Dragon fruit cacti is a vining type of cacti, so you are definitely correct in supporting them! They also like having moist soil, so nice job figuring that out from just experimenting! They do take 5-7 years to produce fruit though, and the fruit comes from the end of the cacti.
They’re so cute! I wanna try this tomorrow since I just bought a dragon fruit, it’d be fun to gift these to people in the plant community who live near me 💚 thanks for the video!
they sprout better without covering those tiny Seeds. I sprout mine on a moist paper towel in a ziplock bag.. no soil til they sprout. Yours with Strainer did great!
They are a vining cacti and will get taller than you and bigger than you if you allow them to do so. They will need support or you can put them by a tree or structure of some kind and they will take to it. The roots are air roots and the plant uses them to grab onto whatever it is they want to vine up on. It can take a year or several years to bear fruit.
It was amazing to see the sprouts sprout like baby cactus by germinating dragon fruits. In particular, seeing that the seeds that were ground with blend are germinated, I think the vitality of plants is really great. 🌿
I just started to try and grow them. So right now they are germinating. I'm excited to try and grow them. I got 1 catus & 1 succulent that I've frown from seed so this is my next project. Thank-You for all the information on growing them.
Thank you very much.. I live in South Africa Roodepoort. I bought a fruit yesterday and we ate it this morning. I extracted some seeds and will start working with them tomorrow. Fantastic seeing you growing them. Great video.
just bought a dragon fruit and i’m going to do the strainer method today. i also bought a dragon fruit cutting off etsy that arrives today. i’m so excited! thank you for these videos.
@@kimberlymendoza6398 i got lazy and stopped watering it and it died BUT i just restarted again. the ones before were so full and turning into tiny cacti. the new ones i just planted aren’t at the cactus stage yet
Nice, these turned out awesome. It's crazy how many cool-looking plants you can grow from common supermarket items. I want to try it with sweet potatoes cause I've seen people grow really long vines on their windowsill by suspending a sweet potato in water
I used to grow sweet potato vines with the suspension in water method as a kid. They were so cool and beautiful. Now a days sweet potatoes are treated with something that prevents the tuber from sprouting. I don't know if this coating can be scrubbed off or not. Please let me know if this works for you.
I've had success by just letting the whole sweet potato float in a jar that's the right size to hold it straight up. The tuber will float, so you don't need to suspend it with tooth picks or anything.
Out of curiosity I tried growing some dragon fruit as I had a fruit that was pretty overripe. I used the sieve method and left the seeds on kitchen roll overnight to dry out a little intending to plant some and store the others only to find the little buggers were all sprouting by the morning (as I said the fruit was a little overripe) and already penetrating the kitchen paper so I took the whole thing and laid it on a tray of compost gave it a light covering and I think every one of them sprouted I couldn't see the soil for the number of seedlings there were after a few days, my next surprise came when I was transplanting some of them as they had what I thought was a very poor rooting system, but judging by yours which are far more advanced than mine I could see the same week rooting system (no offence intended, its the plants not your gardening expertise) I ended up transferring them in little clumps just to give them some room to grow and so far they seem to be doing fine, no die back or rot, so we'll see what happens a few weeks down the line. One other thing I did notice about them was that they had a kind of jell coating around them not unlike a fresh tomato seed, presumably for protection and/or nourishment when they sprout. Anyway thanks for the vid it was extremely enlightening and helpful.
The video is once again great! I like that you always compare several methods for something like this. Maybe I also try me times at the dragon fruit for a time lapse :)
I’m about to plant up all the seeds from one dragonfruit, which is way more than I could ever need but I just can’t help myself. 🌱 I’m so excited to grow these 👍
great vid. I watched it while cleaning some seeds. dragon fruit is an epiphyte and grows in rock crevices vigorously climbing hill faces. that is why it makes those adventitious roots. it is a cactus, but it is also from tropical and subtropical rainforest climates so it can drink a lot of water. I've grown them from cuttings before, literally the easiest plant in the world to root and grow. excited for the babies, but I do not believe the fruit is true to seed. looking forward to finding out and also practicing grafting.
we sprouted our seeds by simply putting little chhunks on the soil, covered with soil, watered and then covered with a lid.sprouted in just a few days it seemed like.we have a lot of them now.they sprouted wonderfully.
