How to Plant Passion Flowers

Passion flowers are fast growing vines that many gardeners find easy to grow. Not only are passion flowers beautiful, they produce delicious passion fruit as well. For best results, start passion flowers inside in late winter and transplant them outside when the weather grows warm. Include passion flowers in your own flower garden for a low maintenance flower with showy purple blooms that will be happy to climb wherever you plant them.

Things You'll Need

• Passion flower seeds
• Small containers
• Water
• Small pots
• Potting soil
• All-purpose fertilizer
• Trowel

Instructions

1. Place the seeds in room-temperature water and soak for 24 hours.

2. Fill small pots almost to the top with with high quality potting soil.

3. Place one passion flower seed in each small pot and cover the seed with one inch of additional potting soil. Water the seed lightly.

4. Place the pots in a place where they will receive at least six hours of natural sun or under a grow light.

5. Fertilize the seed with an all-purpose water soluble fertilizer the next time you water the seed.

6. Water the seed/seedling when the soil feels dry to the touch.

7. Find a sunny or partly shady spot with rich, well-draining soil. Provide the seedlings with a trellis or other structure to climb. Dig five-inch holes for the seedlings when all chance of frost is gone.

8. Place each seedling into a hole and carefully pack soil around the seedling. The roots of the passion flower are fragile so this must be done carefully. Water the seedling well.

9. Monitor the seedling and the next time it is dry, fertilize the seedling with an all-purpose water soluble fertilizer combined with the water.

10. Keep the seedling evenly moist by checking it every day and watering when dry.

References

• Passion Flower Information