Why Does My Dragon Fruit Have Flowers But No Fruit After Pollination?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2023
- Check Out The Previous Video! What Are Thrips And How To Get Rid Of Them On Dragon Fruit Plants • How To Protect Your Dr...
In this video, I answer a common question: Why does my dragon fruit have flowers, but don't have fruits after pollination? I go over why it happens, how to identify it, and what's the solution to fix it.
PRODUCTS AND TOOLS I USE TO GROW DRAGON FRUIT - amzn.to/3qcFAtV
Be sure to subscribe@GraftingDragonFruit
Also check out my other channel for food reviews @TheFoodieTVReview
FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM
INSTAGRAM: / graftingdragonfruit
Facebook: / graftingdragonfruit
TikTok / graftingdragonfruit
Beginner Dragon Fruit grower and need guidance? Come join my Dragon Fruit community! 👇🏼
FACEBOOK DRAGON FRUIT GROUP: / graftingdragonfruit
Please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, and COMMENT if you enjoy and find my videos helpful and would like to learn more about growing and grafting Dragon Fruits!
If you have any questions please leave a comment below and I will reply. Thank you so much for watching see you on the next video! :-) Thank you for all your support.
My Music
share.epidemicsound.com/z5i20v
*** Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that help support the channel at no extra cost to you. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
#GraftingDragonFruit #DragonFruit #Growingdragonfruit
Let’s get this to 1000 likes! Thanks for watching. Hope this video was helpful! 😊
I’m in San Diego. Do you happen to know of a good place to purchase dragon fruit plants? I have a few from Home Depot but would like a different varieties. Thank you.
@@armandocorrales6688 try asking in my Facebook group! We have quite a few people in that area
I am in Iran and I am cultivating hydroponic dragon in Iran. What is the most important factor for leaf growth?
@@Khashayar-cc5cp Enough nutrients and temperature
I started a hydroponic dragon.Does humidity have an effect on leaf thickening?There is only horse, cow and chicken manure here. How much of each should I use in the bedding?
Hand pollinated mine this week, fruit has set, thx for your great info, Richard!
You’re welcome and great to hear! Excited for you to enjoy your fruits
Thanks for all your advise, I was having problems with all my DragonFruit plants, never could get them to grow buds until I listen to your videos and discovered that all the growth around the base upwards was where all the energy was being placed by the plant, so I went to trimming and cut off everything from the bottom up. Within about two weeks I had buds popping out everywhere on two of my plants, One bud grew huge and flowered on my birthday. Today the flower is drooping and turning yellow, I was going to try and hand pollinate it today but we had heavy rain all day, so I will try tomorrow. Thanks again
You’re welcome! Glad the videos help
Thank you so much for the detailed information! It really helps to explain the basics as well as the issues! We watch your videos all the time time to help us figure out what is going on with our dragonfruit. We’ve tried to stear clear of the ones that are self sterile, but now we’re thinking it might be time to try a variety. Would you consider doing another current video on the actual pollination process & if timing makes any difference? thanks again
Glad it’s helpful! Yes I’m in the process of making more videos and redoing some old ones
My first dragonfruit to bloom this year was Edgar’s Baby. 3 beautiful blooms, but no pollen for cross pollination since my few other dragonfruits hadn’t bloomed yet. I did have some year old pollen in the freezer I used, but the flower still turned yellow and fell off. Thank you for the Facebook information, had I known I might have some Edgar’s Baby ready to eat.
Yes join the FB group! Someone always has pollen
Bro I wanna give you props for that smooth intro.. the walking forward while the camera zoomed out! Wow your production is amazing. Way better than epic garden where he squats in a corner than stands up into the frame of the picture. I love him too and I know you guys are friends, but your video production is top notch! Great work!!!! I feel like im watching exotic national geographic
hahaha Thanks bro, appreciate it! Been working hard on making better videos for everyone. Yeah Epic is a good friend. Can't go wrong with any of his content
Thank you, Richard. This is my first year getting fruit after two years. The Facebook group are so helpful answering my questions.
