How to stake a passionfruit vine?

[Caron]

My passionfruit vine has gone beserk. I cut it back as the neighbour had accidentally sprayed it with weedkiller and now the regrowth is taking over the garden. Whats the best way to stake it? Its growing along the front fence. 

[Jewelleryrescue]

Hi @Caron 

Yes  the passionfruit is  certanly living up to its nateral   expansive growing habit.

All you can  do is  prune it back and tame it that way but it will grow like this  every year maybe you might need a new location for it?

What  do you mean stake it?  Maybe  lift it up?  You  can  run wire and train it across that if your  clever  your can make a wire mesh on poles and the passionfruit will make a green pergola.

Also  These vines get very heavy so make  sure any supports are  robust.

[Caron]

Thank you, yes by stake I meant lift. Previous plantings of passionfruit not successful so keen to keep it in this spot. Was interested to see how other members grew their vine to get ideas on how to do mine.

[Jewelleryrescue]

Hi @Caron 

Yes  I hear you your plant is a wonderful  success and your pleased  with it. I understand where you are coming from I have some plants and they are going  great  I  am also pleased  about them.

Ok  ideas  for your  vine with out seeing what you have to  work  with.

One consideration is we need to consider is do you want to collect all the fruit.  I will take this as a Yes.

So that means we need to grow the vine along a  big trelis along the fence maybe.

Some  people run wires  between their house and the fence for the vine to grow on and the friut are in in reach and the vine makes a lovley shaded   area in summer time and  leaves  fall off  to get the winter  sun. Just   stop the vine growing into your  roof.

You can put a pergola in your  yard and cover it  with your  vine.

Some people grow it over their sheds to keep the shed  cool in summer. as well as  collect the fruit.

Send a  photo or two  of you growing area so we can help  you more specifically.  or describe the  area in more detail

Hope this  helps you better.

[JacobZ]

Hi @Caron,

Great to see @Jewelleryrescue has jumped in to assist.

If you have some photos you can upload, that will certainly help us offer our best advice.

You might like to check out How To Grow And Care For Passion Fruit and What are your tips for growing passionfruit? for some general advice around growing your passionfruit vine.

This post from the wonderful @mich1972 is also worth a read - How we grow Passionfruit to cover the Chicken Run fence.

A support structure like mich1972 has grown is likely a good option for you. You could drive some hardwood stakes into the ground and attach mesh panels or chicken wire to them with galvanised staple nails. 

Let me know if you have any other questions I can help with.

Jacob

[mich1972]

Good afternoon @Caron. Passionfruit are vigorous climbers so it will bounce back. Definitely give it a strong structure to climb up and help train it. Back off using too much Nitrogen strong fertilisers and increase more Potassium ( Sulphate of Potash ) to encourage stronger flowering and fruiting. Good luck 😀🌿

[mich1972]

@Caron I forgot to ask if you could post a few photos so the Workshop Community can have a look and help you out more 🌿😀