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Peruvian Apple Cactus
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The Peruvian Apple Cactus is a Desert Dessert! This slightly sweet and refreshing fruit is an easy to grow desert cactus that will survive without watering in zones 9 - 11. Here in Yuma Arizona this cactus has survived temperatures up to 125 degrees F in full sun! You can create a protective food hedge with this plant. I have seen this plant grow to a height of 20 feet tall in some places, but most people trim them to 8 foot maximum. You can cut a cactus branch into several pieces and stick them in the ground to root and viola you have cloned cactus.
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Cereus Peruvianus, Night Blooming Cereus, Cereus repandus, giant club cactus, hedge cactus, cadushi, and kayush are some other names this cactus goes by.
The large, cream-colored, nocturnal flowers remain open for only one night. The fruits, known locally as pitaya, olala, or Peruvian apple, are thornless and vary in skin color from violet-red to yellow. The edible flesh is white and contains small, edible, crunchy seeds. The flesh sweetens as the fruit opens out fully.
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I love these. I have more than 1 variety to ensure fruit pollination. They love water more than the usual cactus(according to soil dampness level)
Sancho C They are delicious! Thanks for the tip on the water
I only have one variety. It fruits every summer here in Florida. It's fruiting now. Some years it bares twice in one year. Unfortunately it's 15' tall now so I can't reach any of the fruit lol
I can’t wait to try it. We have one that’s just going crazy this year. Funny, the flowers smelled like potato’s to me! 😆
The flowers do have that smell haha. Comment back once you taste the fruit
Good
We are going to draw them June 4 at the Tucson Sonora Art Institute drawing class!!
Awesome, they are beautiful fruits and the flowers are gorgeous when they bloom.
Its so unique. Thanks, i really like how you describe the taste.
I'm glad you liked the video. Have you ever tasted this fruit?
@@ProfessionalPepper not yet, i have this cactus for these 3 years but its only show the flower not the fruit
Well Hopefully you get some soon. Mine have been in full bloom for the past month.
Where do u live?
@@ProfessionalPepper Indonesia
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Nice! I have a few varieties, including the monstrose variety. Mine have more spines than yours. are some more spiny than others? BTW, the pollen works with dragon fruit plants.
There are several variations within the family. All of them produce fruits that are similar in size and taste.
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@@RAREDRAGONFRUIT @The Professional Prepper (Prep Know Do) My friend just have me one, I might go pickup another. Unknown variety but I guess it must be self pollinating because his just grows fruit without any additional work.
Yummy
Thank you for the video. Can you eat the plant itself?
I don't know. I imagine you could eat the immature portions, but anything else would be pretty fibrous. I personally would not attempt to eat it. It is too good at making edible fruit.
you induce them to set fruit up to 3 times a year in warm season with lots of deep watering - best fruit ever - called pitaya on our web gardeners and graziers
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info!
Yes I know them as pitaya too. I have 4 massive ones in my backyard. Thanks for the video
Do you have to wait until it splits? How else would you know?
Wait till it splits. That is peak ripeness. Any earlier and it's not as sweet.
Had mine for about two years and it’s now starting to bear fruit.
Mine only flowers but no fruit why
I had a few in pots for a while then I moved and planted one and it started doing very well after a couple years. Before it just flowered but I moved closer to the mountains and we get bats. I looked up that bats pollinate them bc the flowers only bloom at night. I also occasionally fertilize with epsom salt and water 1/4 tsp of ES to 1qt of water spray bottle only. This is literally the only thing I have ever gotten to grow and tbh I have no idea why I’m getting fruit but I Hope that helps.
I started planting 4 pcs this week. Is it self pollinating?
It is self pollinating, but it helps if you have multiple flowers open next to eachother. You can hand pollinate if you dont have many pollinators around.
Maryland Dragonfruit Gardens yes it is. My plant is growing in southern Ca. It produced so many flowers this summer possibly from all the rain in 2018 in my area. Flowers bloom only at night and for one night. The bees will be busy until the flowers close.
