Passion fruit planting technology and management matters needing attention, how long it takes to plant passion fruit and how to prune it.

Passion fruit is a very popular fruit now. Do you know how to grow passion fruit? What are the conditions for planting passion fruit? Let's have a look!

Planting mode of passion fruit

Sufficient sunshine and developed horizontal roots require loose and ventilated soil, no stagnant water and drought tolerance. The growth of branches and vines has the characteristics of continuous growth, as long as the conditions are suitable, such as warm and sufficient, they can blossom and bear fruit continuously all the year round.

Passion fruit avoid heavy pruning, excessive pruning will reduce the yield, the main branch withered, serious death of the whole plant.

Passion fruit is extremely resistant to fertilizer and injury, even with the application of organic fertilizer, especially the unrotten organic fertilizer is especially obvious, and chemical fertilizer is used as little as possible. if you want passion fruit to grow rapidly at the initial stage, please dilute urea to watering with 1000 times.

The growth habits of passion fruits of vine fruit trees are quite similar to those of melons and vegetables, and they are both monoecious, so they often do not blossom, and there is often a phenomenon that they do not blossom and do not bear fruit. I have also planted passion fruit myself, and all the situations I have encountered are also compared with the solutions of melons and vegetables, and the effect is of course positive, so if you want passion fruit to blossom and bear fruit, fertilizer control and plant management are very important.

Most plants have two stages of growth, one is vegetative growth (long leaves, long branches and roots and plant growth), and the other is reproductive growth (flowering, fruiting and meristem production). When vegetative growth reaches a certain stage, it will begin to reproduce. The key to the length of time affecting vegetative growth is the last sentence of the previous paragraph, but the premise is that the plant must also grow to a certain size.

Another friend mentioned that the control of nitrogen fertilizer is very important, yes! When there is a large amount of nitrogen fertilizer, it will continue to vegetative growth and temporarily inhibit reproductive growth, so it is necessary to control nitrogen fertilizer, but this alone is not enough, it is also necessary to control the plant growth potential, when the growth potential is too exuberant, there will be the same situation as excessive nitrogen fertilizer, so how to control plant growth potential?

Pruning can inhibit plant growth and control plant type, but passion fruit ready to bear fruit is not suitable for pruning, because when it begins to blossom and bear fruit, the bigger the plant is, the more it will blossom and bear fruit, so it is not suitable for pruning. But we still have to prune her, and engage in the minimum amount of pruning, that is, heart-picking (agro-technical heart-picking is classified in the pruning part).

What is heart-picking? That is, to twist off the growth point at the end of the plant branch, so that the auxin in the plant will not be used in vegetative growth, and to a certain extent, it will naturally become reproductive growth; then how to pick the heart? Very simple, do not need to use any pruning tools, as long as your fingernails, people who know how to observe the growth point can remove the growth point, but do not know how to observe the growth point what to do? Teach you! At the end of the plant stem (whether it is the trunk or branch), there is the most tender place, and the growth point exists inside, so you can remove the tender place with your hands, the key is that you should break it as soon as you gently pinch with your fingernails.

It also has something to do with the control of female and male flowers. I wonder if you can identify female flowers and male flowers. If not, it doesn't matter. There are two different types of flowers in the same plant, one is male, and the other is female. Only when two kinds of flowers bloom at the same time can they have a chance to pollinate. Passion fruit is insect-pollinated, so it can be pollinated naturally. If the environment is not suitable for natural pollination, artificial pollination can be used, as another friend said, as for if you can't identify female and male flowers. Just cross to do artificial pollination!

If you can identify female and male flowers, when the female flowers have finished pollinating, if there are no other unpollinated female flowers, all the male flowers will be removed to promote the differentiation and blooming of other flower buds. Knowledge about heart picking and other melons and vegetables +, to blossom, please add potash fertilizer when you use phosphate fertilizer to bear fruit. Second, the tree needs to be pruned, and too many branches are dispersed. So cut off some leaves and branches and apply some fertilizer. The average life span of passion fruit is 5 years.

The flowering and fruiting period of passion fruit is two stages a year, the first stage is from April to May, and the second stage is from September to October. The time required for fruit ripening varies with flowering season. Generally, flowers blooming in May-June, 60 days after flowering, 80 days in July-August, 80 days in September, 90 days in October or later, and more than 90 days in October or later.