Oh my God ... Oh my God ... I've got four fruits growing and getting red. And there are more three I think they're very "pregnant". I tried to take off the flower but it was already dry and hard to remove so I left there. Next year I'll remove them. Thank you for your advice Richard.
Love your stuff. I am about to build a massive garden and DF is one of my fav. I have yet to eat a red flesh fruit. I am a disabled Army Vet and gardening is very relaxing for me. I have never grown DF but looking forward to do it. Thank you
thank you for uploading the videos and sharing all the good info. Following your method, my dragon fruit plant is bearing the first ever fruit after 3 years.
Can you talk about how to tell when a flower is successfully pollinated? All my flowers become bulbous and appear halfway like a mature fruit, but then they eventually fall off before full maturity. I'm wondering if this means they were not successfully pollinated.
Thank you so much for all your knowledge and wisdom...just starting out with my first plant and preparing my custom built enclosure for them as we speak due to the UK's climate lol
Greetings, from California! You’re very welcome, thank you for watching my videos. It makes me happy that you are happy. Please keep enjoying my videos and information.
My dragon fruit rarely fruit. I"ll have13 and only one will fruit. They all blossomed but turned yellow real quick and dies. What am I doing wrong? Are there not enough bees. My husband tried pollinating with qtips but no luck. This will be my fifth year and I only harvested 3 in all those years.
How do you treat the flowers if you plan to make tea from them? The flowers you plucked were moldy and not looking like they'd make a tea which I would want to drink. thx!
Loving it bro. Would like to try planting these dragons soon. M in the 3rd episode on your vid. Will cont. After work. 😆 said ur giving away the trimmings hope i can try one. Thanks for taking the time bro.
Thanx for letting me know. I’m a first time grower in Miami Fla. and I left the flowers dry up on the fruit. This caused the fruit to rot and fall off😭😩
Thank you, Salvi Mithrin. I will definitely make a video on that topic when that time comes for me so I can demonstrate and explain as I am pruning my dragon fruit plants. Pruning for me usually starts in November when the last set of flowers all bloom and harvested. Then pruning will begin. I’ll make sure to cover all the content in the video. I appreciate your suggestions!
Hi Richard, I seem to have bacteria forming on the cactus arm ( yellow with brown spot) where 4 fruits are on. Will the fruits still grow normally ? I plan to cut off the arm after the fruit is harvested if it matures even with the damaged segment. Any suggestions on how to prevent bacterial rot?
Hi Cynthia, your fruits will still grow normally so no need to worry about that. I would let the whole fruiting cycle finish and once its done you can do 2 things. 1. Treat it with copper fungicide and spray the infected area to stop the spread and kill the fungus. 2. Cut the whole cutting off and discard it away from your other plants so that it doesn't spread. I hope this helps, you can search through my videos for info on how to treat cactus fungus. There's a video of me showing ways to remove them. - Richard
Hi Richard, how can you tell if the fruit develops after removing the flower? Is there a possibility that even after manually pollinating the stigma that the fruit won’t develop? Thanks!
Have been growing 4 varieties of dragon fruit for a year and look nothing like yours. I believe when I make my raised bed and use a concrete /styrofoam post for the DF to climb as well as your trellis design ... should start showing promising results. Will keep you posted. Thanks for all tour videos and advice.
Hi Kenneth, please keep me updated I would love to hear about your progress. Chicken manure is a great source of fertilizer that will feed them throughout the year slowly. They love it and you can get results just like me by simply just adding this to your garden routine.
Hi Richard Thank you for your very informative videos. I just learned that my “night blooming cactus” is really a dragon fruit plant about two months ago. I have been enjoying the plant for 10 years! I have quite a few that grow in my yard. After learning about dragon fruit from your videos we pollinated several flowers and had one fruit. It was delicious. Then we pollinated 27 flowers in the next bloom. None grew into fruit. Then I saw the video where you removed the flower and then the stigma. I just pollinated 5 tonight. Will try and follow your instructions over the next week or so. Do you think that because the flowers and stigma were not removed was the reason we had no fruit? I live in Florida. Thank you for any insight you may have.
