Instructions on how to grow passion fruit at home

Purple passion fruit grown in the garden

2. Uses of passion fruit
In addition to the use of growing passion fruit to decorate the garden, passion fruit also brings good health benefits:

Strengthens the immune system: Passion fruit contains a lot of vitamins A and C, so it works against bacteria and viruses that cause disease.

Improves digestion: Passion fruit contains high digestibility, so it is good for the digestive system.

- Prevent respiratory diseases: Drinking passion fruit juice helps to reduce the symptoms of cough with phlegm, dry cough, etc.

3. Prepare when planting passion fruit
Before planting passion fruit need to prepare:

a. Choose varieties
Currently, there are many different varieties of passion fruit, but purple and yellow passion fruit are grown most commonly. People often grow passion fruit by seeds or by branches. If planting by seeds, you should choose old, pest-free, firm seeds. If you plant with branches, you should choose branches with a length of about 10cm, good green leaves.

b. Land for planting
Passion fruit is a species that is not picky about soil, but in order for the plant to grow better, you need to treat the soil with clean grass, choose loose soil. It is necessary to make drainage ditches to prevent the tree from being flooded in the rainy season.

c. Climbing shoes
You can make a climbing truss about 2m high by using bamboo or wood and combining the wires to fix the truss. Depending on the different types of terrain to make a trellis for passion fruit.
In addition, you need to prepare more pots to use in the process of sowing seeds or nursery branches to create seedlings, choose pots with good drainage to ensure good growth.

4. How to grow passion fruit
Here is how to grow passion fruit from seeds and how to grow passion fruit with branches that we want to share with you:

a. How to grow passion fruit with seeds
Step 1: Before planting, you soak the seeds in warm water for about 1 and a half days so that the seeds will germinate faster when sowing.

Step 2: You proceed to take the soaked seeds out and sow the seeds into the prepared potting soil and cover with a thin layer of soil on top. Water twice a day to ensure sufficient moisture for the seeds to germinate quickly. After 20 days of seed germination, the seedlings were planted directly in the soil.

b. How to grow passion fruit with branches
Step 1: Choose a healthy, pest-free passion fruit branch, cut a segment of the branch with at least 3 buds and cut below the last bud.

Step 2: Proceed to plant the branches directly into the prepared potting soil. You can use a plastic bag around the bamboo frame to keep moisture for the tree to grow quickly. After 2 weeks, the branch will form a seedling, you proceed to bring the seedling from the pot to plant directly in the soil, where there is good sunlight.

5. Pest control for passion fruit
Passion fruit is a moisture-loving species, so it is necessary to water the tree regularly, water it every 2 days, in the dry season, increase the number of watering times to ensure that the tree always has enough moisture to grow well.

Weed regularly for plants, to avoid the plants being taken out of nutrients, weeding 4 to 5 times in 1 year. When the tree is about 1m high, you should pay attention to press the top, keep 3-5 healthy branches on the truss. At the stage of growing passion fruit trees, it is necessary to prune weak and diseased branches. In the rainy season, you should remove the old leaves, near the base to help the plant increase photosynthesis and limit the development of pests.

Passion fruit flowers after 5 months of planting, then you can use NPK phosphorus with high phosphorus content to fertilize plants: Dilute fertilizer with water to fertilize plants directly, you can use 100% Potassium Sunphat to make passion fruit more delicious, the dosage of 0.5 kg / 1 tree, 2-3 times per month.

Caring for the family passion fruit garden

6. Harvest passion fruit
After 6 months of planting passion fruit, you can start harvesting. For purple passion fruit, you should harvest when the ripe fruit turns purple, use scissors to carefully cut the passion fruit and place it carefully in the basket.

To be effective in productivity, you should only exploit passion fruit trees within 2 years and after 2 years, you should renovate the soil to plant passion fruit for the new season.

Harvest passion fruit after 6 months of planting

So we have learned together about how to grow passion fruit and how to care for it to achieve high yields. Hopefully the article will help you read a part in the process of growing your passion fruit. Good luck!