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Dragon Fruit Dude
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I'll be walking through my journey of dragon fruit growing starting from scratch. Follow along and learn with me!
Dragons End of August 2024: Tipping and Branching
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A few more dragon fruit tipping and managing the new growth from previously tipped dragon fruit.
Dela makes a return!
#dragonfruit #gardening #plants
A few more dragon fruit tipping and managing the new growth from previously tipped dragon fruit.
Dela makes a return!
#dragonfruit #gardening #plants
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Dragons Mid August: Time for Tipping
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Episode 20: Dragon fruit growing so much it's time to tip the tops! #dragonfruit #growing #plants
End of July 2024 - Dragon Fruit Vertical Growth
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Episode 19: Nothing Stopping Vertical Growth #dragonfruit #growing #plants
Quick Growth from Dragon Fruit - Mid-July
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Episode 19: Dragons continue to grow! #dragonfruit #growing #plants
Continued Growth of Dragon Fruit at end of June
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Episode 18: Dragons continue to grow! #dragonfruit #growing #plants
The Dragons Awaken
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Episode 17: Finally after fertilizing and waiting until mid-June, the dragon fruits are aggressively growing branches! #dragonfruit #fertilizer #plants
Late Spring Fertilizing and Trimming
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Episode 16: Trying to punch the Dragon Fruits into growing so adding some fertilizer and also removing small shoots so plant can focus on a main shoot. Videos taken May 9th
Dragonfruit Pests Caught Red Handed!
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Episode 15: Epic thwarting of pests doing their doing dirty work. They should be ashamed. #dragonfruit #gardening #snail Music by www.bensound.com License code: ZHSYIVMFYJ99SJOU
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Mystery Pest
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Episode 14: What pesky pest persistently pecking my plants away? #dragonfruit #pests #gardening
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Snails Eating my Plants
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Episode 13: Looks like some snail are feasting on my plants. Time for them to be sacrificed.
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Sunburn Update 1
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Episode 12: Short update on the effect of increasing shade on the sunburn of the plant. Re-upload since I uploaded the wrong video before. #dragonfruit #sunburn
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Can Sun Shade Protect from Rain?
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Episode 11: Now that the rainy season has returned, let's see if our sun shade can double as an umbrella. We want to make sure our plants aren't getting too much water! #dragonfruit #rain #winter
The Dragon Fruit Journey: A Sunburn Experiment
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Episode 10: It looks like some of my dragon fruit are yellowing due to over exposure to the sun. After 3.5 weeks of the experiment, it looks like I need to increase the shade for two of my trellises. #dragonfruit #sunburn
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Tipping a Dragonfruit - How and Why?
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Episode 8: Once your dragonfruit has grown above the trellis it's tip to start shaping the branch!
The Dragon Fruit Journey: First Planting
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Episode 7: Here we mixup all our soil materials and plant all the dragon fruits from Home Depot! Music: bensound.com License code: DDP8FTBUBEKTFHB8 Music I Use: www.bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: M4UVDDIUMY8RWLWT #dragonfruit #gardening
Buyer Beware: Home Depot's Dragon Fruit Naming is Vague
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Buyer Beware: Home Depot's Dragon Fruit Naming is Vague
The Dragon Fruit Journey: What's the best soil?
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The Dragon Fruit Journey: What's the best soil?
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Baby Dragon Unboxing
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The Dragon Fruit Journey: Baby Dragon Unboxing
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Trellis Improvements
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The Dragon Fruit Journey: Trellis Improvements
The Dragon Fruit Journey: My 5 Top Varieties for Beginners
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The Dragon Fruit Journey: My 5 Top Varieties for Beginners
The Dragon Fruit Journey: Trellis Design and Build
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The Dragon Fruit Journey: Trellis Design and Build
The Dragon Fruit Journey: The Beginning
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The Dragon Fruit Journey: The Beginning
Do a test and dont tip. You will get more branches once they start to bend down, and your main branch will give you fruit sooner. Good luck.
@@TexasDragonFruit I am all about testing, I’ll try it out!
I ve been not tipping and getting good results I wait till tall enough then slight twist and bend over & it starts sprouting new growth at the bend. I will post a update later tonight n post a link so you can see my pots and the difference between topping. You save the idle time waiting 2/3wks for the new growth to start
I like this idea, thanks! I can do this with the remaining branches
@@DragonFruitDude dreaming Dragons has a vid on this topic 😉I will still post a update too ☺️
th-cam.com/video/afBfK8wiIOY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9WMQjO3Z2Pn9BIkD Update vid
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Thank you!
