Passion Fruit

Water

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

Needs about 1,230 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 370 mm it can use in a normal year, and 340 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 35 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 31 °C / 22 °C
• Aug 30 °C / 21 °C
• Sep 30 °C / 21 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 29 °C / 14 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 21 °C
• Apr 40 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• May 41 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 35 °C / 24 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in April get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

Not in the score: phosphorus.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of sulphur.

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.