Genesis - Hardy Passionfruit Vines - Naturally Grown

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EXCLUSIVE!  After years of trial and painstaking work, we're proud to release our 1st ever named hardy passionfruit.  This marks what could be the 1st ever named release of P. incarnata for food production (not ornamental flowers), at least in the USA.  

What makes Genesis passionfruit special?  Blake describes it as follows:

• The flavor is excellent.  It has a sweet, fruity flavor with lime, banana and citrus undertones.  The pulp is yellow.  Flavor is substantially better than average.
• The fruit size is substantially larger than even our Superior seedling line.  Average weight is 73 grams, with one fruit weighing in at 93 grams in 2025. 
• The fruit is packed densely with juice-filled pulp (see photo of a single fruit that was pulped).  
• It is non hybridized, being 100% P. incarnata.
• The fruit has a lovely, round, squat shape with distinct quadrants, as opposed to the average egg shape.
• The vines are heavy yielding.
• The fruit appears to be late ripening.

What stands out most is the huge fruits and the amazing flavor.  It's just on a whole other level compared to most other P. Incarnata. Blake thinks this is one of his best plant releases, and perhaps the most significant thus far. 

Blake also says this: 'It's like the Susquehanna of passionfruits.  Joseph Urias (Planting Justice) visited in autumn 2025 and tried it.  He works in the fruit germplasm repositories in California, and knows his fruit extremely well.  He was amazed and said it was one of the best passionfruits he had ever tasted, period.'

It should be noted that because this variety ripens late, it may not fully ripen fruit in northern areas with summers much shorter than Kentucky.  It will have to be trialed and is still being determined.

Passionfruit vines, being hardy natives, are little touched by insects or disease of any kind, and are quite productive of fruits. The vines grow vigorously and will soon rapidly climb and create stunning ornamental cover for arbors, fences, decks, etc, making a wonderful natural screen and shade. One vine seems able to produce about 15-20 fruits per season, which is September-November. The flowers begin to bloom around July-August and are just stunning. Plants vines about 3-4 feet apart as early in the season after all danger of frost. Very winter hardy once established. Come late autumn it dies back to the ground in zone 6 but in late spring will resprout from it's roots and flower and fruit again, thus it is a PERENNIAL.

In Zones 8-10 may become a permanent woody vine. Will flower and fruit usually the same year of planting if planted in spring. These are Passiflora incarnata. See photos. Naturally Grown at Peaceful Heritage Nursery.

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Planting Site: Full sun to nearly full sun locations.  It needs to climb.  This plant suckers profusely so should not be planted near things or plants you do not wish it to soon find and climb.

Resistant to: Highly resistant to insects and disease in general. Watch out for Japanese beetles, which can sometimes eat the flowers.

Pollination: Self-Pollinating

Plant Size: Approximately 6-18" Tall when shipped in the growing season.  They grow rapidly once planted and usually fruit the first year.  When these ship between February-April the small plants will be dormant and little to no (annual) vine may be present, but the perennial roots are there and will grow new vines rapidly come May, and usually fruit that first summer in most places.  

Zones 6-10

See our passionfruit on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBzMjZj_6s&t=4s