Haven't watched in a long time but you were the one who inspired me to get growing. Got a multitude of dragon fruit big and small, but today I finally am ready to move in to finally pot going to that video now. Much love brother.
Congratulations for your new baby and your new home. We were missing you and wished to have additional information on yours dragon fruits knowledge and research. Welcome back to continue giving us new news on your experiments. Also congrats for your new channel "Foodie TV" Thanks for all the knowledge you share with us. Keep up the good work. 👏👏👏
A side note..I want to say thank you for getting me started on my dragon journey Richard...its been super rewarding, and devastating because of the big freeze..but I'm starting fresh again and strong..got some fantastic new dragons thanks to this awesome community helping eachother..I have Physical Graffiti, Sugar dragon, Hana, and Asunta 3....and honestly that's all I need..its a great selection of flower and fruit types!
Richard CONGRATS!!! I am so tickled for you and your family. A new home, A new channel, More videos, and a new baby! WTG! May your family keep receiving blessings. You have brought a lot of joy into this old Ladys life. Now, I did not see your little girl in this video. taps foot. Got to see how big Riley has grown! Big huggies to your whole family. Thank you again.
This is the exact video I was looking for. We are planning to move and moving our dragon fruit was a hugh dilemma. But not anymore, thanks to you. And congrats on your new house.
Congratulations! I had a daughter last year and gardening (I have one dragon fruit indoor/outdoor in a 5 gallon pot I rooted in march) it’s gotten me feeling like me again!
The way I held my breath when the plants were going through the gates! You could have still made content while the dragons were acclimating so people could follow along and see how they bounce back!
Missed you and your great sharing about dragonfruit! Congrats on your new baby boy! Enjoy your new home! Your 2023 is a flourishing year, we are all happy for you! God bless you and family, stay safe and well!
I know the feeling when you move house and can't part with your dragon babies 🐲 I spent a year preparing for my big move by buying wine barrels, attaching wheels and uprooting in ground established plants (trellis and all) to wheel out of the house, onto the removals truck and wheel in to the new house. Just myself and a little help from the wife 😊
I really enjoyed watching moving the dragon fruit as I need to move mine in for the winter / super cold weeks. I wish you had filmed the for sun issues as I burnt mine when they got moved out for the summer. I started from seed and am in NC and have been learning as I go.
Thank you! I wished I had time to film all that recovery part as well. I was so busy moving into the new home the dragons were a bit neglected until winter came. If you’re getting sun scolding in your area I recommend using 30% shade cloth. This will keep them super happy and the sun burn won’t happen to them.
Congrats on the new baby!!! I was just thinking about how to orchestrate a move of my DF if I had to--so nice surprise to see this video pop up!! Great info as always!!
Damn...me over here with just 4....haha I grow other things though so believe me it's a good variety of stuff. But 22!! That's lots of heavy poky dragons. And I bet it can get expensive..woo
congratulations for new baby and new house 💕🥳 .....all the best for future 👍....waiting for more of your videos and maybe a new house tour.....although you seems to be too busy for that right now😄
great work hope seeing more videos from you i wanna ask you a question .i have a 1 year old dragon fruit trees {the leaves start shrinking like dehydrated} HELP PLEASE is it over watering
Wow! What a job! If you are in GG or Westminster, I would love for you to come to my home and make a video of what I am doing wrong with my dragonfruit. I have great ties to the Little Saigon area as I was an educator for the Westminster School District. Did you go to Warner MS?
Congrats to you and your wife on the new Baby and the new House David. Keeping you I my prayers. I have a question. You know how Vietnam White is considered a pure Undatus variety, and Red Jaina is considered a pure Polyrhizus variety do you know of any Pure Stenopterus varieties? I am working on new varieties myself and I want a pure Stenopterus to work with. I already have Setaceus, Undatus, Costaricensis, Guatmalensis, Polyrhizus, and Megalanthus. I have not yet, however identified a pure Stenopterus. Can you help me or point me in the direction of a resource that can help me? Blessings!
