Passion Fruit

Water

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

Needs about 830 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year, and 370 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Jun 31 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 27 °C / 20 °C
• Aug 27 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 18 °C
• Oct 25 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 17 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 16 °C / 5 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 19 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 24 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 30 °C / 16 °C
• May 32 °C / 18 °C
• Jun 31 °C / 20 °C

Nights in December can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Passion Fruit: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 6.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 16 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

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.