Growing passion flower from seeds »Here's how

Where can I get seeds from?

You can get the dried seeds of the most diverse types of passion flower quite easily in the garden center as well as on the Internet. But be careful: some cunning traders on well-known Internet sales platforms try to sell seeds of Passiflora edulis as an exotic rarity for a lot of money. However, this is just normal passion fruit, the fruits of which you can buy for a few cents in almost every supermarket. You can obtain over 100 seeds from such a fruit, which are particularly susceptible to germination in this passiflora species. The same also applies to Passiflora ligularis, the grenadilla. Otherwise, you are always well advised to use seeds from well-known brand manufacturers. Of course, if you already own one or more passion flowers, you can hope for fruit - or simply propagate the plant by cutting.

Fresh seeds germinate best

Incidentally, most types of passion flower germinate

fresh seeds far better (and faster too!) than dried ones. The pulp surrounding them is freed from the seeds, whereby sucking off is a very effective and tasty method - but only in the edible Passiflora species. Now rinse the core carefully and plant it directly in the Potting soil, more effort is basically not necessary. Only dried seeds should be soaked in warm water before sowing, some gardeners also swear by warm orange juice. Incidentally, the longer a seed kernel has been dried, the longer it takes to germinate. Many a seed only sprouted after a year of waiting!

Tips & Tricks

In particular, the Passiflora species from the Australian continent must be tested before sowing stratified, but in a different way than you are usually used to. Australian passion flower seeds need heat to germinate. Therefore you have to simulate a small "bush fire" with the help of matches and a few twigs. The Australian species include a. Passiflora aurantia, P. cinnabarina, P. samoensis and P. herbertiana.