Passion Fruit

Water

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

Needs about 1,060 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 470 mm it can use in a normal year, and 420 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 27 °C / 20 °C
• Jul 25 °C / 19 °C
• Aug 25 °C / 19 °C
• Sep 27 °C / 19 °C
• Oct 27 °C / 19 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 16 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 16 °C
• Feb 31 °C / 17 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 33 °C / 20 °C
• May 31 °C / 20 °C
• Jun 27 °C / 20 °C

Soil

Soil for Passion Fruit: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen and iron.

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

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.