Wild passionfruit problem

Help i have this wild passionfruit coming up all over the place .
It started from a grafted panama passionfruit tree that i planted .
The top graft died and the bottom half went stupid , i keep ripping it up
but then it will pop up next to it , it's under the concrete pathway now and everything.
I've sprayed it hundreds of times with differant weed killers , it dies back then appears somewhere else .
Any ideas ? how can i get rid of this shit ?

if it spreads by underground runners you might have real hard time eliminating it. for hard to kill things i mix herbicides together. ROUND UP and WEED B GONE worked for me.
its a pretty thing clint. too bad you can't pot them up and sell them.

I had a passionfruit once that grew to completely cover a small greenhouse and carried-on half-way up a 50ft camphor tree in the yard and THEN went on to the house itself. Can't imagine why anyone'd wanna kill a sexgod of a shade-plant like that!

The first plant I had was used to fill a privacy screen up the side of the hoise and man what a job it did. They only love for 8 years apparently, so it will stop struggling to live eventually and die.

*live for 8 years I meant. Fukn ipad keyboard.

Yes danny the flowers do look great but they are attached to a spreading vine !
Dribbles , the reason i want to get rid of this thing is because it's only the wild type of passion fruit ( no edible fruit )
So i figure i will get rid of the wild one and let my new one grow !

i love passionfruit. it's a vine and can grow out of control if not contained. i used some chain link fence to build a structure for my vines.

I thought all passion plants could fruit. I plan to plant some so I better check that out

Mint spreads underground and although it doesn't climb it's an annoying bug-magnet. White-flies just love it.

Voidling said:

I thought all passion plants could fruit. I plan to plant some so I better check that out

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yes they do fruit

The leaves are also used as a sedative , and to strengthen the effects of other herbs - It works well with valerian

Interesting. Now I'll definitely need some. This insomnia gets to be too much

LIBERTYCHICKEN said:

yes they do fruit

The leaves are also used as a sedative , and to strengthen the effects of other herbs - It works well with valerian

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The one i have growing wild is the bottom half of the graft , so it is only used for it's roots
I don't no what type it is but it does NOT grow fruit !
It just spreads like nothing i've seen , flowers then keeps spreading.

Don't passionfruit need male and female plants to fruit?

clint308 said:

The one i have growing wild is the bottom half of the graft , so it is only used for it's roots
I don't no what type it is but it does NOT grow fruit !
It just spreads like nothing i've seen , flowers then keeps spreading.

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It's likely


Passionflower, Official (Passiflora incarnata), packet of 20 seeds, organic
(Maypop, Passion Flower, Official Passionflower) Herbaceous perennial vine native to southern and eastern US and hardy to 5 degrees F. Flowers wonderfully large, complex, purple and white. This is the most northern hardy of all the passionflowers, and it is the type most commonly used in medicine.


Becouse of it's hardness and is The most common one , even other species are very closely related

Sometimes plants have no problem growing well in certain climates but will not set fruit becouse the season is to short or gets to hot / Some even need to be hand pollinated

BUT BEING a graft it's anyones guess

If your into gardening you could likely trade/sell root rizomes , since most people grow them for flowers not fruit and you seem to have a very vigerous one

I would want one. I've been too lazy to try seeds as I read they can take a year to germinate

Voidling said:

I would want one. I've been too lazy to try seeds as I read they can take a year to germinate

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They sell them even at local super markets here , they are in a pot , about 1 foot tall and sell for $5-10 au

Interesting, I'll look in the spring.

Hi Clint,

I popped in to save the poor plant. Read through the comments and looks like another story.

I don't think herbicides/weedicides will kill a dicot plant other than grass unless it is specific.

I don't want to kill that poor little thing(ofcourse which will grow everywhere, where you don't want too) and I don't know a way to eradicate it out of its misery.

Manual weeding works I guez. You see it, burn it.
If it wasn't a graft no fruit thingy, I would ask you to parcel it to me

Cheers!

Organic Toker said:

Hi Clint,

I popped in to save the poor plant. Read through the comments and looks like another story.

I don't think herbicides/weedicides will kill a dicot plant other than grass unless it is specific.

I don't want to kill that poor little thing(ofcourse which will grow everywhere, where you don't want too) and I don't know a way to eradicate it out of its misery.

Manual weeding works I guez. You see it, burn it.
If it wasn't a graft no fruit thingy, I would ask you to parcel it to me

Cheers!

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I would be happy to send it to you , but yes no fruit ....
I have been ripping it out for a couple of years it just pops up somewhere else in no time.
Weed killer dosn't do anything apart from make it grow faster i think !

From what I can tell you have a (Passiflora_caerulea / Blue Passionfruit)
They're commonly used by plant companies for grafting of other passion fruit.

I also have some grafted ones using the same root stock, it's used for that reason, it's very very hardy and refuses to die lol.

You say it doesn't fruit. But in fact does, it just might not be getting the ideal conditions for doing so. The fruit is little orange passion fruits and they can be eaten but they're not the greatest

Best of luck killing it off.

xxryder said:

From what I can tell you have a (Passiflora_caerulea / Blue Passionfruit)
They're commonly used by plant companies for grafting of other passion fruit.

I also have some grafted ones using the same root stock, it's used for that reason, it's very very hardy and refuses to die lol.

You say it doesn't fruit. But in fact does, it just might not be getting the ideal conditions for doing so. The fruit is little orange passion fruits and they can be eaten but they're not the greatest

Best of luck killing it off.

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Yes i think you are correct , I went and picked a flower off my plant and compaired it
to the one you posted , they look exactlly the same .
I want to see some of the fruit off it now !