As a tropical, vining cactus what you experienced with the aerial roots and need for moisture is to be expected. Though they are cacti, these are *not* desert plants and do need a good amount of moisture. For fruit production they are typically planted 4 in a 10-20gallon pot. A central 4x4 post is topped with an open box trellis made of 2x4s. The desired growth habit with this setup is an unbranched single stem on each side of the 4x4 with a branching canopy draping over the 2x4 box at the top, full of flowers and fruits. Good luck with this!!
@@tylertowne8648 hey, yep I have seen those videos! Quite a few homes in my neighborhood have had the same or very similar setups for many years so while not having enough space for pitaya myself I can tell that the setup works very well!
This means that the pulp actually prohibits germination. So it is essential to rinse the seeds before planting but also to be careful not to damage the seeds. Thank you for this test. This will help me when I plant my own dragon fruit seeds.
Heya, the PULP really helps the seeds stay moist and should go in the ground with them IMO, same with most other fruits, tomatoes are another example. Just think about how they fall and the fruit breaks down around the seed. 100s of fruits just need to be opened and buried. Keep the fruit pulp / insides around the seeds ❤
I'd bet that the slice was behind was because of the fruit. Like with tomatoes and a few other seeds the flesh keeps them from sprouting inside the fruit thats why the seeds that were strained from the flesh did so much better but once the slice rotted the seeds took off. I just picked up a yellow dragon fruit from trader joe and im totally going grow them as I bought a bigger plant that a friend grows from seed like yours. The white fleshed red outside one. She planted them last year and during the summer mine got huge! They do grow fast for a cactus. But I had not read up on it yet and one whole side of mine is drooping downwards. Ive also made 2 cuttings from it for family and its rooting and growing really good too. Can't wait to see more.
I bought a pot of dragon fruit seedlings from my local big box hardware store. There were between 40 and 50 plants in this 10 cm pot! I divided them up into forestry tubes, growing in river sand for a while, to make them hardier, and the trays of tubes are sitting in an inch of water, inside a clear plastic storage container, with the lid on. This storage container is sitting outside on a south-east facing wall (I am in Australia), so hopefully that will be the right balance of light and shade (I don't want them to cook...). It's heading into Winter here, so if it gets too cold, I can either bring them inside or put them in a warmer outside location. I am hoping that by Springtime, they will be big enough to transplant into "big girl pots", then maybe next year to their permanent locations. Thank you for this video, I think that next time, I'll just buy a dragon fruit, wash the seeds and plant them out, myself.
I started some dragon fruit seedlings a couple of months ago. I manually plucked out the seeds the a tip of a knife while I ate the fruit. I planted them into soil and they sprouted fast but the growth stunted and should be much bigger than what they are in my opinion. I'm going to try transplanting them and hope it helps!
This was very cool to see, really contemplating trying the same thing. I wonder if you can let them twist around a wood stick when they grow...? Would be cool to have a helix/spiral shape.
You're going to need something to tie the df. They don't vine that easy. Epic Gardening on UA-cam shows you how to build a great support. Also has great tips on growing. He learned from a guy that grows fields of df.
@@TechplantChannel please don't kill them, just make other people equally happy selling/giving them. ^^ The aerial roots are for the plant to stabilize it's vertical growth, the less stable they get, the more of them you will observe.
