I was just watching another video on potting soil and the grower was saying they had instant success when they switched to a soil mix with NO compost. Good luck
I think a blood & bone meal treatment may help extra nitrogen and phosphorus. Maybe add sum humic acid to help convert the nitrogen over to plant usable nutrients. What nutrients do you currently use ?
Thank you very much for your suggestion. I have been using composted manure for top dressing once a while, also sulPoMag was added as one of the viewer of my channel suggested.
I also hear good things about adding silica blast for helping move nutrients around and if you experience cold or lots of rain it help with making them stronger. I also her gypsum helps that too. I ve been adding diamond nectar to my feeding aswell. Made by general hydroponics
Deep water your plants so water runs out the bottom. When the soil gets dry on top the roots will still grow down to where the moister is. You say it gets hot there. Humid yes but not hot like here in Southern California. I use copper fungicide for those yellow spots and that fixes that problem. I found Connie Mayer and Bruni don’t like a full day of direct sunshine. Many stems turned yellow and got soft. I cut those off. Connie fruited very nicely for its first year. Funny thing was the fruit grew from under the canopy where they weren’t export to any sunlight. This year I will give my plants a major haircut and shorten the trellis to 5’. It was very very hot here for two months straight. DF did not like it. I’ve got four Orange Giant branches rooting now but they’re dormant now so I’ll just keep an eye on them.
Connie Mayer and Bruni were growing very well at the first few years. They are the most productive varieties with over 50 fruits and three flower waves a year, but I think, it is because they are so productive, they are the first ones get exhausted and start to decline. Dragon fruit is tricky, they don't fruit well without a lot of sun but they get sunburn easily too. Hard to keep the balance. Yes, I water the plant thoroughly each time I water them. I've never seen any plants that the roots can be cut off right at the soil line where the root should be most thick. I still don't know the cause is too wet or too dry. I am just guessing it is too dry because every time I noticed them, the top soil is always dry not wet because the drainage is very good. When I water the plant, the water on the surface will all disappear from the top in just one or two second.
@@xiaoli2142 FloraNova Grow is good stuff for fertilizer. I add worm castings also in between. Right now it’s time for them to relax but when Spring comes they hopefully will make it through the grow season.
I don't have perlite in the soil. I am thinking now in that line also. May be the soil did not retain water well. I just bought some Hydretain. It supposes to be able to keep more water around the roots to prevent drying out. We will see if it works. But some of the varieties do not have the root problem argues the soil is the cause of the problem.
@@xiaoli2142 I’ve been using Fox Farm and everything is good, except for the sunburn. I still add the perlite though for drainage. I think for two months we had the head over 105 degrees. Highest electric bills I’ve ever had this Summer. We get about 20-30% humidity here, not like 60+ like there. Weather there reminds me of Asia 😓 😓 😓
@@Blueskies-h3e 105? We never get that high here. Mostly around 95. Every time it getting too hot, it starts to rain, so we are okay but we still have some 25 nights in the winter, so I can't grow them in the ground. All these troubles are all because they have to be growing in the pots, so they can't be free to looking for place that suit them better. Your winter must be milder, why you have to grow dragon fruit in pot?
@@xiaoli2142 😎Yes and up to 116 degrees one year in the Inland Empire. But 110 is common. You can feel the heat through your car window if you point your cheek to to the sun. The beautiful city of Riverside
Thank you for your comment. The winter in my area has a few below frozen nights so I have to grow my dragon fruit in a greenhouse, but the location of the greenhouse is not the best spot to grow dragon fruit, that is why I have to grow them in pot. Now the plants are getting too big to move, I am thinking may be I should try grow then in the ground inside the greenhouse.
Thank you for sharing your garden. You seem lovely.
Nice much love from Mexico 🇲🇽
I was just watching another video on potting soil and the grower was saying they had instant success when they switched to a soil mix with NO compost. Good luck
Thank you
I think a blood & bone meal treatment may help extra nitrogen and phosphorus. Maybe add sum humic acid to help convert the nitrogen over to plant usable nutrients. What nutrients do you currently use ?
Thank you very much for your suggestion. I have been using composted manure for top dressing once a while, also sulPoMag was added as one of the viewer of my channel suggested.
You had great healthy plants. Plant them in ground.
Where do you live? Glad to hear PG and Edgar's Baby do real well, I have cuttings of both. EB growing very fast!
I am at the North Central Florida. Our summer is hot and humid. Dragon fruit is easy to get sun burn and hard to recover.