Hi, thank you so much for sharing very useful tips. I have 1 dragon fruit about 1 year 3 months old. It just had 4 Flower’s bloomed. I’m not sure if the tree I have is male or female type. I will have to wait n see. Thanks
Thanks for sharing this. I've had a big problem with the dragon fruit creating the flower, the flower rots and the fruit falls off in the early stages, so maddening. I hope this solves the problem.
@@CamarenaFarms I watched a video on how to pollinate. But I do wonder if the compost I have it in holds too much moisture. What do you recommend for soil?
@@aquaseahorselove3939 I'm still having the same problem. I think I might have to transplant them to get them into dryer soil. There's a lot of compost in the pot which might be holding too much moisture.
@@jetpromys I’m convinced mine must be self sterile. I’ve started a different kind of dragon fruit so I can cross pollinate them and see if that solves the problem. Good luck with yours.
Hi, i have two questions 1- I’ve noticed dragonfruit plants produce two types of limbs, one kind tends to get chunky full of water while the other is skinny, long and seems to grow faster, how should I choose which limbs to Prune, long and skinny, the chunkier ones, or both? 2- is it true that weather needs to reach a certain temperature for dragon flowers to actually become fruit? Thanks for all the knowledge you share
Hi Pablo, are you hand-pollinating your flower? If not this is one reason why they would bloom and fall off. Check my channel on how to hand pollinate a dragon fruit so you are prepared to do it when your flower blooms again. They shouldn’t fall off if you’re successful.
I was going to say that isnt it better to let nature do its job but you obviously know what you're doing judging by the health & size of your plant so ill take the tip thanks for sharing
Hi Tony, nature can definitely do its job but this just helps keep the fruit pest and moisture free. It helps keeps your fruit stay damage free and very pretty once you harvest them. Sometimes critters love to hide in those dry flowers and eat the fruit from within. Thanks for watching!
Richard - love watching all your videos its been so informational but I was wondering if you have a video on how to make budding blooms. My dragon stem I have been growing for 2-yrs now has not had one bloom and I would absolutely appreciate your help. thank you.
Hi Alvhi, you can join this facebook dragon fruit community to ask for DF cuttings to grow the members will be happy to help you. facebook.com/groups/339405923306378/?ref=share
Awesome sauce. Nice content. I had no clue of this flower removal front Dragon fruit. Very nice. I got two poisonous spiders on my Dragon fruit plant. Have you encountered this on your plants? And what's your suggest in regards to this matter? Thank you Al
If i am growing one dragonfruit cactus, Say i propogated cuttings from it, Would they be suitable for cross pollinating? Or would they be the same bariety as the plant i took cuttings from?
Thanks for this info, removing the flowers, but what about this what is in the middle, I don't know it's name, do we should remove also and when? Thanks
You're very welcome, Mostafa! The middle thing is called a "stigma" some people even call it a "pistol". Here's a video on the full details on when and how to remove the stigma when ready. th-cam.com/video/Vkgh7uAQnYE/w-d-xo.html
@@GraftingDragonFruit hi Richard, thanks for your awesome videos but would also like to follow you on fb. Can u please tell me your fb page. Thank you!😃
Hello Richard, more power to your channel. I want ask you regarding my plant Dragon fruits, got a lot of flowers but turns down to yellow and dying, not becoming fruity, what’s the right cure to apply? Thank you for your immediate attention.
Hi Richer love ur video and love ur dragon fruits. I have big dragon pot n it bloom nice for 2 years now but it turned yellow n fail off no fruit. I’m sad! I tried to pollenate it but I did it wrong. Now I see ur video it make sense . So I’ll will try next year. Wish me luck. If I don’t have fruit I’ll go still ur!! Lol thank u .
