How Many Years Does Passion Fruit Live? How Does Southern Passion Fruit Survive Winter?

Soil: It does not have too high requirements for soil, and it is better to plant in relatively deep sandy loam. Illumination: The planting place must choose in the light abundant position, lets it receive under the full good light the illumination. Moisture: The best humidity during seed germination is about 20%, and the humidity during later growth should not exceed 40%. Fertilization: topdressing at least three times a year, the seedling stage with nitrogen fertilizer, the latter is to use cake fertilizer, followed by the use of phosphate fertilizer.

1. Lifetime

Passion Fruit is a perennial fruit tree, its life is about 20 years, and for the economic life will be shorter, about only 8 ~ 10 years.However, in the process of planting, its life may be shorter, because its growth is easily shortened by diseases or weather, and most of the time its economic life is 1 to 3 years.

2. Methods for Overwintering in the South

1. Temperature: When cultivating Passion Fruit in the south, the temperature should be controlled above 0 , not lower than 0 , if it is too low, it will be frozen.If the temperature outside has dropped below 0 degrees Celsius, move to a warmer location.If you can't move your position, you can build a greenhouse for it, which can ensure that it can survive the winter to a large extent.

2, less water: during the winter need to give it a small amount of watering, not dry when remember not to water, usually in the winter basic need not to water.When watering, the water temperature should not be too low, because the winter climate itself is very cold, if the root system is stimulated by low water temperature, it is easy to freeze it.

3. Anti-freezing: If the climate is very cold, you can sprinkle some lime appropriately, or prune in winter, usually cut off most of the branches, and then bury them in the soil for the winter.