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Ugh... The disappointment in finding rot on your dragonfruit cutting 😢
I planted this in sep of last year and have yet to see any new growth, so I thought it was root bound and decided to repor it. Low and behold the bottom 1 1/2 inch has turned mushy. Why!!?? 😢]
So I removed the soft part and so far have it outside in the shade curing the ends.]Quote
If that was my cutting, I would make a clean cut to remove any rotten stem and flesh, and start again. The stem that has no flesh around it, just above the roots, doesn't look healthy, or even still alive. You could wait a couple of weeks to see if that bit of stem hardens up. If it's flimsy ands easily bent, it's most probably dead. I find the best way to avoid rot is to wait for the small roots to emerge from your cutting while the are laying on a bench somewhere, then put a stake in the pot you wish to use and tie the cutting to it with the root lets just touching the soil. Don't bury the cutting at all!
My question is , should I cut the bottom off? I see so roots but I don't think it's dead. Should I leave it or cut it?
Just an update on the no pollen situation. I have 2 varieties flowering tonight, G2 and Jade Red. It's 9pm, hot, humid and ready to storm in a big way. The G2, one flower only, has plump anthers that are loaded with pollen. The Jade Red, two flowers, has shrivelled anthers and not a spec of pollen. Hopefully the G2 can pollinate itself. I'm not sure what is causing the problem as they are 2 metres apart with same growing conditions.Any thoughts? I've had 3 flowers on three different nights that I've wanted to collect pollen from to store, and none have produced a spec of pollen. Weather is good and warm with good humidity but it's not something I've encountered before. The varieties concerned have always had plenty of pollen.
Weather is a factor. If you waited to collect pollen in the morning, I bet you could have gotten pollen around 10 PM when the flower first opened. That has been my experience.
This topic has drawn my interest for a while now and info on fruiting epis seems to be difficult to find. In this thread I'm looking for good/great fruit from named epis from growers who have a solid reputation. Not maybes or I think!! A lot of epis have excellent fruit with great hybrid potential.
This is one I've crossed already. Epi has the texture of Turkish Delight and similar flavour. Variety is Argus, sourced from Matts Landscape. Not huge but very nice.
I've finally picked the last Purple Haze from last season. At almost five and a half months old I figured it should be ready by now. After cutting it I found that most of the seeds were already sprouted.
I thought that a few of you would find this interesting. This is the last Purple Haze fruit from last season. It was pollinated with its own pollen on 30/04/15. Only small, maybe 150 gm, and just starting to colour. I've never had a fruit hang on for this long, almost 4 months. Anyone else had this happen?
So here is an odd situation. I ordered some dragon fruit cuttings and got them today. One of the ones I ordered was American Beauty. Well I received two cuttings that were labeled American Beauty. The problem is ... they are different from each other!
See the picture below. The top cutting is three-sided/lobed and the bottom cutting is four-sided/lobed.
So is American Beauty the three-lobed cutting (which I think is correct, my other two DF vines are three-lobed)? So what is the other cutting? What DF species have four-lobes?
I think you will find that your small cuttings, are very very immature. As they continue to develop, most of those small prickles will disappear and you will be left with 1 thorn. Any seedling dragonfruit have heaps of tiny thorns while they are young, most of which vanish with maturity.
The thorns on my American Beauty are much different than what it looks like in your picture. My AB seems to just have 1 thorn (maybe one larger and a really small one) at each node (?). In your picture, they all look like they have 5+ at each node.
My AB thorn.
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Yeah, mine look very different. The two 'American Beauty' cuttings are the one in the foreground and the one to the right (one in the background is a different variety).