All About Dragon Fruit and How to Grow it From Seed! (Grocery Store Growing Ep.7) 

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I was eating one while watching him like "wth he doin" lol

Hahaha I get that 😂 they have whole channels where people are just eating noisy 😂

You definitely can do that! The only reason I didn’t is because we had issues with ants and gnats in the greenhouses and was trying to reduce the problem with them. I’d say definitely try that method!

in nature the fruit fall to the ground and is eaten or just rots. so ive just cut a slice and put it in some potting soil.

I think it would mold

How are they doing?

I LOVE the seeds haha

The More You Grow : I used your method and it worked!

Gina S so happy to hear it worked for you!! Hope they are doing well!

Do you add any herbs(mint) fruits or veggies to your smoothies for flavor?

Will keep y’all posted! Will also be growing some plants from cuttings that I will show as well! Thanks for watching!

Me too. I'm excited about this.

Yes the pink skin white fruit it bland but still refreshing. The yellow skin white fleshed fruit are sweet as nectar!

Maryam

They really are a life changing thing haha!

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Once they have germinated and sprouted well

I’m living in Mineral de Pozos Mexico. About an hour outside of San Miguel de Allende can I grow dragon fruit in my area?

You still can possibly grow dragon fruit, but you will have to grow it in a fairly good size pot/container as it will not survive temperatures below freezing

Also, white flesh with pink peel, mentioned at 1:35

Definitely kiwi like. I honestly think it’s the little seeds that makes me thing that rather than the taste. I prefer the yellow ones for their sweetness, but I still love the more common pink skinned white flesh ones any day! So refreshing! Thanks for watching!

Woah...woah..woah...that’s not how I cut into mine. 3:40 I cut it longways in half and then both halves in half again and you can easily peel the skin/peel off.

Haha I do it different ways, I do it that way when I just want to peel the whole thing at once

Anyways, great and informational video. Which US state are you in? I’m in Iowa, we only have the pink/white ones here (that I know of)

You are very lucky indeed! They are delicious and usually hard to find here in the mainland states unless you have specialty supermarkets. I have plenty of little yellow dragon fruit plants growing now so hoping one day I’ll be able to grow some tasty yellow dragon fruit myself 😋

hey there I'm here from mexico. I was wondering if there is any way that I can get some seeds of the yellow dragon fruit or plants 'cause here in mexico I coun't find.

When I planted mine in this method just about every seed came up! Good luck to you!

Both are good. My favorite is the yellow one. Its sweeter. Asian markets would have them. I don't see them often.

Gio Bernardino usually between 3-5 years 😁

Elderberry Garden Croatia you’re welcome. Saw you on the Texas boys chat. So do you grow elderberries or is it just part of the name of you’re farm?

Yes, we are growing elderberries! A lots of them! We propagate more at the moment! We love them! We make winter teas, flower juices, jams, berry syrup, raw elderberry juice , vine etc. We have apples, plums,, cherries, black walnuts and hazelnuts, lavender and immortelle, calendula, sage and mint along with our own veggies too! This year hopefully will get chickens! It is a little hard while we live in the city and travel to our off grid homestead several times a week , but that makes us happy! The homestead is near the natural pond at he edge of nature-haritage park full of wild life: ducks, swans, storks, and other birds!

I’ll have plenty of questions for you on elderberries. I am wanting to include them in my forest garden going in next fall. I’ve never grown them so don’t have much experience in elderberries but they are becoming very popular around where I live as elderberry syrup and seems like a good market. What conditions do they prefer? Do you know how they handle dry conditions. Where I live in Texas gets hot in the summer and rain can sometimes be low. I can create moister conditions for them if need be but I’d like for all the plants to need as little inputs as possible and make for hardier plants

I definitely will try that. I love mixing certain things. Like apple sauce and mashed potatoes, but dont mix, dip in one then the other than take a bite. Lol. Yummy

Whoop! 👍

I’m assuming you had the pink skin varieties as many people find them to be bland (I like them!). I always people to try the yellow. They are night and day different. Yellow are like liquid sugar haha. They will grow, but depending on your growing zone you may have to grow them in containers as mentioned. Also you may like to just start with a plant from cuttings if you can’t find the fruit. Much faster to grow and quicker to fruit. I just did mine from see because I just had them available and why not haha. Here’s a great nursery that I buy from often that has red, white, and yellow varieties available. Here’s my favorite alohatropicals.com/product/selenicereus-megalanthus-golden-dragon/

Thanks for watching!

Southern IN, I have Russian pomegranates coming in the spring. Well see I guess.

