Lilikoi Lovers! Planting, Care & Harvesting Tips for Growing Our FAVORITE Crop: Passion Fruit
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Here in our garden, we just love passion fruit, and it loves growing in the San Diego climate!
We have an absolute beast of a plant, and we have a second one that was started from seed. Let's talk about these two varieties along with some lessons about planting, maintenance, and harvesting.
PLANTING
You'll have the best success putting your plant in the ground when it's dormant (usually between October and April). This is a tropical plant, so it's going to thrive when it gets lots of water and sunshine. It's also an evergreen vine, so it is a great plant to have as a wall or roof all year long.
We picked this one up from City Farmer's Nursery in October 2019, and it's been a massive success. It's a purple variety. In another part of the yard, though, we have a different variety (yellow) that was started from seed. It had a bit of a rough start to life, and this plant hasn't been quite as productive as the other.
PLANT CARE & PRUNING
First, let's talk watering. We have ours on a drip system. It gets watered every 2-3 days, and we'll up the length of time this time of year. We also had a very wet winter in Southern California this past year, and all of the garden has been loving it.
We sometimes use free tree or liquid fertilizers, but we mostly add in a sprinkle of compost a few times a year.
Passion fruit is usually grown as a fence or privacy barrier. It naturally wants to go upward and then sprawl out. That makes it a great option to cover a patio like we have here.
This single plant takes up a ton of space, so we also have to make sure to stay on top of pruning. This is the best day after the plant has given you fruit before it flowers next (usually in the fall or winter), and you don't want to do more than 30% of the plant at a time.
We usually see our first flowers at the beginning of May, and they'll continue to pop up for about a month. The fruit takes about three months to develop. However, we sometimes get another round of flowers in the fall. Even though fruit will develop, it takes much longer (since there is less sunlight), and this bumper crop might need to get sacrificed if you really need to prune.
HARVESTING
Passion fruit is one of the easiest crops to harvest. The fruits will naturally drop when ready! We just walk around and pick them up off the ground. They'll store in the fridge for at least a couple of weeks too, or they can be frozen.
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Thanks for the video. I think it’s worth mentioning that this plant doesn’t last too long. 7-8 years is what the books say. I’ve had it for almost 9 years (San Diego) then it just died for no obvious reason. Fruited aggressively, grew huge.
In the last couple of years it started having scales (more and more).
Another interesting fact “Passion fruit has alkaloids which maintain the blood pressure low and offer sedative and antispasmodic benefits”. Somebody told me that the seeds have more of this chemical, so chewing on the seeds before bed could be beneficial…
That whole WALL of lilikoi is the gardener's equivalent of a 10-car garage full of Lamborghini's. My neighbor's vine crept over my fence, and I got 4 fruits, and I feel like I won the lottery!
Ha! So true. It's definitely our pride and joy. Sneak some water and fertilizer under the fence!
I just discovered your channel after searching for how to grow Likikoi fruit from seed. I live in HI on Big Island, Northern side of Kona so sunny and warm. I’m at a very slight higher elevation like 8 min up from KOA airport. Hope that won’t affect growth.
I picked up two yellow fruits from the ground during my early morning walk. Didn’t even know what they were, until I got home and cut one open. Did research and found a diamond to be treasured! I had my first taste on top of vanilla yogurt a/sprig of fresh mint. I’m in love!!! Thanks for the info on its growth etc. watch another vid on how to prep the seeds for planting and it growth so combining info on both videos I’m ready to get started!
Awesome plant! Gonna grow it from September. Thanks for the tips!
Between this channel and Epic, you’ve convinced me to try growing passion fruit. Hopefully it’ll do well in Northern California.
My favorite use is in a Mai Tai! 🍹
If you’re in south Florida and just starting a passion fruit vine the gulf fritillary buttterfly caterpillars will eat it before it can grow!
Just Love it! Thanks for sharing
Great video! I live in SD area too and grow passion fruit. I’m obsessed! What fertilizer do you use? Your plant is a nice dark green color. Mine vine is a little lighter. Also have you ever had the leaves turn yellow and the back of the leaves get speckled?
They are very easy to start from a store bought passionfruit.
Love passion fruit. On ice cream or pressed for juice.
In some parts of the world, it's considered invasive, so plant with caution.
Did you need to amend the soil before planting this on the ground? I live in so cal as well and have clay heavy heavy soil. Can you please advise on how to plant in ground in clay heavy soil?
This was planted in some fill soil that's not super great but not as much clay as the rest of the garden, so we've added a little bit of compost and fertilize with fish emulsion a few times a year.
