A potted fruit that is even easier to grow than pothos, roots from cuttings, blooms and fruits every year

Introduction

Potted green plants are essential decorations for home life. They not only beautify the room and freshen the air, but also delight the mood and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Huasheng Potted Diary · Issue 851" takes you to know one of the easiest-to-grow potted fruit trees.

Today's star

Spring returns to the earth, and all things grow. Now is the best season for planting. Do you like plants that can be enjoyed as greenery and also bloom and bear edible fruit? The plant introduced today is called "xifanlian" where we are, which is actually passion fruit. Everyone eats it often, and it is one of the easiest fruits to grow in pots.

Passionflower

Have you ever thought that since vines such as clematis and wax flower can be grown in pots on a balcony, why not passionflower (passion fruit), which is also a herbaceous vine? The answer is yes. I have seen many times that other people's balconies were covered with passion fruit, and now my own home is full of them too, though they have not fruited yet this year.

Potted passionflower blooming

For potted passionflower, there is no need for too large a flowerpot (of course, the bigger the better). Ordinary garden soil can be used, and base fertilizer must be applied well. Of the two plants I grew, I buried a lot of chicken feathers and duck feathers as base fertilizer, and in just half a year they had already covered most of the balcony security net. Daily care is also very simple: water once a week, and usually no attention is needed. I only tied the branches a little with rope when a typhoon came, afraid they could not hold up.

Fruiting

Passionflower mainly has two major categories, purple and yellow, with similar plant characteristics, and both are very easy to care for. If someone near your home grows them, you can go borrow a few branches, bring them home and root them from cuttings. First insert them into clean water to root, then transplant after rooting. It is reliable, with extremely strong vitality. A plant even easier to grow than pothos, and anyone who grows it knows it.

Blooms and fruits every year

Passionflower is a full-sun plant, and its growing environment needs sufficient light. In South China's Guangdong and Guangxi, it blooms and fruits all year round. The farther north you go, the shorter the flowering and fruiting period. In the Yangtze River basin, it blooms and fruits in spring and summer. In northern regions, it should be grown on an enclosed balcony, as it cannot survive winter outdoors. It is perennial, and once planted, it blooms and fruits every year.