Is that orange trees in the background there at your new place? I glad you got everything moved, moving is always a horrible job. I The foodie TV you new chanel you were talking about Thanks
I have a trellis with 4 different varieties of dragon fruit on it. All have started to bud. Trying to research flower to fruit times for each of the plants. So far I’ve found Delight 41 days Sugar Dragon 42 days AX+ 60 days Condor ? Are these about right? Purchased all from cal poly nursery 2 years ago. Thanks
Yes, all my older pots have fox farm. I’m currently making the change Gary’s best top soil. It has more sand in their blend so it drains better. I’ll be testing this new potting soil out this season.
@@GraftingDragonFruitHi Richard, been followed you since started. I’m planning to use Gary’s top soil as well. Do you use 100% of Gary’s top soil or kind of mix with something? Thanks
I plan to add about 20% of Fox farm into Gary’s top soil to incorporate the organic fertilizer into the mix’s. That way the dragons have readily nutrients to feed right away. With Gary’s top soil make sure to add your organic fertilizer to the top of soil.
That is correct! Gary’s top soil tends to dry out daily so adding 20% fox farm should keep moisture in enough to not dry out everyday and enough to drain on winter rainy days.
Honestly, i would have just bought a hydraulic table cart for less than 300 bucks from harbor freight. It can get it off 2ft off the ground. So all the tops of the df wouldn't be pushed in too much.
Blessings on your new home and on your upcoming baby 🙏🏻. Wanted to ask something can I mix different polen varieties to cross pollinate? Like Mixing Ecuador Palora, AB and SG polen to pollinate each one or other varieties. Some ppl have mentioned me that Ecuador palora polen is not good for other varieties is it true?
Yes you can mix pollen variety to cross pollinate but I would not recommend using Ecuador Palora to cross pollinate. Palora seems to fail on a lot of other varieties becuase ive tried it myself to try to create new varieties but the Palora pollen would fail when I use it to cross other varieties. So yes its true.
Shade cloth. 30-40% and mist it at night when flowers aren't opening. I don't live in Vegas but my setup is similar to the nursery at home depot... my shade cloth is about 8-10ft above ground... covering most of my yard.
My current soil mixture in my pots are all fox farm ocean forest. But this year, I’m making the switch to a mineral based soil. All the dragons will be moving to new soil medium called. Gary’s best top soil.
@@GraftingDragonFruit Thank you for providing information.🫡 I have a few ocamponis that I imported from Mexico (wild no ids). One has bigger thorns than el grullo, and the other 2 variety’s have medium thorns and the other has tiny thorns that are barley visible with its unique traits. The fruit from those no ids are actually tasty and sweet
@@GraftingDragonFruit one of the buds were broken into WAYYY before it was bloom time and it still managed to turn into a fruit. The dark green small thorned ones love crawling onto rocks also trees, but they grow in cool areas by rivers on rocks usually. They have round and nice looking wild fruit. The extremely thorny DF that grows in drier areas by mountains, have skinny longish fruit (they share the same traits as el grullo and el grullo Jalisco, is 3 hours away) I just started with my DF growing journey and locally someone sells trellises that are very well made for $30 and 25 gal pots at my local nursery are $8 local construction sites by my area don’t give the scrap 2x4 and rather throw it away at landfills 🥲
pls dont do the thing that epic gardens does where he pops out of random spots. It looks really awkward in his video production when you seem him squatting then stand up into the frame of the camera. Is it suppose to add some aesthetic video production? I t really annoys me when I see him jump or stand into the frame of the picture. Plsssssssss dont be like him,,,,you are so much cooler
Hope you guys enjoyed the video! More will be coming :)
congratulations Richard! I hope yo can sell me some of those broken branches 😅🙏
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Haven't watched in a long time but you were the one who inspired me to get growing. Got a multitude of dragon fruit big and small, but today I finally am ready to move in to finally pot going to that video now. Much love brother.
