5 Tips How to grow a ton of dragon fruit 

Thank you so much. Lots of much needed information for my newest addition to the garden. I was just about ready to remove a huge stump caused by our recent hurricane Irma. Now it can stay and be a wonderful stand for my dragon. Have a wonderful day!

I love putting the white and red varieties together in a fruit salad, makes it look really good.

That little bee was having the time of his life.

Single tip to eat lots of dragon fruit.... Buy a house next to Self Sufficient Me farm.

Thrilled to view your video on dragon fruit because of your five tips and most of all, just a pot and tree trunk will do for growing. No trellis! I hope to find a plant that will give fruit. Thank you for the tips.

What a hoot, awesome video, gave me great ideas for the plant I just bought and I just happen to have an old stump...g-day from Florida...

A few years ago I saw your video. Now I advocate this method

Ingenious!

Thank you so much for this video. But I have to say it did "start something" around here. Now my family wants to plant Dragon Fruit!

Thank you for the video, my aunt and uncle have dragonfruit flowering right now. It's years old and flowered last year but didnt set fruit, hopefully we'll see some this year. Cheers !

I grow it in Thailand 🇹🇭. Easy just like you told me. Thx. 💞💞💞👍✌👌

Great video -cheers from SriLanka

I like the hanging down method thanks.

Hi, I have dragon fruit seedlings (6 months old). And people told me to tie them so they can climb up, but after seeing your video I'm going to untie them and just let them grow down :) Thanks for your interesting video!

Me Likey your technique!!! And thats the rare Colombian/Equadorian yellow dragon fruit to boot!!!

I just planted some seeds from the grocery store fruit. Now I have a solo cup full of little tiny cacti

Hi Mark! Love your videos! Very good explanation and information! Always watching you!! Good luck!

Thank you for great ideas, and well made videos.

I'm pretty recent to discovering you - this video is great and you are great! =) This one is so helpful and I look forward to watching more! A couple years ago I was given a dragon fruit cactus by another gardener. I didn't know what to do with it so I just stuck it in a medium-sized pot along with my aloe plant. It has amazingly survived with quite a bit of neglect, but thanks to your video I am now ready to give it its own pot! We usually mix our own soil at a 1-1-1 ratio of compost, peat moss, and vermiculite. It seems to be pretty well-draining, but I don't know if it's good enough for dragon fruit. Does it sound to you like that would be ok? For some of my other succulents and cacti I have added some sand to the mix, but I don't know much about sand and am uncertain about the quality of sand we have, so I may want to avoid that for a food-producing plant. (We just bought a bag of play-ground sand from a local home-improvement store.) Also, because we have cold winters here in North Texas, in the U.S., and the 12-inch tall by 14-inch wide clay pot I have for the dragon fruit will probably be pretty heavy for moving in and outdoors, I'm thinking of just growing it indoors year-round, sitting on a bar stool as a stand. Do you have any advice about this? I have tropical hibiscus plants that are very happy during winter in a sunny corner (they do better inside in winter than outside in the summer heat!), so I'm hoping it will be ok for the dragon fruit, as well. Thank you again so much for this helpful video! =)

Great idea the place you put your dragon

Great video thanks im getting a dragonfruit.

Wow very good tips sir thanks.

Nice one Mark. Thanks mate.

Hi , I hope you are well. Thanks for the knowledge. Does a blue , green and purple dragon fruit exist? Or they are fictitious? I look forward to hearing from you.

The flower is very similar to a San Pedro flower.

A great video. Do fruit grow again on a stem that has already fruited?

Today i sowed dragon fruit seeds which are extracted from red colored fruit with white pulp inside, I would like to know will it be good if i use clay soil, cause that's the soil i have here?

