Propagating Passiflora Seeds

The late Don Ellison was an expert in the field of cleaning and growing many different Passiflora varieties successfully and has written extensively on the subject, after years of trials with more than 50 different species he was able to identify the various ways to encourage germination.

The following information has been taken from some of his literature, for this article I have focused on the pre-treatments and germination techniques as we already supply cleaned seeds stored at optimum temperatures to maintain viability.

Various methods used for pre-treatment of Passiflora seeds