5 Tips How to grow a ton of dragon fruit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- This video is all about how to grow a lot of dragon fruit (pitaya) in just one container. This method is what I call the hang or grow down method where the plant is placed upon a stand or in my case a stump and left to drape down instead of being trained up a trellis or post.
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I found your method last year during quarantine. Ive been struggling for 3 years to get them to trail up and over a pole, never getting flower buds. Proud to announce after using this method i now have a budding plant with ants coming in very interested 🙌🏼 thanks mate, its hard to get an australian video abour dragonfruit, i appreciate your videos alot. Cheers! 🙌🏼
I love the action shot moving around the dragonfruit as if its some kind of rare and dangerous multi-headed snake. Very steve irwinesque hahaha.
The Steve Irwin of gardening. Love it
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Spot on!😂
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Thank you so much. Lots of much needed information for my newest addition to the garden. I was just about ready to remove a huge stump caused by our recent hurricane Irma. Now it can stay and be a wonderful stand for my dragon. Have a wonderful day!
I love putting the white and red varieties together in a fruit salad, makes it look really good.
I bet that looks magic! And, tastes good too... :)
Uhmmm the edible fruit is the same clear/white color the shell color isn't edible to out on salads 🤔🤦
How come is that look really good?? THe fruit flesh are of the same colour lmao
There is dragon fruit with red color flesh for you two wondering.
@@Murpitsi1 ahh, i see, you are right
Had my first yellow dragon fruit today - DEEEELICIOUS!!! Oddly enough I had tried the red one a while back for the first time, and it was tasteless, so what a surprise when I tried the yellow one. Thanks for the tips, as at $5 US per fruit, somewhat out of my budget and will have to grow my own. Cheers!
Try different varieties. Some, red or white are very tasteless. Others are out of this world. I can’t say that either is better than the other, they both taste great. But you have to find the best varieties. Some breeders seem to have gone for size and shelf-life, over brix (sugar content,) and taste. But if you are lucky enough to live near where they grow it, you may find that the smaller varieties actually taste better. That’s the case where I live.
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Love dragon fruit spent some time growing up on a nursery with a large dragon fruit plantation. Interesting you chose to grow the least common yellow spiny ones. I personally prefer the red flesh one they grow big and don't have spines
Growing up on a nursery sounds like a great childhood to me! We do grow the red variety also but I actually prefer the yellow because they tend to set fruit easier here where we are and we love the slightly sweeter flavour but all dragon fruit a great in my opinion. Cheers :)
hey, i was wondering, does the dragon fruit varieties that are sold in store self pollinate most of the time?
i'm having a hard time finding someone who know about it.
Oh but the taste of the yellow variety is so superior. Maybe I just got a bad one, but I have only ever had one red one, and it was like eating moist paper, but LOVE the yellow.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I purchased a dragon fruit plant about a year ago and it’s on my patio. I’m going to move it outside and use your method.
As they say...a good salesman is someone who is passionate about what they sell. You are a lovely man with much passion, and have sold me. Thank you for your enthusiasm and ideas, from Peter of Shoalwater in Western Australia.
You're very kind Peter... thanks mate 👍🙂
I think the hanging-down method makes a prettier dragon fruit plant. It reminds me a little of Christmas cactus or epiphyllums. Thanks for this informative video!
I’ve never eaten fresh dragon fruit, just some mediocre dried fruit from the Trader Joe’s store. However, my son says the fresh fruit is delicious.
Many of my Southern California neighbors are growing dragon fruit in their front yards/gardens. I suppose our climate is good!
Nice one Mark. My red Dragon fruit do well here, but the yellows flower but I never get a dingle fruit. Pretty sure they fruit, but then fall off.
You need pollon from another plant variety or try its own pollon...
I don't know why but I'm getting some wild kratz vibe. Great info By the way.
Thanks for giving me the get up and go to get back into it and have another go after many failed attempts!!
This is how I fond your channel with your other dragon fruit videos. I might just try growing mine this way. Thanks for the new tip update.
Ok great - yes go for it! Thank you! :)
Thanks so much. I picked up a discarded plant from the side of the road, and building a trellis was a challenge for me so I'm very happy to see this easier method.
I'm not into gardening, hell, I don't even have a garden, but for some reason I like watching your videos. I like your voice, laid-back style. It's always pleasant to see someone nice enjoying what he's doing. Cheers mate!
Thank you very much, I'm wrapped that you are watching regardless of not being into gardening! Hopefully, I can convert you one day lol... Cheers mate :)
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Just give it a try, start with something simple and trust me you will become a gardening fanatic.
