Notes on the Cultivation of Passion Fruit in Kenya

Abstract

At a time when large number of farmers are considering planting passion fruits, it may be as well to point out a few of the things to be avoided. The company which I am be connected with first started putting in passion fruits about four years ago in the Trans Nzoia, and since then we have learn by experience some some of the snags that can be avoided. Conditions in Kenya certainly appear admirable for the growth of passiflorine edulis, if one judges by the way uncared -for vines ramp all over the place and produced heaps of fruits; but plantation conditions are different, and it does not necessarily follow that the vines will do equally well.