Passion fruit pollination

Pollination of passion fruit flower

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[veno054]

i pollinate my flowers like this and they close at night and 2-3 days later fall off :(((( ?? any suggestions?

[woodyfriendron]

@veno054 hi, I have found that too much rain will cause this problem. this year at the start I had the same problem, when the rain stopped problem was fixed.

I was also told that I had a Virus. but I found the problem was it too wet .

ps. I have had a fantastic crop this year .

[serkenshin]

Does that really work have anyone from usa try this?

[woodyfriendron]

@serkenshin

Yes 100% sucess rate

[sergiopflanzer]

@woodyfriendron

You need to do cross pollination, one flower to another, not like one this movie, and it is better if you have more passion fruit trees.

[Gadjet87]

i got like one million bee's in my garden, but got only one fruit till now.... :p

[ddavid993]

@serkenshin i do, actually just recently learned this because i didnt no some passion flowers need to be pollinated by hands is there is less BEE's in your area

getting my first fruit this year and its AWESOME!

[decibelius2000]

@cockfight420 Not this one, I have 35 of this kind, they are "Passiflora edulis flavicarpa form" known better in other languages as "maracuyá". This kind needs the pollen from another flower but from the same plant. I used to transport the pollen with my fingers but I found out the using a cotton swap is 98% more effective.

[cockfight420]

@decibelius2000 it works if the variety of passiflora you are growing is self fertile. otherwise you have successfully done nothing. you would need to do that with two different flowers from different varieties, or maybe just different plants, not variety.

In this case that plant is probably a self fertile variety they sell em at my nursery and you only need one vine. but there are some that are not and doing this would be useless. unless you had more than one plant.

[cvelez0427]

By far the most clear explanation on how to pollinate the Passiflora, thank you!