Fog and beauty. Looks like Rainbow. Oooh, and wife-beauty too! Loves those wild bees too. Cleansing sea fog breathing is so healing, don’t you think? Is that a sable brush? Smart. Hello Mrs Gray! You film well. A photographer? Enchanted with your family too.
Well I suppose more research could be done with wet pollen. But what I know is dry pollen works. I also know that wet pollen does not work. So the question might be how'd dry or how wet. I just do not like it when it starts to lump, coagulate.
I'm not short of bees... my whole point about the flowers the only big source of food for existing bees both wild and domestic... I have eaten df honey it is wonderfully sweet and light colored... nothing extremely unique in the realms of honey but really nice!
I have another question for which I have not been able to get a definite answer. I have planted some dragon fruit in a small part of my farm in October 2020. Cutting are difficult and expensive for me to get so I want to know when will my plants be big enough to take cuttings from.Will taking cuttings within the first 12 months result in these cuttings producing less fruit over the years than if I had waited for a couple of years to take cuttings from more mature plants?
Well there can be a cost to the plant when taking cuttings... you are reducing the plant size and depending on the vigor of the plant you have to attempt to strike a balance... But you also want healthy plants so you can determine if the variety is good enough to grow more....
Hello Gray Martin, thank you so much for your time and effort in making the video, it was enjoyable to watch and most enlightening. I saw my first dragonfruit farm while touring Vietnam by motorbike some eight years ago. I’d been ridding into the evening and had seen a bright haze of light in the distance, and being curious...I was surprised to discover hundreds of light bulbs strung between many acres of what turned out to be dragon fruit and have been interest in learning about the many varieties of dragon fruit and how to grow and maintain them, hence coming across your video. Wow, unless I’m mistaken...you only have a small window of opportunity (one day) to cross pollinate them, so you sure have your work cut out for you. I understand that each variety takes a different number of days to mature ready for picking. Like most of what I’ve learnt from various growers on TH-cam, I’ve found that very interesting. However, would the weather effect the set number of days between flower opening and the time for picking? Please let me know, thank you. Peter Simcock of Shoalwater in Western Australia.
Hello Peter. Well it is an interesting topic flowering.... very interesting... let me get back with later today it needs more explanation than time permits
There are many self-fertile varieties... 'Praise' is one of them... So yes bees set the fruit transferiing the pollen to the pistil when they forage for their food... You can see how so little of the pollen is required to set the fruit! Although, the amazing thing is that in one fruit is on average 5000 unique seeds! This means that 5000 viable pollen grains germinated and fertilized the single flower!!!! 5000 in that single stroke of mine with the brush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's one we grow exclusively for our farm. Many varieties produce this heavy... Everyone really needs to test for themselves what works in their climate.
Hello Mr. Martin! I love your Dragon Fruit Farm!!! I’m wondering where it is located? I’m so inspired! I wish I can afford to have a farm! I’m just curious why you still plant them in the pots? Are you hiring? Lol . I’ve been growing DF for about for years and I love the outcome and wish to have just a huge backyard so it can be full of DFs. :) . Thank you for the informational videos. Sally
Thank you for those comments. Actually I don't plant in pots I just plant the pot on top of the soil with the bottom of the pot removed. Dragon fruit taught me that most plants should be actually planted this way. If you think about it the best soil is on the surface and the best roots are at the bottom of the pot. Once I have the plant firmly positioned I tie the plant to the trellis and mulch heavily with organic matter.
Alo Martin I have a dragon fruit plan four years oldall my flowers they’re falling off and I would like to find some:polen that would be possible let me know
You can take cuttings from a plant any time you won't damage the plant. The maturity of the cutting is also dependent on if it will survive. In a greenhouse even very small young cuttings will survive. Generally cuttings stev approx. One foot in length and are firm. The basal cut is best from the joint or node of the branch.
That's the pollen collected from different Dragon fruit varieties to us to help pollinate and set fruit on varieties that require outside pollen to produce fruit. Many varieties do not require this effort. Most of the white flesh varieties for example set without any help from humans. But most colored flesh varieties are assisted by hand pollination!
