I Took 7 Dragonfruits And Grew 1000 Baby Dragons
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- I had no idea, but dragonfruits have a couple crazy secrets - they only take one year to grow - and it all happens on just one night in the summer on the cactus plant. Plus, they can bear fruit for up to 30 years, so commitment here was worth it.
Of course I had to find out if this was true, so 2 years ago I got my hands dirty with 3 purple dragonfruits, 2 yellow dragonfruits, 2 cactus pears, and cactus pear pad.
I wanted to see if I could grow 1000 baby dragonfruits in my own home.
And by the way, if you didn’t know, pollinators of dragonfruit cacti are nocturnal creatures like bats and moths.
What happens is, the cactus plants that dragonfruits grow on flower in just one year, then the fruit grows out of those flowers on just one evening per summer when the bats and moths come to drink the delicious pollen from the flowers.
Those nocturnal creatures transfer this pollen from flower to flower. Then the fruits pop out after that one night the flowers get pollinated.
And they can even live in pots indoors, but those can take 2-3 years to bear fruit.
BTW - if you’re growing dragonfruit and want an easier way to extract the seeds for germination, just cut a piece of fruit and dab it on a paper towel. The seeds will come right off, and then you can shpritz that with water, fold it up, and seal it in a little bag or glass jar and wait for the tails to grow!
I hope you enjoy this wild journey of growing 1000 babies in my own home, from 7 different varieties of dragonfruits and cactus pears. Thank you so much for watching, it honestly means the world to me to be able to share my passion with you and have it resonate with you. Love you.
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00:00 - 02:47 Dragonfruit 1
02:47 - 05:38 Dragonfruit 2
05:38 - 07:49 Dragonfruit 3
07:49 - 08:37 Yellow Dragonfruit
08:37 - 10:46 Yellow Dragonfruit 2
10:46 - 12:26 Yellow Cactus Pear
12:26 - 16:01 Cooking Cactus Pad (NOPALES)
16:01 - 17:26 Pink Cactus Pear
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Love you guys so much! Thank you for watching.
Fresh nopales need to soacked first to get rid of the slime as well as you can boil them first and then soack. Also as long as you shave off the thorns, you can eat the skin! You can also buy them already in a jar, or fresh at the store.
ahhhhhhh I wish I had known this before! Thank you so much for letting me know
@@growithjessie your welcome
Yeah, @@growithjessie try getting a jar of them from the store to see what they're like processed.
Are you a vegetarian? (You've never mentioned it.) If not, I recommend that you look for a recipe for nopalitos con puerco (nopales with pork), which is kind-of a stew type dish, like almost-but-not-quite chili. It's a family tradition from my grandmother. We usually eat it with tortillas. (I don't have the recipe; Sorry.)
I can also easily imagine grilling up some nopales with scrambled eggs or in a chilaquiles omelet.
After you try the jarred product you can decide if you want to learn how to process them.
(This is something I need to learn, as well. I want to grow nopales cactuses, too.)
BTW, my first step in learning stuff like this is search youtube.
I'll start with: "How to process nopales cactus pads"
I would also suggest you get more tender nopales from the top of the plant, those are easier to eat and you only need to take off the thorns. No hard exterior to worry about.
So, from the Rio Grande Valley, here. Normally, we like using young cactus. The cactus which is thick, and hardy, is not exactly great for eating. You want the young ones, which haven't gotten their thorns yet. Consider the thorns as a sign or warning that you missed your chance. The young pads, are easier to grab, and put on a grill, after having removed the premature "thorns". The flavor is way better, and go great with just about any thing, like eggs, or picadillo. Some tortillas de maiz with nopal on the grill is a great meal, and very healthy! Hope you look into it, and enjoy!
Let's just take time to appreciate hoe long it took for her to create this video ❤ love it
thank you sooo much
Yes thank you
I love that spelling mistake so much😭
why did i read it as "lets take time to appreciate this hoe" LMAOOO
@@alannaclay4084 right 😂😂❤
We’re on the same path now … but, it’s pitaya (a similar cactus) instead of pitahya (your dragon fruit) … the babies are awesome!
Down here your prickly pear cactus fruit is called ‘tuna’ … jijijiji … not fishy at all … and the nopales are amazing delicious … there are ways to avoid the sliminess when cooking.
i love that so much! yes cactus pears are called tuna for sure! i love that fact! thanks for stopping by
Maybe dragons prefer more chaos. Maybe all this orderliness is messing with their vibe. Just a suggestion
No its pithaya
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🌵 The video describes an attempt to grow dragon fruit from seeds, with dragon fruits growing on cacti and bearing fruit within a year.
