I also get 36” long cuttings from Alik at Shulman Dragon fruit that way once they root I can transplant into my trellis pots and I also bought 2 led fixtures to keep mine growing all winter. My cuttings I bought 25 -3gal clear pots and filled them with cuttings and trying to get them to 36” before moving into bigger pots. I use tubtrugs biggest pot it 20gallon and use the deck concrete post footing which eats up a lot of root room 🤔I may upgrade to 40g pots going forward
Give your top branches a chance to continue growing up, they will bend over by themselves and will branch out new branches. on your new branches, If you let them grow over 13 inches or more you can twist and bend at the base to train them the way you want them to grow on your trellis. Good luck.
Take all lower growth off, esp that huge sucker it’s sapping all the energy at the bottom, & slowing the top unless your growing for cuttings ? Once I see it’s not a bud it comes off, I’m in it for fruit, once mine top the trellis I grow out 3to 4 branches then I let it go wild and branch off the ones falling down, mine get about 12-20” then slow and fatten up and that usually signals top sprout nodes at the horizontal parts of my branch and I let them go up and then pull them over. Glad you over come the slug, they r looking much better 😊
