Passion Fruit 'Nancy Garrison' - 1 to 2 feet Tall - Ship in 6" Pot

NancyGarrison Passion Fruit - 1 to 2 feet Tall - Ship in 6" Pot



this fast, easy variety has repeatedly proven to be either daylength neutral or is very chill-sensitive as far as flower initiation. It provides us with fruit all year here in our production blocks. Similar strains are ‘Frederick,’ ‘Black Knight’ and ‘Purple Possum,’ all of which vary in different details but are often touted as being superior. In spite of those I keep coming back to this variety as the most reliable producer of good, high quality fruit. This variety originated as a seedling I selected from plants grown from seeds sent to the CRFG Seed Exchange by Nancy Garrison from the Santa Clara UC Ag Extension Field Station. The parent donor plant originated from cuttings taken from a very old, untended plant found by Nancy in the yard of a farm house donated to the city of San Jose. That original plant reportedly survived 25°F without damage, and recovered quickly from the all-time record low temperatures of December 1990 (~20F and lower), fruiting by late spring or early summer of 1991 according to Nancy. Brazil. This is actually a strain as opposed to a genetically identical clone or cultivar as we've had to reselected this several times again from seed ourselves in order to escape the obnoxious and highly transmissible Carla Virus, which definitely is detrimental to growth and fruit production, and appears to almost ubiquitous in passionflower cultivars in the trade. Very careful precautions and procedures must be followed to stop or limit its transmission, most importantly always using freshly cleaned and bleached clippers for any pruning or cutting of any kind.