You’re welcome! Glad everything helps
Thank you so much for sharing the video and for the information. 😊
You are so welcome!
Finally got 3 buds after learning from you , second year!
Tipped the ends an boom🤙🏼mahalo
Now looking forward to flower and pollinate
So awesome!!! Excited for you to eat your fruits soon
@@GraftingDragonFruit 😃🤙🏼going to taste extra delicious !
Love your FB page brother it's been super helpful !
Glad to hear it!
Very good advice 1 of my buds fell off so now I know why
Hi thank you so much for sharing, super helpful ❤
You are so welcome!
Thank you for sharing this info. I’m truly grateful for your really great explanation of the different types of dragon fruit plants. I know I have two types. They are supposed to be self pollinated, but I have found that crossing it is better even if it’s self pollinating. Is that normal? I’ve taken the pollen from both, and now use both on the flower. Is it too much to do that? I figure more is better. But I had 14 flowers on the two plants open in two nights. I praying I had a better pollinating this time! 🙏🤞 your the best! Thanks again!
Not at all. Always good to increase your chances
Thanks so much for all of your informative videos, they have helped so much! Today, I didn't quite get the part about sacrificing a fruit to find out the variety. Can you clarify for me?
You’re welcome! If you don’t know what variety you have exactly, then you want to go through a few test. Potentially sacrificing a flower just means that you use one with its own pollen to find out if it’s self-fertile, and if it doesn’t work, then your plant will have to be cross pollinated
Thanks Richard for this post and all your other very educational posts. Luckily my flowers are starting to set as I think I was not brushing on the pollen correctly. I started to make sure the pollen goes in the hole on the stigma. It seems to be working. I have another specific question. Is it absolutely necessary to break off the dried flowers after pollination, If you don’t pull off the dead flower will the fruit continue to grow. I think I may have pulled too hard on one and the fruit aborted. Thanks for you dedication helping us all out who are now fascinated and now growing dragonfruit !
You don’t have to pull it off. Can leave it on, but I do recommend take it off once it starts getting bigger because it could maintain moisture and lead to mold at that part
Thanks for the video! My dragonfruit plant is falling off the palm tree it is growing on… it is not attached anymore and won’t re-attach. any ideas??? Thank you!
this is informative. thanks
Thank you I wish I leaned this important information before lost so many fruits in the pass than again god blessed
Glad it was helpful!
Great answer to the question. My one is" When l freeze other pollin, how long must it be out of the fridge or can l use straight whilst it is freezing cold.
I usually let mine get back to room temperature before using
Shalom! My question is do I have to take out the flower after pollination what happens whether I leave it? Why my dragon fruit tree within 2 consecutive years put out 3 flowers but I got saved one it didn't bear fruit? But this Year I made hand polination. Thank you
Awesome video thanks a lot bro!
No problem!
Thanks for the info!
Any time!
Learned a lot from
Watching your vids. ❤Thank U. I’ve recently cross pollinated my flowers then after 1-2 wks they aborted. Do you know what else could have happened?
Thanks for sharing this information 💯
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching
Richar I hope you’re doing well. Love your plans hey question what is the best plant to produce pollen or what is the best plant to do cross pollination? 👍 thank
American beauty is always a solid choice
Very good video. I was looking for a reason why my plant was not giving fruit. Now I have come to know that it is a sterile variety. Tried all means 😢
But but for I had different pollen which one took but not the rest. I'm thinking maybe I didn't wait for room temperature or the heat up north or maybe to much water
So last year I only had like 4 flowers and one of them fruited but it was really small. This year I've probably had like 30 flowers and all of them either fell off or stayed on and fell off after a few weeks. I cut it open and it's not pollinated. The cuttings are from a plant that produces tons of fruit so I'm confused on what to do. I self pollinate when I catch the flowers open. It's a red dragon fruit plant
Thank you for the info, I’ve been trying to get my dragon fruit to develop for a while but now I know why they yellow and fall off thanks to your vids. I live in San Diego, anyone out there willing to spare some pollen from another variety? 🙏🏼
Glad it was helpful! Try asking in my FB group. Lots of people in the SD area
What the best fertilizer for my Dragon Fruits and how you water the plants, thanks
Hey I have a quick question my dragon fruit has produced 5 or 6 fruits like every other year. This year it had five or six flowers and they all dropped so I just tried to self pollinate the two flowers I have today.
