I grew 500 poles in the Philippines. Concrete poles 8 ft with 2 ft in the ground and an old motor cycle tire fixed to the top. 4 cuttings to each pole and tied to the pole as they grew up. Prune all off shoots from the main stem leaving only the main stem to grow up and over the tire where they will produce multiple downward facing stems. They set fruit after 8 months and no problems with pollination. They had a flush of fruit around every 40 days from may thru November which is the wet season. After the season is over prune back the fruiting stems to increase the number of fruiting stems for the next season. The pruned stems which have produced fruit are the ones used for new plants. These plants can live for 50 years.I grew the red variety and got nice big fruit between 2-3 pieces per kilo. They can be kept for up to 5 weeks if refrigerated and can be eaten fresh, in shakes, in ice cream, dehydrated and make an excellent berry like jam. The dried flowers make an excellent chamomile like tea.Dragon fruit are one of the healthiest of all fruit.
I'm in melb growing my plants over 5 yrs no flowers .get the morning and evening sun.plants look healthy so I assume there's enough water .so what's wrong?
I would suggest using a concrete slab with large holes on the pole instead of old cycle tire, this will last long. With tires, there's a possibility the plant may overheat as the tires get too hot during summer.
I got cuttings of a dragon fruit when doing volunteer work at our local botanical gardens back in 2000. I first planted on a mesquite tree. It grew to the top and we had so many fruit. Eventually it actually broke the tree from the weight. I then planted cuttings on our chain link fence. It grew into a monster with a couple hundred blooms at once. Two years ago the Big Texas Freeze took it out and I forgot to get cuttings ahead of time. Miraculously a lady I gave cuttings to but didn’t even know, brought me cuttings from my original plant when she saw mine was toast. I cried. I now have them on wooden trellises in big pots. I have about 4 varieties now.
I'm in South Australia and I grew a few plants from cuttings. I lost interest in them, never watered them and lo and behold I went out today and found 3 large fruit. I've eaten one of them and it was sooooooo sweet. I'm stoked lol.
As crazy as things are going on in the world right now, it is such a treat to be able to watch your videos and remember how good life can be away from all the madness-thank you for the reprieve! These videos are the best!
Josie Ledesma what kinda plant are you talking about? If your talking about dragon fruit idk as I live in the wrong climate to even try to grow one. I’d say just trim off anything dead and let it grow; new growth is always a good thing. If I were in your shoes I’d definitely do a google search and see what everyone else thinks.
I LOVE how you dont just throw hate to pests like parrots or foxes. I feel like you have a wider understanding on ecosystems and that having vegetables or chickens will naturally attract unwanted attention, and the ways you try to repel them, instead of training a dog to kill or using potentially toxic pesticides like industrial farms do.
Sometimes you need pesticides. I had an uncontrolable pest of US invasive beetles, a green small ones with 6 yellow points. They are devastating in Argentina. Lost most tomatoes in 100 plants, lost flowers pumpkins, green ones, zuccinis, lost all bell peppers. I got sick of it and "natural" pesticides are hard to get in my town, you have to ask them with time and expensive. Natural predators were not enough. I left it for a while until one day I got sick of it and called a friend for his chemicals used on soy farms. 7 liters of water with a little bit of it and all those pesky beetles and other sucking bugs where all killed. I applied at night, so no bees or wasps were harmed, they are happy with all the flowers is there now and I can now enjoy having too much tomatoes to eat.
@@Argentvs I have friends from Argentina. I can understand if your crops are an important source of your food or money you can,t care of every plant you have (like in industrial farms). I,m not criminalizing the use of pesticides, but it,s worth praising this man for not using them and looking for alternatives. My grandfather had a farm and the pesticides he used were banned a few years ago because it kills bees and poisons the ground after prolongued uses. It,s precisely because It,s difficult to not use pesticides what makes this youtuber special
Thanks Mark for this video...I Absolutely love dragonfruit...I have the red flashed red skinned variety here in Mackay and I think they are great tasting ones, way better than the white fleshed ones...A colleague of mine gave me a couple of cutting and I never looked back...I also found that the less I look after them the better they do....they just sit there next to my mature compost pile and thrive like there is no tomorrow...I'm lucky that here the winter is very mild and never had a problem...also rarely lost a flower, if anything they drop at the "bud" stage, but no problem, there is always plenty...They self pollinate very easily and I love eating every one of them...bonus: no one in my family likes them...More for me!!!!!!!!!
I have a dragon fruit that I started from seed ten years ago and finely this year it decided to produce fruit. I am looking forward to the fruit fully ripening. It is growing along a chain link fence and seems to be perfectly happy there.
