How To Grow Dragon Fruit From Seeds 

Dragon fruit cacti is a vining type of cacti, so you are definitely correct in supporting them! They also like having moist soil, so nice job figuring that out from just experimenting! They do take 5-7 years to produce fruit though, and the fruit comes from the end of the cacti.

Dragon fruit are very interesting with how they’re shaped. Growing cacti from seed is definitely a fun project!

How are your dragon fruit plants doing? Would love to see an update.

I started two pots from cuttings earlier this year, they grow fast. It’s a tropical cactus so I water mine a lot. No problems yet. Easy to grow.

I love it, that you take the time to show the whole process. Thanks for your effort :)

They’re so cute! I wanna try this tomorrow since I just bought a dragon fruit, it’d be fun to gift these to people in the plant community who live near me 💚 thanks for the video!

They are a vining cacti and will get taller than you and bigger than you if you allow them to do so. They will need support or you can put them by a tree or structure of some kind and they will take to it. The roots are air roots and the plant uses them to grab onto whatever it is they want to vine up on. It can take a year or several years to bear fruit.

It was amazing to see the sprouts sprout like baby cactus by germinating dragon fruits. In particular, seeing that the seeds that were ground with blend are germinated, I think the vitality of plants is really great. 🌿

I just started to try and grow them. So right now they are germinating. I'm excited to try and grow them. I got 1 catus & 1 succulent that I've frown from seed so this is my next project. Thank-You for all the information on growing them.

Wow, they're growing so well and beautiful 🍃🍃🌿

Out of curiosity I tried growing some dragon fruit as I had a fruit that was pretty overripe. I used the sieve method and left the seeds on kitchen roll overnight to dry out a little intending to plant some and store the others only to find the little buggers were all sprouting by the morning (as I said the fruit was a little overripe) and already penetrating the kitchen paper so I took the whole thing and laid it on a tray of compost gave it a light covering and I think every one of them sprouted I couldn't see the soil for the number of seedlings there were after a few days, my next surprise came when I was transplanting some of them as they had what I thought was a very poor rooting system, but judging by yours which are far more advanced than mine I could see the same week rooting system (no offence intended, its the plants not your gardening expertise) I ended up transferring them in little clumps just to give them some room to grow and so far they seem to be doing fine, no die back or rot, so we'll see what happens a few weeks down the line. One other thing I did notice about them was that they had a kind of jell coating around them not unlike a fresh tomato seed, presumably for protection and/or nourishment when they sprout. Anyway thanks for the vid it was extremely enlightening and helpful.

I love this this is a great video to watch on a weekend from school keep these educational videos up!😊

That was truly awesome!! I am definitely going to be growing some, along with prickly pear cacti.

I was so excited seeing these grow!

12 month update: The cactuses are 14 feet tall and have busted out of the basement. SEND HELP

I work in the produce market. We should be getting dragon fruit in soon. Beautiful!!!!!! Thank you for your experiments!

Loved this! Loved seeing the process!

Excelente informação / good information, thanks.

Love your experiments. Thank you

Definitely going to try this one!! Wish me luck! Great video btw.😁

After watching this video, got excited and wanna give a try! Thanks for sharing ❤️

I bought a pot of dragon fruit seedlings from my local big box hardware store. There were between 40 and 50 plants in this 10 cm pot! I divided them up into forestry tubes, growing in river sand for a while, to make them hardier, and the trays of tubes are sitting in an inch of water, inside a clear plastic storage container, with the lid on. This storage container is sitting outside on a south-east facing wall (I am in Australia), so hopefully that will be the right balance of light and shade (I don't want them to cook...). It's heading into Winter here, so if it gets too cold, I can either bring them inside or put them in a warmer outside location. I am hoping that by Springtime, they will be big enough to transplant into "big girl pots", then maybe next year to their permanent locations. Thank you for this video, I think that next time, I'll just buy a dragon fruit, wash the seeds and plant them out, myself.