I havent watched in awhile. Who is this??
I love lilikoi. They are awesome fresh or in a drink.
For syrup too bitter.
Zone 5 b Utah. They grow from seed. Beautiful and will die with frost. However if you keep near a body of water ( pond or lake) w the temp they should last long bit longer. 🌱
Hello, I'm Jon! I've been behind the scenes for years, but I've been in front of the camera here and there so we can keep videos going while Brijette has been pregnant & spending time with her baby.
Really cool to hear that you have grown them there!
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How many plants do you have?
Is there a way to trim the plants so that they grow up? Should you prune the lower shoots until it gets to the top of the trellis?
We have a total of two, but the really big area is just one.
Plants will naturally want to go up. You can prune that way. It really just depends on where you're growing it.
The purple variety is a wall AND a roof, so we gave it structure for that.
The yellow one over the hammock has one stalk going up and then spreads out on the wood.
Nice informative vid.....thanks! One thing I like to do with my passionfruit is make a big batch of a vinegarette. Use some fresh & freeze the rest. A tasty surprise when having guests!
Ooo that sounds great! I'll check for some recipes for sure.
Ugh! I’m so jelly. 😂 I’m local and I have killed so many passion fruit vines 😣
I’m going to try again!! How do you think it would do in a shady area fed with gray water?
Full sun is best. Maybe it can go up and find sun? The soil & plant should be able to filter out the water though.
Which variety are the sweetest? Do you know a name for the variety?Could I grow them in Florida 10a?
There are hundreds of varieties, and we just have these two. The yellow one is much sweeter, while the purple can be sweet but usually has a lot of sour going on.
Growing up we used to have a passion fruit vine that was yellow in the inside and it was delicious not as sweet as the purple ones though...do you know what variety I should get?
All of us prefer the purple one!
-Jon
Will the leaves drop in areas that get frost? Can it handle the frost of San Diego’s inland valleys?
You'll get some older leaves turning yellow but still very little. We know someone in the foothills of LA where it gets down to the high 20s (rarely) in the winter, and their vine is great.
Hey Jacque,did you move to another location along with your Passion Frut is much larger than in the past videos?.
Jacque is a fellow passion fruit lover, but this is a different vine.
-Jon
That's funny, he looks a little like Jacque in the garden. For some reason I can't post a comment.
Can I grow them from seeds from store-bought varieties?
We've grown one from seed, but it was from a plant we had bought at a nursery. Theoretically, you can. Sometimes, though, those fruits are picked early, and it's possible the seeds aren't mature yet.
i live in the tropics but all yhe flowers of my passionfruit fall off, not a single turns into a fruit.
Can you explain why? Ut has grown massively, i dont even over fertilize it. I keep it in the best condition.
If it's a fruit-bearing variety, it sounds like there's some kind of deficiency. If we don't water ours enough, it will give some small, shriveled fruits that fall off.
@@SanDiegoSeedCompany it only beared one fruit so far.
And the cutting I got it from, it had fruits all over.
Can you share your fertilizer routine? Because, my vine gets ample sunlight all year round, so sunlight isn't even an issue nor is there an issue with watering.
I hand pollinate the flowers and the little fruit that just forms, the next day, falls!
@@abc_cba weird. We have that happen to some, but maybe 1% of the flowers. We used to hand pollinate every one as well, but we stopped a year or two ago.
Granular fruit tree fertilizer 1-2 times per year, and fish emulsion about once a month.
I would like to plant passion fruit thanks for the tips and yes I’m starting with the seeds my friend gave me, but I don’t know how so I google it. It says to soak it and then plant it in a good soil and wait for 3-4 weeks but I did this and it just didn’t germinate, what I did wrong please advice, thank you 🙏🏻 😊
Not sure since we didn't start ours from seed, but this article seems to be helpful. Definitely give it another shot! www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-grow-passionfruit
I got no fruit on my plants this year…any ideas what I might have done wrong?
@@sameenaalkowni3471 did you get flowers?
@@SanDiegoSeedCompany no I didn’t. That’s what is baffling.
Can this be grown in a container?
It can! The bigger, the better. Bare minimum would be 5 or 10 gallons.
Ours in the Northwest flowers every year, but no fruit.
There are some varieties of the passioflora vines that don't produce fruit. Do you know if it's meant to be a fruit-bearing one?
It might need a partner for cross pollination
is this ONE plant???
Yes, it can grow 15-20ft per year.
@@SanDiegoSeedCompany What variety or cultivar is this passion fruit?