The Tropical Fruit Forum

In japan, we are using nets for supporting the fruits, those nets hang from the roof of the greenhouse or metalic poles with ropes and hooks.

It's definitely a disease, bacterial or some kind of wills. I found a guy who has the exact same problem on another forum, but nobody was able to give an answer.
http://allthingsplants.com/thread/view/34403/Dragon-fruit-hylocereus-undatus-Halleys-Comet-off-hang-tag-disease/

Here some better pics

I have a problem with my DF, there are some black spots with lots of little darker spots that looks like aphid bites on the new growth.
it happened during the night. I am sorry for the poor quality pics, anyone has an idea what it is?

I've being doing the same for years, only I use 2L Coca cola bottle (I prefer coke's taste sorry)
It works perfectly with Passionfruits

Sorry, but I do not agree, let me explain.
You say they are searching a way to to bring the fruit to maturity in 8 month, to skip the cooler month.
That looks like fantasy, to grow a pineapple you need heat, lot of fertilizer and a lot of sun, with long sunny days.
A pineapple will stop growing at around 15, 16 ゜Celsius, that means no growth=no fruit.
A pineapple must have enough energy to put a fruit, the size must be around 80 cm. And even at this size, you'll end up with a bunch of small fruits. Only suckers can get that big under a year. But again you have to bring your suckers inside in winter.
A fruit needs 4~6 month to be edible that means you have only 2~4 month to bring the plant to maturity. They have to find a new variety, cause that sound impossible even in the tropics.
I'm growing Bogor and white pineapples. And only half of them made it through this winter.
Now a lot of members are growing pineapples and may not agree, but growing indoor through winter sounds like the only way as I see it.

Here is a picture of my 2 garcinia hombroniana grown from seed.


The one on the right took 7 month to grow those new leaves. The one on the left sprouted 1 month after the right one, so I'm expecting new growth on this one next month.
Man are they slow growers! At this rate it will take 3 or 4 years to see the first branch.

This is the crimson colored DF I just received on Sunday. It's allready 28 inches (70 cm) and has new growth comming out.
I hope it will bloom in 1 or 2 years

The main reason I would pollinate a Dragon Fruit flower with E. oxypetalum is to increase the odds of getting fruit.

so it's possible to cross pollinate those 2 species? I'm asking because a shop here is selling sets of Pink Dragon fruits / E. oxypetalum, and they say the pink dragon needs cross pollination. As I'm interrested in the pink DF I was wondering if that set is a good deal or a dead-end.

Mangosteen, that's  how you harvest them, and for mangoes, I don't know how it is in the US, but here in japan we grow them in a net, and pick them up for sale when they fall in the net

The shop I use to buy to here in japan sell sprouted seeds and trees of red durio graveolens, they say the fruit doesn't smell strong

Thank you, I'm going to order it next week. Do you use any fertilizer?

I have found some crafted pink guava in a nursery.
I live in Japan zone 9A 9B so I won't plant it directly in the ground.
Has anyone got it to fruit in pot? I would like to read your experience.
Strawberry guava is much easier, but the taste is somewhat more tart and sometime quite bad.
Thank you.