I started some dragon fruit seedlings a couple of months ago. I manually plucked out the seeds the a tip of a knife while I ate the fruit. I planted them into soil and they sprouted fast but the growth stunted and should be much bigger than what they are in my opinion. I'm going to try transplanting them and hope it helps!

i need an update of this!

Amazing 🍫🍫 Thank you so much for your informative video. Awesome presentation 👍 Full of knowledge Great job brother 👌

That was awesome! And you’re one of the only people I don’t put on 1.25 speed

This means that the pulp actually prohibits germination. So it is essential to rinse the seeds before planting but also to be careful not to damage the seeds. Thank you for this test. This will help me when I plant my own dragon fruit seeds.

Thank you. I bought the fruit and is prepared to try the seeds

Great information well presented

I really enjoyed this. I just ordered some dragon fruit. I can’t wait until next week

Great success I will give this a try. I have two of them already I really like this plant very easy care.Happy growing and stay safe.

I loved it. Thanks

Would love to see an update of these, great video!

Wow....never would have thought to do this!

My daughter got me on for my birthday so now I’am trying to find out how to take care of it. Thank you

Thank you very much.. I live in South Africa Roodepoort. I bought a fruit yesterday and we ate it this morning. I extracted some seeds and will start working with them tomorrow. Fantastic seeing you growing them. Great video.

Omg this is cool!. My local grocery has dragon fruit on sale. Im going to buy 1 today and try this! Ive always wanted a cactus LOL

Oh my god, they are so cute those baby cactus

🤗 love your videos! This is inspiring me to start my own instead of buying expensive cuttings!

Wow! How Fun! I love how they look in the clumps. It would look really cool If they were in a big round shallow bowl.

Great, interesting video. Thank you!

This was inspiring I am going to try this .

sounds really cool,i want to try it out too.

The video is once again great! I like that you always compare several methods for something like this. Maybe I also try me times at the dragon fruit for a time lapse :)

Kind of videos that i like, thank you.

Nice, these turned out awesome. It's crazy how many cool-looking plants you can grow from common supermarket items. I want to try it with sweet potatoes cause I've seen people grow really long vines on their windowsill by suspending a sweet potato in water

just bought a dragon fruit and i’m going to do the strainer method today. i also bought a dragon fruit cutting off etsy that arrives today. i’m so excited! thank you for these videos.

Great video...please keep us updated!

I started growing dragon fruit from some cuttings I was gifted. Now I have to try from seed. Cool this worked out so well. How old is this vid, can we get an update!? Also, what are you fave lights for growing indoors? Looking for something to supplement the poor indoor lighting at my place.

Finally a new video!! Could you do an update/tour video of all the plants please?

I just planted my Dragonfruit seeds tfs

Your seeds always grow so much faster than mine I'm jealous of your lighting setup 😭😭

Lovely cacti!

Cool stuff! Thanks!

we sprouted our seeds by simply putting little chhunks on the soil, covered with soil, watered and then covered with a lid.sprouted in just a few days it seemed like.we have a lot of them now.they sprouted wonderfully.

I used the strainer method and minor beautiful like really thick and gorgeous🎉❤❤😊

This was very cool to see, really contemplating trying the same thing. I wonder if you can let them twist around a wood stick when they grow...? Would be cool to have a helix/spiral shape.

Heya, the PULP really helps the seeds stay moist and should go in the ground with them IMO, same with most other fruits, tomatoes are another example. Just think about how they fall and the fruit breaks down around the seed. 100s of fruits just need to be opened and buried. Keep the fruit pulp / insides around the seeds ❤

I’m about to plant up all the seeds from one dragonfruit, which is way more than I could ever need but I just can’t help myself. 🌱 I’m so excited to grow these 👍

Thank you so much... 🙏

Do you have any recommendations for a grow light that I could clamp on my desk for this? I wasn't sure what kind I would need for a singular lamp.

All I did is plant half of a rooting dragonfruit that I had. Few months didn’t spout. I mixed the soil up then they spouted. They are not that big tho but I’m happy. Maybe I need to transplant

Love your video

this is so cool!

great vid. I watched it while cleaning some seeds. dragon fruit is an epiphyte and grows in rock crevices vigorously climbing hill faces. that is why it makes those adventitious roots. it is a cactus, but it is also from tropical and subtropical rainforest climates so it can drink a lot of water. I've grown them from cuttings before, literally the easiest plant in the world to root and grow. excited for the babies, but I do not believe the fruit is true to seed. looking forward to finding out and also practicing grafting.

