Post #679830 by VanTiki on Tue, May 28, 2013 5:32 PM

On 2013-05-24 13:31, tikilongbeach wrote:
According to the Los Angeles Times a passion fruit vine will grow like a weed out here once it gets established. They have very beautiful and alien looking flowers.
It would add a very tropical element to a garden if you can control its growth.

We had some lilikoi growing out back a few years ago on a trellis hanging from our shed. It went down like this:

1 - Hope I remember to water this stuff
2 - Wow. This is growing really fast!
3 - Flowers!
4 - This is a lot of fruit. And I mean a LOT of fruit.
6 - Where is the shed?!

We eventually ended up tearing down the shed to build a micro-house, and never re-planted the lilikoi. It was nice - but if you don't pick the fruit they rot rather fast.

I know this won't help midwestern folks - but california and florida Tiki Centralites may be able to get one growing.

Henrik "VanTiki"