DUDE, I LOVE YOU. I HAVE 4 and building that thing was gonna be my roadblock. You saved these guys! I CAN JUST GET A STUMP OR STONE!!! YOU HAVE BEEN SOOOOOOO HELPFUL!!!!! LOVE YOU. I appreciate you so much right meow❤️💚💛
I watched your video last year and got a dragon fruit cutting off my mum.
This year my plant is going crazy. I have lots of flowers, there are ants living in the pot and the stand I made is working really well. Thanks for all the tips and it looks like in the next few days my first flower will open.
You're right in relation to the ants. I have few green ants near my house, and I get lots of flowers but few fruit. But the dragonfruit plants near my passionfruit vine with lots of green ants get lots of fruit.
Wish this was recommended to me earlier... This is way better than other people's videos!
I love dragon fruits also we have plants like that but its purple and sweet. Thank you for the tips . God bless you sir l. Keep on vlogging good tips .
Thank you for your videos!! You’ve helped me in my garden immensely and I’m grateful. I’ve got dragonfruit in Southern California, we have an invasive species of Argentine ant that are incredible at farming every kind of pest, they cover my dragon fruit and flowers with aphids. I have all my plants surrounded in cinnamon and have to blast off ants and aphids daily. These ants are relentless and really love my artichokes, dragonfruit, pomegranate and okra. They are my arch nemesis in the garden and we fight it out daily.
Thanks, Mark, this was not only informative but entertaining to watch. I've just purchased my first dragon fruit tree, so hopefully following your tips I will get some fruit soon. Cheers
Great stuff Toni I hope they grow well for you! Cheers :)
I respect this guy to the fullest!! Now I have my own little garden and it’s my hubby
Great info! I just picked up some cuttings and am hoping for success. Loved the bloopers at the end, lol!
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Great tip😂
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I am planting dragon fruit in some 9 inch hanging baskets and will eventually plant the in a larger container once they need more room. I grew these from send and know I don’t really know that I’m getting, but my question is should I just plant one per container or would it be ok to plant 2 per container? Thanks!
Thrilled to view your video on dragon fruit because of your five tips and most of all, just a pot and tree trunk will do for growing. No trellis! I hope to find a plant that will give fruit. Thank you for the tips.
Wow! I'm amazed with ur dragon fruit. New subscriber here. I have 3 month- old dragon fruit and it just started to sprout more stems or shoots. I will follow you tips. Thank you!
Just got a yellow dragon fruit cutting! Very excited to add this to my garden.
Ingenious!
sir, like most Australians , you make and look simpler. I learnt quite a lot, important , growing in a downward fashion. I am going to try my hands at it. You have magic hand and lots of interest in passing the knowledge
Thank you, Iam living in Costa Rica , we have the pink dragonfruit.
I will going to try it to
plant.
I love watching your videos. I have been watching from the first one and working towards the most current. Because of your dragon fruit videos I bought one today. I hope I can grow it!
A few years ago I saw your video. Now I advocate this method
What a hoot, awesome video, gave me great ideas for the plant I just bought and I just happen to have an old stump...g-day from Florida...
I grow dragon fruit in Melbourne and they grow so fast and fruit. Great tropical fruit for a cool climate
Surely one fruit I wish more than anything else could be grown in ct us, such beauty’s!
I got a cool little graft from Epcot. It came in a jar and was growing in a bunch of gel. I put it in my pot and it grew insanely well.
Your tips are very helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Thanks for sharing so much information to all of us!
I enjoyed this video. Thank you, I will apply all these tips to manage my dragon fruit plant❤️
The Pitaya or dragon fruit, with a reedy shade over the top, could be associated with the Sphinx... or rectangular land plots along a line, next to prickly pears in squares and a circle...
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with people 🙂👍
Wow love how much effort you put into this video. Liked and subscribed.
The yellow one is the best dragon fruit of all. It is very sweet 😊
Thanks Mark Been given a plant a been thinking where to put it. Will follow your tips.
wow it is my first time to see yellow dragon fruits. thanks for the video, i am a new subscriber.
Thanks so much ...your method the best ...pot on stumps....easy...going to have a gala time planting all the cuttings from a very overcrowded d.f. plants...cheers
Thank you so much for this video. But I have to say it did "start something" around here. Now my family wants to plant Dragon Fruit!
Thanks from NZ . An awesome blog .
Oooooooo! I want to grow this!. I saw one in the store this morn..$5.60 for one fruit!..I've neever tasted one, my son has and is on board to give it a go.