I'd bet that the slice was behind was because of the fruit. Like with tomatoes and a few other seeds the flesh keeps them from sprouting inside the fruit thats why the seeds that were strained from the flesh did so much better but once the slice rotted the seeds took off. I just picked up a yellow dragon fruit from trader joe and im totally going grow them as I bought a bigger plant that a friend grows from seed like yours. The white fleshed red outside one. She planted them last year and during the summer mine got huge! They do grow fast for a cactus. But I had not read up on it yet and one whole side of mine is drooping downwards. Ive also made 2 cuttings from it for family and its rooting and growing really good too. Can't wait to see more.

Nice. Can u do an update on the dragonfruit

So how close should they be planted together, and when it's time when should I trans-plant it?

Very cool

I simply used a tapered wood toothpick to collect seeds. Fast, easy, no mess. Paper towel germination was nearly 100%

Omg I need to go get me a dragon fruit asap🤩🤩🤩

Love the video! I would have never thought to grow a cactus from seed like that. How's the Waterbox 6 aquarium? Are you still using it at all?

When I’ve been growing I usually just plant the small one directly into a bucket to spare replanting all the time, because they will grow fast and get really big

Dragon fruit (Selenicereus undatus) are epiphytes, they love to climb and sprawl. I grow them like cattleya orchids (airy orchid bark, bright light + high humidity and warm temps) and they grow and flower incredibly, they're weed like for me and i regularly have to cut them back.

This is awesome! Any updates??🌱❤️🙏

Woah. Amazing :o

what kind of grow lights you using

Thanks !

Did you have these on a heat mat, or just using ambient room temperature?

Great video! What did you use to get those macro shots?

If I start growing seeds this week, and want to move house in 2 years, can I move a mature plant, or would I have to disguard it, and start again at the new house?

Great video! I’m growing some now and have had great germination. I also used a strainer. How long did you have your grow lights set to cycle on for? Also at what point did you remove the humidity dome?

I did the same, I also grew them from seeds and they have been growing in a pot for more than 40 days but their growth stopped; They sprouted but have not developed thorns. I think my mistake was leaving them in direct sun for 3 days, but hydrating them only with water in a pot with substrate, not so drained. Any recommendation? Did you take yours out into the sun? 😢😢😢

As a tropical, vining cactus what you experienced with the aerial roots and need for moisture is to be expected. Though they are cacti, these are *not* desert plants and do need a good amount of moisture. For fruit production they are typically planted 4 in a 10-20gallon pot. A central 4x4 post is topped with an open box trellis made of 2x4s. The desired growth habit with this setup is an unbranched single stem on each side of the 4x4 with a branching canopy draping over the 2x4 box at the top, full of flowers and fruits. Good luck with this!!

nice!!

This was such a cool video! Maybe they grow so quick since they have access to water?

Amazing content, you should make a discord. I have been watching for awhile.

Nice video. Learnt my lesson buying dragonfruit from online sellers - seems some use the blender method - received too many broken seeds. How many hours a day do you give the lighting?.These look fantastic. !!!

We need the lighting description with the growing!

This is the fastest I’ve seen them grow. What kind of soil did you use? And are they in a window??

Best

They are very vital and vigorous as plants. Totally love them. You do know they are huge when matured, right? hahaha Love the video!

How much water do they need during the day?

I'm sorry, but I laughed hen you cut your finger 🤣

I’ve had my one surviving baby dragon the whOle summer and it has barely grown at all. It got its first prickles a few weeks ago though!

Do you think they would make good hanging plants that hang down from the pot? Or should totally tie them up right?

What kind of fertilizer???

any updates on the dragon fruits?

wow🌿🍇🍍🍒🌴🌻🍀

Do they need a very high humidity to start growing? Temperature?