Can i overload my passion fruit?

[Plantinyum]

I have a purple edulis, the plant has alot of fruit and small fruit set right now, i am hand pollinating everithing daily, yet ive started to witness that some of the pollinated flower drop off and do not form fruit, i know that its normal for it to drop a few, but the number is increasing. I usually pollinate around 4 pm, sometimes as late as 8 or 9 pm, at this late time usually the pollen parts have started to shrivel and look dehidrated, is it possible that the flowers that are dropping are the ones that got pollinated so late in the day? Or is it rather the plant refusing to set more fruit ,as it is out of capacity to sustain it?
All this vine is just one plant, it has alot of flower buds comming, i just wonder if i should bother and continue to hand pollinate them, i also fo not want to stress the plant and ultimately weaken it by forcing it to cary unnatural amounds of fruit.











The plant hasnt been watter stresed, havent seen it wilt in the sun, i ams saying this as to eliminate 1 reason for its behaviour...

[Galatians522]

Yes, you can over pollinate passionfruit in my experience. The vine will drop the ones it can't hold. Sounds like that is all that is going on. Vine looks healthy and very productive.

[roblack]

Whoa! Thieving neighbors thin out our excess fruits, so the plant doesn't have to =)

You might need to worry about your trellis and archway holding up more than stressing out your plant.

Whatever the case, well done! Super nice job.

[Plantinyum]

It will be hard for me to not pollinate haha, i have already gone greedy on her, but i am stopping! In the past ive had flowers set fruit, that were not hand pollinated, i will from now on mark the unpollinated flowers so i can see the percentage of sets without manual pollination.

Roblack, no worries about the trellis, it should be sturdy enough to carry me on top of it haha 😂

[seng]

Good job.  I think I have the same small round fruits variety as you.  I hand pollinate it as well.  So far, less fruits than you.  On hot sunny day, the pollen is ready around 3pm.  At 8 pm, it the pollen is less potent, from my observation.

I also has another bigger, and longer fruits variety.  The flowers have about 4 times more.  The pollen is ready around 1pm.  I use these flowers to pollenate the round fruit variety.

The flowers that drops,imo, has to do with how potent the pollen is; that is, how fresh the pollens are.  So when to pollenate is cruicial.

If your tree is over produced, the flowers will not drop.  Usually, the fruits will be smaller or drop later on.

[Plantinyum]

It may be the pollen, sometimes i use totally dehidrated anthers for the pollination, as that is what i have so late in the day. I am seeing a slight decrease in the size of the fruits now, but that should be normal with such an amount of fruit.

I plan on giving the plant a breack from hand pollination till end of june, the i may pollinate for like 10 more days and stop all hand pollination after that.
Preous years there were bumble bees that regularly visited my blooming edulis, so far this year i havent seen any on the flowers, it is possible that they were helping with the pollination, when i was having non manually pollinated flowers set.

[Plantinyum]

I quess the plant decided alone, that it is probably too much load on it, around 90 percent of the flower buds got yellow and fell. Fruit that has been set is still remaining , plant still puts out several flowers a day, which i dont bother to pollinate, it rarely sets fruit anymore. My fruit hungry ass wanted  double the fruit set i got, but when i think about that its just one plant carying so much fruit , it is not bad at all.
I have to remove the rain cover/transparet nylon above the trellis, theres no point in it anymore.
Now i am waiting for the first ripe fruits, which should be around end of july or definitely somewhere in august, i hope most of them ripen till the end of september.