Well, my friend , I had no idea this is how you get the plant to fruit. I have never eaten them , so I decided I would eat what I planted. I managed to get three different varieties at different ages. The first has started blooming now after three years. I didn't know their method of pollination, and neither do I know their types. I am a bit nervous.
Like i said before amazing!!! Content!!! I had 36 flower 13 I pollinated and all my flowers failed except my first flower. I'm in northern California
Could be other factors or it’s not the variety you were told it was
Mine been dropping flowers have tried pollinating with pollen from a different plant but still they drop the flowere
Dear Richard, I have three types of white variety ( i do not know the variety's name) . Of the three varieties one variety has no stigma to pollinate. So the fruits gets yellow and fall off in a week after setting. Please help 🙏
i am dragon fruit grow about 4 yrs, i noticed that my dragon plant grow like crazy. Shoudl I tin them down?
Hi many thanks for your great videos
I have self sterile plant, can I graft a self fertile onto the plant and cut the rest off?
Yes you can graft any varieties
So I have an American beauty that I hand pollinated but only 1 out of 4 turned into a fruit 😢. Is it too much sun or water? I live in NW Florida, summer are super hot and humid.
Thanks for the info!
Do you have to cut the trees back each year (like you do for a grape vine)?
or
do you just cut them back when they get to big?
Only when they get big if you want to.
Dragonfruits sir look beautiful many variety...
Another great and very informative video. I just started growing dragon fruits last year, my uncle and sister gave me couple of cuttings, built a couple of trellis like yours. They're growing ok, however my question is, why are some of them growing thin as in like a rat tail cactus?
Check out my video on tipping branches. It’ll help get them thicker
Probably they're not getting enough sunshine. ie growing in the shade
I need more dragon fruit varieties!
Yes!!
Your videos have been SO helpful for us since we've started our dragon fruit growing journey a few years ago. Thank you so much, Richard! I had a few questions regarding pollination and cross pollination. 1) If I have a self-sterile variety, does it matter what type of other variety I use to pollinate, or can I use the pollen of any other variety (including other self-sterile varieties)? 2) Does a self-fertile variety only work when you use its own pollen? Or would it still work if I only cross pollinated it? 3) If I pollinate two flowers of the same self-sterile variety with two DIFFERENT variety's pollen (one variety per flower), would the fruits still come out the same? Or does the pollen variety affect how the final fruit turns out? Thank you for considering my questions! :)
You’d want to avoid the self-sterile in the same family. Sometimes they don’t like the pollen and it won’t take., however with you can usually use any other varieties including self-sterile. You can cross any self-fertile with something else. 3. They will come out with some slight differences. They take DNA from both parents
Great video as usual. I would like to know how much time pitayas take to bear fruits when planted in containers ?
Usually 18-24 months before they’re ready if plant is young or first time
@@GraftingDragonFruit Ok thank you for the answer I appreciate
Richard, my Connie Meyer had two buds but the flower never opened and aborted. Would you know why?
Might not have been enough nutrients/energy for it to mature
Thanks for all your humble support. Another question I ve grown seeds from unknown yellow varieties and at a height of above 50 inches I cut the tip. It now has 2 new stems that are much thicker than the ground level original stem. Why it seems the yellow always are small at the ground? These are planted in the ground heavily mulched and given good doses of fertilizer. They handle our 95 degrees well. When should blooming fertilizer be applied? Should I wait until buds start or earlier? Cảm ơn
Usually it's because all the nutrients and energy are used at the top of the stems because they're the ones that are producing buds. Check out my video on super blooms to get how often I apply fertilizer. Definitely start earlier than buds appearing
can you try to do the "drill bit" graft? its when you drill out the cambian and stick another cambian into the hole
I'll add that to my list of experiments. If I do, will definitely make a video
??..Is pitaya blanca typically found in US markets considered self fertile or self sterile?….
