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Help! Passion flower is dying

bekz_oxbekz_ox Posts: 3
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In need some serious help and advice to save my beloved Passion flower! It’s been thriving for the last six months, and recently starting to provide fruit.

However over the last three days it’s gone from a healthy green, full plant to bare and crispy. It’s started to wilt in the heat in the past but soon came back after a good drink. 

Nothing seems to be helping this time, just seems to be getting worse by the day. Is there anything  I can do to save it?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    Hi @bekz_ox  😊 

    Drought I’m afraid. They grow into huge plants and need a large deep rootspace that can hold a lot of moisture so that the roots can pump it all the way up to the leaves. 
    I’m afraid a passionflower is not going to be happy in a pot. 
    Sorry. 😢 

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





  • bekz_oxbekz_ox Posts: 3
    Thanks @Dovefromabove. Is there anything I can do to save it or is it gone? It literally went overnight, without warning!
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    Dovefromabove is right about needing moisture, but you can keep it in a pot, kind of. Let me suggest an alternative. If you can get it repotted into a balconaire trough, you'll be ok. Those are the ones with the water reservoir below the compost, tied up by a tube. I have a medium sized passiflora cerulea in one, it's about 15ft, and it's been fine in this heat with a daily watering.

    Good luck!
  • bekz_oxbekz_ox Posts: 3
    Thanks @strelitzia32. Yes it does look like it’s in need of water but it’s watered every night and the soil was never left to go bone dry. It’s in a pot that has a reservoir at the bottom too. Ahh I’m so confused, it doesn’t seem to be any better this morning. 
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    Was it battered by the stormy weather? They really hate windy, drying conditions, south facing trellis on a brick wall in a sheltered spot is their ideal position. It looks like it could use more support as well (I couldn't see the photos when I replied yesterday).


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