But how many plants per container ?

so great tips sir

Just recently came across your channel and started watching your videos. I had to subscribe aswell. I have been interested in fruits ever since I was a little kid. Never cared for the "more casual fruits" such as banana or apple. I love exotic fruits. I'm living in Finland, one of the most northern countries so it will be extremely hard for me to grow anything myself I guess. I was able to grow lemons from seeds and had 3 plants 7 years ago though. They grew thin and very tall but later died out. What do you think - Is it impossible for me to be succesful in fruit growing here? I would love to grow dragonfruit in a pot but I only am able to do it indoors. Our summers are shorter (like canadian summer) and the winter and cooler period is significantly longer. I have came across that some fruits come with pests - I have seen stink bugs on citrus and peach trees. Is it a natural occurence? How do I get rid of them? Anyways thanks for these videos and keep up the good work. ☺

Tnx for the video but most concerned now: is how to protect the flower so that it will become a fruit!!!💄😃🍻🍺🎈

Hello, Happy gardener, I am from Tunisia, I have the same plant and its size is almost similar to what you have, blooms once a year and blooms at night, but unfortunately the flower died at sunrise and did not produce any fruit and I do not know why to refrain from producing fruit

Per cutting of dragon fruit, how many kilos of organic fertilizer will be apply?

Awesome video!🌿🪴

new friend your chanel. i plant dragon fruit in Brasil.

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Thank you

I know you said once a week of water in winter and twice in summer but how much should I water each time, like 10-20 seconds of the hose?

Thanks

How to keep the pot falling down? ( support ?when the pot on top like that)

Hello, what about a dragonfruit that has climbed 7 ft up a palm tree? I planted it 6 months ago (3/7/23) it started out 2 ft tall. It didn’t produce any buds! The other 3 planted same day, started out 2ft tall now are about 5 or 6 ft tall and I tipped those 3 so they did put out a bunch of branches maybe 10! But no buds I’ve used fish fertilizer Ty

Is it ice cream inside the plant because that is cool

Thats if you have big trunks... If you don't then second alternative is a musk

Yessssss thanks so much!!!!!!

hello, how high was the tree trunk? thank you

Any idea why my tree would be dropping all the flowers? It is the 3rd year. First year I found it in my driveway after a hurricane here in Florida. Last year transplanted it to a “tree” container and got like 5 flowers and they all dropped. This year I’ve had 100’s of flowers and they all keep dropping. I’ve been trying to pollinate them at night when they bloom but it seems they all end up closing back up and sort of melting away then the whole “bulb or fruit” just falls off. Do I need to pollinate from one flower to another?

I have been growing dragon fruit from seed. I however have no idea what I am doing. Its been slow going. Which is normal from seed from my understanding. This last year it has grown alot. Now though there are roots comming out of it along so many spots. I have no idea what it wants. Its only in a small pot so maybe that's the problem? However it really seams to like the small pot as it's grown a ton lately. See I have no idea. Suggestions would be great.

I have never heard of this fruit, but it looks good and nutricious. How well will it grow in high altitude ereas of South Africa? Great vid mate😉👍

Where can I get a cutting of the yellow variety?

Great video! Thanks a lot for the tips! I have just found you and subscribed to your channel :) Cheers from Pacific Haven, QLD

how many pieces of fruit per year off that one potted plant?

Where can I buy yellow dragon fruit trees

Can you give me any tips on cultivating a sweet Australian accent?

Can I get a seed from you as a gift I want to have one so much

What variety would you recommend for Mojave desert central California?

I have a huge one but it doesn't make fruit. I found it growing in my land and it keeps getting bigger and bigger but sadly no fruit

when i hear "give it plenty of water" followed by "once or twice a week" i get confused. "plenty of water" is like let's water it every day.

Red dragon fruit bigger than yellow. so its not problem with my fruit? tiny - good?

can youplant with seeds??? we cant get cuttings , as we are 8000 miles away

Sooo can i plant it on the ground

woww nice

Dragon fruit in the US is up to a price of $10-$15

What are your 3 color gutters like?

I live in the high desert of the mojave desert in california, your method wouldn't work, but if I move somewhere else I might do it your way -- hanging in a pot.

Random question. Would it be ok to use cactus soil?

wow I just love you😁😍

I need a tree trunk!!!!!!

I might put a couple on my roof

Why have you chosen this variety.... thorny fruit... is it better in taste than the non-thorny ones?

The Steve Irwin of gardening. Love it

I'm not into gardening, hell, I don't even have a garden, but for some reason I like watching your videos. I like your voice, laid-back style. It's always pleasant to see someone nice enjoying what he's doing. Cheers mate!