Yo my man you need to remover the sugar dragons and put then in there own pot only sugar dragon Arizona purple or voodoo child should be in a pot together maybe just sugar dragon alone it grows less vigorous then the other variety’s it’s one of the slowest growing believe it or not it’s genetics focus on one branch at a time as to where other ones will be trying to grow multiples arms at a time your need to repot them while there still small my man trust me don’t put them I that pot move them before they reach the top and try and put 2 or 4 sugar dragons all in one pot do not mix that variety I’ve had a headache because of that and now it’s too huge to pull out but behind my other variety’s
Hey - why does having a fast growing variety with a slow growing variety cause problems?
@@DragonFruitDude oooooo becasue one takes over the pot and grows crazy and the other is lacking behind and when it tops the trellis there’s a lot more branches of the of the active variety while sugar dragon is or voodoo child is lacking growing one branch after being tipped while others shoot out 8 to 12 branches on a single branch the sugar dragon only shoots out one good stock
@@DragonFruitDude made a video if I were you I would only put sets of 2/4 cuttings of the same variety in each pot don’t mix and match them if u can or you’ll be like me struggling to figure out what is what if you do mix them keep them neet
@@23dannyt Thanks for the advice. My plan is to keep them neat, hopefully I can mange it!
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They make 2x4 out of plastic. Check ewing irrigation or siteone.
@@danielsiapin hmm interesting, this would prevent moisture from damaging the 4x4 (if we screwed 2 2x4’s together). I like the top 2x4’s as wood because I would like to reduce microplastics in my soil as much as possible. So I guess that’s the trade off, microplastics vs wood vs brick and brackets. We already have plastic containers, so I guess I’m getting my daily plastic dosage from there anyway…
Good idea. However, the Simpson post cap at the bottom of the post connecting to the bricks is not intended to provide a moment connection. That’s your weak link in your trellis.
Uh-oh...hopefully it will survive being top heavy..
The HD's are probably the red-fleshed,s self-sterile Physical Graffiti, but without a positive ID you can only call them NoID. Physical Graffiti is delicious with large fruit, and quite hardy in this climate. Let me know if you'd like any other varieties - I have lots of cuttings from many varieties now.
Oh that’s good, I don’t have Physical Graffiti, so at least it’s not a duplicate. Thanks for the offer, if I expand my collection in the future I’ll reach out for sure!
New subscriber here... good luck🎉
Yay! Thank you!
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Great concept. Agree, you want the trellis to be clean looking in your garden. Great video and new subbie as I keep getting ppl donate cuttings. It’s just wrong to adopt plss as Mrs and not look into how to grow them. Thankyou for a great video. 🌵🌵🌵👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome! Thank you!
Give your top branches a chance to continue growing up, they will bend over by themselves and will branch out new branches. on your new branches, If you let them grow over 13 inches or more you can twist and bend at the base to train them the way you want them to grow on your trellis. Good luck.
I also get 36” long cuttings from Alik at Shulman Dragon fruit that way once they root I can transplant into my trellis pots and I also bought 2 led fixtures to keep mine growing all winter. My cuttings I bought 25 -3gal clear pots and filled them with cuttings and trying to get them to 36” before moving into bigger pots. I use tubtrugs biggest pot it 20gallon and use the deck concrete post footing which eats up a lot of root room 🤔I may upgrade to 40g pots going forward
Take all lower growth off, esp that huge sucker it’s sapping all the energy at the bottom, & slowing the top unless your growing for cuttings ? Once I see it’s not a bud it comes off, I’m in it for fruit, once mine top the trellis I grow out 3to 4 branches then I let it go wild and branch off the ones falling down, mine get about 12-20” then slow and fatten up and that usually signals top sprout nodes at the horizontal parts of my branch and I let them go up and then pull them over. Glad you over come the slug, they r looking much better 😊
Thanks for the advice, I’ll cut those lowers growths off today!
Looking good.
Thanks 👍
Looking good.
Glad you got them little craps.
Haven't seen them since! Scared them stiff with a good reprimand and shaming.
Yup biggest fear in moving my pots outside 😳🤬😵😱😔😨🧨time to go commando on those awful bugs. Maybe try rock salt and packing tape a brim the pot with salt. On the outside I know the soft slugs here on east coast turn inside out with table salt 🧂
Looks like Ants. I spray mist my plants with Spectracide Bug Stop from Home D. Works really well. Just a light mist on the plants prevents bugs and ants from getting on them. You can spray the potting soil as well. Read or research the product for your own to see if you want to use it first.
