We have a passionfruit vine with heaps of large fruit which are very sour. How do we make the fruit sweet?
A. Leave the fruit inside for a few days before eating it. Then the flavour goes from sour to sweet. Q. There are 2 types of leaves on my passionfruit plants. One type is prolific and I think these are called suckers. They don’t look like they will bear fruit. Should I prune these off or should I start again? A. It does sound like you have suckers coming up from the rootstock. If you can trace them back to below the graft union (the knobby bit at soil level) they are suckers and should be cut off. This should encourage the desirable cultivar above the graft union to produce fruit. Q. Why do flowers fall off a seemingly healthy passionfruit vine? I water it daily and feed it with cow manure about 3 times a year and have just given it some citrus food. A: Poor pollination and irregular water seems to be frequently the reason for poor fruit set. Getting passionfruit to set fruit successfully is a tricky task. Some references say plenty of food, well-drained soil and lots of water is all y
