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How to grow Dragon Fruit from a cutting - Quick Guide
Dragon fruit, Pitaya - Hylocereus sp.
🌵 How to grow Dragon Fruit from a cutting - Quick Guide
Roots usually form in 2-4 weeks. New growth means it's taking off! This is the time to Ferilize it!
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- 🐉 Get a healthy cutting
- 🐉 Prepare the soil
- 🐉 Plant the cutting
- 🐉 Support it
- 🐉 Water lightly
- 🐉 Give it sun and warmth
- 🐉 Watch it grow!
Use a 6-10 inch long stem cutting from a mature dragon fruit plant. Let the cut end dry in the shade for 2-5 days so it forms a callus. This also helps prevent rot and fungus.
Use well-draining soil - well drained potting mix, Adenium mix, or cactus mix is ideal. Dragon fruit hates wet feet!
Stick the callused end about 2-3 inches deep into the soil. Make sure it's planted upright (the way it grew on the parent plant).
Add a trellis or post. Dragon fruit is a climbing cactus and needs something to grow on.
Water once after planting, then wait until the soil dries before watering again. Overwatering can rot the cutting.
Place in bright, indirect sunlight while it roots. Once established, it can handle full sun.
Roots usually form in 2-4 weeks. New growth means it's taking off! This is the time to Ferilize it!
🛒Shop Dragon Fruit plants and cuttings
📚 Learn more:
- · How to grow Dragon Fruit 📱
- · Planting your own Dragon Fruit plantation
- · Do-It-Yourself Support Structure for Dragon Fruit
- · Grow Your Own Exotic Dragon Fruit Garden
- · Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: Dragon fruit
- · What does Dragon Fruit Flower look like?
- · Why you need to grow your own dragon fruit
- · Do red, white and yellow Dragon fruit taste differently?
- · What to do with a lot of Dragon Fruit
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How to grow Dragon Fruit
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🌵 Selenicereus megalanthus - Yellow Pitaya, Dragon Fruit Palora, is the best tasting Dragon Fruit in the world that is not only sweet, it has a great flavor (unlike most pitayas that are pretty watery).
🌵This particular species of Dragon fruit doesn't mind regular water and rains but is also drought-tolerant. Watch a short video how to grow it:
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📚 Learn more:
- · Planting your own Dragon Fruit plantation
- · Do-It-Yourself Support Structure for Dragon Fruit
- · Grow Your Own Exotic Dragon Fruit Garden
- · Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: Dragon fruit
- · What does Dragon Fruit Flower look like?
- · Why you need to grow your own dragon fruit
- · Do red, white and yellow Dragon fruit taste differently?
- · What to do with a lot of Dragon Fruit
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How to get your own Dragon Fruit plantation:
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Why we planted a whole field of this Dragon Fruit: how to get your own Dragon Fruit plantation
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🌵🌵🌵 Why we planted a whole field of this Dragon Fruit: how to get your own Dragon Fruit plantation
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- 💛 Do you like Dragon Fruit? Our favorite variety is Parlora.
- 💛 It's a yellow Pitaya cactus from Ecuador, and hands down the most flavorful dragon fruit out there. While most varieties are pretty but kind of bland, this one is sweet, juicy, and packed with flavor.
- 💛 We love it so much at Top Tropicals, we planted a whole plantation! All it takes is a simple trellis – just a few posts and some chicken wire - and you can grow your own and enjoy this delicious fruit year-round.
📚 Learn more:
- · Do-It-Yourself Support Structure for Dragon Fruit
- · Grow Your Own Exotic Dragon Fruit Garden
- · Top 10 fruit you'll ever need for your health benefits: Dragon fruit
- · What does Dragon Fruit Flower look like?
- · What does a dragon taste like? Learn why you need to grow your own.
- · Do red, white and yellow Dragon fruit taste differently?
- · What to do with a lot of Dragon Fruit
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What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own
🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵
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🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?
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🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!
📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?
🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits
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