Let's grow passionflower from seeds at home

It is not difficult to grow a passionflower vine from seeds at home. But a young plant in nature is gaining strength for a long time, flowering occurs after a few years. There are varieties of vines that are easy, satisfying and difficult to grow. They behave differently in captivity. At home, passionflower grown from seeds sometimes thrives, entangling the presented place with a liana, but does not want to bloom. With proper care on the exotic, you can get fruits in the room.

Conditions for obtaining seedlings

First of all, you need to purchase fresh seeds. This is important, since they germinate in the first year up to 30, in the second - 2% of the seeds. The most unpretentious in reproduction is blue passionflower. It is most often found as a home ampel culture.

We prepare the substrate by mixing in equal parts:

• peat;
• sand;
• humus;
• leafy ground.

Put the soil mixture on a pallet in an even thin layer and keep in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Pour the cooled sterilized soil into a bowl for germinating seeds.

Seeds without additional processing can sprout up to a year. It is difficult to create the necessary conditions for long-term germination. Amateurs use methods of accelerated germination.

With any method, the seeds must be scarified, the upper dense shell must be destroyed. We suggest using one of 3 methods:

1. Soak the seeds for a day with the addition of stimulants Zircon, Epin and the like. The seeds are buried 0.5 cm, germinated in the light at a temperature of 28-35⁰ C, with bottom heating. Seedlings will appear in 2 weeks for easily germinated varieties and in 3 months for edible passionflower.
2. Before germination, keep the seeds in a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide. Soak the seeds in distilled water for a day. Remove pop-ups. Put swollen seeds in the solution. The top shell should burst. Transfer the seeds to another tightly closing dish with a peroxide solution, put the jar in a warm, dark place until shoots appear. You can open the jar when the seedlings appear. Remove them with a sterile instrument. Change the solution for the remaining seeds. Sprouted seeds are sown and cared for in the usual way.
3. If the box with the seeds sown in the usual way is covered with a foil and a constant temperature drop is created up to 30 degrees during the day, and up to 10 degrees at night, even the most difficult germinating seeds will germinate in 1-2 months.

In the future, the seedlings are seated in separate cups with a diameter of 7 cm.

Caring for passionflower seedlings at home

Passion flower glasses need to be allocated a place on the illuminated east or west windowsill. They are often watered little by little so that there is no stagnation of water. The temperature is maintained at 22-24 degrees in summer, 10-13 degrees in winter. In winter, spraying on the leaves is not required in cold keeping. You can feed 2 times during the summer. In the first year, the main branch, the skeleton, is formed. At this time, you need to substitute a support for the flower. If there is no support, the central shoot will stop growing, the lateral ones will develop rapidly. Therefore, on passionflower from seeds at home in the second year, you need to choose another 2-3 lateral shoots, which are attached to the guides. The rest must be formed by gradual pruning every year. You need to know that flowers will appear only on young annual shoots.

If passionflower grown from seeds does not bloom at home in the fourth year, the cut branches need to be cuttings. Passion fruit obtained in this way will bloom quickly.

Rules for caring for passionflower at home

Liana loves a bright, straight color, but at noon on the south window it requires shading. At the same time, there should always be moist soil in the pot, the leaves should be irrigated with a spray bottle and there should be a lake in the form of an aquarium or a wet pan with moss and pebbles nearby. In the shade of flowering, you can not wait. A constant supply of fresh air to the passionflower must be ensured. In a stuffy room, it will wither away. But the tropicanka also cannot stand a draft.

When buying seeds, you need to find out where this passionflower comes from. If the plant is from humid subtropics, they have special requirements for humid air. Alpine varieties do not tolerate heat, tropical ones require sun and heat.

After winter low light, the plant is gradually introduced into the summer. Later, it can be kept outdoors on an open balcony. However, in winter it is obligatory supplementary lighting with cold glow lamps till 12 o'clock.

During the rest period, the temperature comfortable for passionflower will be 14-18 degrees. In the summer, it is kept at 20-26⁰ FROM.

During the growing period of lianas and shoots, the plant is fed weekly with organomineral fertilizers. Liana grows quickly, clings to the provided supports and can be twisted, creating the desired shapes, until the shoot is woody. The whip can reach 10 meters. Therefore, systematic pruning will help keep the passion fruit in the given dimensions. However, you need to cut it off 10 cm from the trunk, otherwise the plant will die. Pruning is carried out gradually, 1-2 branches. The liana itself can be shortened by ¾ the length. After the procedure, the leaves will turn towards the sun by themselves.

During pruning, the roots that feed the branch die. They stay in the pot, feeding the bacteria. So you shouldn't overuse pruning. Flowers develop only on young growth. Later, a fetus may form. But this will happen with artificial pollination, if there are at least two plants of the same species, since pollination is cross-pollination.

Passion Flowers themselves fight enemies. So, they attract ants with sweet secretions. Ants destroy wasps that eat pollen from a flower. In order to prevent the helicoid butterfly from laying a clutch, dummies are formed on the leaves, copying the eggs. The butterfly flies away, as those who left earlier will eat the leaf, and starvation awaits the new caterpillars.

Fungal and infectious diseases on liana are difficult to treat, more often passionflower dies at home. Of the pests, red spider mites, aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies are terrible for her.

Healing properties of a tropical plant

For a long time, mankind has known the beneficial properties and contraindications of passionflower as a medicine. The main effect of liana preparations is soothing. With its help, they improve sleep, relieve irritability. Use infusions and decoctions to relieve convulsions and fever. Most of all, drugs are known in therapy for the treatment of drug addicts and alcoholics. Passion fruit has no contraindications for use, it has no side effects. Even a child's body is not endangered by the use of drugs. Passion fruit can be grown at home.

Famous for home breeding passionflower

In indoor conditions, the species of passionflower passionflower is mainly bred. Their difference is that they grow in the form of vines, which can be attached to the supports by means of a mustache, like cucumbers. As an example, winged passionflower, a bright red Brazilian passion fruit.

This species is popular in Brazil. Beautiful flowers up to 12 cm in diameter with long stamens after pollination create large orange fruits, when fully ripe they turn yellow.

Video about keeping passionflower at home