5 Dragon Fruit Growing Mistakes to Avoid
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Michelle
I live in South Africa, Eastern Cape, about 8kms from the sea, with winter rains and very hot summers, and we often have very bad water shortages. When I moved into a little cottage on the farm, I noticed these huge untidy cactus plants growing wild in the bush, with the most beautiful big flowers, not knowing they were dragon fruit. I have not seen any fruit on them in the 3 yrs I have lived here (the garden is not well looked after and we do have a lot of naughty monkeys) but could this be due to neglect, or bad soil and erratic water conditions or is there a wild species that doesn't bear fruit? Can I love this plant back to fruiting? I love your videos by the way!
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I live in South Africa, Eastern Cape, about 8kms from the sea, with winter rains and very hot summers, and we often have very bad water shortages. When I moved into a little cottage on the farm, I noticed these huge untidy cactus plants growing wild in the bush, with the most beautiful big flowers, not knowing they were dragon fruit. I have not seen any fruit on them in the 3 yrs I have lived here (the garden is not well looked after and we do have a lot of naughty monkeys) but could this be due to neglect, or bad soil and erratic water conditions or is there a wild species that doesn't bear fruit? Can I love this plant back to fruiting? I love your videos by the way!
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souffl
For problem number two, overwatering, you can use Trichoderma.
A healthy colony of Trichoderma sp.
I live in tropical area, non-commercially planting dragonfruit directly on the ground along with other tropical plant, and I usually water them twice a day. Which means the soil of my dragonfruit plant will always be moist all day long.
I had learn a painful mistake from my first dragonfruit, and knowing Trichoderma can deal with most fungi, now I just regularly sprinkle some Trichoderma spore mixed with pond water once a week.
Never had any root rot ever since then.
Hope it might helps
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For problem number two, overwatering, you can use Trichoderma.
A healthy colony of Trichoderma sp.
I live in tropical area, non-commercially planting dragonfruit directly on the ground along with other tropical plant, and I usually water them twice a day. Which means the soil of my dragonfruit plant will always be moist all day long.
I had learn a painful mistake from my first dragonfruit, and knowing Trichoderma can deal with most fungi, now I just regularly sprinkle some Trichoderma spore mixed with pond water once a week.
Never had any root rot ever since then.
Hope it might helps
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Erik
Great tips at the end - just be careful about the time of day you choose to spray solutions on any plant! I realize your friend was simply demonstrating. But it was in full sun, just saying. Wah-wah. haha it's ocd, I know; it's best to do when wind is low, and the sun has either barely risen, or barely begun to set. Especially that copper fungicide or peroxide, or even rubbing alcohol. Sunlight can create magnified burns thru simple water droplets; think of what it does when it heats up a chemical.
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Great tips at the end - just be careful about the time of day you choose to spray solutions on any plant! I realize your friend was simply demonstrating. But it was in full sun, just saying. Wah-wah. haha it's ocd, I know; it's best to do when wind is low, and the sun has either barely risen, or barely begun to set. Especially that copper fungicide or peroxide, or even rubbing alcohol. Sunlight can create magnified burns thru simple water droplets; think of what it does when it heats up a chemical.
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Brad
Helpful video. Thanks! I'm totally new to growing dragon fruit. I'm in the Phoenix area and just got a plant from Home Depot. It is about 30 tall now with just 2 or 3 sections (no branches out to the side, just one longer plant with 2-3 sections. How long before I should expect to see flowers/fruit? Would you recommend I cut the tip on the top most section, or should I let it grow larger first?
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Helpful video. Thanks! I'm totally new to growing dragon fruit. I'm in the Phoenix area and just got a plant from Home Depot. It is about 30 tall now with just 2 or 3 sections (no branches out to the side, just one longer plant with 2-3 sections. How long before I should expect to see flowers/fruit? Would you recommend I cut the tip on the top most section, or should I let it grow larger first?
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Maelstrom
13: 44 Copper fungicide is organic. You can see on the bottle it says in capital letters: For organic gardening. Buying organic does not mean it's free of pesticide/herbicide/fungicide/poison, it just means that For organic gardening poisons have been allowed to be used. Organic poisons are waay worse, basically let's just spray our food crops with heavy metals! Yum yum!
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13: 44 Copper fungicide is organic. You can see on the bottle it says in capital letters: For organic gardening. Buying organic does not mean it's free of pesticide/herbicide/fungicide/poison, it just means that For organic gardening poisons have been allowed to be used. Organic poisons are waay worse, basically let's just spray our food crops with heavy metals! Yum yum!