Hi. I didn’t know about pulling the flower off. Thank you for showing how that is done. Your video’s are very helpful. Thanks! Question, if you don’t mind. … I live in Central Florida and have a Haley’s Comet Dragonfruit. It gets mostly sun and is well drained. I had 5 blooms this year and hand pollinated all of them. (One on one night, and other 4 the night after) on the night I had 4, I used all 4 to pollinate each other. Few days later, seemed like they took. They were firm. On the 5 th day, I could see the color separation and was able to pull the bloom off like you showed. But a day or so later, they turned yellow. 3 fell off the next day. The other 2 have some pink, but also kind of yellow. What did I do wrong? (Going to send this your dragonfruit friend as well, please don’t be offended. I’ve learned from both of you, lol)
My dragon fruit plants gave me about 10 flowers about 4 days ago. I pollinated them at night. But the flowers became yellow and withering away. Could it be over watering?
Aloha. We live in Hawaii. Last year no problems with dragonfruit. Beautiful, ripe, not eaten by pests. This year every one is eaten by a pest - all the way through - with holes on two sides and hollowed out. We have geckos and birds but I never see them eating the fruit. After the fruit starts to die, ants show up. Any ideas as to what is eating them and how to prevent it. Mahalo.
Yes, it would be in that exact order. Here’s a better description of each one of my favorites! 1. Sugar Dragon - ALL TIME FAVORITE, they basically should call this Candy Dragon. I can taste it just saying that name. 2. Ecuador Palora - Love it for its honey tasting sweetness. 3. Condor - AMAZING flavor profile. The tart really compliments the sweetness, every chew makes it even better. Really fun for the palate. 4. Tricia - Reminds me of lychee and berries mixed together. Taste like a exotic candy.
Grafting Dragon Fruit i thought your third favorite was voodoo child?? What bumped it off the list? Def gonna buy a sugar dragon cutting from ya then, sounds super yummy! 🤤 And would you say Vietnamese white giant just grows super huge but taste wise you don’t think is so good then? Definitely want the tastiest sweetest
I like the way you vlog and explain.please more educate us like my Dragon fruits stems are so skinny what fertilizer to use to be fat stem.and hopes to bear fruits successfully since i got end to yellow and drop so discouraging.thanks a lot.
Hi Dieter Schulz, thank you for watching my videos and I’m glad you are finding them helpful and educating! Here’s a new video I just posted that will help your dragon fruit stems grow thick and healthy again. It also helps boost their immune system to prevent diseases. Organic Compost Tea Recipe for Dragon Fruit th-cam.com/video/gGxCiW-PP-A/w-d-xo.html
Hello I am new to your channel, so how do you pollenate the plant does it pollinate on its own? I have red and yellow seeds ready to germinate.. hopefully
I take off the flower to prevent moisture from sitting inside and causing rot to the fruit. Also sometimes fungus can grow and infect the fruit so I take pre caution by removing it when it detaches from the fruit. I have videos on how to grow them in pots in my channel. Please browse through my video list to see them all. Thank you
Hello Richard....from my understanding the reason why we removed the dragon fruit flower is to avoid insects from staying in the flower & fruits....Because what I did is I just leaved the flowers to dry until harvesting the fruits.
would you know why after pollinating and after 4 to 5 days, the whole flower becomes yellow and dies out? does this mean i did not pollinate it correctly?
I just got my first fruit about a week ago. The fruit itself is firm, but I never removed the flower I was nervous.. now it's mushy including the stigma... should I just do my best to remove best I can or just leave it.
Hi Richard. Love following all your videos on dragon fruit and will always do so. Would you be able to tell me what i am doing wrong on the dragon fruit flowers, When i am to pollinate the flowers ,some that are supposed to be opened will not open at all ,cause the tips of the flower are stuck like glue ,Could this be from lack of watering.or from the ants that are on these flowers at earlier buding stage,Please help me if you know the cause, God bless you .
Hi James Billy, what variety of Dragon Fruit are you having this happening to you? Some varieties take long to bloom than others. Also, are you adding any type of fertilizer to encourage strength to help with blooming? These factors will help me identify what is happening. I never heard of a sterile flower and they tend to always open. It might just be a late bloomer. Keep me updated and I’ll try to help you figure this out. We want them to bloom!
Dragon fruits are very interesting & wish I could grow them here but to cold & there's another plant people's soak in liquor & wondering if there the same
How about if you cut them by scissors and accidentally you cut the stigma after 4-5 days? Is there is no detrimental effect to the development of the fruit?