01:11 🌱 The dragon fruit seeds start to sprout and grow into baby cactus plants after about seven days.
02:09 🌞 Despite proper care and sunlight, the first batch of dragon fruit plants started to shrink, leading to a decision to replant them.
03:03 🔄 A second attempt was made with new dragon fruit seeds, using an improved method for seed extraction.
03:58 🧻 The video presenter suggests a more efficient method of extracting dragon fruit seeds using a damp paper towel.
04:24 🔄 The second batch of dragon fruit seedlings were placed in a grow box and repotted once they grew larger.
05:20 ❄️ Due to harsh winters in Canada, the dragon fruit plants had to be moved indoors.
06:13 🍋 The presenter suggests trying yellow dragon fruits for a sweeter taste, and shares a new method to extract the seeds directly on a paper towel.
07:25 🦇 Dragon fruit plants can flower in just one year, with pollination occurring on a single night when bats and moths transfer pollen.
07:54 🟡 A yellow dragon fruit was used in another attempt to grow dragon fruits, given their thicker seeds, hardiness, and faster fruit-bearing potential.
08:23 🌱 After planting dragonfruit seeds and waiting for some time, they start to grow.
08:52 ⌛ Some dragonfruit seeds were forgotten for three months but still grew well after being transplanted into soil.
09:19 🐿️ Squirrels can be a threat to growing dragonfruits, hence extra protection is necessary.
09:59 🪲 Before bringing an outdoor plant inside, it's important to wash the roots thoroughly to get rid of insects or bugs.
10:26 📅 After a year of care, the dragonfruit plants mature and start to turn woody, a good sign of progress.
10:55 🍐 The host also tried growing cactus pear plants using a similar process to the dragonfruit.
11:23 🧻 Toilet paper can be used for germinating seeds if you run out of paper towel.
12:02 🍲 When the cactus pear plants grew big enough, they were brought inside and one was used for cooking.
13:40 🌵 Cactus pads (nopales) have been used in traditional medicine to treat various ailments, and they can be consumed raw or cooked.
14:36 🔪 When preparing the cactus pads for cooking, care should be taken due to their sharpness.
15:30 😋 The taste of cooked cactus pads is initially good, but has a slimy aftertaste.
16:12 🍷 A pink cactus pear has an interesting red color when cut open and tastes good, despite many seeds.
16:38 ❄️ Growing dragon fruits in a cold climate like Canada or indoors may take longer than in warmer climates.
thank you soooo much!!!💜💜💜
Thanks coz this video is hard to watch
@@VIpanfriedNo it's not. I prefer longer videos that go into great detail, versus short videos that leave you wanting more info.
@@bhumphries1360 the length of the video is good, the amount of detail is good.
I love that you never gave up!! (also there are like a million varieties of dragonfruit and they all taste different way better than the ones that were picked unripe at the grocery store)
thank you soooo much
Definitely better home grown! Both nopales and Dragon fruit.
I grew some, & after 3 long yrs, a freeze was just too much & it died!😭 but since then, I have started another, & it's doing great! Good luck with yours!😊😊
that happened with one of mine too!! but keep trying and make sure they have lots of sun and not too much water
@@growithjessie I feel so HONORED you've replied to my comments😮❤️☺️☺️ thanks for making my day🙏❤️
Going to grow some dragons rn!
i love to hear it!!! keep me updated?
My Nonna used to have this massive prickly pear tree in her backyard, older than me.
When I was about 19 we were at my nonna's 80th and one of my little cousins playing in the back decided to dive bomb into it.
I spent the next 3 hours with a squirmy 6-7 year old, tweezers, and a watchmakers eye piece pulling needles out
Hi,there i came across your video..one quick tip-im Mexican and i love cactus..but those big cactus you got are too old to eat.You actually eat the fresh green(i hope you understand me)like the baby ones.So you only cut the thorns out and cut them in squares or thin pieces.
To cook them you DON’T have to soak them in water,just put les than a spoon of oil put cactus let the slime go away and add tomatoes,onion,jalapeños if you want..a sprinkle of oregano salt and eat then in tacos..Hope my tip helps..but Don’t soak pleaseeee!
