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passion flower dying
Elle Moore
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in Plants
i bought and planted a passion flower around 3 months ago and it grew like wildfire. but i unraveled it (very carefully) from the bamboo arch it came with and fixed it to guides ruuning upto bamboo fence. it was fine until around a week ago now its all droopy and looks like its dying!!! ive noiced some leaves have been nibbled too! any reccomendations? x
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If it's grown like wildfire it's probably very thirsty as it's roots won't have developed enough to take up sufficient water to cope with the heat we've been having - plants lose a lot of water by transpiration in the hot weather.
I'd give it a good soaking - two buckets full now and another bucket full tomorrow evening. Then a bucket full every other evening until the hot dry weather is over.
I think it will survive; you may lose some of the new growth, but it'll grow plenty more next year and it's roots will be more able to cope.
A little bit of leaf nibbling shouldn't be a problem - passion flowers are pretty tough when they get going.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.