Hi red xcube, if you cut them by scissors and also the stigma after 4-5 days your fruit will still be fine! It takes only 2-3 days for the pollen to successful pollinate the stigma and become a fruit. I just wait 4-5 days because it’s easier to snap and pull off once they separate from each other. And the stigma is still too moist to pull, its latched on real good. Usually about 8-10 days the stigma can be yanked off easier. There a video of me doing that in my channel.
Thank you !
Mine are just starting to form buds so I’m watching all your videos.
I’m taking notes.
Oh my God ... Oh my God ... I've got four fruits growing and getting red. And there are more three I think they're very "pregnant". I tried to take off the flower but it was already dry and hard to remove so I left there. Next year I'll remove them. Thank you for your advice Richard.
Thank you so much for making videos like this with all the information to have beautiful dragon fruit plants God bless you
Love your stuff. I am about to build a massive garden and DF is one of my fav. I have yet to eat a red flesh fruit. I am a disabled Army Vet and gardening is very relaxing for me. I have never grown DF but looking forward to do it. Thank you
I love your videos. I'm learning so much from them. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Blessings.
thank you for uploading the videos and sharing all the good info. Following your method, my dragon fruit plant is bearing the first ever fruit after 3 years.
Hi Joanne Wu, Thanks for watching my videos! Yayyy, congrats on your dragon fruit bearing fruits! That is very exciting :)
Got it! Left, right, up, down, B, A, Select, Start
oww thats cool! its a cheat in some games buddy..
From Surabaya East Java , thank you for the very useful information for DRAGON FRUIT farmers
Hi He Man, you’re very welcome. Thank you for watching my channel.
Can you talk about how to tell when a flower is successfully pollinated? All my flowers become bulbous and appear halfway like a mature fruit, but then they eventually fall off before full maturity. I'm wondering if this means they were not successfully pollinated.
Same here also happened
Thank you so much for all your knowledge and wisdom...just starting out with my first plant and preparing my custom built enclosure for them as we speak due to the UK's climate lol
Wow so great now I know how to removed thank you for learning. God bless
Beautiful full growth!!!! That tree is awesome!!!!
Congrats!!!!🙏🏼🤙🏼
from Egypt many thanks to you... you make me happy with this information...
Greetings, from California! You’re very welcome, thank you for watching my videos. It makes me happy that you are happy. Please keep enjoying my videos and information.
@@GraftingDragonFruit thank you my friend and i hope you to visit my country Egypt... you are welcome.
My dragon fruit rarely fruit. I"ll have13 and only one will fruit. They all blossomed but turned yellow real quick and dies. What am I doing wrong? Are there not enough bees. My husband tried pollinating with qtips but no luck. This will be my fifth year and I only harvested 3 in all those years.
How do you treat the flowers if you plan to make tea from them? The flowers you plucked were moldy and not looking like they'd make a tea which I would want to drink. thx!
Loving it bro. Would like to try planting these dragons soon. M in the 3rd episode on your vid. Will cont. After work. 😆 said ur giving away the trimmings hope i can try one. Thanks for taking the time bro.
How often do you water the dragon fruit when they start flowering? And what vitamins do you give?
How to have that kind of dragon fruit trees? Yours are so looks healthy...is there any fertilizer ?
Wow!How Nice Your Dragon Fruits 💕 Watching you from Athens Greece Bravo Godbless Always
More nerrative and soo good to hear your voice. Keep it up
Thank you for watching! :)
Thanx for letting me know. I’m a first time grower in Miami Fla. and I left the flowers dry up on the fruit. This caused the fruit to rot and fall off😭😩
Next time! It's all a learning experience for everyone
Great video. Would you explain when in the season to prune to improve flowering, increase growing, etc?
Thank you, Salvi Mithrin. I will definitely make a video on that topic when that time comes for me so I can demonstrate and explain as I am pruning my dragon fruit plants. Pruning for me usually starts in November when the last set of flowers all bloom and harvested. Then pruning will begin. I’ll make sure to cover all the content in the video. I appreciate your suggestions!
