How to Grow Passion Fruit? Detailed Guide to Planting Techniques and Precautions

Passion fruit is a fruit loved by many health-conscious people. If eaten directly, it tastes very sour. Most people soak passion fruit in water to drink. If passion fruit and honey are soaked in water together, the taste is excellent, and it can also bring certain benefits to the human body. It can aid digestion and refresh the mind. So how do you grow passion fruit? Let's take a look together with the editor.

How to Grow Passion Fruit

The simplest method is to directly dry the seeds from the passion fruit you have eaten and put them into a pot. Before potting, you can soak them in water for 1 to 2 days. If you want to increase the germination rate, you can first cultivate them in a small container, and after they sprout, put them into a large pot. If you choose the cutting method, use 1-year-old stems, insert them into a small pot with sand, and after they sprout, move them into a large pot. After potting, pay attention to maintaining soil moisture. Passion fruit is a vine plant, so when potting, pay attention to setting up a trellis.

Passion Fruit Planting Techniques and Precautions

I. Planting Techniques

1. Watering: Passion fruit has a shallow root system and likes moisture. It is both intolerant of waterlogging and afraid of drought. First, set up drainage ditches in the greenhouse to prevent water accumulation in the shed. The principle of watering should be to keep it dry before watering and wet after watering. Water 1-2 times per month.

2. Fertilization of newly planted seedlings: In the early stage, mainly use nitrogen fertilizer, supplemented by phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, to promote plant growth; 10-15 days after planting, apply human manure or 0.3-0.5% urea water to promote branch growth, applying once every 10-20 days, with 2.5-3 kg of decomposed human manure and 0.05 kg of compound fertilizer per plant, and spray 0.1% urea + 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate on the leaves every 15-20 days to promote faster plant growth.

II. Precautions

1. Moisture: Keep the soil moist during the seedling stage. During high temperatures and continuous drought for four days, water each plant with five jin. In the rainy season, prepare drainage in advance. Water accumulation is strictly prohibited within a diameter of one meter around the planting mound.

2. Fertilization: Ten days after planting new seedlings, start applying seedling-promoting fertilizer. The seedling-promoting fertilizer is mainly bucket-packed water-soluble fertilizer, mixed with compound fertilizer for application. For the first application, dilute according to the highest multiple in the bucket-packed water-soluble fertilizer instructions, then mix one jin of soluble compound fertilizer into every hundred jin of water-fertilizer mixture, stir well, and pour it on the roots (if the instructions say 300-400 times, dilute at 400 times for the first time, and from the second time start adjusting the application ratio, mixing at the lowest dilution multiple of 300 times with soluble compound fertilizer, stir well, and apply; the compound fertilizer ratio does not need adjustment), once every four to seven days, four times in total. Apply in the evening, on cloudy and rainy days, or when the rainy season is approaching. Fertilization is not suitable in high-temperature weather.

Pest Control Measures for Passion Fruit

1. Prune in time, keep the orchard well-ventilated and well-lit, and reduce the degree of shade in the orchard; after heavy rain, drain accumulated water in time to prevent water accumulation in the orchard; reduce wound formation, and pay attention to the prevention and control of underground pests, nematodes, and so on. Apply more organic fertilizer and bacterial fertilizer, and during the growing period, apply root-applied organic bacterial potassium stimulant, as well as Jijiling amino glycoside together with root watering to improve the soil environment.

2. Arrange dense planting and use hedge-shaped or shed-shaped trellises to increase ventilation and light transmission in the orchard. Strengthen winter orchard cleaning and growing-season pruning to reduce pathogenic bacteria; do drainage work well in the rainy season. Actively carry out preventive work, spray Jijiling once before flowering, and promptly carry out prevention and control at the early stage of disease onset.

3. Ensure good seedlings and control from the source. If diseased plants are found during the seedling stage, pull them out in time. Use bacterial potassium to strengthen tree vigor and improve disease resistance. Prune scientifically, and at the same time spray 1% Sophora flavescens to control aphids, mites, and other transmission vectors. After passion fruit is infected with viral disease, chemical control has poor effect. Once found, it is recommended to directly remove it to eliminate future trouble.

Passion Fruit Orchard Management

1. Fertilization: For newly planted passion fruit, mainly use nitrogen fertilizer in the early stage to promote plant growth. After planting, the root system begins to grow 10-15 days later. You can apply 0.5% dilute urea or dilute human manure, and thereafter apply once every 20 days, with 5 kg of decomposed human manure or 0.1 kg of compound fertilizer per plant each time. Each year, apply 20-30 kg of farmyard manure, 0.6-0.7 kg of urea, 0.6-0.9 kg of phosphate fertilizer, and 1.2-1.3 kg of potassium fertilizer per plant. Farmyard manure and phosphate fertilizer should be composted and decomposed, then applied in furrows around the Beginning of Spring. Urea and potassium fertilizer should be applied once a month during the flowering and fruiting period, with 0.3-0.4 kg of mixed fertilizer per plant.

2. Irrigation: Passion fruit is a shallow-rooted plant that likes moisture and is both intolerant of waterlogging and afraid of drought. Therefore, first open drainage ditches well to prevent water accumulation in the orchard; at the same time, spread weeds to retain water, and irrigate once when there is no soaking rain for 15 days.

3. Soil management: After winter orchard cleaning, plow the entire orchard, and at the same time bury the weeds and residual branches and leaves from cleaning into the soil. Then spread 25-30 kg of lime per mu.

Eating passion fruit can satisfy hunger, and women who drink it can beautify their skin and improve their appearance. It is also very helpful for men who drink alcohol. It is called the king of fruit juice by many people. Its seeds can be used to extract oil for industrial production and so on. Passion fruit has so many uses, so you might as well buy more and try it.