Dragon fruit training question.

[NewGen]

I put a cutting of Physical Graffiti  in a nursery pot a couple months ago, it now has 2 lateral branches, so it looks like a "T", the vertical part is only about 10" tall.
I notice that the laterals are getting longer, but the vertical is not getting that much taller. I'd like to get vertical growth so I can tie it to the support trellis. I guess I can bend the laterals upward, gradually, so they don't break off. Any suggestions?
Thanks,

[spaugh]

Yes, you need to train a single branch upwards and discard the 2nd side shoot.  Bend it gently using flagging tape.  Flagging tape is much more elastic than tree tape and wont choke the DF vines. 

[NewGen]

Will do, thanks! I'm gonna put that 2nd lateral into a pot to start another one.

[spaugh]

Heres some cuttings I started a few months ago.  They were started in half gallon pots and allowed to root out amd grow a foot or 2.  Now they have been recently transplanted into 2 gallon pots with 6ft bamboos.  Trained to a single 6ft vine.  These will produce fruit in 12 months if done this way and transplanted onto a trellis in April or May. 

These are fresh starts in half gal pots.  These are going to a nursery in spring.



A few months later they are up potted and longer bamboo added.  These ones are going in my orchard

[NewGen]

They're looking great, Brad!
Do you have a commercial nursery?
Those that you're keeping for your orchard, will they be planted in the ground?

Trung

[spaugh]

Im just a guy that supplies a few plants to a large local public nursery. 

The ones going in my orchard will go into the ground yes.  They go into a raised bed that is also dug down into the ground and ammended.

[spaugh]

Heres a raised bed 2x2 ft.  The other way to do it if you have lots of gophers is plant 15gal pots with holes all around the pots.