2 reaasons i know of. First lack of nutrients in the soil. 2nd it is a sterile dragon plant. It needs to be pollinate by hand or by yourself. Just like in the video brushing the stigma by pollens gathered from other flower.
The first thing to check is the pollen. Did you see the dust not just the yellow anthers but tiny yellow dust. Was it relatively fresh? 1--2 days dry 1-4 refrigerated. Lastly was your pollen source a different variety of dragonfruit than the one you are pollinating? Lastly although I dont do this if you do the work at night there are no bees the flower parts are fresh... greater chance for success.
@@graymartin2275 thank you for the answer!! I do this work at night when the flowers just open. I have 4 dragon in pots. Next day the flowers close and after that no fruit grow! May they want fertilizer?
Fog and beauty. Looks like Rainbow. Oooh, and wife-beauty too!
Loves those wild bees too. Cleansing sea fog breathing is so healing, don’t you think?
Is that a sable brush? Smart.
Hello Mrs Gray! You film well. A photographer? Enchanted with your family too.
Thanks for all the great info, I enjoy watching and listening to your tips while you make your videos. Keep them coming Gray!
This is one of the most informative video I've seen so far.
Awesome ☘️ 🌱🌿great work 🌱🍃🌿
WOW! I could see the flowers that has bloomed the night before...CONGRATULATIONS!
Nice garden. Good farming👌
Wow that's a big farm! Very nice view.
Thanks for sharing and this must be a busy time of year. I found this video very inspiring.
Well I suppose more research could be done with wet pollen. But what I know is dry pollen works. I also know that wet pollen does not work. So the question might be how'd dry or how wet. I just do not like it when it starts to lump, coagulate.
wow its beautiful valley , will have a lots of fruits soon
That is such an impressive set up..
Wow! I didn't know you are a hobbyist of dragon fruit plants. Especially, An American likes tropical fruit from Far East Asia.
I grew up in Hawaii and fell in love with mango, papaya, and Nature.... :)
Hi gary , very nice farm overall. Have you not tride to pollinate with the moist pollan .If so have you had any positive reasults?
Wow♥️🔔🤝
Wow
Why not have your own bee hives on the property or work with a bee hive harvester....I wonder what dragon fruit honey would taste like.
I'm not short of bees... my whole point about the flowers the only big source of food for existing bees both wild and domestic... I have eaten df honey it is wonderfully sweet and light colored... nothing extremely unique in the realms of honey but really nice!
That looks like one crazy lot of work!
Seven days a week pretty much from Aug-Dec.... I'm a nut case by Nov... and usually drooling by Dec!
Great video as always. How do you prepare your soil for farm scale before planting dragon plants
We do nothing! Make a flat spot cut bottom of container place on ground and mulch with any organic matter I can get....
Muito bom amigo parabéns
wow
I have another question for which I have not been able to get a definite answer. I have planted some dragon fruit in a small part of my farm in October 2020. Cutting are difficult and expensive for me to get so I want to know when will my plants be big enough to take cuttings from.Will taking cuttings within the first 12 months result in these cuttings producing less fruit over the years than if I had waited for a couple of years to take cuttings from more mature plants?
Well there can be a cost to the plant when taking cuttings... you are reducing the plant size and depending on the vigor of the plant you have to attempt to strike a balance... But you also want healthy plants so you can determine if the variety is good enough to grow more....
@@graymartin2275 Thank you for your prompt and helpful answers
Hello Gray Martin, thank you so much for your time and effort in making the video, it was enjoyable to watch and most enlightening. I saw my first dragonfruit farm while touring Vietnam by motorbike some eight years ago. I’d been ridding into the evening and had seen a bright haze of light in the distance, and being curious...I was surprised to discover hundreds of light bulbs strung between many acres of what turned out to be dragon fruit and have been interest in learning about the many varieties of dragon fruit and how to grow and maintain them, hence coming across your video. Wow, unless I’m mistaken...you only have a small window of opportunity (one day) to cross pollinate them, so you sure have your work cut out for you. I understand that each variety takes a different number of days to mature ready for picking. Like most of what I’ve learnt from various growers on TH-cam, I’ve found that very interesting. However, would the weather effect the set number of days between flower opening and the time for picking? Please let me know, thank you. Peter Simcock of Shoalwater in Western Australia.