Also you can cook them with eggs too…or make a cactus salad.
this is so helpful, thank you so much!!!!! if i ever get my hands on fresh nopales again, i will try this
What a jolly time listening to "Dragon Mamma" extolling her birthing adventures. Very entertaining style and tongue in cheek humor not often heard.
Admire your perseverance over described "years" to give your offspring a fighting chance in the opposite of tropical conditions.
Here in Southern California a new massive dragon enclave near me recently opened its gates to the general populace so we could see these unusual red and yellow dragons babies up close and personal we strolled the shaded acres where their parents hung out, their laden arms slouching over wires strung on posts to support them - much as grapes are supported.
So in our region, instead of your snow in winter we have too hot sun above so the babies don't die of thirst.
Good luck with your future dragon babies. May they grow tall and healthy to one day produce their own dragon babies.
Am trying your experimental techniques of paper towel swaddling. 🤗😁
I have been growing dragon fruits from seeds for approcimately 8 years and they still didn't flower or fruit, although the plants are pretty big now. Last year I managed to get cuttings from a mature plant and I read that this method takes 1-2 years for the plant to produce flowers and fruits.
that is amazing! where are you growing from?
@@growithjessie sorry for answering so late, I must have missed your comment. I live in Poland, around Warsaw. When it comes to my dragon fruits, it is possible that they didn't bloom because during the first 7 years I did grow them in a really poor soil, like my terrestial cacti but now I now epiphytic cacti require more nutrients. And by the way, great channel!
You are truly a queen , each day bringing a baby to life . Love you and your videos of life's wildest rides ❤❤❤.
ugh ily. thank you so much
@@growithjessie ❤️ ur queen
If you have them indoors make sure you hand pollinate them, no moths or bats inside.
The duration between watering is different to the amount of water you give. You need to water them more (in quantity) but leave them longer between watering.
The best way to plant nopales or catcus pads is to lay them flat on dirt so it doesn’t fall over when it grows ( like the one you picked up) - the best way to eat them is to first scale them like fish and then boil them or soak them overnight to get rid of the slime then cut them in slices and fry them with onions and peppers and sweet potatoes and put taco seasoning on them and use them as a taco filling
Wow I just started with your videos today. They are so interesting and your voice is amazing
amazing! after another 2 months they will grow! i am trying an experiment of growing a watermelon seed with a paper towel in my container and it looks like it's working!
The thumbnail had me screaming “THOSE ARE PRICKLY PEAR!”
@growithjessie
I would try to fill up mason jar half full with warm water and shake it real hard with the piece of dragon fruit loaded with seeds in it to see if that would extract them....
As a mexican, this video makes me happy, I’ll become a dragon dad
Loved your Dragon fruit journey mine just started got 3 variety just waiting for them to grow and produce new branch coz they got broken & damaged by the time I got them so had to do some surgery on them 😅 will repot them in there home pot once they grow here it's just harsh warm weather just the opposite of u harsh canada cold weather.
What I found out was, if the Dragon Fruit is picked too early there will be no taste. And that's why they dont have any taste because they are picked early to ship all around before they can rot. If they wait till they were tasty they would be rotten by the time we got them.
No way! That is awesome. Thanks for sharing. The yellow one has always been the sweetest and tastiest to me.
what mountain did you find teh cactus pads on? would love to know!
it was in california! i’ve gotta double check
Came from tik-tok, just found out you have a TH-cam, binging a bunch of videos right now :)
You can also pick a dragonfruit with a larger stem and just root the stem.
In Mexico we cook the nopales boiled and we cut in little pieces and we mix with onion, tomatoes, (i don’t now the name of these in english) cilantro, and a little of lime and thats a good combo from your tacos, yes, is a little bit slimy but if you doing right it taste grate!! I love your videos and your relaxing voice ☺️💖💖💖 still trying tings!! I know someday you will have a big and full grown cactus 😌✨
OMG. thank you so much for this. next time nature gifts me with nopales, i will do this!
Cilantro is called coriander in English 😊🙌
I love Plants just like I love Your videos
:-)
My grandma has Nopales in her garden, we only cook the "tiernitos" (young ones?), before they get tooo big so the one that you cooked looks like something we would plant to grow, not cook.
We remove the thorns only, not all of the skin, and theres cooking methods for it to not be as slimey, but I think other comments have that covered.
You rawk my Sox off! ❤😂 The video made me want to get a greenhouse filled with them:)
thank you so much for stopping by and for your beautiful comment! I appreciate you so much!
