My dragon fruit finally fruited!!!
ch3rri
12 years ago
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Finally! My Dragon Fruit has fruited.
Comments (1)Agghhhhh! When my new acquired red-fleshed Dragon Fruit produced a stray vine, I promptly cut it and planted it near the mother plant when it was about 8 inches. When I looked at it few days ago, the whole thing was gone! Vanished. I suspected it was one of those darn slugs, I'm sure of it. Fortunately, the mother plant produced another vine that has been planted on a pot and growing lots of roots on the bottom. This time, I'm going to harden and fatten the vine first before I plant it in the same spot near the mother plant....See MoreGuava, start fruit, dragon fruit or mango in Utah?
Comments (4)If you look back to many of the posts here, you will find that there are many of us growing these types of plants well outside of their zones. Do to your space limitations, you will need to narrow down your focus on plants...or consider building a greenhouse on down the road! Buy grafted plants from a trusted mail order co...many of which you will find mentioned in this forum. Mangos are going to require the most light. Dragon fruit, unless kept to a manageable size, will be a nuisance moving in and out of the house....See MorePomegranate and Dragon fruit not fruiting
Comments (7)Murahilin, The physical graffiti for what I understand is self fertilie and does not need hand pollination. Usually Dragon fruits that don't self pollinate need to be done by hand but you need pollen from a different Dragon fruit plant not related to the one you have. In other words, if you have multiple plants that originated from the same mother plant, won't work. In your case, If it's a true Phisical Graffiti, it should of pollinated itself. I have a Vietnamese Dragon fruit in the ground myself for two years and hasn't flowered. I did some research reading posts and looking at videos from Edgar Valdivia who is a well known Dragon Fruit (Pitaya) grower in California. He stated that it may take up to 4 years to fruit depending on the conditions. Link for Edgar's website http://www.edvaldivia.com/ Good Luck...See MoreDragon Skin fruit (not dragon fruit)
Comments (2)Wow, nice sleuthin! Sure looks like it to me. Those spines look friggin lethal. And you get to hand pollinate it to boot! I looked at one of the sights on the list http://www.capetrib.com.au/salak.htm Never ceases to amaze me how little I know about the fruits world....See Morehmhausman
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