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Poor passion flower :(

cat321cat321 Posts: 34
in Problem solving
Hi! My poor passion flower climber is looking very very sad, like it's dying. We bought it from a garden centre last week, potted it first into multipurpose compost, then moved it into a bigger pot (we were moving a lot of things) with John Innes number 3, as RHS website says, mixed with some grit and compost. But it's looking worse every day... see pics. Any ideas how we can save it?

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  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    I am not sure of the whole reason why your passion flower is looking so poor. But a close up on the photo shows at least the stem that is all brown has been bent a bit too harshly and forced around and is broken or very bent near the main stem. About two bricks up from the blue edge of the planter. Slightly right of the house corner.
    I would cut that one off.
    If the new grow was very soft you may have inadvertently damaged some others.

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    personally, I'd leave it alone for a while. The stems look ok ( apart from the one on the second support from the left ) and might well throw out new leaves. If not, then I'd cut back.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    As @Hostafan1 says, leave it to settle.  Even if the top growth doesn't recover, if the roots are healthy they should produce new shoots next year. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Whenever I plant anything such as Passion flower or Clematis I always chop the top right off down to about 3” or so. They have a better chance of making roots when they don’t have to sustain top growth as well. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ZeroZero1ZeroZero1 Posts: 577
    Is that growmore on the soil? maybe overfed?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited September 2018
    Oh dear, I didn’t notice that,  if so it will have burnt the stems, no need to feed for two years, once it becomes a large established plant. 
    I cut my passion flowers down to about 12” in the Spring, it makes loads of growth after that, but let’s hope that’s not feed on the top. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The ivy plants that are in there are OK for now (they won't be causing the current problem) but they might out-compete the passion flower over the next year or so.  I would consider taking them out before the roots get mixed up with the passion flower roots, and if you want something to give a bit of colour, pop in something temporary and shallow-rooting such a few bedding violas or winter pansies.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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