খাটো জাতের বিশ্বের সবচেয়ে দামী এবং সুস্বাদু এ্যারোমেটিক নারিকেল দুই বছরে অবিশ্বাস্য ফলন এখন বাংলাদেশে
th-cam.com/video/xJ4hxcjLlzg/w-d-xo.html
@@GraftingDragonFruit How can I get a self-pollinated variety and can I make my plants self-pollinate please answer me
@@fruitdudragon9730 you can find some on Facebook
You’ve got a real talent for growing
Hi Richard, I seem to have bacteria forming on the cactus arm ( yellow with brown spot) where 4 fruits are on. Will the fruits still grow normally ? I plan to cut off the arm after the fruit is harvested if it matures even with the damaged segment. Any suggestions on how to prevent bacterial rot?
Hi Cynthia, your fruits will still grow normally so no need to worry about that. I would let the whole fruiting cycle finish and once its done you can do 2 things.
1. Treat it with copper fungicide and spray the infected area to stop the spread and kill the fungus.
2. Cut the whole cutting off and discard it away from your other plants so that it doesn't spread.
I hope this helps, you can search through my videos for info on how to treat cactus fungus. There's a video of me showing ways to remove them. - Richard
Grafting Dragon Fruit Thank You ! It’s great to have advice from experts.
Hi Richard, how can you tell if the fruit develops after removing the flower? Is there a possibility that even after manually pollinating the stigma that the fruit won’t develop? Thanks!
Have been growing 4 varieties of dragon fruit for a year and look nothing like yours. I believe when I make my raised bed and use a concrete /styrofoam post for the DF to climb as well as your trellis design ... should start showing promising results. Will keep you posted. Thanks for all tour videos and advice.
Hi Kenneth, please keep me updated I would love to hear about your progress. Chicken manure is a great source of fertilizer that will feed them throughout the year slowly. They love it and you can get results just like me by simply just adding this to your garden routine.
hi, thank you for adding dragon fruit videos, we have red varieties at our farm
Welcome!
Hi Richard
Thank you for your very informative videos. I just learned that my “night blooming cactus” is really a dragon fruit plant about two months ago. I have been enjoying the plant for 10 years! I have quite a few that grow in my yard. After learning about dragon fruit from your videos we pollinated several flowers and had one fruit. It was delicious. Then we pollinated 27 flowers in the next bloom. None grew into fruit. Then I saw the video where you removed the flower and then the stigma. I just pollinated 5 tonight. Will try and follow your instructions over the next week or so.
Do you think that because the flowers and stigma were not removed was the reason we had no fruit? I live in Florida.
Thank you for any insight you may have.
Some dragon fruit need to be cross pollenated from a seperate plant.
Were you able to figure out how to get fruit from it?
Hi, thank you so much for sharing very useful tips. I have 1 dragon fruit about 1 year 3 months old. It just had 4 Flower’s bloomed. I’m not sure if the tree I have is male or female type. I will have to wait n see. Thanks
Splendid!
Holy crap! This video needs more views! Thumbnail on point
Thanks bro!
Hi Richard, after removing the Dragon Fruit Flower,how many days doI have to wait until it is ready to be harvested?Thank you.
The Vietnam white variety is best harvest at 30-35 days after the flower has bloomed. That’s when it’s at its best!
Would you throw the removed flowers into a compost, or trash them?
How do u keep it looking like a tree?
Do you cut the ends like a bonsai?
What is the reason for so many dislikes. He is doing such great job of teaching. God bless.
Like from mizoram,i like your video,i learn alots of things,so im so happy,im waiting for another video 👍
Thanks for sharing this. I've had a big problem with the dragon fruit creating the flower, the flower rots and the fruit falls off in the early stages, so maddening. I hope this solves the problem.
Your problem isn't the flower rot. It's the pollenation. Hope you've figured it out by now!
@@CamarenaFarms I watched a video on how to pollinate. But I do wonder if the compost I have it in holds too much moisture. What do you recommend for soil?