Thank you. Good to know. I don't live far away then. I'm in Tarpon Springs aka West Central Florida. @@xiaoli2142
@@FurFeathersandFlowers You are south of us. Your weather should be better than us with no freezing winter. Good for growing dragon fruit.
Yeah we just got upgraded to Zone 10a this summer. Hopefully we won't be seeing any freezes in the future.@@xiaoli2142
I also hear good things about adding silica blast for helping move nutrients around and if you experience cold or lots of rain it help with making them stronger. I also her gypsum helps that too. I ve been adding diamond nectar to my feeding aswell. Made by general hydroponics
Thank you for the suggestion.
Don't cut the dragon fruit plant because it turns yellow. It is normal for it to turn yellow when it gets very hot
Deep water your plants so water runs out the bottom. When the soil gets dry on top the roots will still grow down to where the moister is.
You say it gets hot there. Humid yes but not hot like here in Southern California.
I use copper fungicide for those yellow spots and that fixes that problem.
I found Connie Mayer and Bruni don’t like a full day of direct sunshine. Many stems turned yellow and got soft. I cut those off. Connie fruited very nicely for its first year. Funny thing was the fruit grew from under the canopy where they weren’t export to any sunlight.
This year I will give my plants a major haircut and shorten the trellis to 5’.
It was very very hot here for two months straight. DF did not like it.
I’ve got four Orange Giant branches rooting now but they’re dormant now so I’ll just keep an eye on them.
Connie Mayer and Bruni were growing very well at the first few years. They are the most productive varieties with over 50 fruits and three flower waves a year, but I think, it is because they are so productive, they are the first ones get exhausted and start to decline. Dragon fruit is tricky, they don't fruit well without a lot of sun but they get sunburn easily too. Hard to keep the balance. Yes, I water the plant thoroughly each time I water them. I've never seen any plants that the roots can be cut off right at the soil line where the root should be most thick. I still don't know the cause is too wet or too dry. I am just guessing it is too dry because every time I noticed them, the top soil is always dry not wet because the drainage is very good. When I water the plant, the water on the surface will all disappear from the top in just one or two second.
I did not try copper fungicide, but I used two different brands of fungicide to treat sugar dragon and neon, but none worked.
@@xiaoli2142 It works👍👍
@@xiaoli2142 FloraNova Grow is good stuff for fertilizer. I add worm castings also in between. Right now it’s time for them to relax but when Spring comes they hopefully will make it through the grow season.
I don’t see any perlite in your soil. Is it just covered up with soil.
I don't have perlite in the soil. I am thinking now in that line also. May be the soil did not retain water well. I just bought some Hydretain. It supposes to be able to keep more water around the roots to prevent drying out. We will see if it works. But some of the varieties do not have the root problem argues the soil is the cause of the problem.
@@xiaoli2142 I’ve been using Fox Farm and everything is good, except
for the sunburn. I still add the perlite though for drainage.
I think for two months we had the head over 105 degrees. Highest electric bills I’ve ever had this Summer. We get about 20-30% humidity here, not like 60+ like there. Weather there reminds me of Asia 😓 😓 😓
@@Blueskies-h3e 105? We never get that high here. Mostly around 95. Every time it getting too hot, it starts to rain, so we are okay but we still have some 25 nights in the winter, so I can't grow them in the ground. All these troubles are all because they have to be growing in the pots, so they can't be free to looking for place that suit them better. Your winter must be milder, why you have to grow dragon fruit in pot?
@@xiaoli2142 😎Yes and up to 116 degrees one year in the Inland Empire. But 110 is common. You can feel the heat through your car window if you point your cheek to to the sun.
The beautiful city of Riverside
Use more sand, my KVA is on a permanent pot with 90% sand and does not get any rot
How long has your KVA been growing in that pot? My KVA does not have problem until 4-5 years growing in the pot.
@@xiaoli2142 2 years so far. But I have a second pot with more compost and other stuff and that KVA rots more then the one in 90% sand
@@OaxDragonFruit Interesting. Thank you for the information.
Your problem is the soil.
Over due. Plant in ground. Most potted plants will have problems after a couple of years.
Thank you for your comment. The winter in my area has a few below frozen nights so I have to grow my dragon fruit in a greenhouse, but the location of the greenhouse is not the best spot to grow dragon fruit, that is why I have to grow them in pot. Now the plants are getting too big to move, I am thinking may be I should try grow then in the ground inside the greenhouse.
Can I have some plants
The plants now are not at their best situation. It is not the time to get cuttings. Thank you for watching.
@@xiaoli2142 I hope they get better