I have recently discovered that my Mother has one of these in a small pot and has been growing it as just a small ornamental cactus with no idea what it is so I am planning on planting it out and seeing if it will fruit, so this video is perfectly timed
@@tshaika9165 it was grown from a cutting but she doesn't know if it ever fruited since she didnt know the person for long Even if it doesn't fruit I want to try to make it abit more of a feature of her garden since atm it is just a single stalk that is about 30cm tall
Great advice: so now Im going to build up around the plant. The fruit so far has been green then yellow and fallen off so I''ll check the fertilizing and watering regime.
Great advices here ! Thank you. I'm about to start self-sufficient life soon and leave capitalism life behind me . So any good farmer advice is golden for me. Wishing you all the best mate
What an absolute pleasure watching this video. I did not know this plant. Very interested now. Thank you for not trying to compete with so many others but staying with good clear simple and clean language. I would give this 10 thumbs up if it was possible.
I live in the Netherlands and started with some dragonfruit seeds last year. They take a long time but they are doing well. I am gifting 3 of them to someone with a little book of instructions in the hope he will also get to enjoy the fruits. Can't wait to see in about 4 years if this is working as planned
Really great tips - I have kept two dragonfruit alive in Toowoomba this last winter (in a pot covered by a plastic hessian sack) am going to plant them out this spring and will give them a a 2m post with two crossbars to promote branching. Thanks so much.
Thank you for the cool tips. I'm just beginning thinking about planting this at my home. Not in a disrespectful way, but I did get a good chuckle when that bowl fell over, and you went, "awww!"
I only have one variety, and when It did fruit I didn't waste time to sow them seeds, my reason was to use this for cross pollinating my main plant, but it does take a heck of a lot of time!
I as well loved the comment about the parrots. I'm in Florida, and have lined the side of my house with "Loquat" trees (i.e. "Japanese Plums") When they bloom, we have a flock of "Patriot Parrots" that come to enjoy them. It's fun to sit on the deck and watch them enjoy.
Hi from French Guyana !! When I was in La Reunion island, I have got a lot of pitayas in my garden. ATTENTION PLEASE ! The best pollinisation is the cross-pollinisation. The pollen of the red variety on the pistil of the white variety and vice versa !!! The more the pollen you apply, the more the fruit is big !!! It's a night-job but the results are awsome. My biggest fruit dragon weights 1 kg with this method !! Otherwise, as a French guy, I really enjoy to view your videos !!
Thank you so much for your videos. You explain things so well and make it seem so very easy. Can’t wait to get out there and try it. A relative sent us a dragon fruit with pink on the inside, which was so delicious. We planted huge pieces of the cactus parts, but it never did anything except grow and eventually die.
Just got 3 cuttings from my brother-in-law…red, white and mystery. His look great so we are going to try them. We did go to a dragon fruit farm in MX. It was interesting and the fruit did taste good. Theirs was pink and red.
I have a plant n a pot I didn’t want to throw it away just cause I didn’t like the look of it and than one night it flowered the prettiest flower so I was stoked I kept it, just found out it’s a dragon fruit n I planted it so hopefully I get some fruit now n not just flowers, love your channel thanks for all ur advice
Thanks mate! I'm new to this but my pink /red plant is powering on the pool fence :) got my 1st 2 flowers today which inspired me to your video. Great that you encourage the parrots there's plenty of food for all us! AND your vid is not self indulgent like some of the others ;)
I will try dragon fruit again, but so far I've been getting similar fruit from our Peruvian apple cactus! They are also easy to grow, but are columnar, and form clumps. They look like a blooming candelabra when they flower!
@@balanaicker286 brother my rose plant gave many flowers but over 11 month I do not get adequate amount flower.Can I try mixed fertilizers or use any chemical fertilizer?please reply
This was convenient, I just got some seeds germinating 😊 I'm not hoping to get fruit, as I live in cold dark Finland, but I like the looks of the plant. Suitable for indoor container if kept small I guess. Thanks for tips, cheers!
Mark, this video is terrific! Answered a LOT of questions. Thank you. I'm trying to grow dragonfruit from seed because our nurseries will NOT stock varieties that do not grow in our area. The only variety available in our grocery stores are the white-fleshed fruits -- no other selection. I'm willing to grow several plants in large containers and bring them indoors when appropriate. Ten years before they produce fruit? Yikes! Oh well...I'm still willing to try! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 3/12/2020.
ENJOYED THE VIDEO AND I WILL BE PLANTING DRAGON FRUIT ON OUR FARM IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS. I PLAN TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE ACRE SET ASIDE FOR THEM AND PLAN TO PLANT AS MANY VARIETIES AS I CAN FIND. I FIGURE IF SOME OF THEM DON'T FRUIT I WILL JUST LET THEM POLLINATE THE ONES THAT DO.
