The Tropical Fruit Forum

I’ve had multiple mango seedlings flower and fruit in the third summer. A few have flowered in the second summer and set fruit, but fruit was removed to promote growth. 👍👍

It’s definitely dragonfruit!👍

A group of Aussie dragonfruit fanatics have recently started the Dragon Fruit Australia facebook page. Since there are plenty of keen new growers in Oz, I directed them here to check out the Dragonfruit thread. It was a wealth of  great info for me when I first started down the road to my dragonfruit addiction. Hopefully the new growers in Australia can learn as much from the Tropical Fruit Forum as I did. 👍

You are overthinking this, which we can all do on occasion. The best thing to do is just let the new growth keep growing. Tie something around the plant and the post(I use strips of old cotton sheets or bath towels), and every few days tighten it up a bit. This will slowly pull the plant toward the post without breaking it. It’s always best to tie them in case the wind causes them to break. Hope this helps👍

I’m pretty sure that fruit is set.
 The Physical Graffiti that I grow is definitely not self fertile but in saying that, it will occasionally set a fruit with no help from me. When I cross pollinate the flowers I get 100% fruit set almost all of the time. I assume that any fruit that appeared on unpollinated flowers(by me), are the result of insect carrying pollen from somewhere else.
If I left my P.Graffiti to the bees, I’d have little to no fruit.

Looks like sunburn. It won’t kill the plant, but if it goes all mushy, just cut the bad bit out (don’t cut the centre core), or hit it with the hose to blast the rot away. 👍

Sorry. Posted in the wrong spot. 😬

If that was my S-8, I would cut it back and let it start fresh.
Then plant the cutting.👍

The bees hit my flowers in the early afternoon before the flowers even open. Crawling past the stamen to get at the pollen. By the time I go out at 10pm there is generally no pollen left. I generally have to bag a few flowers to ensure pollen.

 Columbian Supreme is definitely one of my favourite reds! Has a perfumey, musky flavour that I really enjoy. The wife not so keen on it though, so it’s a personal thing I suppose.

Frankie’s Red has never not set fruit for me, even when flowering in winter when nothing is flowering. There are very few varieties that will set fruit without help, which is why I’m the crazy neighbor with the headlamp, wandering around the yard in the middle of the night! 🤪🤪

This variety is legit, but given its very spiny skin I doubt it could ever be grown commercially. It is available in the US but would be fairly difficult to track down, I think. If you could breed the spines out of it and keep the flavour, I think it would be a great piece of fruit.

The only pics that seem to show anything bad are the first 2, and it looks like you already cut the infected sections off. In my opinion, 4 inches(10cm), is far too deep to plant cuttings. Any green part of the plant that is below the surface of the soil is going to be a risk of rotting or disease. I plant my cuttings just on top of the soil, maybe 1-2 mm deep, and only after they have well and truly healed.
Watering twice a week is probably too much as well. Cuttings will go for months without any water at all, so I’d cut back a bit just to be safe.
Some of the discoloured areas just look like hardening of the skin area, which generally happens at ground level. If it’s not getting soft and mushy, it’s probably still ok.👍👍

Not sure who named it Black Dragonfruit, but it is actually purple skinned👍