The passion fruit is a fruit of large acceptance due to its juice quality, being the yellow passion fruit plant more cultivated in Brazil. In the last years, the interest for the sweet passion fruit plant increased because the good price in the market 'in natura'. This work had as objective to evaluate production and fruit quality of this species, cultivated with pruning and irrigation in different management systems. The experiment was carried out at randomized block design in strip with 12 treatments (3 management systems x plant irrigated or not x plant pruned or not) in 3 replications. It can be concluded: a) the management systems and the pruning did not affect the fruit size; b) the management systems did not affect the fruit mass; however, the pruned plants produced fruits with bigger mass; c) the pruning reduced the number of fruits per plant and the fruit yield, in the management systems normal "T" and vertical cordon with two wire threads; d) the pruning did not affect the number of fruits per plant and the fruit yield, in the management system in vertical cordon with two wire threads.
passion fruit; crop management; vertical cordon; Passiflora alata; fruits
