Any chance you have a few spare seeds?

Do any Dragonfruit growers have any experience with small black ants damaging their plants and flowers? I have recently moved locations and this is the first summer growing in this area. I have what could be considered a plague of small black ants that attack any new flower buds as well as any exposed area of stem, such as where a stem splits due to excess watering or swelling from flowering. The ants chew off the small petals on new flower but rarely stop the flower developing, and any splits in the stem, they start chewing the flesh away inside the split. I assume they are after the sweet sap that is excreted in these areas but I have also lost a few fruit that ants have burrowed into and eaten from the inside until empty. Any suggestions?

Super warm in the Lockyer Valley today. Topped out at 45 Celsius (113 F) at 3pm this arvo, in the breezeway of our verandah, with 13% relative humidity. Can only imagine how hot it was in the direct sun. Totally fried any Dragonfruit flowers of any size. The heat sucked the life clean out of them!


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Dragonfruit are actually super hard to kill. I moved my entire collection of full grown dragonfruit plants(6ft tall, multiple branches on top), by pruning the top right back and then cutting them off at ground level, still attached to the post I grew them on. Transported them 450km in a box trailer, stood them up behind a shed for 3 months until I finished moving and then built a trellis system to attach the posts to. All are growing well now and at least half are flowering at the moment.

Happy New Year to all the forum users out there! Hopefully 2017 is kind to you and yours, as well as all the plants that you put effort into each and every day. Looking forward to the New Year and all the growth it will bring. Enjoy your night.

Quote from: merce3 on November 13, 2016, 01:58:40 PM

any info on makisupa? never heard of that one. or any others that are on the top of your list?

Full Description: HYLOCEREUS POLYRHIZUS HYBRID-'MAKISUPA'- Is a self polinating, very fertile and produces an abundance of 3/4 lb fruit that has a nice reddish pulp color with a smooth texture, skin is light pink, sweet-tangy and juicy, great for cocktails or fresh fruit smoothies.Fruit can be eaten fresh in hand or in jams, as a garnish or juice in drinks. Huge nocturnal blooms over 15" across. Same growing medium as Epis but likes shade at the feet and the top growth likes to reach full sun to bloom well.If your coastal it can handle full sun. Blooms all summer, fruits are developed after blooming and ripen by fall. Very profuse! HYLOCEREUS HYBRID -MAKISUPA an easy to grow Hylocereus that grows well with almost no spotting and is a reliable bloomer/fruit producer, usually blooms mid to late summer-likes the heat, fruit is usually ripe by late summer or fall. Roots easy just like Epiphyllums.

As I have worked a lot with a US based dragonfruit supplier, I'm curious to know if this other seller knows that you are pretty much plagiarising their description of this particular variety? While it's all good to grow and sell the Makisupa variety, your credibility will be increased if you use a first hand description of your own instead of writing almost word for word from someone else's description. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. But I just read the original and it's almost identical to yours. As for the purple flowered variety, any idea who created that? I've got one with a flower just like that in Australia and that's not what it was called when I purchased it.

If they are chewed off above the graft(assuming they are grafted trees) , there is a chance they will shoot and keep growing. If not, you could wait and see if they shoot below the graft, and find someone to regraft the trees when they are ready. I would buy sell the dogs, buy new mango trees and start over. Maybe get a cat or some goldfish, less destructive.

After reading a few posts this week in regard to C.Peruvianus with flesh colour that isn't white, I'm just wondering if anyone has a few pics of different flesh colours in this variety. I haven't seen any colour variations in Peruvianus in Australia.

Personally, I would never buy a dragonfruit cutting/plant from an eBay seller that is selling a generic made up name plant. Chances are you will be very disappointed in 18 months when the fruit is not what you expected it to be. Another thing to consider, the flesh is white. Generally not even close to being as tasty as a pink, purple or red variety. Stick with reputable sellers, usually recommended by growers on this forum. This variety might be genuine. I'm sceptical, and I certainly wouldn't pay that much for it without seeing the fruit on the plant, and picking it myself. Just to be clear, I've been burnt a couple of times. Be careful.

Best to eat them with your eyes closed, or with the lights out at night. Then you don't even notice them.

Saw these plants today while cruising around my local area. Very healthy dragonfruit plants(considering it's still winter here), growing in a front yard. The support being used looked to me like 4 metal star pickets, with a plastic milk crate on top. Not sure if the whole thing is concreted into the ground, but very interesting idea. Will keep an eye on them over summer to see how big they get.

I think I posted this once before but I'll put it up again since it's being talked about. This is one of my favourite pinks grafted onto Cereus Peruvianus. Very easy to do, as both cactus have identical centre cores. Just match up the centres to roughly the same size and hold together with large rubber bands or tie down with string.