Came from instagram, really appreciate the dedication, all the best Jessie‼️
thank you soooo much for stopping by💚💚💚
This inspired me to try this on my own i grabbed a yellow dragon and now my seedlings are growing
a few years ago, I planted some and the plants are now huge, And Growing Each Day
i love that! which ones did you plant?
white flesh red outside@@growithjessie
Hii, I love your videos! Have you tried growing a Touch Me Not plant? Also known as shameplant. The leaves of the plant close whenever touched and reopen after a few minutes.
hi! thank you so much! i haven’t! i’ve grown forget me nots. i’ll try it though 💚
Nice vid I grow df and prickly pear from cuttings
Definitely would recommend grilling or scorching the outside skin when eating to get rid of the slimy flavor and it’s so good with a little char ! Salt lemon SO GOOD. Just scratch the cactus with a knife to get rid thorns, cut up In strips and grill
OUFFF thank you so much for this reco, going to try if I ever get my hands on nopales again
So basically she tried growing them a thousand times and never had success
Still no news about the pithecellobium dulce plant but actually if you don't know why your not finding it it's because it only comes from saudi arabia and now it's not the perfect time for it to grow so maybe next summer go to saudi arabia and look for the shops that sell fruits and vegetables and maybe you can find something else to grow
She has literally 15 different accents this is crazy
I was waiting for you to bury a slice of dragonfruit.. the seeds need the rotting fruit to make the vitamins so they can grow big and strong
I did that in the 'old and moldy' dragonfruit video
@@growithjessie how did I miss that one‽
Great video. I am also in Canada and trying to grow some dragon fruit from seed
I have a sage plant that is 17 years old, she's been through alot with me 😂❤
To me they don't taste like nothing, just sweet. As someone who works in a supermarket and tries almost everything we sell in my department, the yellow dragon fruit seeds are bigger
the yellow dragonfruits, in my experience, are the sweetest :D
i like tha way you handle los nopales, I mean careful with all those spikes 🌵🌵🌵
As a Mexican I absolutely LOVE nopales, and with cheese and mushrooms sooo goood!!! :D
Hi, what did you feed them? I have a couple dozen that are 10 months old. They are over 12" tall, but veey skinny. But, they are starting to grow side growths. Just concerned thwy have weak trunks and wont fatten up to support the rest of the plant
Bravo.........cactus peer........cheers
thank you!!
The cactus paddle you cut into is to old. Smaller more tender paddles are used in nopales salads and with meat stews. They don't have all those threads viens when you cut into them. Make sure to boil also to help get rid of the slime.
May I suggest, if you can ever find one, getting the red-fleshed variety of Dragonfruit & trying to grow those. The fruit from that variety is pretty tasty & sweet, in my experience. Also, that "I love you" at the end had me rolling! 🤣😂 Greetings from a fellow Canuckistani! LOL
With all these special names your giving these, im gonna call their seeds dragon eggs!
I grew a few dragon fruit seeds back in 2018. Btw nopales are better they are young pads.
there we gooo! nopales were so awesome!
@@growithjessie I live in Nebraska which has a pretty cold winter. I love watching your videos because I can relate. I have the same rodent problem, I also like to grow plants from seed. I had a lemon tree that I grew from seed for over 8 years then it got a pest and dried up.
I have a single dragon seedling they are tropical cactuss and don't like to dry out at all ( one of mine died because they dried out for a few days
The zoom-in into the one seed at the start of the videos 💀
we have some dragon fruit im gonna try this!!
yes! keep me updated!
How often should I water them depending on there “age”? Like how often when I just planted the little baby seedlings?
Hello am kenyan and your true resent supporter, try growing nduma (arrowroots) they are kenyan most delicious food
THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY! i want to visit Kenya!!! I will try arrowroots. I'm just not sure where to find them
@@growithjessie welcome, this place is amazing, i will give you some nduma for free and cook you some kenyan amazing meals
I would love to see you grow Black raspberries (not blackberries!) and Red raspberries from their fruit!
ou maybe i will try it!
okay i’m going to try this. i live in phoenix so i literally have the perfect climate and fallen cactus fruit everywhere that i can get for free!
do it do it do it!!
Can you make an update video on the paw paws? Pleeeeaassseee.
In Mexico we cut off the younger nopales growing on the tops of the big ones and you either boil first of you can grill them too and you always gotta add a lil salt too
Also boiling them gets rid of the sliminess
ouuuuffff I guess the younger ones taste a bit better?
thank you so much! I wish i knew this before!!
