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I am consistently amazed by dragonfruit flowers. I suppose this eventually gets old?
Do people in southern CA let their plants set fruit this late in the year or is it best to remove the buds and let the plants focus on current fruit set?
Quote from: spaugh on October 01, 2019, 11:11:16 AMDo people in southern CA let their plants set fruit this late in the year or is it best to remove the buds and let the plants focus on current fruit set?This year, my Dragon Fruit plants flowered and set fruit late! I live North of Los Angles and still have have flowers and fruit growing. I notice that for So Cal, from South to North, San Diego County, Orange County, Los Angeles County, Ventura County, the reports of fruit set varies. The more South a County the earlier.
Another thought: I get out at night to pollinate, but the bees show up in full force by 8-9am. Is it possible they're taking the pollen I used to pollinate such that I won't get fruit set?
Birds figured out my DF are yummy and started pecking holes in them as soon as thry start turning red. Here's my decoy painted rocks I'm putting around the plants to hopefully discourage the birds. It's burgundy krylon in case anyone needs to do the same.
I got these yellow variety dragon fruit plant from Ebay. I thought they were cuttings, but they were like 5" plant from seeds. I didn't know it will take 4yrs+ to fruit. Should I try to graft a couple of them to my Vietnamese white rootstock? My Vietnamese white in the ground though. Maybe take a vietnamese white cutting, root it in a pot, then try the graft?
Quote from: sosamo on October 04, 2019, 06:15:09 PMI got these yellow variety dragon fruit plant from Ebay. I thought they were cuttings, but they were like 5" plant from seeds. I didn't know it will take 4yrs+ to fruit. Should I try to graft a couple of them to my Vietnamese white rootstock? My Vietnamese white in the ground though. Maybe take a vietnamese white cutting, root it in a pot, then try the graft?It wont take 4 years. Probably 2 years. I wouldnt bother trying to graft them, just let them do their thing.