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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Tropicaltoba on April 18, 2023, 11:04:08 AM

Title: Old Passion fruit vine (in pot) sudden decline?
Post by: Tropicaltoba on April 18, 2023, 11:04:08 AM

Hey everyone I’ve been growing purple passionfruit for about 6 years in a 35 gallon pot. I know commercially they often replace the vines every 3 years in commercial production. It had been productive (2 crops per year) and then after being away for a week (I had watered it) looked like this and has not recovered. Fruit wrinkles, yellow limp leaves.  Does anyone know if this is how the vines die when they get too old?
(https://i.postimg.cc/Mvcy8Rf4/60853-C0-B-8319-4-B45-859-D-E410-E53463-B4.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Mvcy8Rf4)

Title: Re: Old Passion fruit vine (in pot) sudden decline?
Post by: tru on April 18, 2023, 11:07:24 AM

yeah I think it's getting toward the end of its life, the average passionfruit vine only lasts for 7 years!

Title: Re: Old Passion fruit vine (in pot) sudden decline?
Post by: K-Rimes on April 18, 2023, 12:17:30 PM

I have lost many of them. I think they sometimes just put it in reverse sadly, and die off quickly.

Title: Re: Old Passion fruit vine (in pot) sudden decline?
Post by: ScottR on April 18, 2023, 12:38:51 PM

Yeah that's what passion vines do it's best to take cutting around 4-year mark just in case your plant decides to give up the ghost!

Title: Re: Old Passion fruit vine (in pot) sudden decline?
Post by: Tropicaltoba on April 18, 2023, 12:56:54 PM

Thanks everyone for your insight. Yeah, I had actually taken a cutting a while back and it’s already ina 2 gallon pot ready to go. I was actually thinking about getting rid of the old vine anyway this year but it was flowering like crazy and setting fruit this early spring….I guess it knew it’s time was up.