens a week and they keep coming and coming in swarms.
Literally at night you can hear them chewing on your trees making a new nest.
These aren't small rats, they're large Norwegian roof rats, tail girth is the size of your pinky finger, easily a 2-3 pounder.

During the day, it's squirrels...

Then I introduced 2 feral cats, amazing animals.
Best of all they were free!!!

Came to my scheduled appointment to pick them up at the animal shelter.
- Received all shots (They put down animals infected with rabies)
- Spayed or neutered
- Carriers and toiletry
- Microchipped
- You have a guarantee, if you do not like them return them no questions asked

I spent a few months taming and training them, but you'd have to keep them enclosed for a few weeks.
I took the time and patience to raise mine and it paid off handsomely.

Now, when I'm in the garden, the cats just curl up next to me, sleep or lay in the pots without digging any holes.
I leave 2 litter boxes, 1 on each end of the house.
It's a great feeling knowing you can grow anything and not have rodents eat everything down to a nub.

Quote from: barath on March 14, 2018, 09:15:28 PM

The batches of Australian passionfruits I got from various U.S. based vendors were all duds -- while most germinated, they were strange P. edulis plants (they had red stems, which was weird for P. edulis) and didn't ever flower or fruit, even in a greenhouse.

i have an Edulis, about 4yrs old with red stems.
 i get a few flowers here and there, no fruit.
pretty sure i bought it as "Purple possum", maybe they grew it from seed ?

glad to know they can graft, i might keep the root which is larger than my wrist now.

i just grew another edulis too. 1 1/2 yrs last fall, had tons of flowers, no fruit.

ive grown Maypop (Incarnata) 4 times from seed... , got fruit every single time.
once, the vine was only 5ft tall in a 3gal pot, produced 1 very tasty fruit.
Maypop is also more cold hardy than edulis... it is vigorous, and can sucker though.
Maypop grows wild on the gulf coast. (i think a type of bananna passi does to)

and i think that is a trick to make them flower/fruit is to constrict the roots.
i would use a 7 to 15gal container.

I have 2 maypop growing from seed now... still kinda small for cuttings
but PM me in a month or 2 , i will propagate 4 or 5 just in case.

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I did get a batch of Australian seed from a forum member that is doing well and just flowered for the first time, so we'll see how that does.

   None of the banana passionfruits of other types I've had are worthwhile.

let us know about the Aussie types
the hot climate might be a better match of me in South Louisiana

i just bought bananna passi seeds
is the fruit that bad ? ive read it was good, just not as good as flavicarpa, ligularis.

here my edulis / possum purple (red stems - no fruit)




Maypop vine + flowers.

The group of granadilla such as Sweet Granadilla (passiflora ligularis) , Fragrant Granadilla (passiflora alata), and Giant Granadilla (passiflora quadrangularis)  taste much better than passiflora edulis.

barath, I just saw this thread for the first time.  Wow you have quite the collection of passionfruit.  I would be interested in acquiring cuttings from you if they are available.  I have a "red rover" edulis and fredrick and a baby lilikoi that is still getting started in the greenhouse.  The red rovers seem better than fredrick so far but plants are still less than 1 year old. 

What part of southern CA are you moving to?

Neither are trees but coco yam and banana might be worth considering if you are after the large leaf tropical look.