Buggies World I’m in north central Texas. Mine ended up not doing well because my climate is to arid and not enough humidity for the leaves

Lol thanks! May be small but you could literally say it’ll cut it 😜

It kind if reminds me of kiwi,

What is the flavor and texture like in soups? I make aloft of my own soups and broths and I love trying new things

Daybird Aviaries wow thanks for the link! Will have to check it out! Yeah seed is the slow way of getting started but it works. The faster way of doing it is by cuttings but they will cost a little more but aren’t super expensive either. Just depends on how you prefer. I actually found another grad student who has mature plants that is going to give me cuttings of 4 different kinds! Will do a video for that if I can on how to get them started

They cost alot where I live it's like 6 bucks a pound.. and u never know which color u are going to get till u open them up. I have lots of seeds of you need some to try to grow some

Yes there is one follow up so far ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IA8lMVgyoHQ.html Thanks for watching!

@@TheMoreYouGrow Awesome, thanks! I'll check it out.

Yes would need winter protection Not sure on a yearly basis I guess it would depend but the can put off quite a few if needs are met The red and white flesh varieties would make the blandest wine ever lol the yellow might do better but it wouldn’t be anything to talk about compared to figs and blackberries. The yellow ones are good as sweet interesting tropical snack but I don’t see them making an award winning wine

brix of 25 is common in yellow variety's and they do not ripen once removed from the cactus, i do not think they would make a good wine or liqueur of any sort. however may be a great addition to some popular drinks? also to answer your original question if in the right climate hylocereus cacti may produce 100's of lbs of fruit all year round, all depends on the size of the cacti and conditions.

The white one definitely don’t much flavor. The yellow skinned ones are great. I want to try a paw paw one day. May try to include one in the upcoming forest garden!

The More You Grow Grow some! They’re not called “Custard Apples” for nothing!! You’re totally adorable! Yeah, I’m a mama. 😂

American AsCanBe hahaha well there’s one person out there that thinks so now 😂 everyone that has to deal with me from day to day may disagree with you 😜🤣

American AsCanBe, where do you get paw paw? I want to try it. Also, can you grow paw paw from seed? If so, how?

Haha yeah the why ones don’t have much going for them as far as flavor but they are definitely refreshing as juicy as they are. Yellow is by far sweeter and I like the bigger seeds to give it more crunch!

It should be noted that my reasoning for this is that if the fruit were to naturally drop from the "mother", it would fall to the ground where its flesh would then decay and act as a source of nutrients... what seeds are good will sprout.

Tim Fisher huh.it might be something that could affect your seeds, but I’ve grown red, white, and yellow and they’ve all come up for me in the past and I get them all from from the grocery store

Oh I know too well the monsters these become. We have a few plants but train them to be more tree like (have this in another video). There’s one that grew from seed in the floor of one of the college greenhouses that takes over everything each year. We call it the monster of greenhouse 4 😂

@@TheMoreYouGrow thats awsome id love to see that... im actually in canada so winter ice snow and all but they grow like weeds and hopeing for flowers this year :)

James Layton cuttings are faster if you have access (1-2 years usually) whereas seeds take 3-5 years

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Colleen Rodamer if you have HEB where you live check there. That’s where I found the fruit

I have yellow and red meat ones. they are sweeter than white meat one. Where do you live?

lily li can I get a yellow seed? I live in Idaho, but it's going to live inside for now. ty!

7-10 days if I remember right

Was about the same. I believe it was just around 14 days. Might have been a little longer

Wax paper won’t let light in and hold in the moisture as well unfortunately.

I haven’t gotten fruits yet. They are growing well, but it will take a few years to get fruit so still not quite there yet. About 3-5 years from seed. Thanks for watching!

@@TheMoreYouGrow well I hope I can keep one alive that long.. I am going to grow inside my home winter is what I'm afraid of. I'm from Maryland

Leann Layton I haven’t yet! Will have to try it one day!

The More You Grow I love cacao trees! They grow in the jungle

3-5 depending on your conditions and it’s growing conditions

One good size hole in bottom. Needs to stay moist but needs good drainage so they don’t rot or the soil doesn’t go anaerobic

Ok, Thank You.

Jim Raynor yes I am aware, and you’re right cutting are faster if you have them available 😊 I have some different varieties going by cutting and it is much faster, but wanted to show how they can be started by seed as well. This is a series looking at what fruit people might see in their grocery stores and how plants can be propagated from that fruit. Some are just for fun while some can be productive in time, such as these dragon fruit. Thanks for pointing that out though for those who might rather go with cutting if they have them available or want to order them! Thanks for watching

@@TheMoreYouGrow Cuttings will also be genetically the same to plant it came off of. This can be a good thing, especially if they came from a farm, because it ensures the quality of the fruit. I will say that growing from seed can have its benefits too, because regular dragon fruit flowers can be difficult to pollinate in the USA (different pollinators). A seed grown plant could have flowers that have the stigma much closer to the anthers, which would result in a much greater chance of natural pollination without having to go around and hand pollinating all of them. The color of the fruit should be the same from seed grown plants, though. Something that will always be true to seed is most papayas. If you try growing them, give them lots of organic fertilizer to feed on. Don't give them a small pot either. Papayas also don't need to have their flowers fertilized, which is also good because it can make the fruit be seedless. Some papayas actually have all female flowers, so look for other ones if you come across seedless fruit.

