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- Feed passionflower vigorously
- Weekly fertilization during the growing season
- Caution: Too much fertilizer makes Passiflora blooming
- Organic fertilization makes sense?
- Tips & Tricks
Feed passionflower vigorously
As a typical plant of the tropics and subtropics, the passionflower is a starvationer, it needs (and consumes) ergo very many nutrients. For this reason, regular fertilization is essential - otherwise your Passiflora will get yellow leaves and stop growing as well as blooming. Incidentally, their water needs are very high, with the passion flower, like so many plants, does not tolerate waterlogging.
Weekly fertilization during the growing season
In general, for the Passiflora between April and September, it is recommended to apply liquid universal or flowering fertilizer every two weeks. However, this rhythm is too short for many, especially hungry, individuals. So if your passion flower does not really grow, even gets yellow leaves, then this could well be due to a lack of nutrients. In this case, the weekly fertilization is indicated.
Caution: Too much fertilizer makes Passiflora blooming
When selecting the fertilizer, make sure that it does not contain too much nitrogen. Nitrogen stimulates plant growth, but makes flowering plants lazy. Passionflower will prefer to invest its energies in growing rather than blooming flowers in a nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Many experienced Passiflora lovers therefore swear that they prefer to "hunger" the plants.
Organic fertilization makes sense?
Unfortunately, a purely organic fertilization of Passiflora with compost or horny shavings is not sufficient in view of the high nutrient requirements, but can be used as a supplement at the beginning of the growing season. The problem with organic fertilizer is the fact that the specific nutrient content of, for example, compost or manure is firstly unknown and, secondly, it fluctuates widely. In addition, straight animal fertilizer is often very nitrogenous and therefore not suitable for flowering plants.
Tips & Tricks
In-room passion flowers grow in winter to about the quarter of the usual amount of fertilizer in the summer, while cool wintered specimens are not fertilized at all.