Superior Hardy Passionfruit Vine Bundles | Naturally Grown

Please note: February-May these are shipped as viable perennial ROOTS.  From June-October we ship leafed-out vines.  The roots we ship out are freshly dug to order, alive, viable, and once planted, will usually bear fruit the same season of planting if planted by June or July.

We have seen consistent results with our obviously superior strain of hardy passionfruit.  These are pure native Passiflora incarnata, not hybrids.  In our seedling trial we've seen the majority of vines produce truly outstanding fruit, with increased pulp, delicious tangy sweet flavor, large fruits, and heavier production.  The average seedling fruit weight is approx. 50g per fruit, which is a good size, and some approaching 70g. 

One vine typically produces about 15-20 fruits per season, ripening from September-November. 

Enjoy stunning beauty and tasty tropical-like fruits! This Superior line we discovered from 2 patches in our local region that both were producing exceptionally large, egg-sized fruits of delicious uncommon flavor and just full of ripe pulp.  We developed our own superior line from these two original findings and we propagate these via our seeds.

Blake began foraging for these fruits in the early 2000s and quickly learned most wild vines produce mediocre fruit in both flavor and size. Not these! Our special strain has much better flavor, size, quality, and production than average. 

ABOUT HARDY PASSIONFRUIT:

Passionfruit vines, being cold hardy, resilient natives, are often little touched by insects or disease, 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 vines and leaves are a potent natural relaxant and sleep aid and sold in the health food industry for that use. The flowers begin to come on 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 seedlings come from superior fruiting vines of excellent quality, size and flavor and represent much better than average genetics. These are Passiflora incarnata. See photos. Naturally Grown at Peaceful Heritage Nursery.

RECOMMENDED FOR ORGANIC GROWING - NATURALLY GROWN PLANTS

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

Susceptible to: Gulf Fritillary is a beautiful native butterfly species whose orange and black caterpillar larvae consume passion fruit foliage, sometimes severely.  They can be picked off and removed when needed.  Orange passionfruit flea beetles can be an issue on very young plants; insect netting helps.  

Pollination: Self-Pollinating

Plant Size: Approximately 6-12" 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