Congratulations for your new baby and your new home. We were missing you and wished to have additional information on yours dragon fruits knowledge and research. Welcome back to continue giving us new news on your experiments. Also congrats for your new channel "Foodie TV" Thanks for all the knowledge you share with us. Keep up the good work. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much!
Congratulations, Richard, on many levels. Good to see you back and looking forward to seeing more content from your passion for Dragon Fruit
Much appreciated!
All wonderful news!!! I'm excited
A side note..I want to say thank you for getting me started on my dragon journey Richard...its been super rewarding, and devastating because of the big freeze..but I'm starting fresh again and strong..got some fantastic new dragons thanks to this awesome community helping eachother..I have Physical Graffiti, Sugar dragon, Hana, and Asunta 3....and honestly that's all I need..its a great selection of flower and fruit types!
You're welcome and sucks to hear about the downs, but you'll have amazing fruits soon!
Richard CONGRATS!!! I am so tickled for you and your family. A new home, A new channel, More videos, and a new baby! WTG! May your family keep receiving blessings. You have brought a lot of joy into this old Ladys life. Now, I did not see your little girl in this video. taps foot. Got to see how big Riley has grown! Big huggies to your whole family. Thank you again.
Thank you so much! Appreciate it very much :)
CongoRatz on new pad and youngling inc =)! Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks bro!
This is the exact video I was looking for. We are planning to move and moving our dragon fruit was a hugh dilemma. But not anymore, thanks to you.
And congrats on your new house.
Thank you and so glad it was helpful. Good luck with your move!
Good to watch. Got some ideas for when I move. Aside from dragon fruit I have a ton of trees and veggies that need to come with me
Glad it helped!
Best wishes to all the wonderful things happening to you and your family! A baby girl and the new house!
Thank you so much!!
Congratulations! I had a daughter last year and gardening (I have one dragon fruit indoor/outdoor in a 5 gallon pot I rooted in march) it’s gotten me feeling like me again!
That's so awesome! Hope all is well with your family
The way I held my breath when the plants were going through the gates! You could have still made content while the dragons were acclimating so people could follow along and see how they bounce back!
Missed you and your great sharing about dragonfruit! Congrats on your new baby boy! Enjoy your new home! Your 2023 is a flourishing year, we are all happy for you! God bless you and family, stay safe and well!
Thank you so much! More to come very soon :)
Congratulations new house and Baby!!
Thank you!
Congrats .. to your new home and to your new additions in the family .. i am glad your back … you are my mentor 😘
Thank you so much!
That is great! Congratulations for the new home and a new baby (boy) soon. God bless
Thank you so much!
I know the feeling when you move house and can't part with your dragon babies 🐲
I spent a year preparing for my big move by buying wine barrels, attaching wheels and uprooting in ground established plants (trellis and all) to wheel out of the house, onto the removals truck and wheel in to the new house.
Just myself and a little help from the wife 😊
Wow that's incredible! So glad you both were able to move it
I really enjoyed watching moving the dragon fruit as I need to move mine in for the winter / super cold weeks. I wish you had filmed the for sun issues as I burnt mine when they got moved out for the summer. I started from seed and am in NC and have been learning as I go.
Thank you! I wished I had time to film all that recovery part as well. I was so busy moving into the new home the dragons were a bit neglected until winter came.
If you’re getting sun scolding in your area I recommend using 30% shade cloth. This will keep them super happy and the sun burn won’t happen to them.
Triple congratulations!! 🏠 👶 📺
What joy with all the expansions! Can't wait to see more of your dragon valley, and join you in foodie adventures.
Thank you so much! Appreciate all the support ❤️
oh wow nice move! and i was just in Japan for my bday for 2 weeks back in march! LOVED it, so greatttt
Happy belated! Japan is so amazing
WOW!!! Alot of work! Congratulations on your new baby & your new home!!
