How Do You Plant Dry Banana Passion Fruit Seeds?
Eaten fresh or as flavoring for drinks, banana passion fruit (or curuba as it is often known) is a delicious tropical fruit that you can grow in your own backyard. The fast-growing banana passion fruit is considered highly invasive in subtropic and tropic areas, including high elevations in Hawaii; but in most temperate-to-warm conditions, it is controllable and will produce tasty fruit and beautiful pink-red flowers. Growing these vines from seed is the preferred method of propagation, but dried seeds make the process harder and longer. Soak dried seeds in lukewarm water for a couple hours to overnight. This can shorten germination time to about 5 weeks instead of 10. Sow seeds indoors in early winter in order for them to be ready to transplant after the last frost. Place one or two seeds each in peat pots or well-draining containers filled with a seed-raising mix. Plant 1/2 inch deep, and water well. Put the seeded pots in a warm, sunny area. If you put the pots on a heating pad and