Which dragon fruits are self pollens and the other needs cross pollination?
Good morning from South Africa. I have a question of what you have explained about the self sterile plants, we have ordered white, red and purple dragon fruit cuttings - if the flowers start growing do we have to self pollinate or wont it be necessary as we will have 3 kinds that will be planted on a hectare? Hope you can help. Thanks
It depends on what type they are. If they’re self-fertile and self-pollinators, then you don’t have to do anything. If they are not self-pollinators, then you will have to hand pollinate or have help from nature’s armies
Hi.
How many selfpolinated dragon fruit plants varsities are there?
So that polination(manual) problems can be avoided.
There’s too many too say. Hundreds of dragon fruit varieties out there
Hey Richard. I only have a 5 Liter Pot. Is that enough to grow a dragon fruit with?
Probably will be good enough for 1 dragon fruit plant. Recommend getting a 15-20 gallons if you’re able to
Ants have made it to the flower. Sort of low hanging branches but I've had success with this dragon fruit plant. Is this normal?
Ants are attracted to sweet stuff. Try using ant baits to keep them away
Hi Richard, I have yellow dragon fruit trees now almost 2years old grown (starting from seeds)but I heard that they won’t bare fruit til another 10 years😢😢😢so help me ,what should I do? Should I graft it with white one to speed up? Thx from a big fan of yours
From seeds it's usually 3-4 years before you see something. You can graft it to get faster growth as long as your base one is strong
what's the reason for the yellowing branches?
my one plant has four buds after tipping last year and guess i will find out if it is self-pollinating after trying to pollinate in in the next few weeks , were is a good place in cali to buy a mature plant that is a known self pollinated variety
Nice your presentation.
Thank you
At 5pm l can identify which flowers will open that night. How long should l wait after it opens . Is there a chance that lm late to pollinate to work the pollinating process. What is the optimum time from openning time
I usually wait until it opens at least 75% before I start pollinating. The earlier you get it done, the less chance of another creature messing with it.
Hey Richard, what is the best way to combat ants attacking my dragonfruit plant and eating it. I grow organically, so I would prefer some natural methods if possible. Thanks again about the organic fertilizer, keep getting buds. Much appreciated sir.
Try using an ant bait
Good time. What factors are important for the expansion of the dragon?
What do you mean by expansion?
If you have 2 different kinds of dragons that are self sterile,can you cross pollinate them and have fruit set?
Yes as long as they’re different, you’re good to go!
I live in Fl and have been looking for dragon fruit pollen to no avail. I purchased from a local nursery what I was told was an American Beauty, it has flowered prolifically but, never set fruit, so sad. I have purchased Yellow Palora and Sugar Dragon to use for future cross pollination but, it’s going to be awhile before they flower. Any suggestion where I can buy pollen?
Try asking in my FB group
I have the same issue. American beauty located in NWF. Out of 15 flowers only 1 fruit 🤦🏽♂️. I’m guessing too much sun and water
What kind of fertilizer do you use and how often do you apply it?
Check out my recent video on Super Blooms
Hello!! Is there a variety that can be used as a “master” cross pollinator?
There’s not really a master pollinator, but American beauty is always solid
Hi, Richard. I was wondering what happened to the General Hydroponics FloraNova Bloom fertilizer. Did you delete it? I was going to go back to my questions.
I didn't so i don’t know
@@GraftingDragonFruitsorry I see the VD now. Thanks
I got my dragon fruit graft from a friend and never produce fruit and it fits your definition of self sterile. However my friend told me the original plant produced fruit before. What does it mean?
Did your friend cross pollinate it with another variety?
Thank you!
Welcome!
How long the pollen can be potent if you keep it in the fridge? Or frozen?
In the fridge it can last up to 27-30 days. If it is frozen it can last up to 6-8 months.
At pollination, I cover my flowers with plastic to avoid pollin robbing from bees,How long shd l keep them on.
