I was just wondering if I could plant a passsiflora in nothing but
perlite or should it be sandy soil. Just wondering. Thank you for
your replies.
-Theo

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(Theo) wrote:

I was just wondering if I could plant a passsiflora in nothing but
perlite or should it be sandy soil. Just wondering. Thank you for
your replies.
-Theo

One recommendation for purple passion flower vine that was hard for me to
believe, but apparently true, was to plant it in crumbled bricks. It
apparently thrives in sterile dry soil. Mine is doing very well in fertile
soil that I avoid ever watering, so I never tested the limits of its
fondness for a sterile medium.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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One recommendation for purple passion flower vine that was hard for me to
believe, but apparently true, was to plant it in crumbled bricks. It
apparently thrives in sterile dry soil. Mine is doing very well in fertile
soil that I avoid ever watering, so I never tested the limits of its
fondness for a sterile medium.

-paghat the ratgirl

I know about the crumbled bricks (I read it on your website). So I
guess it is safe to assume planting it in perlite would be fine.
Thanks.
-Theo

Theo wrote:


I was just wondering if I could plant a passsiflora in nothing but
perlite or should it be sandy soil. Just wondering. Thank you for
your replies.


Why would you grow a passiflora in only perlite? A well drained, open
mixed medium is fine
//
Jim

For my own 2 cents, I'd use sandy soil. Here in the sand hills of SC, it
hard to kill the suckers. They have a "tap root" or thickened root that goes
down into subsoil looking for moisture. So I'd say that if you're growning
them artificially, supply that subsoil or change the general soil as to give
them the moisture that all plants need from some source or other. Straight
perlite; I don't think so.

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I was just wondering if I could plant a passsiflora in nothing but
perlite or should it be sandy soil. Just wondering. Thank you for
your replies.
-Theo