Mine was forgotten in a pot at the base of a shrubby tree.... Long story short, it thrived and has grown up and through the whole tree. My care routine consists of dumping my coffee grinds and water on it sometimes and it's very happy 😊 definitely likes a treat-em-mean attitude
Great video as always. Dragon fruit is my favorite fruits. Heck expensive in the US. Oh btw, this is the first video I've come across on RUclips without a single thumbs down! ha! Keep up the great job.
I love your videos! I bought a dragon fruit cutting from a nursery after I watched this video. I live in South FL so it should do quite well. I bought a self fertile cutting but thank you for explaining the hand pollination! Keep up the great content!
Thank you for this very informative video. I used to live in Nth Qld where I first tasted a yellow one and loved it. Now, back across the ditch in NZ, I am enjoying growing some. I love how you co-exist with the parrots and the rainbow lorikeet in this video takes me back to Qld. Cheers!
The best advice on RUclips - thanks - My dragonfuit cutting came from an old 30 year old dragonfruit growing 20 metres up a dead tree on a farm in Stamford, outside of Brisbane - it is still fruiting amazingly well and they do not hand pollinate. Five years ago I planted 2 cuttings {from the Stamford plant} at the base of a living Malunggay Tree - it has grown up 4 metres and has over 50 long hanging arms coming down almost to the ground the moment - we get 30 flowers a night and 1 or 2 only live to full set fruit 😢 - then we get another flowering in approx 2 weeks - same result - most immature fruits turn yellow and drop off - this cycle repeats during the season - I have been trying hand pollination with small paint brush - I guess my main mistake is not watering everyday during fruiting months and once a week at other months. Also have you ever noticed that rainfall during the night or morning of the flowering interferes with the pollination process ? The Dutch growers hand pollinate and then squeeze the stamin shut with a pinch of the fingers and it stays shut due to the stickiness - would this help during the rainy nights/mornings ? Does anyone know a dragonfruit nursery in Brisbane selling good fruit setting newer variety Dragonfruit plants ? Thanks again
@@JustToFallAsleep Lots of good luck, they are tropical plants. I live in Florida and this is my first year growing them. I've only got a flower, lets see what happens after that...☘️🌵☀️😎👍
Honestly been wondering why it just keeps going up the tree thank you !! I'ma grow like 10 of them💀 I also hella enjoy your yard btw its natural asf with a small hand full of fertilizer 🤘🤘🤘
3:45 I didn't realise mine were fruiting like that...I just assumed they were failed red fruit. Gonna go look again in the morning! Thanks Mark from Brissy
Love these types of fruiting cactus/succulent, I've noticed a few huge fruiting yellow cactus around my area and I'm guessing people put them in as ornamental decades ago but now they are very old, huge and fruit prolifically.......... so sad that I never see people making use of them =C .
Thank you so much mark. Okay I need to be a slight pain in your dream could you possibly actually show how you're doing the cross-pollinating and how to store it in the refrigerator? When an hour till my check up with the eye surgeon and I'll find out when I get to not be blind anymore and start gardening
Apparently tipping the branches is the go to encourage fruiting, try cutting 1-2 inches off the end of the branches on a few before it is due to flower and see if that helps production.
I have some ideas that should work wonderfully with dragon fruit plants. I have not tried rooting dragon ruit stems in water but others said that it worked great but you had to change water every 3 days to avoid rotting the stems. I know that you don't have to change water at all if you just install an airstone and pump air into the water (aquarium air pump). Another idea is about grafting. I had 100% success with grafting recently in Sydney's autmn cool climate. I am currently trying grafting and rooting at the same time. I think the succulent nature of a dragon fruit plant will allow grafting to take even when it does not have roots. This will save heap of time for those who wish to get flowers and fruits ASAP.
Helpful tip!!! If you have the white flesh red skin variety they will not self pollinate!! You mush have a genetically different plant to get pollen from!! I had many glowers and no fruit until I got pollen from a local nursery.
Your face in 6:21 😂 just adorable! 😄 So I've just planted a cutting and currently binging on dragonfruit how to videos. Hoping it does as well in the mediterranean as it does down under🤞🏻much love from the other side of the 🌍
Loved this video, I have been craving a dragon fruit since ur video of fruit not in stores, when u took a bite of tht big beautiful deep red dragon fruit 👌 also tht parrot was beautiful ty for sharing!!!
If you compare it to apples, Having the branches dip below 0-level induces that branch to produce fruit (and in the case of apples reduces suckers)...You could be into something there bud. Great vid!!
Your dragon fruit looks emaculate man! I love watching all your other videos as well. You have alot of good advice, hand pollination should help and also cross pollination for some varieties.
I had a porch light on one year and my orange tree was blooming like crazy. I was out 5 o'clock in the morning and noticed hummingbird moths having a feast on the flowers. Wonder if it would work on this plant too. The flowers are so bright white that any light would cause a reflection. I had jungle cactus and the flowers were enormous. And so glistening white. An experience I will never forget.
