You can also look at the www.epicenteravocados.com 'varieties' page. I can't find an email or phone number for them but Epicenter seems like folks you might want to talk to.

I understand Carlos’ and others frustration and disappointment.

My first introduction and taste of Dragon Fruit was at a Farmer’s Market while on vacation with family on the island of Hawaii. At that moment I decided I wanted to try and grow Dragon Fruit at home in Southern California.

I acquired my first named Dragon Fruit cuttings at the UC Pitahaya Festival in Irvine, CA.
At the festival I got to taste many different varieties.
On that day, my favorites were Delight and Halley’s Comet.
Unlike most people who collect several varieties, I decided I was only going to grow the two varieties I like best.
When it came time to selecting the 5 free cuttings, unlike most people who selected 5 different cuttings, I chose to get only 5 Halley’s Comet.
The next year I went back and got 5 Delight cuttings.

Over the next few years I suffered frustration and disappointment from flower drop and no fruit. I also got a better understanding of “self fertile”, self-pollinating, hand pollinating, etc. I learned that growers who had several unrelated varieties producing flowers at or near the same time were not experiencing the frustration and disappointment I was having.

Once I got to the point of having enough unrelated flowering varieties, my luck on harvesting Dragon Fruit changed.

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Anyone growing it in CA?  I have a lot of extra RO waste water I'm looking to water something with.  Will it grow here?  Maybe the air is too dry?  Other eucalyptus does quite well (invasive). 

Any other suggestions what I can grow with really hard waste water?

I have one, it's in SWFL of course.  If it helps, I have found it to be pretty drought tolerant.  My tree has been in the ground for about 2 years and is at least 12 feet tall.  I haven't watered it at all this year and we are in a severe drought.  It is stressed, but not terribly so.  By next year I hope it has enough roots to thrive in a drought, I don't know if it has a deep tap root, but if it does, it will eventually hit the water table here.  It's only about 8' or so deep.

Nice, it's probably already in the water table if it's 8ft.  Our water table is 600ft deep here!

I have water to pump on it that is already bein wasted.  I just don't know if it can take the Santa Ana winds.  I read they like humidity which we really have none of.

Well it's a pretty fast growing tree for sure, that's why I moved it once I read how big they can get.

As far as winds - mine managed to survive hurricane Irma, and my home had the center of the eye go right over top of it.  So it took 100 mph + winds for some time, but it is shielded to some degree by large mature pines.

I would add (not that this really applies to you) that it was also under water for about 2 weeks in the Irma flood.  So, it is both flood and drought tolerant and grows really fast.  I do like the tree, the bark should start getting more colorful with age, at least that's what I heard.

Dude I can't believe you haven't seen the ones at the San Diego Zoo. They have a bunch of them in front of the main entrance (just outside the entrance) as well as one or two within the zoo. They are fully mature and are pretty colorful right now. I have read that they get more colorful in tropical climates, here they're a bit more subdued but still interesting if you know to look for them. It's not really eye-catching though.