Maypop
About Maypop
Maypop is a popular houseplant 🌿 that is isn’t challenging to grow and needs regular watering to thrive. They do best in long-lasting, direct light ☀️ and should be less than 1 foot from a window.
Maypop likes soil that is well draining. You may want to supplement with a gentle, organic fertilizer throughout the peak growing season.
Maypop belongs to the Passiflora genus, and is native to the Central and Eastern United States and Bermuda.
Taxonomy
Passiflora incarnata
Passiflora
Passifloraceae
Malpighiales
Also known as
maypop, purple passionflower, true passionflower, wild apricot and wild passion vine
How to care for Maypop
How often to water your Maypop
every 9
Maypop needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.
Water 0.5 cups every
9
Finding light for Maypop in your home
a window
Maypop love being close to bright, sunny windows 😎.
Place it less than 1ft from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
Maypop does not tolerate low-light 🚫.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Maypop in your home 🏡.
How to fertilize Maypop
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Maypop after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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The granadilla vine has always been one of my favourite plants. Those delicate green spirals are called tendrils. They grow outward searching for something to touch, and the moment they find it, the cells on one side grow faster than the other, causing the tendril to curl into a helix. What fascinates me most is the gentleness of the strategy. The granadilla does not strangle or suffocate its neighbours. It simply reaches, curls, and holds lightly — suspending itself on tiny green springs. #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #granadilla #PassionFruit
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Oh the aesthetics of a granadilla plant 🌀 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict
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Can you use these pods for seed #Maypop
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An you use the fruit to plant seeds #BluePassionFlower
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My passion flower has a fruit on it!!!!
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Hi! I have several passion flower plants all in ground thriving but this one. It was fine for a couple of weeks but now withering. We do have a lot of rain and sun here in Florida but the other passionflowers are all ok. Any ideas? Thanks!! #PassionFruit
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Someone is going to bloom soon!!! I missed getting a picture of the bloom yesterday. We won’t let that happen again. They are so 🤩 beautiful when fully opened.
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I have 2 cuttings from a friend that I’ve put in water to root. They’ve not rooted at all after 2 months (!) but have grown a bunch new leaves (I had trimmed the leaves down). How can I get them to root so I can plant them? #PassionFruit
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Passionate is Growing
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Hi all, first post here! My passion fruit vine is huge and healthy, getting on 2 years old but has never flowered. She's growing fast still but no sign of flowers yet. Am I doing something wrong? Is she just not old enough yet? I live in Port Orange, FL #PassionFruit
Care Summary for Maypop
Maypop
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 9 days
Placement
< 1ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.