You can take them off the next day in the afternoon. The pollination process occurs pretty quick
Sometimes I pollinate my (Israeli yellow) with its own pollen and sometimes it fruits and sometimes it doesnt. Any other reason why?
THanks
Could be not enough nutrients and energy for all the flowed to set
Will dragon fruit SEED ripen in the store fruit that was picked early to ship ?
I have germinated dragon fruit seed in a ripe fruit like many fruit the seed germinates from ripe fruit on the ground .
SO the question is can i buy fruit at the store and get seed from it .
You can buy fruit and start a cutting from the green left on the fruit but can the store bought fruit seed germinate ?
Yes it’s possible
Cool I have cuttings started with 6"new start on 2 10 seed germinated 1" and 4 Asian sweet Potatoe seed germinated 3" tall 2 truck loads of new stuff to mulch hourse and chicken in buckets it ought to be an interesting spring in SW Fla for me thanks for your info and content Steve.@@GraftingDragonFruit
Wow 🤩 how many varieties r there? It just keeps increasing! ❤
Oh! I have a question. If the fruit grows and from the top it gets torn and u can see the inside but the fruit is still not red(ripened) do we take it out? And why it is happening when the others don’t do that?
Over 40 now. If it’s cracked, I would pick it otherwise creatures might get to it and/or it goes bad
@@GraftingDragonFruit wow 40! That’s amazing 🤩
And thank u for the answer!!! I see other kinds of fruits torn or cracking and thought if it happens to the dragon fruit and should we take it out. Thank u 🙏
@@grimmjowzenith910 sometimes it just grows too fast for the skin to catch up
@@GraftingDragonFruit oohhh!! Got it!! Thank u and I might have some questions in the future as I watch your video . Hope to increase my knowledge of dragon fruits so that I can be prepared for my first ones :3
Richard, my dragonfruit plant (self fertile) currently has several mature fruit that is currently starting to ripen. It is also going through a 2nd-round of flowering but none of the new flowers are setting fruit. Is there anything that can be done to help the flowers set fruit during the 2nd-flowering? I've gone as far as hand-pollenating the flowers 2x, once in the evening when they first open and again early in the a.m. when the bees come around, but they just keep falling off.
Make sure your fertilizer is on point. May be lacking nutrients and energy as the fruits are taking them.
@@GraftingDragonFruit Is there such a thing as over-fertilization? Several of the fruit currently ripening are more than double the normal size. Also, there seem to be too many flower buds emerging. Some branches don't seem fully matured, but they are pushing buds at almost every node.
My first flower ever (Shayna from CalPoly) seemed like it took. It had the tell-tale line between the yellow and green but then it dried up and fell off after about a week. Now I’m wondering if Shayna is actually self-sterile… 🤔.
Best informative videos ever!
It could be! Have to try cross pollinating your next one
Greetings Richard, Great topic 👍 Could 2 other reasons a Dragon fruit aborts is 1. It got wet 2. Drastic change in weather ie. Warm to cold weather?
@@roottrackerzbyyaira My west-facing patio’s microclimate here in San Francisco does have big temperature swings from day to night.
@@ericscavetta2311 Yes, I can see that. I am in Long Besch south of you and lost 1 last year to a drastic weather change from Summer to Fall. also I was told to stop fertilizing it until the fruits are harvested. I do give it compost and worm castings.
@@roottrackerzbyyaira Thanks for the tips. I was using Flora Nova Bloom every 2 weeks until the bud was half-grown, then switched to one application of worm castings & composted chicken manure "tea" right after it flowered. Maybe I overdid it?
I will try to find pollen from someone in this area, as I have a second bud, although it seems much smaller than the last one and almost ready to open (I can see white between the green 'petals' (not sure that the right word).)
What should I do if the dragon fruit grows, but breaks at a very underdeveloped stage excessively. The fruit is there and visible, and the flower grows as well, but breaks off the plant very quickly. How can I prevent these breakages?
Sounds like there might not be enough nutrients and energy for the buds and flowers to mature
What types are self fertile?
