The best fruit cuttings can survive self-pollination and blossom and bear fruit year after year.

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Green potted plants are necessary embellishments of home life. Raising some flowers and plants at home has many benefits, which can not only beautify the room, but also please the mood. "Huasheng potted Diary No. 1292" takes you to know the best fruits.

Today's protagonist

Planting flowers on the balcony is not as good as growing fruit, which can not only add green meaning, but also bear fruit for consumption. In fact, many fruits can be planted on the balcony, today's introduction of this kind of fruit, the north may be relatively rare, this fruit named passionflower, is the best fruit I have ever seen.

Passionflower

Passionflower, used to be very common in southern China, but not many people like to eat, has not been popular, in recent years changed the name "passion fruit", popular all over the motherland, used to soak water and drink some honey, sweet and delicious and relieve the summer heat, deeply loved by consumers. Today, I will teach you how to raise passionflower.

Cuttings can live.

Passionflower is a herbaceous vine, widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas, with strong sex and strong adaptability to the environment. South China can be exposed to winter, with more than 5 gallons of flowerpots, and the soil is preferably nutritious soil with sufficient nutrients and good drainage. It needs to be placed in a place with plenty of light.

Passionflower grown by the author himself

Passionflower vitality is tenacious, branch cuttings can live. In April last year, a cuttage was planted on his own balcony. The medium-sized foam box was filled with anti-theft nets in half a year. It began to blossom and bear fruit in June and lasted until September, with complete extensive management, watering once a week, no fertilization, eggshells and so on. Despite burying, 16 fruits were harvested in the first wave of fruit.

Potted plants are also available (photo, courtesy of Flower Friends in the North)

Passionflower is a tropical plant. It is not cold-tolerant and frostbite when it is below 0 ℃. But there are still many northern florists who have successfully planted it. The method is also very simple:

If it is raised in the open air, it can be planted in spring, and the fruit can be harvested once or twice in autumn (spring, summer and autumn in flower and fruit period). Before the advent of winter, the cuttings of potted plants will be backed up, and then moved outside the following year.

Indoor potted plants, build a flower rack, pay more attention to pruning (such as the picture above), try not to climb the wall (it is difficult to get into the house in winter), usually placed on the balcony, as long as there is light, flowering, fruit is not a problem, but also as a green plant to watch.

Be self-sufficient and have plenty of food and clothing

There are many varieties of passionflower, and most of its flowers are androgynous and self-pollinated, which can bear normal fruit without bees. Of course, artificial pollination can increase the yield by 30%. At present, it is easier to raise and bear more fruits, such as purple incense, Tainong, Mantianxing and other varieties.

Passionflower has a life span of up to 20 years. Once cultivated, it blossoms and bears fruit every year, and it is grown by itself. It tastes better than what is sold in the market, and it is pure natural and pollution-free. The Taiwanese farmers planted by the author are not sour and sweet at all, subverting my existing impression of passion fruit.