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Renée Campbell
@reneecampbell
I love passionfruit flowers. I don’t know what’s going on with my new plants though. They flower but don’t fruit. I bought male and female plants so they should pollinate fine. Anyone else have other ideas?
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Marion - apricotblossomdesign
@apricotblossom
Passionfruit rely on specific pollinators like carpenter bees or other insects. If your area lacks them —or if weather conditions (like rain or wind) are keeping them away—you might not be getting proper pollination. You could try hand-pollinating the flowers yourself: use a small brush or cotton swab to collect pollen from the male flowers and transfer it to the female ones.
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Marion - apricotblossomdesign
@apricotblossom
Also temperature and soil play a big part. And if they are very young, it could take some time before they start proceeding fruit.
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Renée Campbell
@reneecampbell
Thank you. I’ll try pollinating them and see what happens. I haven’t googled it yet but I wondered if passionfruit like a certain level of acidity or something. Annoying thing is we’ve previously grown passionfruit in this same spot. The plants were amazing but then we renovated and they died so we replanted.
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Marion - apricotblossomdesign
@apricotblossom
I don't know about the acidity, but if the former plant did well on that same spot than I guess the soil is okay. Indeed Google it I guess.
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Renée Campbell
@reneecampbell
I wondered if it changed over time but I’ll google it and put the thought to bed.
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Marion - apricotblossomdesign
@apricotblossom
The renovation could have changed the soil, idk. The fact that they’re flowering is a good sign, though, it means they’re not completely unhappy 😊
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Renée Campbell
@reneecampbell
Yes. They do everything but fruit 😂
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Marion - apricotblossomdesign
@apricotblossom
😂
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