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Sunday, August 14, 2022

Re: [nafex] Maypops

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 2:36 PM Devin Smith via nafex <
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Always great to see this list still alive!
> Having recently erected a fairly large high tunnel here in SE Vermont,
> I'm eager to try my hand at growing some 'marginal' (for this climate)
> fruiting plants. One I've always wanted to try growing is Maypop-
> Passiflora incarnata.
> Are any of you growing Maypops successfully in a northern locale, and if
> so do you have any recommendations in terms of genetics / strains to seek
> out? Might anyone have root sprouts of known good performers to share ?
> I'm glad to try my hand at growing some out from seed as well. I see that
> the Experimental Farming Network is trying to do some crowd-sourced crop
> improvement and selection. Perhaps I'll try to get involved. I'd love any
> advice or germplasm anyone here might have to offer.
> Thanks,
> Devin SmithRockingham, VT
>

This list will remain available to all who want to use it.

I have some wild maypops fruiting out at the edge of a wooded area on my
property. It has been here for decades and always seems to come back each
year.
When it is ripe I will try it.

LL
Chapel Hill NC

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