I acquired a pot that has so many in it! They’re on the small side now. I would like to know when and how to separate them. I saw a video about someone else’s but it was already huge…. Don’t know what to do with mine
When I’ve been growing I usually just plant the small one directly into a bucket to spare replanting all the time, because they will grow fast and get really big
just perlite peatmoss and a little bit of regular dirt. I have them like 10 inches away from grow lights for 15hours a day Grow lights make a HUGE difference when growing plants because you can hammer them with light all year long and consistent
All I did is plant half of a rooting dragonfruit that I had. Few months didn’t spout. I mixed the soil up then they spouted. They are not that big tho but I’m happy. Maybe I need to transplant
Dragon fruit (Selenicereus undatus) are epiphytes, they love to climb and sprawl. I grow them like cattleya orchids (airy orchid bark, bright light + high humidity and warm temps) and they grow and flower incredibly, they're weed like for me and i regularly have to cut them back.
Nice video. Learnt my lesson buying dragonfruit from online sellers - seems some use the blender method - received too many broken seeds. How many hours a day do you give the lighting?.These look fantastic. !!!
I started growing dragon fruit from some cuttings I was gifted. Now I have to try from seed. Cool this worked out so well. How old is this vid, can we get an update!? Also, what are you fave lights for growing indoors? Looking for something to supplement the poor indoor lighting at my place.
Unless you need hundreds of seeds for whatever reason, the best method of collecting them for sowing is just taking them out of the fruit one by one, you don't waste any of the fruit and around 10 seeds/plants should be enough anyway.
I did the same, I also grew them from seeds and they have been growing in a pot for more than 40 days but their growth stopped; They sprouted but have not developed thorns. I think my mistake was leaving them in direct sun for 3 days, but hydrating them only with water in a pot with substrate, not so drained. Any recommendation? Did you take yours out into the sun? 😢😢😢
2024! I just planted my dragon fruit seeds strainer method, it’s been 9 days and they already sprouted! They are 1 inch tall, I’m still waiting for the cacti to come out so I can replant!
What I do is to slice the fruit in a very thin layers and then I put the slices on paper towel so the pulp gets dry. When I'm ready to plant I just cut or divide the paper towel on in as many pieces I want and I just put them in a mix of 40% soil and 60% sand. These are dessert plants they need lots of light and little water. Peru is becoming a major grower of this plant and Peruvians plant this in literally just on rock and dust mountains they got there. The plant climbs up the hills or grow horizontally it doesn't matter.
Dragonfruit are not desert plants, but rainforest plants. They are native to the coasts of Mexico, and the coasts of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvadore. They are cultivated in East Asia, South Asia, the United States and the Caribbean, these areas are not deserts.
@@TechplantChannel i have two large ones and they flowered. I thought they had been pollinated but so far no fruits. Zone 9 is so great to be in for plants especially tropicals. Love your channel!
They are definitely interesting to grow.. but I have read it takes 10 years and a lot of luck to get them to bloom and get fruits. And mine hang a lot. Some og them about almost a meter....but I happily keep repotting them each year as they grow....
Great video! I’m growing some now and have had great germination. I also used a strainer. How long did you have your grow lights set to cycle on for? Also at what point did you remove the humidity dome?
@@TechplantChannel right! Which is one of the reasons for my concern about that. I live in Colorado. I have removed the humidity domes from the ones I planted since so many of them came up. I have a humidifier running which I’m hoping is enough to keep them content. I have grow lights set to be on for 8 hours each day.
If I start growing seeds this week, and want to move house in 2 years, can I move a mature plant, or would I have to disguard it, and start again at the new house?
The reason they sprout so soon is I think they have to compete in their natural environment. Which is not the desert but forests. Dragon fruit cactus grow into trees. Often like 10 meters high. Here they use the airroots to feed of birddroppings:-)
Seedlings cactus 🌵 grow slow, but seedlings 🌱 grow quickly. DF 🐉 take 4-6 years to fruit 🫤. You can graft seedlings to an adult cactus, and get fruit in 2 years . Or plant mature cutting and u get fruit in 8-18 months 👍😃
Dragon fruit cacti is a vining type of cacti, so you are definitely correct in supporting them! They also like having moist soil, so nice job figuring that out from just experimenting! They do take 5-7 years to produce fruit though, and the fruit comes from the end of the cacti.
nice ill get it on a pole right away
They grow in trees actually...
@@howtogrowdragonfruitplant7849 Nope, they definetly grow from cacti.
