In this video I make a post top trellis for my concrete dragon fruit posts. You can learn more about how I made my post top trellises at practicalprima... Visit Practical Primate at practicalprima...
I can suggest you one thing. We can use electricity PVC pipes to use in pieces before welding to cover the iron bars, that can be helpful for healthy branches hanging down. Your design is cost effective and neat clean.
This is very interesting and I love your design. Dragon fruit roots on pvc pipe? Will the roots come off easily? Thank you for your innovative design and also thank you for sharing.
Job well done. But the dragon fruit plants also give out roots on the pipe. Why don't you keep the top open and fill the pipe with some quality manure and soil mix and keep the pipe top open to add any fertiliser if you wish to later on.
If you are pressed for time/budget poor the post in the cheapest PVC pipe available and loose the form work. inside 1 10 mm Re bar. On top while poring the concrete insert 4 Z shaped pieces of Re bar for holding an old motor bike tire to hold the growing Dragon fruit. Filipino way. You can wrap the post with Abaca/Burlap/old Banana leafs so the Dragon can cling easy on the way up
Absolutely. Being winter there isn’t much going on but the Frankie’s red are fruiting, being a hybrid they are opposite season. Good idea for a video thanks :)
@@PraveenPaulKolliyelil I’ll probably do tyres next time or if I did it again, I just didn’t want to at the time (I can’t even remember why). Works great though and had the materials on hand. Thanks for commenting and watching :)
Neelu Singh hi. I am not expert with container dragon fruit but there is a channel called spicy exotics and they grow a bunch of cultivars in containers. Check them out :)
They crop over a long period but I do extend it a lot further still with the different cultivars. Yellows and their hybrids (like Frankies Red) are a different season so help extend when I get fruit :)
Hi Val. The posts are actually concrete. I made them using a 150mm pvc pipe mold so they are approximately 150mm (internal diameter of those pipes). The pvc caps are just called end caps or storm caps here sorry, I imagine those are local/Australian names. If I did it all again I wouldn’t go so big/heavy duty but at least they will last a looooooooong time.
Hi, thank you for the comment! If it happens I’ll redesign, but 150mm pvc pipe as a sleeve over a concrete post and then reinforced in the top with concrete is exceptionally strong. I am confident that they won’t break :)
Hi. Unfortunately not all of these cultivars grow any/many aerial roots. Some cultivars can definitely support themselves but many can’t. Tried and failed so decided to just use them from now on.