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Deborah
I was just gifted a dragonfruit plant. Right now it has a long 8 inch vertical from the dirt but a 3 ft piece coming from the side. I won't be able to stand it up. Can I cut those pieces and plant them correctly? And the one going horizontal actual has a bud. So I'm thinking maybe leave it alone for now in case that one flowers and fruits?
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I was just gifted a dragonfruit plant. Right now it has a long 8 inch vertical from the dirt but a 3 ft piece coming from the side. I won't be able to stand it up. Can I cut those pieces and plant them correctly? And the one going horizontal actual has a bud. So I'm thinking maybe leave it alone for now in case that one flowers and fruits?
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Brad
Thanks for the tips. I'm new to growing dragon fruit. I have two plants, each still in their small containers from HD. Both are growing but are beginning to yellow at the base. Is this an indication of too much/little water or perhaps too little sun (Jan-March they were only getting around 3-4 hours of direct sun per day. Thanks for any tips!
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Thanks for the tips. I'm new to growing dragon fruit. I have two plants, each still in their small containers from HD. Both are growing but are beginning to yellow at the base. Is this an indication of too much/little water or perhaps too little sun (Jan-March they were only getting around 3-4 hours of direct sun per day. Thanks for any tips!
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Corvus
My first dragon fruit was bought in ignorance and treated as a tough cactus. I had it for 25 years in a tiny shallow pot. I realised what it was after it fruited. It now has 20 babies from cuttings taken when I finally repotted. Let's see how it goes now it ( they) has been properly potted.
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My first dragon fruit was bought in ignorance and treated as a tough cactus. I had it for 25 years in a tiny shallow pot. I realised what it was after it fruited. It now has 20 babies from cuttings taken when I finally repotted. Let's see how it goes now it ( they) has been properly potted.
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eric
I bought a house that has a thousand square foot greenhouse there are four dragon fruit plants that got left in the greenhouse and I'm trimming dead off of them I watered them they turning Greener but help these things have been really neglected I think there's two different varieties
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I bought a house that has a thousand square foot greenhouse there are four dragon fruit plants that got left in the greenhouse and I'm trimming dead off of them I watered them they turning Greener but help these things have been really neglected I think there's two different varieties
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Alex
At 6: 52 the bluebird makes his appearance. Love these videos. I just started growing dragonfruit. Have a few cuttings and they are rooting now. My husband has to build me some trellises and Ill show him your how to build the trellis video when he does. Thanks!
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At 6: 52 the bluebird makes his appearance. Love these videos. I just started growing dragonfruit. Have a few cuttings and they are rooting now. My husband has to build me some trellises and Ill show him your how to build the trellis video when he does. Thanks!
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Cvs5520
Hello I have a question? What do I do when they are in cold weather and they feel very mushy inside or soft I bought them inside to see if they will reverse and try to get firm again they have it wrapped up but it got so cold here in Texas
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Hello I have a question? What do I do when they are in cold weather and they feel very mushy inside or soft I bought them inside to see if they will reverse and try to get firm again they have it wrapped up but it got so cold here in Texas
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blakespower
how heavy are those pots? because I live in area that gets below freezing in Winter but I have hot humid summers, on the east coast USA, so I would have to bring the plants in, in the winter. Will be heavy I suppose to move
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how heavy are those pots? because I live in area that gets below freezing in Winter but I have hot humid summers, on the east coast USA, so I would have to bring the plants in, in the winter. Will be heavy I suppose to move
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Lazar
Hi. Thanks for the tips. I havent found the answer to a question: can I buy a red/white dragon fruit from the store and grow a fruiting plant from the seeds? I would love to see a video about this process. Thank you!
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Hi. Thanks for the tips. I havent found the answer to a question: can I buy a red/white dragon fruit from the store and grow a fruiting plant from the seeds? I would love to see a video about this process. Thank you!
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Graeme
Thank you so much for the helpful video. I notice you use some pretty substantial posts for the trellis. Is that aesthetic, or will the plant get too heavy for a more traditional 1x1 type post? Thank you again!
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Thank you so much for the helpful video. I notice you use some pretty substantial posts for the trellis. Is that aesthetic, or will the plant get too heavy for a more traditional 1x1 type post? Thank you again!
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