@@xXxDinEnesteEnexXx In their natural environment they grow on trees.
@@howtogrowdragonfruitplant7849 "Dragon fruit grows on cactus plants which love warm, humid climates and needs very little water."
Dragon fruit are very interesting with how they’re shaped.
Growing cacti from seed is definitely a fun project!
For sure! Thanks for watching!
True :-)
I started two pots from cuttings earlier this year, they grow fast. It’s a tropical cactus so I water mine a lot. No problems yet. Easy to grow.
Yeah ive noticed they handle a lot of water!
True. Keep soil moist not wet...
Where did you get your cuttings? Can we find this in box stores or something accessible?
How are your dragon fruit plants doing? Would love to see an update.
They’re so cute! I wanna try this tomorrow since I just bought a dragon fruit, it’d be fun to gift these to people in the plant community who live near me 💚 thanks for the video!
Great idea!! Thanks for watching!
Enjoy !!
they sprout better without covering those tiny Seeds. I sprout mine on a moist paper towel in a ziplock bag.. no soil til they sprout.
Yours with Strainer did great!
@@mamarhondasworld7104 any updates?
Great idea ! 😃
I love it, that you take the time to show the whole process. Thanks for your effort :)
Thanks for watching!
They are a vining cacti and will get taller than you and bigger than you if you allow them to do so. They will need support or you can put them by a tree or structure of some kind and they will take to it. The roots are air roots and the plant uses them to grab onto whatever it is they want to vine up on. It can take a year or several years to bear fruit.
Very helpful, ill strap em to something quickly
It was amazing to see the sprouts sprout like baby cactus by germinating dragon fruits. In particular, seeing that the seeds that were ground with blend are germinated, I think the vitality of plants is really great. 🌿
Me too it was cool to see!
I just started to try and grow them. So right now they are germinating. I'm excited to try and grow them. I got 1 catus & 1 succulent that I've frown from seed so this is my next project. Thank-You for all the information on growing them.
Thank you very much.. I live in South Africa Roodepoort. I bought a fruit yesterday and we ate it this morning. I extracted some seeds and will start working with them tomorrow. Fantastic seeing you growing them. Great video.
One week on and i have a handful of seedlings sprouting in the container. Will need a fresh squirt water. Thanks for your video
just bought a dragon fruit and i’m going to do the strainer method today. i also bought a dragon fruit cutting off etsy that arrives today. i’m so excited! thank you for these videos.
awesome! good luck with them!
@@TechplantChannel thank you! did you put holes in the bottom of the clear planters?
How's it going? 😭
@@kimberlymendoza6398 i got lazy and stopped watering it and it died BUT i just restarted again. the ones before were so full and turning into tiny cacti. the new ones i just planted aren’t at the cactus stage yet
@@deniseishereI just started with mine but ima try to keep up with it! 💪🏼🥲
That was awesome! And you’re one of the only people I don’t put on 1.25 speed
Really appreciate the kind words!! Thanks for watching!
Oh my god, they are so cute those baby cactus
I know right!
Nice, these turned out awesome. It's crazy how many cool-looking plants you can grow from common supermarket items. I want to try it with sweet potatoes cause I've seen people grow really long vines on their windowsill by suspending a sweet potato in water
I used to grow sweet potato vines with the suspension in water method as a kid. They were so cool and beautiful. Now a days sweet potatoes are treated with something that prevents the tuber from sprouting. I don't know if this coating can be scrubbed off or not. Please let me know if this works for you.
Indeed!
I've had success by just letting the whole sweet potato float in a jar that's the right size to hold it straight up. The tuber will float, so you don't need to suspend it with tooth picks or anything.
@@JLFamilySong Buy organic sweet 'taters... they'll grow some new 'taters for you! Also regular potatoes will do well.
@@nannykat1057 Thanks for the information. I never thought about organic sweet potatoes!
