Comments on: The Pros and Cons of Vining Plants  https://ourtropicalsoil.com/2018/08/31/pros-cons-vining-plants/ Growing Food in the Tropics Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Melanie https://ourtropicalsoil.com/2018/08/31/pros-cons-vining-plants/#comment-76 Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:21:33 +0000 https://ourtropicalsoil.com/?p=271#comment-76 In reply to Eric Mercier.

Awesome! What trellis do you use for the passion fruit? I have a few plants that are about a year old growing on my chain link fence. One of them is doing way better than the others. It is already flowering and it was grown from seed. I am so excited. Hopefully I get fruit soon. Also what do you do with the fruit? I was hoping to make some jam.

]]> By: Eric Mercier https://ourtropicalsoil.com/2018/08/31/pros-cons-vining-plants/#comment-75 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:51:27 +0000 https://ourtropicalsoil.com/?p=271#comment-75 I grow Passionfruit. That is one aggressive vine! Delicious tho, and one CRAZY producer. You'll get hundreds of fruit from one vine.

]]> By: Melanie https://ourtropicalsoil.com/2018/08/31/pros-cons-vining-plants/#comment-39 Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:44:06 +0000 https://ourtropicalsoil.com/?p=271#comment-39 In reply to Craig Hepworth.

Thank you for your response! I haven't thought about growing vines on yuca. I haven't grown yuca before though. Maybe it would work best with the twining vines instead of the one with tendrils. The tendrils attach to anything around it and it might end up shading the yuca out. The yams are twining vines so I think that's why it works well.

]]> By: Craig Hepworth https://ourtropicalsoil.com/2018/08/31/pros-cons-vining-plants/#comment-38 Fri, 31 Aug 2018 20:45:14 +0000 https://ourtropicalsoil.com/?p=271#comment-38 Wow, such a great description of the joys and headaches of vines! I always have mixed feelings about planting vines, for all the reasons you describe. One combo I've seen work well is yam (ñame) vines climbing yuca plants - the yuca holds its leaves out so far from the main stem that they don't get shaded by the yam leaves hugging the yuca's stems. And the yam gets enough sunlight to make good tuber production. I haven't experimented with growing other vines using yuca as a trellis, but it might be worth experimenting with it. Thanks for a nice post that's got me thinking about it.

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