Hi Mark! Love your videos! Very good explanation and information! Always watching you!! Good luck!
Fantastic update today mark !! Great tips !! Thanks for sharing
Thank you! Cheers mate :)
Great video. Thanks for the tips. I love the bloopers! You Crack me up! :)
Thank you! LOL, we weren't too sure to about including a blooper in the end but Nina's snorting was priceless and I wanted to share the moment for a good laugh. Cheers :)
Thank you for the video, my aunt and uncle have dragonfruit flowering right now. It's years old and flowered last year but didnt set fruit, hopefully we'll see some this year. Cheers !
Thank you and best of luck with your Aunt's and Uncle's dragon fruit setting fruit! Cheers :)
I love your method of growing dragon fruit.
I always watch your videos and kinda dream of growing some stuff, but I've only ever grown decorative succulents and cacti in my backyard...but something about a dragon fruit plant kinda seems doable. I'm gonna give it a go
i like you strap a pot to a pole/post/stump idea. much better.
Thanks for the awesome growing tips! I'm not sure what variety I received, but I hope it fruits!
Best of luck with your DF Michelle! :)
I like the hanging down method thanks.
wonderful explanation of yellow df plantings
That smart way to do that. Great work. Create it good. Watching from Saipan CMNI Marianas near Guam.
Love your videos and thank you for posting. What varieties do you recommend that are self-pollinating
Thank you! This yellow spiny variety sets easily and the animals won't touch it either lol... Cheers :)
I like the idea of using gravity to do the growing. What a genius on the farm.
Interesting ! We will try this :-)
Hello from Honduras love your channel love pitayas
Great video -cheers from SriLanka
Photonutrients is my new favourite new word
Thanks for the great tips, will be putting them into practice as well
Thank you for great ideas, and well made videos.
Could you please explain the measurements of fertilisers or pots. Thanks
Hi,
I have dragon fruit seedlings (6 months old). And people told me to tie them so they can climb up, but after seeing your video I'm going to untie them and just let them grow down :)
Thanks for your interesting video!
Yes if you already have them up on something then letting them hang works fine also - both ways are good depending on what you want. Cheers :)
Have a question good sir:
We planted a dragon fruit a few years back and saw your video just now. Our dragon fruit is now 3 years old (never pruned, never bore fruit, never had flowers)
Question:
1) Shall I prune (not sure how it is spelled)?
2) Can I start anew and use the cuttings from our dragonfruit plant?
3) Shall we expose it to more sunlight (We have a small backyard and it has less than 8hrs of sunlight)?
Great videos. Thank you so much for your gardening advice!
Me Likey your technique!!! And thats the rare Colombian/Equadorian yellow dragon fruit to boot!!!
Thank you so much for the great tips and generous sharing!
My favorite fruit, dragon fruit is medicine ... amazing I planted some from seeds got 2 that survived I’m hoping they make it 🤞🤞
i had a dragon fruit plant, but my soil doesnt drain very well.....it grew up to a certain point then kinda got stuck.....took forever to die off, but it eventually did.....now i know how to do it right.
thanks!
Love your videos. Been a big help on everything for me being a first time farming.
I'm pretty recent to discovering you - this video is great and you are great! =) This one is so helpful and I look forward to watching more! A couple years ago I was given a dragon fruit cactus by another gardener. I didn't know what to do with it so I just stuck it in a medium-sized pot along with my aloe plant. It has amazingly survived with quite a bit of neglect, but thanks to your video I am now ready to give it its own pot!
We usually mix our own soil at a 1-1-1 ratio of compost, peat moss, and vermiculite. It seems to be pretty well-draining, but I don't know if it's good enough for dragon fruit. Does it sound to you like that would be ok? For some of my other succulents and cacti I have added some sand to the mix, but I don't know much about sand and am uncertain about the quality of sand we have, so I may want to avoid that for a food-producing plant. (We just bought a bag of play-ground sand from a local home-improvement store.)
