Optimal: overwinter the passion fruit light and cool
As a summer sun worshiper, the passion fruit favors a bright, light-flooded location even in winter. Cool temperatures put the passion fruit into a winter dormant growth. This is beneficial for a lavish flowering period and the desired fruit yield. Furthermore, the floral climbing artist does not shed her leaves. This saves the energy required for a new budding next year. This is how you optimally overwinter passion fruit:
- Grant: in good time before the first frost, preferably at temperatures below 10 ° Celsius
- Lighting conditions: light to shady with shading in direct sunlight
- Temperatures: 8 ° to 15 ° Celsius
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Recommended winter locations are: winter garden, cold house, glazed terrace, stairwell or a bedroom. Incidentally, all the evergreen, conditionally hardy potted plants like to keep themselves company here until next spring, like magnificent ones Dipladenia and Sundaville, Star jasmine and oleanders.
Optional: Winter passion fruit in a dark, frost-free place
Is it crowded in bright winter quarters? Then the passion fruit plant tolerates a dark place in the basement or in the windowless garage if necessary. Temperatures of 5 ° to 8 ° Celsius are ideal in the shady winter location. Please select the location taking into account the rule of thumb: the darker, the cooler, but always frost-free.
The difficult conditions will of course not leave your passion fruit without a trace. Without the supply of light, the evergreen climber sheds its leaves. At the beginning of the next season, the passion fruit quickly compensates for the loss of leaves.
Care in winter mode - tips
With a slimmed-down care program, passion fruit will accompany you through the cold season. The following tips summarize what is really important now:
- Do not fertilize passion fruit after placing it in
- Water sparingly, tailored to the general conditions in the winter quarters
- Extra tip: insert watering indicators in the substrate to avoid waterlogging
There is nothing to worry if the shoots dry back regardless of your best efforts. Passion fruit plants are easy to cut. A strong pruning in February / March corrects the problem. Take this opportunity to repot the passion fruit in fresh substrate for the perfect start to a flowering outdoor season.
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in the Flower box(€ 149.00 at Amazon *) with an integrated trellis, the passion fruit makes itself representative Privacy plant useful. Evergreen leaves and brightly colored ray flowers on epic long tendrils combine to form an impenetrable green wall. Only when it becomes too uncomfortable on the balcony and at the seat in the garden does the picturesque climbing beauty move to winter quarters.