I have a question 'which grafting method is better and more successful for dragon fruit'
Check out the videos on grafting in my channel.
My Vietnamese friends all grow tons of sugar apple. Seems u only grow dragonfruit. I agree dragonfruit is much better for taste and variety. Finally rains come but how to reduce or remove black sooty mold without wiping all the stems? I grow many exotic SE Asian fruit trees.
Only way to reduce them is to keep them as dry as possible with coverings, but that's hard to do
Sweet!
🙏🏼🙏🏼
I can't even get mine to form flower buds. I've tried all your feeding and water advice. Bought the same brands of fertilizer. Three years and no flower buds.
Have you tried tipping the branches?
@@GraftingDragonFruit I have tipped, fed, repositioned, more water, less water, etc. Some of my plants are two years old. No buds. Not sure what else to try.
I've had fruit the past 3 years, no problem. Suddenly this year they turn yellow after flowering and fall off. They weren't self sterile before, what happened?
Can be many factors including my weather, nutrients, timing. This season was tough for a lot of people due to weather
Thank you very much à
Most welcome
Is there a way to tell what type of dragon fruit your growing if you don’t know what kind they are?
There’s not unfortunately
Dear Richard, you mentioned that a self sterile variety needs to be pollinated from another variety, but you didn't clarify whether the other variety has to be self fertile or self sterile or it doesn't matter? So my question is, can two self sterile dragon fruit varieties successfully pollinate each other?
Doesn’t matter. Self-sterile just means you can’t use its own pollen for itself
@@GraftingDragonFruit hi Richard , a typo error - self sterile CANT use its own pollen for itself not CAN.
@@GalaxyFarmer1022 great catch! Yes typo error on the auto correct
Learned this last week. I have had 4 flowers fall off since all self sterile are producing flowers first compared to self fertile. Major L, but patience is a virtue.
It’s a journey and learning experience. You’ll get it next time 👍🏼
@@GraftingDragonFruit Thank you for taking time in sharing information on this topic. Much appreciated!
Why does my dragon fruit flowers start to turn yellow before pollination
You probably missed the chance to pollinate. You got a 8-12 hour window
My label says American Beauty. I have cross pollinated with Palora and still have no success after well over 3 dozen blooms
AB is self-pollinating so you don't have to cross pollinate. If you're not having success with it, it could be due to lack of nutrients, plant is not mature enough, or some other factors.
@@GraftingDragonFruit . it gets plenty of nutrients. How old
Does the tree need to be. It’s pretty established and large. I’m wondering if it’s labeled incorrectly. I have also let it do its thing and have pollinated with its own pollen.
@@davidwallace9975 usually 18-24 months before first fruiting. It could be a different variety which require cross pollinating.
🌵⭐🌟
🕳️ ((Why don't you make a video about the varieties which any grower must have to be used as rootstock (such as vietnamese white as I think) and which varieties can be planted by itself (as Royal red as i think) and
And which to be grafted (as Ecuador pallora)
Three categories of varieties:
1st : used as rootstock
2nd : by itself without grafting
3rd : to be grafted at
Have a video coming out soon on my top 5
Kann ich auch Früchte ernten indem ich sie in ampel töpfehalte
Does anyone sell pollen?
Do dragon fruit grow best in pots?
It really doesn’t matter, but pots are better if you’re in a climate like Texas or if you need to move them
No, it's just easier to keep organized and move around if you need to
@@GraftingDragonFruit😮
গঘঞণব😂😂😂🎉ঢভঞভঢঢঢ
Someday i will also have a collection of different varieties of dragon fruit...
Yes you will!
May I buy American beauty.
My townsend pink is self fertile and I pollinated it and it didnt take
May be other factors or its not really a Townsend pink
@@GraftingDragonFruit I got it in person from spicy exotics
Could be lack of nutrients, weather, or other factors. Been a tough season this year for many
@@GraftingDragonFruit I’m in Louisiana and we’ve been in a drought.
@@1Fine69c maybe too hot, not enough water. It’s hard to pin that the exact issue
Tray Polonate Bat not Workin