Can we have an update on all the plants and seeds? :)
Edit- I'm a crazy plant lady and I live pretty close to Toronto but in America. I mostly like succulents, they are outside for the summer but I have like 40 and they are all dropping leaves and having babies :|
of course you can, is there one in particular you want me to update on?
avocados maybe and any that have been eaten by squirrels lately thanks :)
Yeayes, but are you using grow lights for them to grow inside? Since its too cold for them to grow outside?
I'm almost positive dragon fruit cacti need consistent watering
you are so kookie - I love it :)
Typically you eat newly grown pads they are more tender. The older ones tend to be more fibrous.
Typically it's the tender nopales that are cooked in eaten. The bigger ones are tougher and harder to cook. You can buy them canned or find a Mexican restaurant that serves them. They are good when made properly.
Youre close on the cactus pads but its more like quickly saying "no pal, ehs?" Instead of "no paul, ehs"
You can eat cactus nopales or dragon branches , but only the tender new growth. Not the old stingy slimy hard part! 🙎🤦
Hi we love Nora's but they must be the soft one in order to eat them
Would you have any idea way my little sprouts of dragon fruit aren’t turning into cactus? I planted my sprouts well over three months ago, and they’ve stayed alive and look healthy, but they don’t want to turn into little dragon fruit cacti 😞
Fun fact: pitayaha cacti are from rainforests so they need and love lots $ lots of water
Instead of buying fruit over & over for this study (I mean, I buy it to eat), extract the seeds, dry them out & save them for future experiments.
love this idea!
Here’s me only able to grow Napa cabbage cause my mizuna was killed by caterpillars, cabbage butterflies really enjoy laying eggs on mizuna leaves by the way, didn’t even touch the Napa cabbage
Charming
thx
I live in Philippines and growing dragon fruit here is so easy
I am so jealous! I need to visit
Yellow are my favorite but pink ones are also good. White dragons aren't very good.
Your cactuses are shrinking because they need water every 1 week
You should get cold hardy native Canadian cactus opuntia humifusa, opuntia polycantha , opuntia fragillis there extremely cold hardy and can survive outside,
If grown from seed they dont grow friut for 3-5 if grown from a cutting it bears fruit after 1 year of growing then after about 9 months u get fruit
better go get my hands on a cutting :P
0:24 nah the shape of that cactus💀
Are the true to type? I guess you could say like tomatoes if there heirlooms or hybrids...
You’re being in Canada/growing indoors means you’re always gonna run into issues with the long leggy growth because they simply aren’t getting enough light.
It’s called etiolation.
I know. I'm going to build an outdoor, winterized green house this year
Dragon mother😂❤
Yellow dragon fruit takes a month to germinate.
I LOVE UR VIDEOSSSSS🎉🎉❤❤
thank you so much!!!
@@growithjessie OMG)MG)MGHHH U REPLUED TO ME THIS IS MY OTEHR ACCOUNT
Hi I love your vids keep the hard work up and I also have a place suggestion which is solso farm near Tokyo which has lot of cool and unique plants I recommend you check it out. ❤
thank you so much for stopping by! and thank you so much for this suggestion. i definitely have to travel out to tokyo one day😊
If you have a squirrel problem, purchase some plastic snakes (the kind that are snake sized), and put them around (and in) you plants. I shxt you not, the squirrels have stayed away from my plants because they thing the snakes are real.
dragon fruit and prickly pears are different ;)
Does anyone know the name of the guitar beat in dragon fruit 3 section?
You can also propagate them 🥲
The colour of the dragon fruit doesn't matter it's more like from the family tree of the dragon fruit because my uncle grows white dragon fruits and they are soo sweet
you are truly mother dragon 🐲
You should put the cacti into boiling water so it removes the slime
thank you so much for letting me know this wonderful tip!
Dragon fruit is a prickly pear
I grew my dragon fruit in 2019 but they r still small 🙂
Dragon fruit, pitaya, are not prickly pear cactus fruits. Different plants.
agreed!!
Maybe dragons prefer more chaos. Maybe all this orderliness is messing with their vibe. Just a suggestion
thank you so much. you might be right. going to try it
I have to know, is your channel name 'grow with jessie' or 'grow it with jessie' because, I can see both.
Wait wait wait wait did YOU TOUCH THE CACTUS HOW!?!?
hahahaha i should have handled the cacti with gloves, but you know this plant lady :P
Man, why is it called “dragon fruit” when it doesn’t resemble a dragon in any way??