That's a really interesting idea. I wonder how you could use the light to attract insects but then stop them from hanging around the light itself? Also it makes me wonder whether this is the reason so many insects are attracted to light at night...
Great Presentation, delivered with enthusiasm. I have four mature stacks in Brisbane, Four flowers blossomed, the bees arrived at 05:30 but the flowers rotted and fell off three days later. I have three fruit on another plant, Fruiting is down. I may have been guilty of overwatering and too much 5 in 1 fertiliser. Or not trimming too many shooters,
I have a huge plant growing up a tree for many years now, and it has been flowering without producing fruits. Maybe it is the 'watering' factor.... In a drought-stricken country like Namibia, it is not easy.
Loved this video on pitaya however I wish you were able to share with us more on what varieties you had! And the details about them. Are they self-pollinating. What each variety taste like? I’m very interested in the yellow pitaya and the red flesh red fruit inside pitaya! ( very hard to come by )
Excuse me if you've answered this before, but is it possible to grow two different types on the same trellis? For example a yellow variety and a red variety, hoping for increased pollination and space saving? Let me know! Awesome channel by the way, it's inspired me to start a home garden/orchard.
I grew 500 poles in the Philippines. Concrete poles 8 ft with 2 ft in the ground and an old motor cycle tire fixed to the top. 4 cuttings to each pole and tied to the pole as they grew up. Prune all off shoots from the main stem leaving only the main stem to grow up and over the tire where they will produce multiple downward facing stems. They set fruit after 8 months and no problems with pollination. They had a flush of fruit around every 40 days from may thru November which is the wet season. After the season is over prune back the fruiting stems to increase the number of fruiting stems for the next season. The pruned stems which have produced fruit are the ones used for new plants. These plants can live for 50 years.I grew the red variety and got nice big fruit between 2-3 pieces per kilo. They can be kept for up to 5 weeks if refrigerated and can be eaten fresh, in shakes, in ice cream, dehydrated and make an excellent berry like jam. The dried flowers make an excellent chamomile like tea.Dragon fruit are one of the healthiest of all fruit.
I'm in melb growing my plants over 5 yrs no flowers .get the morning and evening sun.plants look healthy so I assume there's enough water .so what's wrong?
I would suggest using a concrete slab with large holes on the pole instead of old cycle tire, this will last long. With tires, there's a possibility the plant may overheat as the tires get too hot during summer.
Awesome
@@kimhoang2603 Their natural habitat is tropical rainforest. I'd be thinking that Melbourne would be too cold to produce fruit.
@@normastitz8546 The Vietnamese farmers grow dragon fruit in Virginia just north of Adelaide so it's highly likely that they will grow in Melbourne..
I got cuttings of a dragon fruit when doing volunteer work at our local botanical gardens back in 2000. I first planted on a mesquite tree. It grew to the top and we had so many fruit. Eventually it actually broke the tree from the weight. I then planted cuttings on our chain link fence. It grew into a monster with a couple hundred blooms at once. Two years ago the Big Texas Freeze took it out and I forgot to get cuttings ahead of time. Miraculously a lady I gave cuttings to but didn’t even know, brought me cuttings from my original plant when she saw mine was toast. I cried. I now have them on wooden trellises in big pots. I have about 4 varieties now.
I'm in South Australia and I grew a few plants from cuttings. I lost interest in them, never watered them and lo and behold I went out today and found 3 large fruit. I've eaten one of them and it was sooooooo sweet. I'm stoked lol.
Probably because they need less water.
The parrots are gorgeous! I always leave the high fruit that I can't reach for the animals. It's their planet too! Thank you as always for sharing.
Dani Hall I agree
Me too. No parrots around here, but I love the song birds my dragon fruit vine attracts.
Absolutely. The world belong to the animals
Not one dislike on this vid.
I love this man’s accent and his gentle nature.
Me too.
Same here
I agree but actually there ARE 68 dislikes...not much though
I agree :-)
Same with me too!
As crazy as things are going on in the world right now, it is such a treat to be able to watch your videos and remember how good life can be away from all the madness-thank you for the reprieve! These videos are the best!
People gonna pillage his garden next. Supermarkets are empty lol. Jokes aside, it is something good to watch. Bugger the media.
Agreed!
Beano I agree about the news BS. I only watch it once every two weeks now.
It’s just sooo depressing.
@@ElkinsEric is it good to prune the plant,if so how often.tnx
Josie Ledesma what kinda plant are you talking about?
If your talking about dragon fruit idk as I live in the wrong climate to even try to grow one.
I’d say just trim off anything dead and let it grow; new growth is always a good thing.
If I were in your shoes I’d definitely do a google search and see what everyone else thinks.