Jim Raynor yeah for sure. That’s why I have some from cuttings so I know why kind of fruit I’m getting, but I have a soft spot for projects like this because I love rolling the genetic dice and the mystery of not knowing what I will get. It’s like risk free gambling 😆 Papayas are definitely on the list for a video. I’ve done papayas before and they grow like crazy, just haven’t done them on video yet. Thanks for the tips!

I remove the plastic once they grow their first true leaf (vine) and I give them full sun if I can after that time

Ok thank you..& how often should they be watered once they sprout but with no vine yet??

@@raebustos5075 it’s not really a schedule. I don’t water at all when the plastic is still on because it usually retains all of its moisture. After removing the plastic I just water often enough to keep it moist but not too wet/soggy

Ok. Lots of help. Thank u

Mine have not produced yet, but they are still not old enough. It takes between 3-5 years for them to produce. So with patience they will produce. Grafting is just a lot faster if you have access to a mature plants.

@@TheMoreYouGrow ok! Good to know. I keep hearing you need a graft etc etc. I will remain patient. Please update when yours do flower! Thanks for the response.

Yes that is the right step

alright, thank you. I appreciate it.

I planted them when after eating it which was 2 weeks ago and they started sprouting around a week ago so it only took a week for me and I had a lott of baby yellow dragon fruits

Plants

Just until the are germinated well. I waited until they got their first node

I'snt need to put under the sunlight or put in the shade..

They will need to come into a garage or inside somewhere where they get some light once the temps starts getting below 50ish degrees to be on the safe side as they are a very much a tropical, but thankfully they grow really well in containers! You can check out the video here on how you can build a trellis for it within a container ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IA8lMVgyoHQ.html

To bad, I threw blankets on my tropicals but we had a mild winter. My garage is going to look like a jungle soon.

Yeah in central Texas you might get away with it if you have a mild winter, but just keep an eye on it if you do lol. Haha! Have you seen all the plants on my porch in other videos. Those all go into my garage in winter. It’s a jungle all winter! I call it the porch forest for a reason haha! 😂

Bago Garde right! It’s faster to do by cutting (which I will talk about later on) but it’s one of this projects I have all the time in the world 😊 thanks for the info and thanks for watch!

Yes they get little hairs growing on them as they sprout

ok. thank you, I just needed to know so I wouldn’t get the wrong idea.

I do that as well at times, but wanted to show this way where you can get every bit of flesh and it was going to make it easier for me to cut thin strips for the way I get the seeds on the pink one. Both ways are good with me as long as I get to eat it 😜 thanks for watching!!

I had plenty of seeds remain on the rind that I dabbled off with toilet tissue and it was easy to get one or two seeds with each piece of toilet tissue. I planted tissue with the seeds. Just another way to skin the same cat.

Sure enough! Yeah there’s always more than one way to get the same results. Why I love doing projects like these is there’s always a different way and an opportunity to learn something new

Not sure where you live, but I find mine from my local grocery store for a month or so each year. If you are in the US there are some nurseries that I know of that sell dragon fruit plants from cuttings, which is a much faster way to get a dragonfruit plant than from seeds. I just did these from seed because I had the fruit available and it did not cost me anything extra. Here is a link to a place where you can buy the plants already grown if you’re interested alohatropicals.com/product/selenicereus-megalanthus-golden-dragon/

I ordered the seeds on Aliexpress about 100 seeds for a quarter dollar!

If you don’t remove it from the flesh you’ll end up with mold issues in your pot and attract fungus gnats which can cause whole other issues. On one hand yes, the flesh could provide some nutrients, but on the other hand it can cause some issues. In nature the fruit would provide primarily moisture to the new seedlings, but we are going to be keeping them plenty moist and they will have plenty of nutrients in the soil we provide. So in this case the flesh will end up causing more problems in our set up than it will provide benefits. Thanks for watching and stay curious, Curious George! 😜😁

The two dragon fruit came from our local HEB, the Grocery Store Growing series looks to show people a few of the things you can grow from grocery store produce. These are very easy to grow! Thanks for watching!

Ok, thanks man.

How long did it take to get fruit from seed?

It’s true. I have plants from both seed and cutting, but wanted to show how it could be done for those with access to the fruit but not cuttings unless they buy them online and this series is about finding things to grow from the grocery store 😁 thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!

@@TheMoreYouGrow I am fortunate enough to have dragon fruit cactus growing wild all over southern Florida. I have black sapota, avacado. sugar apple, sugar bell orange, passion fruit and mango all in the back yard. That is one reason I love living in the tropics

Ray Parker you lucky dog! Lol

You should have planted the stem in the potting mix. The seeds take so much longer than cuttings.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble. I wish I could be there to check out your germination process to see if there was anything I can find to help. The big thing I think with what you have told me is they need warmth but not too hot of temps. Especially putting cling wrap over the top for the humidity will cause temps inside the pot to spike really fast.