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Are you wondering how to make your own quality passion seedlings? Passion is raised from seedlings from seeds selected from well-developed ripe fruits. These seeds are sowed in small bags where weeding and watering are done. The seedlings are then transplanted into the farm.
For increased disease resistance and torelance, purple passion is grafted with yellow passion fruit, with high tolerance and disease resistance.
How to graft your fruits at home
Always Select a young, healthy vine with the same diameter as the rootstock to cut scions.
Cut a scion at the node at a long angle with a budding knife
Ensure you cut about 2.5 cm slit into the rootstock vine with a grafting knife.
Slide the angle of the scion into the slit in the rootstock, pairing the two pieces up in size and
Wrap grafting tape tightly around the union.
Then Seal the graft union with the grafting compound, which should be at least 45 cm above the Soil level.
Nursery management
Hardening of the improved cultivars is done before planting as the environment in the field after Planting is less controlled than that of the nursery.
Remove/reduce shade in a stepwise manner.
Remove grafting tape after eight weeks as it can strangle the scion
When the colour of the leaves becomes dark green, remove the shade completely
Prick out, weed and water carefully
Always raise seedlings under an insect-proof screen house.
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Always Source seeds from recommended sources or collect healthy mature fruit of recommended Yellow Passion Fruit from a parent with a history of good bearing capacity; extract seeds by fermenting for three days to ease separation of pulp and seed and then dry the seed under the shade.
The seedlings are usually ready for transplanting in the field after one month of grafting.
Transplanting should be done early morning or late in the evening
It should be done at the onset of rains or anytime under irrigation
Reference: MOALF/SHEP PLUS
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