I LOVE how you dont just throw hate to pests like parrots or foxes. I feel like you have a wider understanding on ecosystems and that having vegetables or chickens will naturally attract unwanted attention, and the ways you try to repel them, instead of training a dog to kill or using potentially toxic pesticides like industrial farms do.
Australians don't 'throw hate' lol
Sometimes you need pesticides.
I had an uncontrolable pest of US invasive beetles, a green small ones with 6 yellow points. They are devastating in Argentina. Lost most tomatoes in 100 plants, lost flowers pumpkins, green ones, zuccinis, lost all bell peppers.
I got sick of it and "natural" pesticides are hard to get in my town, you have to ask them with time and expensive. Natural predators were not enough. I left it for a while until one day I got sick of it and called a friend for his chemicals used on soy farms. 7 liters of water with a little bit of it and all those pesky beetles and other sucking bugs where all killed. I applied at night, so no bees or wasps were harmed, they are happy with all the flowers is there now and I can now enjoy having too much tomatoes to eat.
@@Argentvs I have friends from Argentina. I can understand if your crops are an important source of your food or money you can,t care of every plant you have (like in industrial farms). I,m not criminalizing the use of pesticides, but it,s worth praising this man for not using them and looking for alternatives. My grandfather had a farm and the pesticides he used were banned a few years ago because it kills bees and poisons the ground after prolongued uses. It,s precisely because It,s difficult to not use pesticides what makes this youtuber special
@@maddiehat4608 I just have plants because I like it.
@@maddiehat4608 you can search the internet for a herbicide using white vinegar and salt.
Thanks Mark for this video...I Absolutely love dragonfruit...I have the red flashed red skinned variety here in Mackay and I think they are great tasting ones, way better than the white fleshed ones...A colleague of mine gave me a couple of cutting and I never looked back...I also found that the less I look after them the better they do....they just sit there next to my mature compost pile and thrive like there is no tomorrow...I'm lucky that here the winter is very mild and never had a problem...also rarely lost a flower, if anything they drop at the "bud" stage, but no problem, there is always plenty...They self pollinate very easily and I love eating every one of them...bonus: no one in my family likes them...More for me!!!!!!!!!
Cool !
With 4 feet of snow where I garden I have no expectations of growing Dragon fruit, but I found this video very interesting! Thank you!
Great highlight of the season when it flowers. A real treat.
I have a dragon fruit that I started from seed ten years ago and finely this year it decided to produce fruit. I am looking forward to the fruit fully ripening. It is growing along a chain link fence and seems to be perfectly happy there.
10 Years ! You have patience :-)
Damn....Welp 10 more years to go!
Mine just started producing fruit as well it’s the red ones
I have recently discovered that my Mother has one of these in a small pot and has been growing it as just a small ornamental cactus with no idea what it is
so I am planning on planting it out and seeing if it will fruit, so this video is perfectly timed
Yes! My mum used to have them too as small ornamental pot plants. Way too cold in northern Europe to get fruit though.
just thinking about it, I think one of my neighbors might have one, maybe I'll nab a cutting to test.
They may not be of the palatable type, maybe it's better to get a cutting from a good eating quality plant.
@@tshaika9165 it was grown from a cutting but she doesn't know if it ever fruited since she didnt know the person for long
Even if it doesn't fruit I want to try to make it abit more of a feature of her garden since atm it is just a single stalk that is about 30cm tall
Opp
Thanks for showing us all a flower that anyone rarely gets to see
I'm growing dragon fruit for the first time, bought a stem two months ago. I'm so excited, and I'm glad you made a video about growing it!
He put the fruit back on top of the post for the birds. Thank you for sharing the Earth as it was intended. Love you! ❤
Great advice: so now Im going to build up around the plant. The fruit so far has been green then yellow and fallen off so I''ll check the fertilizing and watering regime.
Great advices here ! Thank you. I'm about to start self-sufficient life soon and leave capitalism life behind me . So any good farmer advice is golden for me. Wishing you all the best mate
What an absolute pleasure watching this video. I did not know this plant. Very interested now. Thank you for not trying to compete with so many others but staying with good clear simple and clean language. I would give this 10 thumbs up if it was possible.
That flower is beautiful!
I live in the Netherlands and started with some dragonfruit seeds last year. They take a long time but they are doing well. I am gifting 3 of them to someone with a little book of instructions in the hope he will also get to enjoy the fruits. Can't wait to see in about 4 years if this is working as planned
Really great tips - I have kept two dragonfruit alive in Toowoomba this last winter (in a pot covered by a plastic hessian sack) am going to plant them out this spring and will give them a a 2m post with two crossbars to promote branching. Thanks so much.
Thank you for the cool tips. I'm just beginning thinking about planting this at my home. Not in a disrespectful way, but I did get a good chuckle when that bowl fell over, and you went, "awww!"
