I started growing maypop last summer and this year it started popping up 10 feet away from the original plant! I have a feeling that will be pulling these volunteers for a long time.
@@brianbaumann1337 Oh yeah, it's insane how far they spread in ground. We're hoping to control the roots enough in these pots 🤞 Can't wait to make some tropical preserves with all of these fruit!
Interesting to see that you're growing these, too. My maypop/passionflower exerience: A few years ago I noticed these interesting "Dinosaur footprint" vines, and their subsequent lovely flowers, here on my hobby farm here in NC. I thought I would preserve them for the lovely flowers. I needn't have made the effort; in the last couple years they have pretty much overrun part of my pasture area. Sadly, the fruit pulp seems to remain white and sour. Years ago, I did encounter a plant in another part of the property that produced tasty orange pulp, but I didn't see it after that -- probably a victim of recent cold snaps or my weeding efforts. I'm going to (mostly) clear out my pasture crop of maypops, but am still on the lookout for a tasty passionflower that is zone 7 hardy. (I'll take it indoors, if necessary.) I recently purchased two varieties that are just now getting going after re-potting; they are Purple Possum and Giant Granadilla. If anyone can vouch for varieties with a pleasant flavor, please post!
@@dalexfilms That's cool they grow on your property! Sounds like they're not ripening fully. Very interesting about the orange pulp one though. We're looking to add a few other varieties to experiment with, and our Passiflora edulis 'Purple Boots' is doing really well and flowering just now. It's a seedling from a store bought purple passionfruit. It's not zone 7/8 hardy so we'll be bringing it inside for the Winter.
Maypop is loaded, any interest in hybridizing with the edulis? I tried the cross with purple boots last season planted the seeds so just waiting on the vines to flower to confirm if there is a hybrid, the leaves look very edulis to me so not sure if I was successful. I'll have to back cross with maypop as the 50-50 hybrids arent root hardy in zone 7.
@@raregrowsNJ Yes! At some point we'll attempt some crosses too since the ones that exist now don't fruit well. From the limited information I have combed through, it seems the easiest way to tell will be if the fruit resemble maypop since it may be a dominant trait. I think a maypop back cross would be useful! The ideal of course being some sort of improvement in fruit quality while also retaining root hardiness down to zone 7 and maybe even zone 6.
@@themulberries There are a very large number of hybrids between P. incarnata and various tropical species, including P. caerula and different varieties of P. edulis, as well as other subtropical species like P. cincinnata and P. tucumanensis. The biggest issue, by far, is that P. incarnata hybrids have very poor fertility. Some, like P. "Incense" bloom like crazy, but they rarely set fruit, and when they do the fruit are often hollow with no or few seeds and therefor pulp.
Wow, awesome flowers! 😃
@@Myrtuscommunis I know right? Hard to beat passionflower!
I started growing maypop last summer and this year it started popping up 10 feet away from the original plant! I have a feeling that will be pulling these volunteers for a long time.
@@brianbaumann1337 Oh yeah, it's insane how far they spread in ground. We're hoping to control the roots enough in these pots 🤞 Can't wait to make some tropical preserves with all of these fruit!
Interesting to see that you're growing these, too. My maypop/passionflower exerience: A few years ago I noticed these interesting "Dinosaur footprint" vines, and their subsequent lovely flowers, here on my hobby farm here in NC. I thought I would preserve them for the lovely flowers. I needn't have made the effort; in the last couple years they have pretty much overrun part of my pasture area. Sadly, the fruit pulp seems to remain white and sour. Years ago, I did encounter a plant in another part of the property that produced tasty orange pulp, but I didn't see it after that -- probably a victim of recent cold snaps or my weeding efforts. I'm going to (mostly) clear out my pasture crop of maypops, but am still on the lookout for a tasty passionflower that is zone 7 hardy. (I'll take it indoors, if necessary.) I recently purchased two varieties that are just now getting going after re-potting; they are Purple Possum and Giant Granadilla. If anyone can vouch for varieties with a pleasant flavor, please post!
@@dalexfilms That's cool they grow on your property! Sounds like they're not ripening fully. Very interesting about the orange pulp one though.
We're looking to add a few other varieties to experiment with, and our Passiflora edulis 'Purple Boots' is doing really well and flowering just now. It's a seedling from a store bought purple passionfruit. It's not zone 7/8 hardy so we'll be bringing it inside for the Winter.
Im going to need to buy that may pop from you at some point. 😮
@@novastar369 Haha, we're definitely propagating that very vigorous/productive one! It's insane how much fruit it put on so quickly!
Maypop is loaded, any interest in hybridizing with the edulis? I tried the cross with purple boots last season planted the seeds so just waiting on the vines to flower to confirm if there is a hybrid, the leaves look very edulis to me so not sure if I was successful. I'll have to back cross with maypop as the 50-50 hybrids arent root hardy in zone 7.
@@raregrowsNJ Yes! At some point we'll attempt some crosses too since the ones that exist now don't fruit well. From the limited information I have combed through, it seems the easiest way to tell will be if the fruit resemble maypop since it may be a dominant trait. I think a maypop back cross would be useful!
The ideal of course being some sort of improvement in fruit quality while also retaining root hardiness down to zone 7 and maybe even zone 6.
@@themulberries There are a very large number of hybrids between P. incarnata and various tropical species, including P. caerula and different varieties of P. edulis, as well as other subtropical species like P. cincinnata and P. tucumanensis. The biggest issue, by far, is that P. incarnata hybrids have very poor fertility. Some, like P. "Incense" bloom like crazy, but they rarely set fruit, and when they do the fruit are often hollow with no or few seeds and therefor pulp.