Just a tip for anyone using hydrogen peroxide, the bottle needs to be stored in a dark bottle; hence why the original hydrogen peroxide bottle is dark! If sunlight reaches the mixture spray bottle of H20 + hydrogen peroxide, it is not effective because the chemical is broken down. I suggest using duct tape to cover the spray bottle.
My first dragon fruit was bought in ignorance and treated as a tough cactus. I had it for 25 years in a tiny shallow pot. I realised what it was after it fruited. It now has 20 babies from cuttings taken when I finally repotted. Let's see how it goes now it ( they) has been properly potted.
I. bought one from a lady who has been growing one for a long time and grows and sells like 6-8 varieties. She said get rid of most of the side shoots because you want all of the energy to be going to fruit, not just a big plant. All of those cuttings can be rooted and you'll have a bunch more plants or you can sell them and they fruit much faster than starting one from seed.@@MarkinDelray
If I may also give a tip… Do not use a dark pot when planting your outdoor plants. I know it looks sleek and cool, but dark colors soak up the heat and will cook your root system.
@@votecrowewould it work for a dark Maroon pot? If I spray painted white lines down the side would that be enough or should I spray paint the whole thing?(haven't put the plant in this pot... Yet)
At 6:52 the bluebird makes his appearance. Love these videos. I just started growing dragonfruit. Have a few cuttings and they are rooting now. My husband has to build me some trellises and I’ll show him your how to build the trellis video when he does. Thanks!
Thank you all your information. I harvested my first 2 dragon fruits this morning. I think I picked them at the perfect time. They were white with seeds, and pretty sweet. They were so easy to cut to get ready to eat. I can't wait to grow more varieties.
For those using hydrogen peroxide, just as a viewer, I highly highly suggest, using a blackout bottle or the darker the better… the hydrogen peroxide will dissolute with introduction to sunlight. Hydrogen peroxide is only a water and air with the molecules rearranged… 🥰 love this video! I have watched a lot of your micro green and herb growing videos. I didn’t know you had this large of a library on cacti, including my favorite Dragon Fruit!!! Thank you for what you do! And if you ever need an assistant in any way videography, helping with plants, spreading your love of plants and your ideas to others. Let me know! I have some knowledge, but I am an avid lover of plants and a quick learner! I’m sure you get a lot of that so I apologize if I have only added to the noise… but truly thank you for what you do, and the help you provide others in their growing endeavors!
Best potting mix I've ever used 35% peat moss 30% pumice 20% perlite 10% sand 5% biochar. Peat moss is extremely slow decomposing which lasts much longer. This soil mix helps prevent root rot Growing plants in compost is not natural the biggest jungles in the world are grown in sand. Sand is made up of quarts which is silica and oxygen roots need oxygen. This soil mix comes from a NASA botanist and he said for thousands of years people used pure sand as potting soil but is to heavy which is why mixing perlite and pumice is added. it really does work extremely great for me especially in Florida were it rains every day in the summer yet none of my plants get root rot, I've even had green alge grow on the soil yet no root rot.
Super important to mention that hydrogen peroxide should be fresh/new. Once a bottle is opened and air is introduced, the oxygen in the air will combine with the hydrogen peroxide and turn into plain water over time.
Your cracking me up...'oh look at that little bird' - reminds me of what I sound like when I am talking to someone. Are you sure your not an engineer?! haha
Hi Kevin, what a great video. I went by a house that has a beautiful garden of different Dragon Fruit plants, and I stopped to admire it. The person was so nice and gave me a piece of each one of them. I don't have much space, so, for the moment, I planted them all in one same pot. They have grown bigger and beautiful. I wanted to know if I can make a Dragon Fruit garden on the roof of my house, and separate each plant, putting them each in their own pot. Thanks for your help 😊
Your videos have helped a lot on me growing mine through the summer. Now it's winter and learned my Purple Haze and Dark Star is semi frost hardy and so far can withstand 39° 37°
Got a foot cutting from my uncle late last year and place it in a pot with similar setup as yours and now about 5 feet in height and starting to branch out
I have one about two years old; but it’s getting leggy and i don’t want to destroy the plant. Thank you for helping !!!! I knew i needed a wood support that is LONG and flat ! thanks again !!!