I only have one variety, and when It did fruit I didn't waste time to sow them seeds, my reason was to use this for cross pollinating my main plant, but it does take a heck of a lot of time!
I as well loved the comment about the parrots. I'm in Florida, and have lined the side of my house with "Loquat" trees (i.e. "Japanese Plums") When they bloom, we have a flock of "Patriot Parrots" that come to enjoy them. It's fun to sit on the deck and watch them enjoy.
The most valuable channel in the world. How do you have the time to care for everything AND pay the bills? You are so impressive
That parrot is so pretty.
Surely, well deserving of the fruit😄
Hi from French Guyana !! When I was in La Reunion island, I have got a lot of pitayas in my garden. ATTENTION PLEASE ! The best pollinisation is the cross-pollinisation. The pollen of the red variety on the pistil of the white variety and vice versa !!! The more the pollen you apply, the more the fruit is big !!! It's a night-job but the results are awsome. My biggest fruit dragon weights 1 kg with this method !! Otherwise, as a French guy, I really enjoy to view your videos !!
Thanks Mark, we were busy with our dragon fruit this morning and had a few unanswered questions which your video answered. Great timing.
Thank you so much for your videos. You explain things so well and make it seem so very easy. Can’t wait to get out there and try it. A relative sent us a dragon fruit with pink on the inside, which was so delicious. We planted huge pieces of the cactus parts, but it never did anything except grow and eventually die.
I just discovered your channel and it's very informative, helpful and nice to watch without getting bored or want to skip parts. I love it!
Thanks for the video that really helped and convinced me to grow some dragon fruit!!!! Time to go to the internet to find some cutting in my area.
Just got 3 cuttings from my brother-in-law…red, white and mystery. His look great so we are going to try them. We did go to a dragon fruit farm in MX. It was interesting and the fruit did taste good. Theirs was pink and red.
I agree with you observation of the plant developing fruit when it hangs over a bit more or else it will continue to grow taller.
I have a plant n a pot I didn’t want to throw it away just cause I didn’t like the look of it and than one night it flowered the prettiest flower so I was stoked I kept it, just found out it’s a dragon fruit n I planted it so hopefully I get some fruit now n not just flowers, love your channel thanks for all ur advice
Thanks mate! I'm new to this but my pink /red plant is powering on the pool fence :) got my 1st 2 flowers today which inspired me to your video. Great that you encourage the parrots there's plenty of food for all us! AND your vid is not self indulgent like some of the others ;)
I will try dragon fruit again, but so far I've been getting similar fruit from our Peruvian apple cactus! They are also easy to grow, but are columnar, and form clumps. They look like a blooming candelabra when they flower!
Hi I have grown Dragon fruit from seeds.they are growing very slow.
@@balanaicker286 brother my rose plant gave many flowers but over 11 month I do not get adequate amount flower.Can I try mixed fertilizers or use any chemical fertilizer?please reply
I got one of those!
Wonderful job and keeping on educating us how to grow Dragon Fruits!!.
Very Impressed!!.
This was convenient, I just got some seeds germinating 😊 I'm not hoping to get fruit, as I live in cold dark Finland, but I like the looks of the plant. Suitable for indoor container if kept small I guess. Thanks for tips, cheers!
Put it in windows... and grow in plastic greenhouse outside when cold is gone
The dragon fruit flowers are so pretty in the morning when the sun just arise.
Mark, this video is terrific! Answered a LOT of questions. Thank you. I'm trying to grow dragonfruit from seed because our nurseries will NOT stock varieties that do not grow in our area. The only variety available in our grocery stores are the white-fleshed fruits -- no other selection. I'm willing to grow several plants in large containers and bring them indoors when appropriate. Ten years before they produce fruit? Yikes! Oh well...I'm still willing to try! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 3/12/2020.
Just getting into dragon fruit late last year- they’re growing exceptionally well in my bathroom. Don’t know how to feel about that. xD
FBI Zorua it’s just a baby so not much at the moment. But when you get one that’s rooted with some good humidity, it sparks
That’s cool! I started paps tomatoes in my bedroom window this year...lol
Eric Lock tomatoes? That’s bold
That’s nasty
Hows the dragon fruit doing today??
ENJOYED THE VIDEO AND I WILL BE PLANTING DRAGON FRUIT ON OUR FARM IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS. I PLAN TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE ACRE SET ASIDE FOR THEM AND PLAN TO PLANT AS MANY VARIETIES AS I CAN FIND. I FIGURE IF SOME OF THEM DON'T FRUIT I WILL JUST LET THEM POLLINATE THE ONES THAT DO.
