Passion Fruit

Water

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

Needs about 1,200 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 400 mm it can use in a normal year, and 320 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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 25 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 24 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 21 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 19 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 19 °C
• Feb 35 °C / 21 °C
• Mar 38 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Apr 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

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: 9 out of 10 (good).

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

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.