I found your method last year during quarantine. Ive been struggling for 3 years to get them to trail up and over a pole, never getting flower buds. Proud to announce after using this method i now have a budding plant with ants coming in very interested 🙌🏼 thanks mate, its hard to get an australian video abour dragonfruit, i appreciate your videos alot. Cheers! 🙌🏼

I love the action shot moving around the dragonfruit as if its some kind of rare and dangerous multi-headed snake. Very steve irwinesque hahaha.

Thanks, I have had a very poor excuse for a ‘cactus’ ‘living’ in a tiny donkey planter with out a drainage hole for 30 years!! It was the mother in laws and simply refuses to die, thankfully as I love all sorts of plants. After this extended period it was identified as a Dragon fruit cactus and I’d love to give it some much deserved TLC. I live 100km north of Sydney and this little cactus lives in a micro climate, so it’s time to act, let’s see if it can respond. Thanks again.

First time seeing a yellow one 👀. I always treat myself to the red ones and yes they are pricey. One can set you back about $6 these days.

I had a piece of Dragon fruit while at work so I looked up how to grow it and came to this video. This video was so entertaining and made me laugh ....thanks for changing a dull day at work to a bit of fun!!!

This Man is the next great Australian icon

Lmao this guy is the Steve Erwin of Dragon fruit and plants

I am planting dragon fruit in some 9 inch hanging baskets and will eventually plant the in a larger container once they need more room. I grew these from send and know I don’t really know that I’m getting, but my question is should I just plant one per container or would it be ok to plant 2 per container? Thanks!

Love dragon fruit spent some time growing up on a nursery with a large dragon fruit plantation. Interesting you chose to grow the least common yellow spiny ones. I personally prefer the red flesh one they grow big and don't have spines

Nice one Mark. My red Dragon fruit do well here, but the yellows flower but I never get a dingle fruit. Pretty sure they fruit, but then fall off.

Had my first yellow dragon fruit today - DEEEELICIOUS!!! Oddly enough I had tried the red one a while back for the first time, and it was tasteless, so what a surprise when I tried the yellow one. Thanks for the tips, as at $5 US per fruit, somewhat out of my budget and will have to grow my own. Cheers!

Give this guy a TV show! Better content than most mainstream. Keep up the great videos. Be well

great video. I never thought dragon fruit would grow out of a pot like that. and fruit.

Thanks Mark. Your video has really helped me as I've just recently planted some dragon fruit and was in the dark until now. I'm now an avid fan of your channel and subscriber. Now I'm going to venture into more self sufficient gardening thanks to you. Cheers mate. Keep up the great work

Thanks for this video, the timing couldn't have been better! I was gifted with 12 cuttings from mature well producing plants, 3 types (yellow, red/red, and purple outside red inside). Now I know how to plant them properly.

For those who haven't tried yellow dragon fruit, it's like a vanilla watermelon. The texture and sweetness of watermelon but the flavor is sugar and vanilla. It's really good.

I don't know why but I'm getting some wild kratz vibe. Great info By the way.

I think the hanging-down method makes a prettier dragon fruit plant. It reminds me a little of Christmas cactus or epiphyllums. Thanks for this informative video! I’ve never eaten fresh dragon fruit, just some mediocre dried fruit from the Trader Joe’s store. However, my son says the fresh fruit is delicious. Many of my Southern California neighbors are growing dragon fruit in their front yards/gardens. I suppose our climate is good!

I want to live with someone like you for a year so I can learn everything.

Great video, thanks for sharing. I purchased a dragon fruit plant about a year ago and it’s on my patio. I’m going to move it outside and use your method.

+Self_Sufficent_Me Hey, I was wondering how well hanging pots work for this method?

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Love your videos and thank you for posting. What varieties do you recommend that are self-pollinating

OWCH! Poor right arm. So loving the Dragon Fruit info. This family must have thEE best EVER health.

Wow! I'm amazed with ur dragon fruit. New subscriber here. I have 3 month- old dragon fruit and it just started to sprout more stems or shoots. I will follow you tips. Thank you!

Great video. One question, how many plants do you have in the one pot? Thanks

Interesting ! We will try this :-)

I like your video & thanks for sharing :)

Love watching your channel out here in California. Useful tips!