Mine was forgotten in a pot at the base of a shrubby tree.... Long story short, it thrived and has grown up and through the whole tree. My care routine consists of dumping my coffee grinds and water on it sometimes and it's very happy 😊 definitely likes a treat-em-mean attitude
It grows best in a mesquite tree. Other rough bark trees work too. The type of bark that the roots can hang onto .
Thanks. I'm U.S. 7b in North Carolina. I'm going to try dragon fruit this summer. I just ordered a cutting from Florida.
I have a huge plant.....I will be fertilizing them.....taste is great.
Very interesting. I didn’t know that they are a succulent.:)
Wow! 1.4k likes no dislikes! Mark, you are sure doing something right!
The best thing i saw in this video is that parrot who eats the drogon fruit 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤
Great video as always. Dragon fruit is my favorite fruits. Heck expensive in the US. Oh btw, this is the first video I've come across on RUclips without a single thumbs down! ha! Keep up the great job.
You are right! Each dragon fruit will cost you from $3.00 to $5.00.
My daughter always requests your videos! We love them! She's 8
I love your videos! I bought a dragon fruit cutting from a nursery after I watched this video. I live in South FL so it should do quite well. I bought a self fertile cutting but thank you for explaining the hand pollination! Keep up the great content!
Hope it all went well !!
@@howtogrowdragonfruitplant7849 I totally forgot about this comment! Yes, it went well....i now own 6 different varieties lol
@@Chilly-uq2zl Nice !!!
Your plant looks so pretty! I have tried this fruit, and feel I need to try it again 😊
Thank you for this very informative video. I used to live in Nth Qld where I first tasted a yellow one and loved it. Now, back across the ditch in NZ, I am enjoying growing some. I love how you co-exist with the parrots and the rainbow lorikeet in this video takes me back to Qld. Cheers!
The best advice on RUclips - thanks - My dragonfuit cutting came from an old 30 year old dragonfruit growing 20 metres up a dead tree on a farm in Stamford, outside of Brisbane - it is still fruiting amazingly well and they do not hand pollinate. Five years ago I planted 2 cuttings {from the Stamford plant} at the base of a living Malunggay Tree - it has grown up 4 metres and has over 50 long hanging arms coming down almost to the ground the moment - we get 30 flowers a night and 1 or 2 only live to full set fruit 😢 - then we get another flowering in approx 2 weeks - same result - most immature fruits turn yellow and drop off - this cycle repeats during the season - I have been trying hand pollination with small paint brush - I guess my main mistake is not watering everyday during fruiting months and once a week at other months. Also have you ever noticed that rainfall during the night or morning of the flowering interferes with the pollination process ? The Dutch growers hand pollinate and then squeeze the stamin shut with a pinch of the fingers and it stays shut due to the stickiness - would this help during the rainy nights/mornings ? Does anyone know a dragonfruit nursery in Brisbane selling good fruit setting newer variety Dragonfruit plants ? Thanks again
Crow crow, there is Dragon fruit farm in Forestdale where you can pick fruit and buy cuttings. They have multiple varieties.
If love to grow these in Missouri, I love the taste of these.
Im also in the midwest, any tips?
@@JustToFallAsleep Lots of good luck, they are tropical plants. I live in Florida and this is my first year growing them. I've only got a flower, lets see what happens after that...☘️🌵☀️😎👍
Always enjoy your videos. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
Awesome! Grown heaps since I last seen them, can’t wait to grow my own! Cheers for another good video mate 🤙
Honestly been wondering why it just keeps going up the tree thank you !! I'ma grow like 10 of them💀 I also hella enjoy your yard btw its natural asf with a small hand full of fertilizer 🤘🤘🤘
Thanks for the tips. I learned from you and it helps a lot in my journey.
3:45 I didn't realise mine were fruiting like that...I just assumed they were failed red fruit. Gonna go look again in the morning! Thanks Mark from Brissy
That was great. Good job. Answered all of my questions.
Best Video I have watched on dragon fruit this morning. Thank you
Love these types of fruiting cactus/succulent, I've noticed a few huge fruiting yellow cactus around my area and I'm guessing people put them in as ornamental decades ago but now they are very old, huge and fruit prolifically.......... so sad that I never see people making use of them =C .
Ask for a cutting:-)
Great video. Great tips to freeze the pollen and water more to get more fruit.
Thank you so much mark. Okay I need to be a slight pain in your dream could you possibly actually show how you're doing the cross-pollinating and how to store it in the refrigerator? When an hour till my check up with the eye surgeon and I'll find out when I get to not be blind anymore and start gardening
Goodluck pertaining your eyes. From. ANNA,. SOUTH AFRICA, WESTERN CAPE
I am just now growing and propagating them from a neighbors flowering on our fence!.....
I live in the Bahamas, will go and look for this tree! I love dragon fruit!
