Red Passion Flower (Passiflora Manicata) | 15+ seeds | Rare

Please find for sale 15+ seeds of the Red Passion Flower - Passiflora Manicata. This is a fast growing and stunning passion flower cultivar - red colours are very hard to achieve. It produces big bright red flowers, edible green fruits. It should be treated as a tender climber (will take a few degres of frost). Tolerateant of relatively cool temperatures due to its mountain origin it likes the sun and will quickly grow to 10 feet or or more. Originally native to Eucudor where the fruits have a reputation for hallucinogenic properties!

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Seed Germination
Due to their hard shells, passion fruit seeds can take a long time to germinate - up to 3 months, however, there are numerous tips and tricks out there on the web that you can try. This is my method however which seems to work pretty well: 

• Lightly scarify the edge of the seeds by rubbing them against some sandpaper (just enough to take the "shine" off the seed in one place and allow water to penetrate
• Soak seeds in tap water for 48 hours in warm water, changing water daily
• Prepare a well draining compost mix - ideally 50% compost and 50% vermiculite
• Ensure compost mix is damp but not wet
• Place compost mix in seed tray or pots
• Sow seeds individually circa 13mm deep
• Cover with plastic dome (or other cover) but with air holes open
• Keep at circa 20-25C and out of direct sunlight
• Ensure compost mix does not dry out
• Germination can be erratic - pot on any that germinate but dont give up on those that have not  come up!

Olly's General Guide to Seed Sowing!

I love sowing seeds and it runs in the family - dad, granddad and finally my great-granddad for whom the hobby helped him get over his experiences in the Great War. I still get a big kick when I see the first seedling poking through from a new plant that I have never sown before or been successful at. However, even the most experienced gardeners draw "blanks" from time to time. Whilst I sow all the seeds that I sell so I know that they are viable, some are trickier than others and problems can arise so here are some tips to make "blanks" few and far between:

1) Dont Rush! Tempting though it is when that packet arrives in the post to simply bung the seeds in some compost!

2) Google and Youtube are your friends! Take some time so see the methods other people use to germinate the seed. 

3) Think Nature! What conditions do seeds face? For example a seed from a tropical plant will fall to the warm, wet and dark jungle floor. A seed from the mountains of Europe will fall to the floor in Autumn, then have to endure months of freezing temperatures before germinating in the spring. So as growers, what we are trying to do is to simulate the conditions that the seeds will naturally experience and there are plenty of tricks that can be done to short cut the processes somewhat.

4) Good compost pays dividends . The best investment you can make is to purchase three bags - one of potting compost, one of vermiculite and one of horticultural sand. With these three bags I can make up whatever soil type a particular seed likes (although for most seeds I find a 50/50 mix of compost and vermiculite works just fine) 

5) Rot is your enemy. The single biggest danger to seed germination is rot - either before or after "damping off" the seeds germinate. To reduce the risk, ensure you have good free draining soil mix and that it is moist but not wet. Unless the seed variety absolutely requires it I prefer NOT to cover my seeds trays with plastic bags, Whilst germination is often faster this way, it greatly increases the risk of rot. I prefer to place my seed trans inside a watertight plastic tray and water from the bottom - airflow over the surface reduces the risk.

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