Passion Fruit

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 930 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 510 mm it can use in a normal year, and 490 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 18–34 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 30 °C / 23 °C
• Jul 30 °C / 24 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 30 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 19 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 15 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 24 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 27 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 31 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 22 °C
• May 32 °C / 23 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 23 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Passion Fruit: 6 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: salt, sulphur, zinc and 4 more.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 7.8 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 2 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.