Out of curiosity I tried growing some dragon fruit as I had a fruit that was pretty overripe. I used the sieve method and left the seeds on kitchen roll overnight to dry out a little intending to plant some and store the others only to find the little buggers were all sprouting by the morning (as I said the fruit was a little overripe) and already penetrating the kitchen paper so I took the whole thing and laid it on a tray of compost gave it a light covering and I think every one of them sprouted I couldn't see the soil for the number of seedlings there were after a few days, my next surprise came when I was transplanting some of them as they had what I thought was a very poor rooting system, but judging by yours which are far more advanced than mine I could see the same week rooting system (no offence intended, its the plants not your gardening expertise) I ended up transferring them in little clumps just to give them some room to grow and so far they seem to be doing fine, no die back or rot, so we'll see what happens a few weeks down the line. One other thing I did notice about them was that they had a kind of jell coating around them not unlike a fresh tomato seed, presumably for protection and/or nourishment when they sprout. Anyway thanks for the vid it was extremely enlightening and helpful.
I was so excited seeing these grow!
I gotta do an update!
The video is once again great! I like that you always compare several methods for something like this. Maybe I also try me times at the dragon fruit for a time lapse :)
do it!
Do it :-)
12 month update: The cactuses are 14 feet tall and have busted out of the basement. SEND HELP
They have blocked the doors I CANT GET OUT AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Hihi
🤗 love your videos! This is inspiring me to start my own instead of buying expensive cuttings!
You can do it!
Yes, but it takes up to 7 years to get fruit...
Cuttings is so much faster.
After watching this video, got excited and wanna give a try! Thanks for sharing ❤️
Awesome good luck!
Wow! How Fun! I love how they look in the clumps. It would look really cool If they were in a big round shallow bowl.
exactly or remember that head statue bust you had that had plants coming out the top, could look cool i n someing like that
Needs a big pot, tho
@@TechplantChannel head Planter too small
Thank you. I bought the fruit and is prepared to try the seeds
Awesome enjoy! These are a sort of tropical cactus too so don't be afraid to water it!
I work in the produce market. We should be getting dragon fruit in soon. Beautiful!!!!!! Thank you for your experiments!
Definitely going to try this one!!
Wish me luck!
Great video btw.😁
Good luck! I hope it works well for you!
I’m about to plant up all the seeds from one dragonfruit, which is way more than I could ever need but I just can’t help myself. 🌱 I’m so excited to grow these 👍
😂 same
Why not try some different colored ones? Just for fun sake. .😉
How Generous our God is from every fruit so many trees,planet must go on forever,world without end
great vid. I watched it while cleaning some seeds. dragon fruit is an epiphyte and grows in rock crevices vigorously climbing hill faces. that is why it makes those adventitious roots. it is a cactus, but it is also from tropical and subtropical rainforest climates so it can drink a lot of water. I've grown them from cuttings before, literally the easiest plant in the world to root and grow. excited for the babies, but I do not believe the fruit is true to seed. looking forward to finding out and also practicing grafting.
Interesting info thank you
Your seeds always grow so much faster than mine I'm jealous of your lighting setup 😭😭
Lights really make a huge difference! Especially in winter months
Grow in your windows
@@howtogrowdragonfruitplant7849 I do....
@@byg0lly perfect !
😂😂
Wow, they're growing so well and beautiful 🍃🍃🌿
Finally a new video!! Could you do an update/tour video of all the plants please?
its in the works, thanks for coming back!
@@TechplantChannel will always came back!
Love the video! I would have never thought to grow a cactus from seed like that. How's the Waterbox 6 aquarium? Are you still using it at all?
Yeah it's still got some tetras and shrimp! I'm working on a dedicated spot for aquariums still then I'll do more content
I really enjoyed this. I just ordered some dragon fruit. I can’t wait until next week
Have fun!
Great success I will give this a try. I have two of them already I really like this plant very easy care.Happy growing and stay safe.
Easy to propagate as well.
awesome! yeah the more the merrier good luck!
we sprouted our seeds by simply putting little chhunks on the soil, covered with soil, watered and then covered with a lid.sprouted in just a few days it seemed like.we have a lot of them now.they sprouted wonderfully.
