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Anyone know a good place to buy dragon fruit cuttings?Matts Landscape has all the Varieties you could ever need(almost).
I'm trying to buy purple haze, Halley comet, pepino dulce, and rixford hylocereus.
Hi Mike and Starling1. Off the top of your heads, what would be the top 4 fingerprints varieties I should look for in relation to flavour for growing around the Lockyer Valley. Thanks, Anthony.People are catching on to varieties here and I see at the hardware supermarket the trashy old Rainforest Pearl is not shifting much even at $12 a tree. By contrast Red Champagne gets sold out fast even a higher price.
Mike if you come across any red champagne/chartreuse etc, grab them for me and I'll paypal you. They sell out pretty much instantly at all the bunnings down here, and are hard to get.
Hi Simon, the growth of the Frankies Red has been impressive and I am looking forward to hopefully getting a few flowers in the coming summer. Like you, I am hoping to cross some of my other varieties with the Frankies in the hope of getting something special. I will hopefully have over 40 different varieties flower this year and I am hoping to cross as many as I can, and after a few emails with a grower in Israel, a cross with the yellow megalanthus and the Frankies Red would be brilliant. Hopefully good things to come. Thanks again and I look forward to seeing pics of your Frankies fruit.Here's a picture of a Frankie's Red flower when it's starting to open.
Simon
Hi Simon. Looking forward to seeing the results of your flowering Frankies Red. I received a cutting from you last year and it is now 7 feet tall. It has grown really well through our winter and I am hoping it will flower this year or early next year. Keep us posted. Thanks again.
You're welcome Ranman, I'm glad the cutting is doing well for you. I have no other dragonfruit varieties with open flowers right now so Frankie's Red will have to be self pollinating if I am to get fruit. If none of these flowers set fruit, I will have to assume that they require cross pollination. I've never tasted a Red x Yellow dragonfruit so I am very eager to try this Frankie's Red. I may even try to cross this Frankies Red with a Halleys Comet in the hopes of getting larger fruit but removing the male anthers, bagging individual flowers and growing out countless seedlings seems like a lot of work:(
Simon
My first lot of blue goji arrived today:Hi Dann. Recently received a pack of Black Goji and I am looking forward to seeing how they go in the Queensland climate. Germination was extremely quick and so far, even with transplanting at the cotyledon stage(3 days after germination) there has been no loss. Plants were germinated in full Sun(winter here at the moment) and look great. Biggest fear is that this will become a weed due to its rapid germination and high strike rate(100%) if birds are allowed to eat it.
Here's a picture of a Frankie's Red flower when it's starting to open.
Simon
Black Goji seeds germinated. Soaked in water for 3 days and did nothing else, I got 2 that are showing white root. Another one looks like it may germinate soon as well. So 2/10 not bad for some dried black goji fruit.Hi Nullzero, just received my goji in the post and was wondering if you had any wisdom on the planting. After looking at the fruit(purchased 100 seeds/10 fruit), it seems the seeds are very difficult to remove from the dried fruit. Should I just plant the whole fruit or take the time to extract the seeds??
