December 5, 2018

Hi,
I saw that you'd posted a photo of the Corona de Cristo passion vine fruit and wondered if you had any tips for how I can get ours to produce fruit. This last year was the first time growing the vine and it did great. Wonderful flowers all summer and fall. Then, when I thought it would start producing fruit, nothing. I don't know if the vine will come back (It's still there but it has gotten beat up from the cold weather so far) but I have some cuttings in the greenhouse-- so I can plant those, if need be. This is zone 8b.

So, if you have any ideas (more fertilizer, more plants to help pollination, less fertilizer?) about how to get our plant to produce fruit, would love to hear them!

Thank you so much.

Christine

Hello Christine, I really don't know why your vine is no producing fruit.
I seem to recall that mine didn't either the first year, maybe it needs to be more mature before it does.
Ours does fruit well now, but it is not a big seed producer, most of the fruits are empty and some only have one seed.
The vine is root hardy here in 8b so yours will probably come back from the roots. You might want to mulch the roots for insurance.
It is such a lovely vine, ours has surprised us and popped up in different places.

Good luck with your vine and keep on Gardening.
Josephine.