Plant a pot of passion fruit, bloom and taste sweet

Passion fruit, also known as passion flower, the yellow fruit is as smooth as jade, and the purple fruit is beautiful and pleasant, shaped like eggs, decorated with branches, full of vitality and pleasing to the eye. Yellow fruit can blossom twice a year. When it blooms, purple, white and yellow colors contrast each other, beautiful. Plant a pot at home, can eat can reward, kill two birds with one stone.

Passion fruit cultivation should choose warm sunny environment, northern flower friends can be potted viewing. It likes sunny, warm climate environment and fertile and good drainage of sandy loam, bogey ponding. Not cold, temperature less than 10℃ that is poor growth.

It can be planted when the rainy season comes from June to July every year. Seedling management should be strengthened to cultivate strong seedlings. One thing to pay attention to when planting passion fruit is to set up scaffolding in time. In this way, passion fruit can bear fruit early.

There are several advantages to setting up scaffolding for passion fruit: one is sufficient light, good ventilation, which can reduce shade branches; the other is convenient pruning and fruit picking, and the spraying effect is good.

In addition, maintenance passion fruit, when the seedlings planted survive, leave 1~2 main vines on the shelf, cut off too many lateral buds. A single-line fence frame is adopted. The first annual plant leaves 2 main branches, extending along the horizontal iron wire, bearing branches from the main branches and drooping growth, short-term branches can grow full of scaffolding. The branches near the main vine bear fruit first. When the fruit ripens and falls, it is immediately pruned to 2~3 nodes. The buds that germinate from the base can form new fruit branches. After the last batch of fruits are harvested in winter, all fruit branches are pruned from the base.

Because passion fruit is annual growth, vigorous growth, large growth, 1 year 1 plant branches and leaves growth in more than 10 kg, consumption of nutrients, must be timely fertilization supplement. Rational fertilization should be guided by nutrition diagnosis of leaves and soil. Adequate and balanced nutrition is the necessary condition for normal fruit and fruit quality.

Generally, nitrogen fertilizer is mainly used in the early stage of passion fruit. After entering the fruiting period, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be applied. The ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium is 2:1:4. Or flower friends can also directly spray organic liquid fertilizer special for fruits and vegetables, diluted 500 times, once a week. Passion fruit bears more fruits and grows well.

In addition, to fertilize passion fruit, but also pay attention to: 1 year 3~4 times fertilizer, the first time in February to March when the bud flowering, mainly nitrogen fertilizer; the second time in May to June fruit development period, mainly phosphorus and potassium fertilizer; the third time in September to November after fruit harvest, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer is better.

According to this kind of fertilization and maintenance, passion fruit can bloom a piece of flowers, after enjoying the flowers, you can eat sweet fruit.