The best potted fruits can be grown by self-pollination during the flowering and fruit period of half a year after taking care of the simple balcony.

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Green potted plant is a necessary embellishment of home life, which can not only beautify the room, fresh air, but also refresh the mood and nourish nature. There are many advantages in raising flowers and plants at home. Hua Sheng potted Plant Diary No. 933 takes you to know one of the best fruit plants.

Today's protagonist

The appearance of this kind of fruit growing on trees may be rare for flower friends in the north. This is passionflower, commonly known as passion fruit. It is available in the fruit supermarket all the year round, and the price is not low. In fact, passionflower is very easy to raise, can be planted in pots, and can also be planted on the balcony in the north. We have introduced it before, and this issue will introduce you to the best passionflower varieties.

Zixiang No.1

Zixiang No. 1 is the most cultivated variety of passion fruit in China at present, the fruit is round or oblong, the exocarp is purple at maturity, the sugar content is low, the acidity is also low, the fruit weight is about 35 grams, the yield per mu can reach 2000 kg, and it is very high yield. the flowering period is from March to December, and it can blossom and bear fruit throughout the year in South China, and from spring to autumn in the north, it will blossom and bear fruit many times during the period of flowering and fruiting.

Easy to cultivate

Zixiang No. 1 is a vine, the plant is not tall, only about 6 meters long, does not eat much soil, with a general foam box can grow (flowerpots are too small, can grow, difficult to bear fruit), can build a shelf, or guide to climb onto the balcony. It is growing very fast. I bought two Zixiang one trees last year and crawled all over the anti-theft net in just one year. They have blossomed this year and have not borne fruit yet (see the previous post).

Flowering

It is worth mentioning that many fruit plants need cross-pollination in order to bear fruit, while Zixiang No. 1 has self-compatibility, is a monoecious flower, and can self-pollinate. The top three clockwise flowers of the flower are pistils. The following five separate petals are stamens, female flowers bear fruit, male flowers are used for pollination, and can also be pollinated artificially. The specific operations are as follows: dip the pollen of the following five styles with a brush or cotton swab. Apply it to the top three styles. It can bear fruit without artificial pollination, and the experiment shows that after artificial pollination, the fruit rate is increased by 30%.

Result

The necessary condition for Zixiang No. 1 to blossom and bear fruit: there must be plenty of light. Lack of light will affect flowering and fruiting. A flower friend once asked me why the passion fruit at home only grows leaves but does not blossom. As a result, he planted completely indoors, without any sunlight, and his head was green, so how could he have any fruit to eat. Therefore, potted plants should be placed on the balcony and balcony.

For the flower friends in the north, it is no problem to maintain the closed balcony in winter. I have seen the flower friends in the northeast share their planting experience. They put it on the closed balcony in winter, enjoying the heating while basking in the sun through the glass, blooming and bearing fruit happily. Daily maintenance can be served by flood and fertilizer, it is not hypocritical.