Thank you ever so much for sharing your information. I have been wanting to grow this beautiful cactus. My favorite is the yellow because it sweeter. But the beauty of the red is stunning. Happy growing!
Bought my first dragonfruit plant today! I noticed it had these little copper dots in it so am really grateful to have come across your video. Going to try to hydrogen peroxide mix and give it a spray, thanks!
I was gifted two dragon fruit cuttings (one rooted, one not) last night to grow in my all glass heated sunroom (I'm in WI). So excited to get them potted up.
I just got a small dragon fruit plant for the first time. I found your videos while researching how to care for them. I live in Ohio (zone 6a) people say you can grow them here but with Ohio’s winters you should probably keep them indoors or in a winter greenhouse…. The thing is though…. After seeing your videos I’m not sure if I have one cactus or a bunch of little ones in one small pot.
Dragonfruit! Mine just started picking up pace and will hopefully produce soon! What’s your best tip to get them to produce more! They are in my greenhouse. Congrats on 1mil!!!!! U so deserve it!
Almost 90 million people watched your video!? That means you guys are great gardeners. I bought a dragon fruit plant and I think is a highly demanding plant, I’m gonna give it away, I don’t know carpentry to create all those wood casitas for Mrs dragon fruit
Thanks for this! About to plant my first set of cuttings! I was letting them root in smaller containers in a protected area through the fall/winter. Excited to get them in my pot!
I would recommend buying a moon cactus or any rooted DF and grafting ur seedling onto it. Theres not much point waiting 5 years but if you have the patience then go for it
I started some from seeds probably around the same time as you, yes mine are thin little things, about 6 inches high. I am in Wisconsin but am planning on keeping it inside year round. We will see how it goes :)
@@epicgardening Unfortunately the cup I had the seedlings in was knocked down and the end of one of the seedlings broke off. Now it has a small thin offshoot growing out the top. Will this hurt the stability of my plant?
Copper is technically organic. It even says so on the bottle that he held up. But not everything labeled "organic" (such as copper) is benign, and vice versa. This would be a good topic to cover, although controversial due to so much misinformation out there.
Yes. And the "Organicide" also contains chemicals. Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical. Water is a chemical. So odd to me, as a chemist, when people think "Ooo, chemical bad!" when everything is made of chemicals, whether they're organic or inorganic chemicals is another story and is meaningless in terms of safety. Cyanide is an organic chemical and it certainly isn't safe. Table salt is inorganic and we'd die without it. Ugh...
@@hilaryandrew9817 well, copper is a heavy metal, so I wouldn’t drink the stuff. The SDS says the active ingredient is copper octanoate at moderate concentration. There’s probably a little acid in the water to aid in solubility, but that shouldn’t be of concern. The copper octanoate will break down to elemental copper and octanoate acid. The acid is organic and will breakdown through biological processes, exposure to light or atmospheric oxygen. I’d be mildly concerned about overuse near soils because copper buildup in soil could inhibit plant growth, but the application demonstrated here is benign. Wear gloves and follow the directions on the bottle and you’re ok, methinks.
I live in South Africa, Eastern Cape, about 8kms from the sea,with winter rains and very hot summers, and we often have very bad water shortages. When I moved into a little cottage on the farm, I noticed these huge untidy cactus plants growing wild in the bush, with the most beautiful big flowers, not knowing they were dragon fruit. I have not seen any fruit on them in the 3 yrs I have lived here (the garden is not well looked after and we do have a lot of naughty monkeys) but could this be due to neglect, or bad soil and erratic water conditions or is there a wild species that doesn't bear fruit? Can I love this plant back to fruiting? I love your videos by the way !
The biggest mistake I ever made was leaving it alone with my dad. He planted it in my rabbit habitat and....they ate it. :| (they usually help me with weeding and propagating, my desert roses have never been better)
Bonide makes 2 lines of products as far as I am aware. Their products with the brown upper right corner are organic while the products with the purple upper right corner are synthetics. Copper Based Fungicide is a safe option for treatment, as is using an undiluted 3% H2O2 spray. :)
Thanks for these tips! I grew some dragon fruit plants from seed and while they're still tiny, I want to ensure I give them the best possible chance at growing well. I really like your trellis design. How long does the wooden post last before starting to rot away inside the pot? What do you do with the plants after that happens?
