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

Introduction

Potted green plants are essential decorative items for home life. They beautify the room, freshen the air, and delight the mind and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary, Issue 851" introduces you to 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. Would you like a plant that can serve as an ornamental green plant and also bloom and bear edible fruit? The plant introduced today is called "Xifanlian" here, 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 climbing plants such as clematis and wax plant can all be grown in pots on a balcony, why not passionflower (passion fruit), which is also a herbaceous vine? The answer is certainly yes. I have seen many times other people's balconies covered with passion fruit, and now my own home is full of them too, though this year they have not yet fruited.

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 should be applied well. For the two plants I grew, I buried a lot of chicken feathers and duck feathers as base fertilizer. In just half a year, they had already covered most of the balcony security netting. 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 types, purple and yellow, with similar plant characteristics, and both are very easy to care for. If someone near your home grows them, you can ask for a few branches, bring them home for cuttings, first put them in clean water to root, and after rooting transplant them. No problem at all. It has extremely strong vitality, a plant even easier to grow than pothos; whoever grows it knows.

Blooms and bears fruit year after year

Passionflower is a full-sun plant, and its growing environment needs sufficient light. In South China, 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 is suitable for cultivation in a closed balcony, and cannot survive winter outdoors. It is perennial; plant it once and it blooms and bears fruit year after year.