Did you ever figure it out? Mine’s doing the same thing.
@@aquaseahorselove3939 I'm still having the same problem. I think I might have to transplant them to get them into dryer soil. There's a lot of compost in the pot which might be holding too much moisture.
@@jetpromys I’m convinced mine must be self sterile. I’ve started a different kind of dragon fruit so I can cross pollinate them and see if that solves the problem. Good luck with yours.
This is pretty satisfying.
Hi, i have two questions
1- I’ve noticed dragonfruit plants produce two types of limbs, one kind tends to get chunky full of water while the other is skinny, long and seems to grow faster, how should I choose which limbs to
Prune, long and skinny, the chunkier ones, or both?
2- is it true that weather needs to reach a certain temperature for dragon flowers to actually become fruit?
Thanks for all the knowledge you share
Very grateful to your very gracious teaching very interesting
Hey Richard I remove the string coming out of the dragon fruit. Did I messed up on that?
thank u for sharing this video. I've had that before, already harvest but when I move it into another place they dont growth anymore
wow, what a beautiful plant
Thank you for all the great information, my plant just flowers it turns yellow and it dries, have you had that issue before?
Pablo Vazquez are you pollinating it?
Hi Pablo, are you hand-pollinating your flower? If not this is one reason why they would bloom and fall off. Check my channel on how to hand pollinate a dragon fruit so you are prepared to do it when your flower blooms again. They shouldn’t fall off if you’re successful.
Bathtubshrimp I tried hand pollinate but it didn’t work, I guess I just didn’t do it right.
Grafting Dragon Fruit I appreciate you taking the time to respond, I already checked out your video on pollinating and I’m going to give it a try.
I was going to say that isnt it better to let nature do its job but you obviously know what you're doing judging by the health & size of your plant so ill take the tip thanks for sharing
Hi Tony, nature can definitely do its job but this just helps keep the fruit pest and moisture free. It helps keeps your fruit stay damage free and very pretty once you harvest them. Sometimes critters love to hide in those dry flowers and eat the fruit from within. Thanks for watching!
Richard - love watching all your videos its been so informational but I was wondering if you have a video on how to make budding blooms. My dragon stem I have been growing for 2-yrs now has not had one bloom and I would absolutely appreciate your help. thank you.
I like to plant d.f. where can I get, and to can I start growing d.f?
Hi Alvhi, you can join this facebook dragon fruit community to ask for DF cuttings to grow the members will be happy to help you. facebook.com/groups/339405923306378/?ref=share
Sir what 's nice time to remove the flowers! good if its not raining sir. thanks for your answer
Wonder if the plant use the minerals of the decaying flower to make itself stronger for the next crop 🤔 ,love your videos
Nice demonstration bro, I would like to know the schedule of Nutrition we need to provide for healthy growth and fruiting.
Awesome sauce. Nice content. I had no clue of this flower removal front Dragon fruit. Very nice. I got two poisonous spiders on my Dragon fruit plant. Have you encountered this on your plants? And what's your suggest in regards to this matter?
Thank you
Al
Very nice show how to remove flower. Thanks
First dragon fruit flower ever today. How do I know if it is self pollinating or not? Or needs cross pollinating with another plant?
I like how you deflowered it.
Thank you
What kind fertilizer needed as my plant is not growing and not flowering.
If i am growing one dragonfruit cactus,
Say i propogated cuttings from it,
Would they be suitable for cross pollinating?
Or would they be the same bariety as the plant i took cuttings from?
Thanks so much for sharing always good information.
Thanks for this info, removing the flowers, but what about this what is in the middle, I don't know it's name, do we should remove also and when?
Thanks
You're very welcome, Mostafa! The middle thing is called a "stigma" some people even call it a "pistol". Here's a video on the full details on when and how to remove the stigma when ready. th-cam.com/video/Vkgh7uAQnYE/w-d-xo.html
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@@GraftingDragonFruit hi Richard, thanks for your awesome videos but would also like to follow you on fb. Can u please tell me your fb page. Thank you!😃
@@GraftingDragonFruit it might be a pistil and not a pistol..