Also, because we have cold winters here in North Texas, in the U.S., and the 12-inch tall by 14-inch wide clay pot I have for the dragon fruit will probably be pretty heavy for moving in and outdoors, I'm thinking of just growing it indoors year-round, sitting on a bar stool as a stand. Do you have any advice about this? I have tropical hibiscus plants that are very happy during winter in a sunny corner (they do better inside in winter than outside in the summer heat!), so I'm hoping it will be ok for the dragon fruit, as well. Thank you again so much for this helpful video! =)
Any free draining medium is fine for DF as long as it gets some fertiliser and regular water. Yes, growing indoors with sun is a good idea for your climate but you will probably have to hand pollinate the flowers that's all. Merry Christmas 👍
@@Selfsufficientme Cool - thanks so much! I thought it was interesting in your video that you specifically mentioned the ants in your container. As we speak (type), there are teeny tiny black ants crawling through the hibiscus blooms in my living room corner - they seem happy enough to stay in the containers when we bring them in from outside, so I'm actually wondering if something like that may happen with the DF. I once had a container of little pepper plants inside and when I finally dumped it out, at the bottom was a nest of the tiniest little black ants! As long as the ants aren't causing any harm to the plants and aren't taking over the house, I'm fine sharing my plants with them. =) Although I do have to keep an eye out for them harvesting and spreading aphids! I sometimes end up with some assassin bugs and other predators in my winter plant corner too, though - it's just a mini ecosystem over there during winter, haha.
Would you happen to have any suggestions for a companion plant to go with the DF as it works on filling out the container?
I grow it in Thailand 🇹🇭. Easy just like you told me. Thx. 💞💞💞👍✌👌
Thanks.. just starting Nairobi Kenya... let me see how it goes ❤
Great informative video. As soon as I saw how you had it planted I had an epiphany. My awesome Cambodian neighbor showed me how he was growing a bunch of Pitaya at his place. They were planted at the base of trees cut off at around chest height to act as something for them to climb. Ultimately, they would have done the cascade, but due to the fact we live in the very wet tropics, they did well for a time and then would get this horrible, skeletonizing rot that would start from the base and eat its way up the Pitaya's sections. They survived, but they were not in any shape to be thinking about producing fruits.
I think how you have them up in pots *on top* of the stump may be the solution we need here for out particular climate. We get anywhere from 380-500cm of water in normal years here, so even if root water-logging isn't an issue for a particular species, the splatter effect the rain has of driving bacteria and fungi up the sides of everything exposed can sometimes have devastating effects if it goes on too long. I have no started my own Pitaya yet because I felt more research was in order, but after seeing your video I think I've got it.
By the way... GREAT choice in cultivars! This yellow and the tiny, deep-purple "Voodoo Child" are my favorites. Incredible flavor in both!
+Seeking Seeds thank you! Yes, it sounds like a good plan to at least give this method a go where you are because it's not the water that df hate (these plants love lots if water) it's the drainage and fungi caused by dampness that can hurt the vines. Growing diwn is definitely worth a try! Cheers :)
Your video is awesome, thank you!
🎋🎋🎋very smart strategy to grow dragonfruits on the container site on top of the container 🌼🌼🌼
Mark, Are you trimming down? Are you going for the 6 pack abs??? Just teasing but you really are looking slim & trim AND you have 58K subscribers!!!! You have nowhere to go but up and up! You have a funny sense ( hope this is the right sense!) of humor AND the most important thing is the GREAT tips for the gardeners in this world. Love your videos my friend..
Hi Judy, thank you! Actually, I was getting quite fit but lately I've porked up (too much sitting down and not enough exercise) I intend to fix this ASAP - all the best! :)
I like your energetic presentation. I didnt know that you can grow dragon fruit this way. For me I just planted my dragon fruit on the fence using the steel bar as trellis. I was able to harvest 5 medium size fruits this year.
Genius,ThankYou for sharing!Major
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I just planted some seeds from the grocery store fruit. Now I have a solo cup full of little tiny cacti
Im agree with you.. Its far more better to plant dragon on the soil directly they get more soil nutrients than in the container if you use that wood as the climbing stand of the cactus is far better it will have more branch to grow, the more branch the more flower to produce and take note roots of the cactus is not stuck up when planted directly in the soil not like in the container i have a lot in the house dragon fruits but if you dont have enough space in the house its good to have that container.
Great video! Thank you for the tips! I have learned much from you.
Great info! keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for your information- I just received a small dragon fruit cutting and am very excited about it!Can the dragon fruit climb on a wall and fruit from there?
Just smashed ya bell!! Cheers and great upload!!
Great growing fruit story. I am not sure if it will grow on sacramento. Thank you, Jussojuan
Great info, thanks mate.
Subscribed. Thanks so much for your awesome videos! We watched your pineapple and dragonfruit videos, and will be applying your tips to our personal pineapple and dragonfruit plants. We've been curious about when to harvest our pineapples and also what to do with our small dragonfruit plant, and you've helped us.
Also, great video production. I'm a youtuber as well, and it's obvious how much work goes into your videos. Really good and helpful stuff. Aloha.
Love your channel! Love the Aussies! lol