Hello Peter. Well it is an interesting topic flowering.... very interesting... let me get back with later today it needs more explanation than time permits
Thanks Gray,
I look forward to your comments, it’s just a guess, but was wondering if your dragon fruit ranch was in California?
Are the bees pollinating the praize flowers.Or do you hand pollinate all of them,with the same pollan you used on the earlier ones,
There are many self-fertile varieties... 'Praise' is one of them... So yes bees set the fruit transferiing the pollen to the pistil when they forage for their food... You can see how so little of the pollen is required to set the fruit! Although, the amazing thing is that in one fruit is on average 5000 unique seeds! This means that 5000 viable pollen grains germinated and fertilized the single flower!!!! 5000 in that single stroke of mine with the brush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lugar gostoso!!!
What type of dragon fruit is this. A lot of flowers blooming.
It's one we grow exclusively for our farm. Many varieties produce this heavy... Everyone really needs to test for themselves what works in their climate.
Hello Mr. Martin! I love your Dragon Fruit Farm!!! I’m wondering where it is located? I’m so inspired! I wish I can afford to have a farm! I’m just curious why you still plant them in the pots? Are you hiring? Lol . I’ve been growing DF for about for years and I love the outcome and wish to have just a huge backyard so it can be full of DFs. :) . Thank you for the informational videos. Sally
Thank you for those comments. Actually I don't plant in pots I just plant the pot on top of the soil with the bottom of the pot removed. Dragon fruit taught me that most plants should be actually planted this way. If you think about it the best soil is on the surface and the best roots are at the bottom of the pot. Once I have the plant firmly positioned I tie the plant to the trellis and mulch heavily with organic matter.
Bees come around 9am
Alo Martin I have a dragon fruit plan four years oldall my flowers they’re falling off and I would like to find some:polen that would be possible let me know
I'm not sure where you can find pollen. Go to Facebook and join hobby group I see them sharing pollen all the time.
at what age is a dragon fruit plant mature enough to take cuttings from
You can take cuttings from a plant any time you won't damage the plant. The maturity of the cutting is also dependent on if it will survive. In a greenhouse even very small young cuttings will survive. Generally cuttings stev approx. One foot in length and are firm. The basal cut is best from the joint or node of the branch.
Hello what is in bowl and what to do in flowers please share me
That's the pollen collected from different Dragon fruit varieties to us to help pollinate and set fruit on varieties that require outside pollen to produce fruit. Many varieties do not require this effort. Most of the white flesh varieties for example set without any help from humans. But most colored flesh varieties are assisted by hand pollination!
@@graymartin2275 how plants old
Hay mate I have a dragon fruit that’ flowers come out but they fall off after flowering
2 reaasons i know of. First lack of nutrients in the soil.
2nd it is a sterile dragon plant. It needs to be pollinate by hand or by yourself. Just like in the video brushing the stigma by pollens gathered from other flower.
Where is your farm mr.gray?
In Temecula Calif just north of San Diego
Are the plants growing through the pot into the ground?
Yep... easy to plant and actually if you mulch the top better than digging a hole!
Ok
Sir Make a vedio on structure which spot dragon.
Sorry. I am not clear. Do you want me to video the trellis design?
@@graymartin2275 thanks for replying. Sir about post wire or pipe .
I did this to my dragon but it didn't give me a fruit after the flower . What I am doing wrong?
The first thing to check is the pollen. Did you see the dust not just the yellow anthers but tiny yellow dust. Was it relatively fresh? 1--2 days dry 1-4 refrigerated. Lastly was your pollen source a different variety of dragonfruit than the one you are pollinating? Lastly although I dont do this if you do the work at night there are no bees the flower parts are fresh... greater chance for success.
@@graymartin2275 thank you for the answer!! I do this work at night when the flowers just open. I have 4 dragon in pots. Next day the flowers close and after that no fruit grow! May they want fertilizer?
Where you at and you can grow those dragon fruit ?
San Diego county California
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