What fertilizer you use why too much fruits come out
Hello, what organic fertilizer do you use ??? Thank you
Can the flower be cooked for salad or anything for viand?
Just curious where you acquired all this knowledge on dragonfruit? Did you have family in Vietnam with a dragonfruit farm or something?
Hello Richard, more power to your channel. I want ask you regarding my plant Dragon fruits, got a lot of flowers but turns down to yellow and dying, not becoming fruity, what’s the right cure to apply? Thank you for your immediate attention.
Hi Richer love ur video and love ur dragon fruits. I have big dragon pot n it bloom nice for 2 years now but it turned yellow n fail off no fruit. I’m sad! I tried to pollenate it but I did it wrong. Now I see ur video it make sense . So I’ll will try next year. Wish me luck. If I don’t have fruit I’ll go still ur!! Lol thank u .
Do you have to hand pollinate ?
Hi. I didn’t know about pulling the flower off. Thank you for showing how that is done. Your video’s are very helpful. Thanks! Question, if you don’t mind. … I live in Central Florida and have a Haley’s Comet Dragonfruit. It gets mostly sun and is well drained. I had 5 blooms this year and hand pollinated all of them. (One on one night, and other 4 the night after) on the night I had 4, I used all 4 to pollinate each other. Few days later, seemed like they took. They were firm. On the 5 th day, I could see the color separation and was able to pull the bloom off like you showed. But a day or so later, they turned yellow. 3 fell off the next day. The other 2 have some pink, but also kind of yellow. What did I do wrong? (Going to send this your dragonfruit friend as well, please don’t be offended. I’ve learned from both of you, lol)
Do you sale the cutters? Your dragon fruit trees look very healthy, How do you take care of them?
Was also wondering have you tried growing the yellow dragon fruits & red ones & how they do there & what do you do with the flowers.
Naku maganda yan sa katawan, yan bulaklak ng dragon fruits ginagawa namin soup yan,,, dito hk
how
Why do you graft new seedlings??? And on what?? Sorry for all the questions....
My dragon fruit plants gave me about 10 flowers about 4 days ago. I pollinated them at night. But the flowers became yellow and withering away. Could it be over watering?
Pollination is with help of bees ?
Or
Other options in hand ?
Thanks, now I know how to do it, my dragon fruit flowers dried up 4 days ago.., have to do how you did it...thanks thanks...
How do you get your df to flower and fruit?
My df is not doing well. Can't get it to flower and to fruit.
What method do you use?
My plant is starting to have a yellow color and not green but it had 4 flowers . Any advice ?
Very nice content and educational. Do pest chew on the stigma after you pull the flowers?
Aloha. We live in Hawaii. Last year no problems with dragonfruit. Beautiful, ripe, not eaten by pests. This year every one is eaten by a pest - all the way through - with holes on two sides and hollowed out. We have geckos and birds but I never see them eating the fruit. After the fruit starts to die, ants show up. Any ideas as to what is eating them and how to prevent it. Mahalo.
que hermosa planta y cuanto fruto!
Can you show me each soil mix you use? Picture of it will be nice thank you I love all your videos
That plant looks so cool. What’s your top 3 favorite varieties?
Thanks, Ronnie! My top 3 favorite varieties are Sugar Dragon, Ecuador Palora, and Condor. If I have a 4th favorite it would totally be Tricia!
Grafting Dragon Fruit is that in the order of 1,2,3? I need to get me a sugar s8 variety.
Yes, it would be in that exact order. Here’s a better description of each one of my favorites!
1. Sugar Dragon - ALL TIME FAVORITE, they basically should call this Candy Dragon. I can taste it just saying that name.
2. Ecuador Palora - Love it for its honey tasting sweetness.
3. Condor - AMAZING flavor profile. The tart really compliments the sweetness, every chew makes it even better. Really fun for the palate.
4. Tricia - Reminds me of lychee and berries mixed together. Taste like a exotic candy.
Grafting Dragon Fruit i thought your third favorite was voodoo child?? What bumped it off the list?
