Most all of mine do best in full blasting hurt-your-eyes sun. They grow the fastest, have the greenest leaves & throw the most flowers. Those in part to full shade appear more & more anemic the darker it gets.

I've found though they need to be introduced to the sunny locations slowly or there's a chance of frying leaves.

THat's exactly what I was told today when I picked them up. I got 2 Edulis 'Frederick' Passiflora today and they said to acclimate them for about a week before planting.

So tomorrow I start getting them acclimated to their new spot an hour at a time.

I'm so excited!

Sam

I agree that they take a lot of sun. I grew an unknown variety from seed and just stuck it on the north side of the greenhouse . It climbed to the top (southern exposure) where it started to go wild. It was blooming and dividing and wow!

Wow.

Well, I planted them this weekend. It was a few days earlier than I had planned on doing it and they only had 3 days at my location in the shade before I did so. The weather was perfect that day and the following 2 days however, so I decided to bite the bullet and plant them so I didn't have to do it on a very sunny and warm day.

There was some new growth on the vines that bit the dust unfortunately, and the vines we bought were a horribly tangled mess. So I tied them up to our trellises and we'll see what comes of it.

I'd like to give them a healthy shot of fertilizer, but I'm not sure if that is adviseable or not. They were obviously in a growth phase when we bought them, but will a nice does of Nitrogen lead to no flowers this year?

THanks!

Sam

Go easy on the fertilizer, especially if their roots have been disturbed recently.

If you don't see buds forming on new shoots in a month or so, a light dose of blossom booster may help, but these guys take off pretty quickly once the settle in, given lots of sun and sufficient water.

Jim