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Oh awesome, thank you. God bless you!
Mine are always fuzzy inside like they are under developed and not edible . Would anyone happen to know why ? And this is how they are at every stage before they split and after
I have no idea! make sure they have enough water once they flower
Can you make a latest video? Thanks
I will try!
I need that. $40 for the two apple cactus cuttings. I ordered it! I'll let you know how it turned out. Do an update video next year or when it flowers.
And?
Can you cross polling with Dragon fruit
I don't know, but I know it can cross pollinate with all cactus from the Cereus genus, 33 species.
yes you can, but why would you, when these peruvian cactus druit has no value and the dragon fruit does, it would be a waste of time, but you can.. my sister and brother-in-lawm farm 150 acres of dragon fruit in australia.
Regarding a Peruvian Apple Cactus. I have one multi-branched specimen that does flower but has not set fruit as I only have the one. Would removing a branch and potting it create another plant that would be able to fertilize the mother plant?
That is a good question. I do not know if they can self pollinate, since it will be the same plant in 2 locations.
After some research, I suggest you purchase another cactus from another source as they require cross pollination. I found this:
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/V2-486.html#Pollination
"The compatibility system of various individual plants was tested by comparing fruit set with cross, self, and open pollinations in summer 1991 at the Besor orchard and at Beer-Sheva. Flowers that were covered with bags before anthesis and were hand-self-pollinated did not set fruit (Table 2). This suggests that C. peruvianus is self-incompatible. Hand-cross-pollination led to 100% fruit set. Open-pollinated flowers set fruit at Besor but not at Beer-Sheva (Table 2). Fruits from hand-cross-pollinations were heavier and had a higher pulp to peel ratio than fruits which derived from open-pollinated flowers. They also had more seeds/g pulp tissue and the seed number was positively correlated to the pulp weight. Open-pollination did not lead to optimal fruit development compared to experimental cross-pollination. These results indicate that it is necessary to plant two or more different clones in close proximity and which flower over the same time period. One reason for the low fruit set of some seedlings in open pollination might be a lack of other flowering plants in the vicinity."
Fertilize it. I accidentally used a bag of fertilizer instead of soil next to it for another plant and it produced fruit for the first time that year. They were gifted to me and I didn’t know they bore fruit. I didn’t eat them because I was afraid. This year I can’t wait for them to grow so I can try them.
The taste is like a lychee for me my friend
looks like dragonfruit, wonder if they taste the same considering they are both cactus fruits
They taste incredibly similar.
We planted 7 of these they are now 8 feet tall and has alot of flowers but still no fruit
Hmmmm, what location and climate are you in? You may want to add a light fertilizer with chelated iron and manganese. Also have a slow release NPK made for cacti.
@@ProfessionalPepper were in the phillipines only a small percentage of peruvian farmers the climate is warm in the afternoon and gets windy cold when its almost sunset
@@ProfessionalPepper we used soil mixed with cow dumpings for the fertilizer
I have 5 of them several multi arm and 15 ft tall. Bloom like crazy several times in summer. Also never set fruit. Zone 9a in Fl panhandle
looks like white kiwi
reminds me of Dragon Fruit
It tastes very similar. Dragon fruit of the desert.
Hate to tell you but that fruit is a little over ripe and you need to eat it as soon as you can right after you harvest it because there’s no preservatives trust me it taste a whole lot better And it kind of defeats the purpose of the phrase fresh fruit after three days might as well went to the grocery store
I agree it is best to eat it ASAP, but it was hard to find a quiet moment in my home to film. I've had several straight off the cacti and there was little difference in flavor by keeping it in the fridge for 2 days.
Flesh looks like that of dragon fruit.
The dragon fruit is a cactus just like the Peruvian Apple Cactus, and they are very similar. Good taste.
They kind of taste like dragon fruit!