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next job is to chop the roof off

Is it a Nelly Kelly brand of passion fruit? If so, it will not fruit. I have bought a number of Nelly Kelly passion plants over the years, planted in different suburbs over the years: no fruit. Other people I have spoken to have had the same lack of success: great foliage, no fruit. I don't know how the company can stay in business. I will never, never buy another Nelly Kelly plant, ever again.

can not remember, I think it was a purple fruit

Passion fruit are tropical plants.

If you live in a cooler area the position ans variety are very important.

got the roof off

roof

putting tin on half and shade cloth on other side on roof

planning to put weather proof ( rain ) on the roof and normal shade cloth on the side of the run, that's my next project

I think what you've had is a Nelly Kelly "grafted" passionfruit.
The graft dies and the robust root stock takes over giving heaps of leaf growth and no fruit.
If you select a non grafted plant their should be no further incidence of not bearing fruit.
I have had this experience so now never buy a grafted plant, many others I have seen have had a similar experience to yours.
The worst part is the root stock suckers and can be very wide spread particularly in or over a fowl pen with the extra manure, moisture and soft fertile ground that stimulates leaf growth as it is in an ideal position to thrive.

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what it looks like now

can put the front down or up

down and closed in

Looks good twitch.

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