Hi, why not use cedar or redwood for the 4x4 and 2x4 legs? Save the $ and times.
Hey @TimHoSD, I want this trellis to last >10 years. I didn’t want any wood to be in the water + dirt because over those 10 years the wood will break down. So I tired to find a solution where wood did not touch wet soil.
I wonder if you sprinkle epson salt around top of ur pot like a martini glass. I know the soft body slugs hate salt here on east coast. Also sluggo plus insecticide 😉 I use a product called cal carb from extreme gardening. I wonder if you foliar spray with it, that may deter slug/snail feasting??
Oh I do have Sluggo...maybe I'll put that around the outer edge of the soil in the pot. Thanks!
Good video New coming subscriber ❤❤❤
Biggest Difference between perlite & pumice is pumice is permanent, perlite will break down n compact to dust 😉
Ah good advice! You know of any good (and cheap) pumice supplies on the west coast (if that's where you're near?) I couldn't find any :/
@@DragonFruitDude I m on east coast. Start with rock quarries & I actually bought my last bag from Amazon 😉
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Joe, good luck. Hope you get the result you are looking for. I started rooting 2 month back and have has 3 rains on them. The rain pushed my rooting much faster for me. Happy Holidays.
Thanks! Good luck to you too!
Thanks for sharing. Have a great Thanksgiving!!
Good luck. I would like to wait a year or two to find out they are bad.
We will see!
Amazing . Appreciate
@Dragon Fruit Dude,the material you forgot to mention also done by other people are,burlap covering the post areas for the airial roots to cling to& climb as well -the goal to train the stems to shoot straight up the post as fast as it's able from growth?.
@pauhy5601 - thanks! Actually I mention it - as well as Della - here in this video: th-cam.com/video/JsOTVCpHCKw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LqGgvSrIny3IXxt- it’s 5 improvement to this design!
Great video! All great varieties. I've gotten a lot of fruit from all but Palora, which is still too young yet. But even the self-fertile varieties can have a hard time setting fruit, as their pollen viability seems to depend on vine age, nutrition, blossoming time, time in the season, and temperature and humidity. Maybe in a more consistently warm climate they'd do better. I've noticed that there is a lot of conflicting information on the web as to which varieties are really self-fertile and self-pollinating or not, and that seems consistent with my observations that different growing conditions affect pollen viability. So, even for the self-fertile varieties I've had better success if I hand pollinate using pollen from a reliable source, like an undatus variety (Vietnam White) or Sugar Dragon if possible.
Thanks for all the info! I too heard that even if a variety is called Self-Fertile, it is better to hand pollinate because the fruits end up being bigger. I hadn't thought about which pollens would be a "reliable source", but once I start getting flowers I'll have to read up on that.
The weeds in your back yard make it look like your soil type is primarily an alluvial clay; are you in the San Francisco Bay area? I am, and i've been successfully growning a lot of varieties.
This is funny on so many levels. 1) People are noticing the weeds in the backyard. 2) You know what type of soil we have based on the weeds. 3) You know what areas of the country have these types of soil. E-mail me at dragonfruitdude1@gmail.com and we can figure out how if we're close or not.
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Great topic to bring attention to. When I was a beginner to dragon fruit, I was unfortunately fooled by the same problem. I've since learned that the plants on the left are indeed polyrhizus, while the plants that I ended up buying on the right are guatemalensis hybrids: either American Beauty or Physical Grafitti. PG is better than any polyrhizus plant I think, but it was still an unfortunate experience that should be corrected by the big home improvement stores.
Great info! Based on your input all of my dragon fruits I've bought from Home Depot / been gifted are the hybrids from Guatemala. I bought an official American Beauty, so hopefully the home depot ones turn out closer to Physical Grafitti so I can have more variety.
@DragonFruitDude Hopefully they do! You can call the company that provides the dragon fruit plants and see if they have anymore info about the exact varieties they sell. In the end, I'm glad that I ended up with a Physical Graffiti instead of the Polyrhizus I wanted to buy, as the Physical Graffiti is one the best fruits I've ever had. Good luck.
@DragonFruitDude I can sell you some new varieties of dragon fruit for a huge discount if you're ever interested, so you're not stuck with so many Guatemalensis hybrids. Just let me know and I'll set you up if you ever decide you want more varieties :).
@@cactiman3282 thanks for the offer! Other than the home depot DF, I've just planted Sugar Dragon, Palora, American Beauty, Purple Haze, and Delight. So for now I am maxed out, but I am sure I'll want to try some new ones in a year or two. We could trade too if I've got some you want to try once mine grow.