I simply used a tapered wood toothpick to collect seeds. Fast, easy, no mess. Paper towel germination was nearly 100%
That's a pretty good idea
As a tropical, vining cactus what you experienced with the aerial roots and need for moisture is to be expected. Though they are cacti, these are *not* desert plants and do need a good amount of moisture. For fruit production they are typically planted 4 in a 10-20gallon pot. A central 4x4 post is topped with an open box trellis made of 2x4s. The desired growth habit with this setup is an unbranched single stem on each side of the 4x4 with a branching canopy draping over the 2x4 box at the top, full of flowers and fruits. Good luck with this!!
Epic Gardening, is that you? If not, you've been watching his YT channel! Lol
@@tylertowne8648 hey, yep I have seen those videos! Quite a few homes in my neighborhood have had the same or very similar setups for many years so while not having enough space for pitaya myself I can tell that the setup works very well!
Where is the update to this?
I love the thorough demonstration and experimenting with different methods so I don’t have to 😄
Omg this is cool!. My local grocery has dragon fruit on sale. Im going to buy 1 today and try this! Ive always wanted a cactus LOL
awesome good luck! its a tropical cactus so it can handle waterings much better than a standard desert cactus!
This means that the pulp actually prohibits germination. So it is essential to rinse the seeds before planting but also to be careful not to damage the seeds. Thank you for this test. This will help me when I plant my own dragon fruit seeds.
Heya, the PULP really helps the seeds stay moist and should go in the ground with them IMO, same with most other fruits, tomatoes are another example. Just think about how they fall and the fruit breaks down around the seed. 100s of fruits just need to be opened and buried. Keep the fruit pulp / insides around the seeds ❤
I'd bet that the slice was behind was because of the fruit. Like with tomatoes and a few other seeds the flesh keeps them from sprouting inside the fruit thats why the seeds that were strained from the flesh did so much better but once the slice rotted the seeds took off.
I just picked up a yellow dragon fruit from trader joe and im totally going grow them as I bought a bigger plant that a friend grows from seed like yours. The white fleshed red outside one.
She planted them last year and during the summer mine got huge! They do grow fast for a cactus. But I had not read up on it yet and one whole side of mine is drooping downwards.
Ive also made 2 cuttings from it for family and its rooting and growing really good too. Can't wait to see more.
I bought a pot of dragon fruit seedlings from my local big box hardware store. There were between 40 and 50 plants in this 10 cm pot! I divided them up into forestry tubes, growing in river sand for a while, to make them hardier, and the trays of tubes are sitting in an inch of water, inside a clear plastic storage container, with the lid on.
This storage container is sitting outside on a south-east facing wall (I am in Australia), so hopefully that will be the right balance of light and shade (I don't want them to cook...). It's heading into Winter here, so if it gets too cold, I can either bring them inside or put them in a warmer outside location. I am hoping that by Springtime, they will be big enough to transplant into "big girl pots", then maybe next year to their permanent locations.
Thank you for this video, I think that next time, I'll just buy a dragon fruit, wash the seeds and plant them out, myself.
sounds really cool,i want to try it out too.
do it!
My daughter got me on for my birthday so now I’am trying to find out how to take care of it.
Thank you
i need an update of this!
I love this this is a great video to watch on a weekend from school keep these educational videos up!😊
I started some dragon fruit seedlings a couple of months ago. I manually plucked out the seeds the a tip of a knife while I ate the fruit. I planted them into soil and they sprouted fast but the growth stunted and should be much bigger than what they are in my opinion. I'm going to try transplanting them and hope it helps!
This was very cool to see, really contemplating trying the same thing. I wonder if you can let them twist around a wood stick when they grow...? Would be cool to have a helix/spiral shape.
You're going to need something to tie the df. They don't vine that easy. Epic Gardening on UA-cam shows you how to build a great support. Also has great tips on growing. He learned from a guy that grows fields of df.
Would love to see an update of these, great video!
I can try and post one soon
Loved this! Loved seeing the process!