Thank you for the tips, were in Hawaii and they grow easily, but created pots for them using your suggestions and have produced random fruit in the past... excited to see a full crop!
Love your videos! Since I definitely don’t have the space for all the different varieties, what variety did you think had the most complex flavor? I saw your taste test video and they all look pretty cool.
You are lucky that you live in an area where you can grow these outdoors all year round this way. I wonder, is it possible to grow it this way, bring outdoors, but move back indoors once it becomes too cold outdoors. Thoughts? I'd probably have to move to the garage in the winter and keep it heated.
If possible always put same varieties in one pot or closely related variety to prevent root competition, not all the time but you might losing the less vigor variety.
You definitely need to try Asunta 2 its my favorite and definitely worth growing. The fruit can be small but you cant go wrong with it. Kim Phan has a RU-vid channel and has one of the best setups Ive seen in real life and close to the San Diego area.
For problem number two, “overwatering”, you can use Trichoderma. A healthy colony of Trichoderma sp. I live in tropical area, non-commercially planting dragonfruit directly on the ground along with other tropical plant, and I usually water them twice a day. Which means the soil of my dragonfruit plant will *always* be moist all day long. I had learned a painful mistake from my first dragonfruit, and knowing Trichoderma can deal with most fungi, now I just regularly sprinkle some Trichoderma spore mixed with pond water once a week. Never had any root rot ever since then. Hope it might helps 😊 -edit: Forgot to mention this, but _be careful of termite_ . If, somehow, the bottommost part of the main stem becomes unhealthy and turns brown, those termites will happily gobble them along with the root system.
A neighbor has a fruiting dragon fruit hanging over the wall on our route to school each morning. I never would have know what it was but for your Instagram fun last year when you had your baby and then ate it. 🤣 now i need to find a spot in my garden to grow one!!!
@@davelawson2564 thanks for the info. I think many people worry about impact of 'chemicals' on the environment and their health, but unless you're using a product that has explicit warnings on them they should be safe. If used sparingly and according to the packaging of course.
Tar the bottom of the post before putting into the dirt. Over time the post will rot and fall over. Dragon fruit can still fruit for 2-3 decades if taken care of properly. Including the trellis. Weatherize the trellis.
Even though this isn't something I can grow in my area, I watched and found this very interesting! Also, congratulations on making the 1M mark in subscribers! Greetings from Michigan! 😊
This year I’m gonna try it again, red fleshed variety. Again from seed, since I don’t want to spend like 50 euros or more on just shipping. Since they are not grown over here close in the Netherlands
@@lazwalks3823 might be easier and take a lot longer but it is different, seeing the plant pop up from its seed, seeing it grow up etc. It makes you connect more to the plant. Plus i not only grow for produce, I love it grow for the experience and the plants By the way, they just germinated a few days ago. The first one shedded it seed off of its germination leaves today
Very nice video about how to deal with dragon fruit plants but I am not agree about mistake no 2, Generally speaking dragon fruit is a tropical plants that mean they can survive even though in heavy rain. Yes that true dragon fruit is cactus family but this types of cactus grow well in heavy rain countries. Seem that your soil is more drainage and porous so no problem if you water more. Unlike in tropical climate countries. Especially in the Western countries, summer season are very very hot (I think?). So watering more for your dragon fruit is recommended. By the way I love watching your video.
Thanks for these tips. I have a couple of cuttings I plopped in the ground thinking hey, I live in the subtropics, it will be fine. Well, I’m going to be potting them soon.
Does dragon fruit have to be grown upwards and then downwards in order for them to fruit? Or can they just be grown along the ground to a certain length to fruit? Basically, is it about being grown to certain lengths, or do you have to have those types of contraptions where it grows up then dangles in order to fruit?