Def gonna buy a sugar dragon cutting from ya then, sounds super yummy! 🤤
And would you say Vietnamese white giant just grows super huge but taste wise you don’t think is so good then? Definitely want the tastiest sweetest
Grafting Dragon Fruit do you have any cuttings of the sugar dragon that I can buy from you? Please 🙏🏽
i thought my dragon fruit flower just died until see your video, Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
I like the way you vlog and explain.please more educate us like my Dragon fruits stems are so skinny what fertilizer to use to be fat stem.and hopes to bear fruits successfully since i got end to yellow and drop so discouraging.thanks a lot.
Hi Dieter Schulz, thank you for watching my videos and I’m glad you are finding them helpful and educating! Here’s a new video I just posted that will help your dragon fruit stems grow thick and healthy again. It also helps boost their immune system to prevent diseases. Organic Compost Tea Recipe for Dragon Fruit th-cam.com/video/gGxCiW-PP-A/w-d-xo.html
This is a wonderful video!Thanks
Good information healthy plants
Hi Pritesh Sojitra, thanks for watching!
Hello I am new to your channel, so how do you pollenate the plant does it pollinate on its own? I have red and yellow seeds ready to germinate.. hopefully
Dear richer can you please explan why are you pull flower? Please show us how to plant this fruit in the pot thanks
I take off the flower to prevent moisture from sitting inside and causing rot to the fruit. Also sometimes fungus can grow and infect the fruit so I take pre caution by removing it when it detaches from the fruit. I have videos on how to grow them in pots in my channel. Please browse through my video list to see them all. Thank you
Hello Richard....from my understanding the reason why we removed the dragon fruit flower is to avoid insects from staying in the flower & fruits....Because what I did is I just leaved the flowers to dry until harvesting the fruits.
would you know why after pollinating and after 4 to 5 days, the whole flower becomes yellow and dies out? does this mean i did not pollinate it correctly?
I just got my first fruit about a week ago. The fruit itself is firm, but I never removed the flower I was nervous.. now it's mushy including the stigma... should I just do my best to remove best I can or just leave it.
Hello Richard, can we use as tea the flower that you removed from the fruit?
How can grow a Dragon plant and where from we get it ?
Hi Md. Sarfafaj, I’m from United States. If you are from here then I will be able to send cuttings to get your Dragon fruit plant.
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Thank you very much for this clip...I will start doing now
You're very welcome!
Hi Richard. Love following all your videos on dragon fruit and will always do so. Would you be able to tell me what i am doing wrong on the dragon fruit flowers, When i am to pollinate the flowers ,some that are supposed to be opened will not open at all ,cause the tips of the flower are stuck like glue ,Could this be from lack of watering.or from the ants that are on these flowers at earlier buding stage,Please help me if you know the cause, God bless you .
Hi James Billy, what variety of Dragon Fruit are you having this happening to you? Some varieties take long to bloom than others. Also, are you adding any type of fertilizer to encourage strength to help with blooming? These factors will help me identify what is happening. I never heard of a sterile flower and they tend to always open. It might just be a late bloomer. Keep me updated and I’ll try to help you figure this out. We want them to bloom!
Which type of dragon fruits the sweetest breed?
Do you prefer growing them in pots or in the ground?
Pots so I can move them if necessary
Dragon fruits are very interesting & wish I could grow them here but to cold & there's another plant people's soak in liquor & wondering if there the same
How about if you cut them by scissors and accidentally you cut the stigma after 4-5 days? Is there is no detrimental effect to the development of the fruit?
Hi red xcube, if you cut them by scissors and also the stigma after 4-5 days your fruit will still be fine! It takes only 2-3 days for the pollen to successful pollinate the stigma and become a fruit. I just wait 4-5 days because it’s easier to snap and pull off once they separate from each other. And the stigma is still too moist to pull, its latched on real good. Usually about 8-10 days the stigma can be yanked off easier. There a video of me doing that in my channel.
Good information ❤
How long after planting will a fruit grow
about a 6 or 9 months
I'm not joking
Hi
I liked your video. What is the good size of the pot that you used?
Thanks a lot
where you live that can grow it? how long does it take to produce fruit?