That title has something to do with my lovely Passion Plants. I love them because they give me these beautiful flowers on a yearly basis. Yes, this much and can you imagine it started this small and not bushy ... aqou8t.jpg EWmTaag to this bushy ... I give it a trim every two years. It should be trimmed every two years, doing that encourages blooming and fruiting. Last year, I didn't trim it but it was the year it gave me the most harvest. Almost every morning, I got me more than a dozen of them - sweet ripe fruits. uS4rxi9.jpg I was very happy with it and I'm pretty attached to these plants cause they gave me the breakthrough I needed here in Steemit. Even this dragonfly is smiling and is happily perched on one of its leaves . She and her other friends and cousin damselflies are often hovering around the stems or the leaves. Unfortunately, yesterday I was so much into gardening I think I overdid trimming this time. I cut it way back since all the stems were damaged by the frost and most leaves turned yellow from all the ice age experience in January. I cut off the whole crawling vines on the string I've improvised for it last year and almost no more leaves were left. Since it was shooting baby shoots under the ground (yes a passion fruit is like a runner, once you have one, give it a year or two and it'll send out shoots anywhere it could), I hunched that it would sprout again and bear me Passion fruits in abundance so I trimmed it - but then .. it must be a little bit over the top this time. I coiled it back on the pine tree but I actually want to trim it lower than this. I don't know about you but I'm not trying to start a revolution nor a strike.
What do you think?
Did I over trim it this time?
Do you think it would still grow much leaves and just crawl back up where it has gone before? or would it actually cease to grow?
Do you think it would bear me more fruits this year?
Tell me .. what do you think?
I took some of the pics with my Samsung Galaxy Note 1 and A3 2016 edition.
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