I think they just prefer to trail up. Plus, at least for my little baby dragonfruit, their skin is super thin, so I could see them just rotting on the ground in wetter environments like mine (WA)
I live in north Texas and want to plant a dragonfruit, but we get winters on occasion down to 10-20F. Can I still plant one for the long term, and how can I protect it in winter, if necessary?
If a 20 gallon pot can support 4 dragon fruit vines, does that mean I can get away with using a 5 gallon pot for a single vine? Growing on an apartment balcony with limited space.
Consider the conditions you're growing it in. Mine (pink dragonfruit from supermarket) is 9 months old and almost 12". I'm not doing anything special, just full sun and good drainage soil/sand mix, occasional general purpose fertilizer.
I mean, I live in dubai so I don't think I have less sun I have to protect plants from light or they suffer from sun damage but that you so much I will try to put it in more sun light 🙂
Hi !! I have been watching your videos on here quite often as they come up for many of the different questions or curiosities I have searched. I started dabbling in the gardening a few years ago and have been interested in learning to grow a wide variety of things and this 1 of dragonfruit has me seriously thinking of taking on that adventure challange lol. I started off by growing chili peppers , tomatoes & every kind of sunflower that exists and then I quickly became bored with that and needed more of a challange so I started propagating Roses by cuttings growing different types of palm trees from seed. I do have a few 2 foot tall Queen Palms that I have grown from seed and I now have a collection of succulants Ive propagated from other arrtactive or interesting succulants I have come across , I have many baby cacti I have been raising from seed and this is my second year growing cannabis in my closet with a growlight. I was just watching your video on grow lights yesterdqy and was so sad I didnt get a chance to try to win 1 of your awesome grow lights. Im not even 1 who uses cannabis personally , Im just fascinated by the many different strains and growing it. You really have me intrigued by those dragonfruit trees. What is it about the plant that has made it 1 of your favorites to grow?
I have had a couple dragon fruit plants I have started from seed in my backyard in the ground and growing along my chain link fence. The plants are ten years old and there has never been any sign of blossoms. What can I do to convince them they need to produce fruit. We are located in a warm sunny environment with plenty of rain. The weather is almost always good for the plants.
Kevin! Those are awesome lights between your dragonfruit containers! What brand are they and where can I get some for myself? As always, stellar vid. I always learn a great deal from watching so thanks so much for sharing :-)
I have been gifted a big pot filled with dragon fruit babies and I have never had a Dragon fruit plant let alone Enough for a Field of dragon fruit plants is There any time of the year thats better for repotting these sweet babies
I just discovered that the two little cactus that are growing...are Dragon Fruit! Perfect timing to prevent me from killing them!! My problem will be I'm in Southern Ohio so it looks like I'll have to have a mobile pot I can move them inside during winter.
So I've got 2 cuttings that I just got a month ago and I'm growing them separately in smaller pots. I'm in Missouri and I read that the cactus can get too much sun in the summer time here if it's over 80 degrees Fahrenheit so I've been giving it sun during the morning and then putting it in my shed in front of the window. One of the cuttings is really starting to bend and it's only about 8 inches. Both the cuttings have what looks like cactus rust but it's not really orange but there's a lot of dead looking spots on the cuttings. Anyone have tips? I water them every 3 days, less than an inch each.
I got a dragonfruit plant about a year ago. I never put a trellis or a pole for it to climb up on. Its taking over the ground, looks pretty funky. Ik i gotta cut it up but its gonna hurt lol
i have 6 pots and some in a seed starter pots i got off your website love them and my lil bro stood on he was about 260lbs at the time maybe more then that mine are doing really good but they are small like my pinky finger in width but growing fast in length
Many thanks for sharing. I give my dragon plant rice water and potato peels as composting. To make them happy. Rice water is good for blooming. Can you tell me more about the yellow dragon plant mine has very thin branches.
Okay so I've been growing my little dragon from their seeds in soda bottles to simulate a greenhouse they are doing great they have started to sprout out the center little cactus my question is when do I take the lids off to allow them to have open-air.
I live in Portugal, zone 10B, and my DFs grow slow. And now they have been suffering from the freezing nights. I wrapped them in bubble wrap, but I was a week too late. I hope they can recover
