A lot of small marsupials should pollinate them.. when I lived in gatlinburg tennessee (USA), feral released sugar glider colonies (living with our native flying squirrel rodents at times (others in winter shallot cabins), fed on evening night and morning blooming flowers, besides eating out of hummingbird and butterfly and bee feeders/ hives, besides hunting lil birds lizards insects etc. My uncle and I loved feeding them, because he had a baby that became aggressive when matured, so one day he just opened the screen window to let it with others, but it kept bringing a female especially back and some others, and they nested in his cage, babies nested in its old playground on porch. Story to show how got them tame by handling and feeding them, but get one alone and they'd freak out, but twenty something or more of different groups, and they'd get bold, and we worked on chalets, so how noticed they were everywhere eventually, as I think they followed insects lizards etc that overwintered in the secluded buildings, feeding on them and etc provided by tourists. They loved his cacti! Its weird how many aussie animals and plants at home there. I love those apple cacti,and hope to get some cuttings and or fruit eventually, as I have a graft dragon fruit little piece I nursed back to health for over year or two or more now getting halfway decent pieces growing sort of on (it try flowering, but inlaws cat ate the bud), and a store bought fruit that leftover seeds germinated in days before Id decided to toss on compost or plant and are now growing good. You should plant a similar cutting, in size of two new ones, from your parents large cacti, planting it in between it and them, for comparison, and a couple dragon fruit vines up that large one.
I keep hearing that if you keep them in a pot and get them root bound first they will flower and fruit a year or two earlier than setting them straight in the ground. I got some improved varieties from a collector and he said he could get them to fruit in a year from a cutting in pots. I’m not sure how true that is, but I’ll find out. Any update to this?
JESHURUN SOUNDS as far as I know just two separate cultivars/individuals with an overlapping flowering period. They have to be genetically dissimilar (ie not cuttings from the same plant).
A lot of small marsupials should pollinate them.. when I lived in gatlinburg tennessee (USA), feral released sugar glider colonies (living with our native flying squirrel rodents at times (others in winter shallot cabins), fed on evening night and morning blooming flowers, besides eating out of hummingbird and butterfly and bee feeders/ hives, besides hunting lil birds lizards insects etc. My uncle and I loved feeding them, because he had a baby that became aggressive when matured, so one day he just opened the screen window to let it with others, but it kept bringing a female especially back and some others, and they nested in his cage, babies nested in its old playground on porch. Story to show how got them tame by handling and feeding them, but get one alone and they'd freak out, but twenty something or more of different groups, and they'd get bold, and we worked on chalets, so how noticed they were everywhere eventually, as I think they followed insects lizards etc that overwintered in the secluded buildings, feeding on them and etc provided by tourists. They loved his cacti! Its weird how many aussie animals and plants at home there. I love those apple cacti,and hope to get some cuttings and or fruit eventually, as I have a graft dragon fruit little piece I nursed back to health for over year or two or more now getting halfway decent pieces growing sort of on (it try flowering, but inlaws cat ate the bud), and a store bought fruit that leftover seeds germinated in days before Id decided to toss on compost or plant and are now growing good. You should plant a similar cutting, in size of two new ones, from your parents large cacti, planting it in between it and them, for comparison, and a couple dragon fruit vines up that large one.
Thanks for sharing :) yes the sugar gliders are native here so maybe they will do the job! Good luck with your dragon fruit, keep that cat away haha.
nice how are they getting on now.!?
I keep hearing that if you keep them in a pot and get them root bound first they will flower and fruit a year or two earlier than setting them straight in the ground. I got some improved varieties from a collector and he said he could get them to fruit in a year from a cutting in pots. I’m not sure how true that is, but I’ll find out. Any update to this?
Hi, please let me know how it goes! These are growing well but haven’t flowered yet.
How are they getting on?
Growing great but no flowering yet. Fingers crossed!
nice video, what kind of two differnt of these do u need? i have one peruvian apple cactus
JESHURUN SOUNDS as far as I know just two separate cultivars/individuals with an overlapping flowering period. They have to be genetically dissimilar (ie not cuttings from the same plant).
@@PracticalPrimate ty very much i just bought a monstrose
to go with it