Glad you liked it!! Thanks for watching!
They are very vital and vigorous as plants. Totally love them. You do know they are huge when matured, right? hahaha
Love the video!
Yup I will reduce the total amount as they get bigger
@@TechplantChannel please don't kill them, just make other people equally happy selling/giving them. ^^
The aerial roots are for the plant to stabilize it's vertical growth, the less stable they get, the more of them you will observe.
Tbh not sure they are roots or branch tendrils :/
Edit: Wiki says roots.
I acquired a pot that has so many in it! They’re on the small side now. I would like to know when and how to separate them. I saw a video about someone else’s but it was already huge…. Don’t know what to do with mine
That was truly awesome!! I am definitely going to be growing some, along with prickly pear cacti.
Wow....never would have thought to do this!
Give it a try!
Amazing 🍫🍫
Thank you so much for your informative video.
Awesome presentation 👍
Full of knowledge
Great job brother 👌
Kind of videos that i like, thank you.
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
When I’ve been growing I usually just plant the small one directly into a bucket to spare replanting all the time, because they will grow fast and get really big
This is the fastest I’ve seen them grow. What kind of soil did you use? And are they in a window??
just perlite peatmoss and a little bit of regular dirt. I have them like 10 inches away from grow lights for 15hours a day
Grow lights make a HUGE difference when growing plants because you can hammer them with light all year long and consistent
All I did is plant half of a rooting dragonfruit that I had. Few months didn’t spout. I mixed the soil up then they spouted. They are not that big tho but I’m happy. Maybe I need to transplant
Dragon fruit (Selenicereus undatus) are epiphytes, they love to climb and sprawl. I grow them like cattleya orchids (airy orchid bark, bright light + high humidity and warm temps) and they grow and flower incredibly, they're weed like for me and i regularly have to cut them back.
This was inspiring I am going to try this .
Go for it!
Nice. Can u do an update on the dragonfruit
Nice video. Learnt my lesson buying dragonfruit from online sellers - seems some use the blender method - received too many broken seeds. How many hours a day do you give the lighting?.These look fantastic. !!!
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Amazing content, you should make a discord. I have been watching for awhile.
Ive been thinking about it, but i know moderation is hard
@@TechplantChannel i believe my reply was auto filtered, but it takes not but two seconds to ban dips.
I'm sorry, but I laughed hen you cut your finger 🤣
lol me too
I started growing dragon fruit from some cuttings I was gifted. Now I have to try from seed. Cool this worked out so well. How old is this vid, can we get an update!?
Also, what are you fave lights for growing indoors? Looking for something to supplement the poor indoor lighting at my place.
Great, interesting video. Thank you!
Thank for watching
Unless you need hundreds of seeds for whatever reason, the best method of collecting them for sowing is just taking them out of the fruit one by one, you don't waste any of the fruit and around 10 seeds/plants should be enough anyway.
good point but then you cant watch the blender go brrrrrrr
But the more the better ;-) Every seedling is a new variety
Love your video
Thank you!
I did the same, I also grew them from seeds and they have been growing in a pot for more than 40 days but their growth stopped;
They sprouted but have not developed thorns. I think my mistake was leaving them in direct sun for 3 days, but hydrating them only with water in a pot with substrate, not so drained.
Any recommendation? Did you take yours out into the sun?
😢😢😢
Excelente informação / good information, thanks.
Great video...please keep us updated!
Will do!
Just bought a Dragon fruit. Can't wait to clean the seeds and plant them!
2024! I just planted my dragon fruit seeds strainer method, it’s been 9 days and they already sprouted! They are 1 inch tall, I’m still waiting for the cacti to come out so I can replant!
What I do is to slice the fruit in a very thin layers and then I put the slices on paper towel so the pulp gets dry. When I'm ready to plant I just cut or divide the paper towel on in as many pieces I want and I just put them in a mix of 40% soil and 60% sand. These are dessert plants they need lots of light and little water. Peru is becoming a major grower of this plant and Peruvians plant this in literally just on rock and dust mountains they got there. The plant climbs up the hills or grow horizontally it doesn't matter.