Apparently tipping the branches is the go to encourage fruiting, try cutting 1-2 inches off the end of the branches on a few before it is due to flower and see if that helps production.
These are the most interesting of fruiting plants thanks mucho for the tips
Now starting to plant my dragon fruit.
I have some ideas that should work wonderfully with dragon fruit plants. I have not tried rooting dragon ruit stems in water but others said that it worked great but you had to change water every 3 days to avoid rotting the stems. I know that you don't have to change water at all if you just install an airstone and pump air into the water (aquarium air pump). Another idea is about grafting. I had 100% success with grafting recently in Sydney's autmn cool climate. I am currently trying grafting and rooting at the same time. I think the succulent nature of a dragon fruit plant will allow grafting to take even when it does not have roots. This will save heap of time for those who wish to get flowers and fruits ASAP.
Love this video thank you again and again for all your videos you make
Good work Mate. We love your experience and tips.
Helpful tip!!! If you have the white flesh red skin variety they will not self pollinate!! You mush have a genetically different plant to get pollen from!! I had many glowers and no fruit until I got pollen from a local nursery.
Thank you Sir, for very interesting presentation.
We love it!
Your face in 6:21 😂 just adorable! 😄
So I've just planted a cutting and currently binging on dragonfruit how to videos. Hoping it does as well in the mediterranean as it does down under🤞🏻much love from the other side of the 🌍
In Lampedusa, hotter parts of Sicliy, hotter parts of Calabria, hotter parts of the mediterranean you can do it
I learned from a friend that if you cut the tips off the branches it will fatten up and produce more flowers
Loved this video, I have been craving a dragon fruit since ur video of fruit not in stores, when u took a bite of tht big beautiful deep red dragon fruit 👌 also tht parrot was beautiful ty for sharing!!!
If you compare it to apples, Having the branches dip below 0-level induces that branch to produce fruit (and in the case of apples reduces suckers)...You could be into something there bud. Great vid!!
Thanks so much bro :) New to growing & eating DFs & your info is a goldmine :) Health & happiness to you & yours in 23 :)
Your Dragon trees had lots of fruits 🤩👍
The parrots si beautiful,thank you for sharing.
Your dragon fruit looks emaculate man! I love watching all your other videos as well. You have alot of good advice, hand pollination should help and also cross pollination for some varieties.
I had a porch light on one year and my orange tree was blooming like crazy. I was out 5 o'clock in the morning and noticed hummingbird moths having a feast on the flowers. Wonder if it would work on this plant too. The flowers are so bright white that any light would cause a reflection. I had jungle cactus and the flowers were enormous. And so glistening white. An experience I will never forget.
That's a really interesting idea. I wonder how you could use the light to attract insects but then stop them from hanging around the light itself? Also it makes me wonder whether this is the reason so many insects are attracted to light at night...
We are Cambodian and we have heaps of these plants in our backyard
Hey I want to practice about that video of working in a container without drilling holes ,I learnt from u nd I admire it
Hi Mark, great shot of the lorrie!
amazing idea of planting dragon fruits
Wow.. Thanks for sharing on how to grow dragon fruit.
Great Presentation, delivered with enthusiasm. I have four mature stacks in Brisbane, Four flowers blossomed, the bees arrived at 05:30 but the flowers rotted and fell off three days later. I have three fruit on another plant, Fruiting is down. I may have been guilty of overwatering and too much 5 in 1 fertiliser. Or not trimming too many shooters,
Tanks Mark, i grow the Yellow and purple ones from seed we can not buy a plant, only the regular ones. Thay grow verry wel.
2:30 now I see why they call it dragon fruit
eat too much and your butt roars and blasts fire ??
@@Gaark It doesn't half make you shit - that much I know!
I have a huge plant growing up a tree for many years now, and it has been flowering without producing fruits. Maybe it is the 'watering' factor.... In a drought-stricken country like Namibia, it is not easy.
Salome Kruger I don't think is the "watering" issue. I think is the pollinator problem ❤️
THANK YOU FOR VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION :)
THANK YOU FOR SHARING :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
Thanks a lot Mark. I know much more about the plant. But l didn't know that it gives fruit. Dragon fruit ! Very original for a cactus, isn't it.
Loved this video on pitaya however I wish you were able to share with us more on what varieties you had! And the details about them. Are they self-pollinating. What each variety taste like? I’m very interested in the yellow pitaya and the red flesh red fruit inside pitaya! ( very hard to come by )
Excuse me if you've answered this before, but is it possible to grow two different types on the same trellis? For example a yellow variety and a red variety, hoping for increased pollination and space saving? Let me know! Awesome channel by the way, it's inspired me to start a home garden/orchard.
Good video , nice content , thanks for sharing to us such a good informative and experience for gardener , look forward to see more episode
You have a thumbs up from me. Great job on video like the humor keep it up.