Passionfruit vine is crawling

Over here it is known as markisa, a vine that lasts for more than 5 years.  It will start flowering and fruiting after a year.  I germinated quite a number of them last year, most were given away to friends, 2 of them planted in Seri Iskandar home garden and one is grown here in Putrajaya backyard garden.

Passiflora_edulis , Markisa (Melayu) 

passionfruit (English), maracuya (Spanish) , granadille (French), 

maracuja (Portugese), liliko'i (Hawaiian) 

Passionfruit vine - markisa

Passionfruit vine - markisa

Passionfruit vine - markisa

Passionfruit vine - markisa
with bamboo trellis

The passionfruit vines will thicken and eventually cover up the whole trellis. In the meantime , taro (keladi) can still grow and use the space underneath.

Bangchik and Kakdah

Putrajaya Backyard Garden

trellis with yellow bamboo.

They were doing landscape facelift further up the road, which included removing 3 clusters of yellow bamboo. I asked them to bring those bamboo to my place instead of throwing somewhere.  The bamboo are long, not bothering to cut them to shorter length I just stake them as trellis. They really look very tall and I think zehneria or timun tikus (seeds from Cambodia) would find the height very enticing.  Zehneria are known to grow to a height of 15 feet.

yellow bamboo trellis in my little vegetable garden

Five zehneria seedlings that climb up the trellis

bangchik and kakdah

pasir gudang, johor

markisa, passion fruit update 2

I know our pokok markisa or passion fruit vines are growing, and producing fruits. I am expecting more, hoping to see hundreds dangling, like what I have seen in google pictures. However that's the best  our vines could offer. So far we had taken 3 fruits, ripened well, yellow in colour.

MARKISA:  crawling along cloth lines

a wide view of passionfruit vines 

with cloth lines as trellis. 

MARKISA,  fruits dangling.

PASSION FRUIT FLOWERS

I am almost certain that our passion fruit flowers opened up later in the day, around 5pm. I checked out around midnight, they were still wide opened. The next morning the flowers folded up  and stay folded for a few days until baby fruit push through. There were four flowers yesterday evening, and I definitely hope all four would end up as fruits. 

bunga markisa

passion fruit flower

passion fruit flower

markisa hanging on

another view with fruits hanging down, 

while the vines are crawling along the cloth lines.

 I hope the wire will be able to stand the weight.

markisa, this should ripen soon.

Gradually, the colour changes from green to yellow. 

It's time for harvest when it turns yellow

earlier post on markisa
Markisa, passion fruits update 1  June 1 2012
passionate about passion fruit or markisa   May 16 2012

Reduce weight with vegetables and fruits     May 7, 2012

It requires a bit of patience to separate markisa seeds. I have collected enough seeds out of the three fruits that had been harvested. So there will be little seedlings soon!

bangchik and kakdah

pasir gudang johor

Tomato, three but one is wilting.

It is more of the limited space to grow plants and the intention to try out as many vegetables as I can, that it ended up as only three tomato plants this season. Many germinated, more than a dozen...., I let them stay in germinating tray for a week, until I am sure those transplanted on the ground grow without problem. That has always been the case with seedlings, there will be extra, and eventually end up as mulch.

I am trying something special as stakes. Electrical conduit cut into 4 ft lengths. They are equipped with caps, to avoid mosquito breeding in the conduits.  It would be nice, if conduits come in all sort of colour, green, orange, blue.....

Tomato: three tied up to electrical conduits. [31.1.12]

Tomato: buds already appearing [31.1.12]

Tomato: White hairs protecting the young buds. [31.1.12]

Tomato: tiny buds  on  third tomato plant [31.1.2012]

Conduit: with cap on 

Conduit

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One tomato plant wilting

Today, out of a sudden one wilted. Kakdah noticed that while walking through the garden to the cloth lines. She texted me this " satu tomato udah layu..." or one tomato had wilted.   I have seen this before, tomato plants deciding to end early, without signal, wilt, dry up and die over days. At the beginning, it looks normal wilting during hot weather. When only one plant suffers out of many, definitely that is not normal hot weather wilting......

Tomato wilting  [3.2.2012 at 2.30pm] 

Three tomato plants to start with, 

one is already suffering from verticillium wilt (I think) and 

with spare seedlings all gone into compost heap, I am already thinking what to do with soon to be empty spot.... kale?, onions?, zinnia?, marigolds?......[ these are little seedlings waiting to be transplanted on designated locations.]

bangchik and kakdah

Pasir Gudang, Johor