Dragonfruit are not desert plants, but rainforest plants. They are native to the coasts of Mexico, and the coasts of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvadore. They are cultivated in East Asia, South Asia, the United States and the Caribbean, these areas are not deserts.
Lovely cacti!
Thanks
I used the strainer method and minor beautiful like really thick and gorgeous🎉❤❤😊
Mine climbed up the side of my apartment building and the land lord asked me to pull it off.
Amazing!
@@TechplantChannel i have two large ones and they flowered. I thought they had been pollinated but so far no fruits. Zone 9 is so great to be in for plants especially tropicals. Love your channel!
This was such a cool video! Maybe they grow so quick since they have access to water?
yeah maybe, Ive heard they are a tropical cactus so it makes sense they need more water than normal
Indeed. They grow in trees actually in their natural environment.
So how close should they be planted together, and when it's time when should I trans-plant it?
They are definitely interesting to grow.. but I have read it takes 10 years and a lot of luck to get them to bloom and get fruits. And mine hang a lot. Some og them about almost a meter....but I happily keep repotting them each year as they grow....
Nice, I need to get mine growing up a stake
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The strained method: effort can be fruitful.
The blended method: the survivors earned to live.
Love your experiments. Thank you
The yellow palora variety will give fruit within 2 years. Others will take much longer. Unless you graft them on mature rootstock...
Thanks for the info!
You are welcome. I love the slice option :-)
Great video! What did you use to get those macro shots?
I use macro lenses with extension tubes
Is nobody gonna talk about how he just handled the spikes like they didn’t exist
they are very soft like hair almost. they kinda can prick you but its gotta almost be intentional
Cool stuff! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Great information well presented
Great video! I’m growing some now and have had great germination. I also used a strainer. How long did you have your grow lights set to cycle on for? Also at what point did you remove the humidity dome?
When they were about 2 inches tall these are tropical cactus so they like more water compared to most cactus
@@TechplantChannel right! Which is one of the reasons for my concern about that. I live in Colorado. I have removed the humidity domes from the ones I planted since so many of them came up. I have a humidifier running which I’m hoping is enough to keep them content. I have grow lights set to be on for 8 hours each day.
this is so cool!
Thanks
Do they need a very high humidity to start growing? Temperature?
They are a tropical cactus so they do prefer that
I just planted my Dragonfruit seeds tfs
Very helpful video! Thank you and keep up the good work!
the paper towel seems like a significant variable.
If I start growing seeds this week, and want to move house in 2 years, can I move a mature plant, or would I have to disguard it, and start again at the new house?
I suggest to have 1 seedling per container.... but you can also put them in large container....
I'm gunna separate em out soon
Perfect !
The reason they sprout so soon is I think they have to compete in their natural environment. Which is not the desert but forests. Dragon fruit cactus grow into trees. Often like 10 meters high. Here they use the airroots to feed of birddroppings:-)
I’ve had my one surviving baby dragon the whOle summer and it has barely grown at all. It got its first prickles a few weeks ago though!
Just planted a few of these seeds today.... How'd your cacti grow since this video? Any updates?
They are alive but if you want success you gotta train them up a piece of wood
@@TechplantChannel thanks for the update! I'm in SW GA so hopefully everything blooms really good thanks for the update👍
Seedlings cactus 🌵 grow slow, but seedlings 🌱 grow quickly. DF 🐉 take 4-6 years to fruit 🫤. You can graft seedlings to an adult cactus, and get fruit in 2 years . Or plant mature cutting and u get fruit in 8-18 months 👍😃
Omg I need to go get me a dragon fruit asap🤩🤩🤩
Do you think they would make good hanging plants that hang down from the pot? Or should totally tie them up right?
i guess they will stay juvenile if they are left to hang but they still look cool
@@TechplantChannel good to know! I'll have to see which route to take with what space i got 🤣
Maybe you could do a community post with a picture update? Please thank you 🙏