Thank you!! Lots of work but worth all the efforts!
Congrats on the new baby!!! I was just thinking about how to orchestrate a move of my DF if I had to--so nice surprise to see this video pop up!! Great info as always!!
Thank you! Glad it help. Good luck with the move!
Congratulations
Thanks!
thanks
You're welcome!
Love your background, full of your neighbor fruit, now you can eat dragon fruit and citrus 🤤
Perfect combo
Wat up Richard, Smashing the like button!
Thanks bro!
Always Insightful.Thank you
Congrats on all the new blessings!
Thank you ❤️!
Congratulations Richard for your baby and your new home. You did a great job. God bless
Thank you so much!
Very nice 👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗
Love to watch you always
Thank you
Congrats Richard! Exciting! Dragon King! 🐉
Thanks bro!
Congratulations!!!
Thank you!!
Yay!!!! Congratulations and welcome back!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you Lan!
Hey Rashid Congs for ur new home . Exciting , your biggest support from Africa Uganda . ( kalf rabbitry)
Thank you!
Ur email please .
Sweeet! Nice update
Thank you!
Wow. What a job to move them. Much blessings on your new place 🦋
Thank you!
Good to see your efforts and care. Like it.
Thank you!!
That is a lot of work. I gonna need to think about that too when I move.
Yes definitely plan ahead
Congrats on the comeback man!!!
Thank you!
Love the new format and logo Richard! Congrats on the new home! Looking forward to all you’re doing
Ahh I appreciate all the love! Thank you!
Mashallah
Congratulations on the new addition to the family!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉. How many DF plants you guys moved total???
Thank you! We moved a total of 22 established dragon fruit plants! 😅
Damn...me over here with just 4....haha I grow other things though so believe me it's a good variety of stuff. But 22!! That's lots of heavy poky dragons. And I bet it can get expensive..woo
haha you got other stuff so as long as you have one dragon fruit, that's already good!
congratulations for new baby and new house 💕🥳 .....all the best for future 👍....waiting for more of your videos and maybe a new house tour.....although you seems to be too busy for that right now😄
Thank you!! Perhaps a house tour soon!
@@GraftingDragonFruit yay ! 💐🎉😄
Much loved dragons! That will be me one of these days 😆How old are you plants? They look huge! Congrats on your new addition to the family!
Thank you so much! The plants are several years old. Average 2-3 years
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
great work
hope seeing more videos from you
i wanna ask you a question .i have a 1 year old dragon fruit trees {the leaves start shrinking like dehydrated}
HELP PLEASE
is it over watering
Thank you. More is coming!
This video might help your situation ua-cam.com/video/N6HpqfM7-bo/v-deo.html
Wow! What a job! If you are in GG or Westminster, I would love for you to come to my home and make a video of what I am doing wrong with my dragonfruit. I have great ties to the Little Saigon area as I was an educator for the Westminster School District. Did you go to Warner MS?
Congrats to you and your wife on the new Baby and the new House David. Keeping you I my prayers. I have a question. You know how Vietnam White is considered a pure Undatus variety, and Red Jaina is considered a pure Polyrhizus variety do you know of any Pure Stenopterus varieties? I am working on new varieties myself and I want a pure Stenopterus to work with. I already have Setaceus, Undatus, Costaricensis, Guatmalensis, Polyrhizus, and Megalanthus. I have not yet, however identified a pure Stenopterus. Can you help me or point me in the direction of a resource that can help me? Blessings!
Thank you! Have you tried asking in my FB group? Lots of people can help
Congrats!!, do you think its a good idea to wrap dragon fruit the way you did during winter?
Thank you! I haven't tried it, but it might not be because it could potentially hold too much moister and cause rotting.
Is that orange trees in the background there at your new place? I glad you got everything moved, moving is always a horrible job. I The foodie TV you new chanel you were talking about Thanks
Yes they are! Good eye. Thank you for the support!
Subbed to the food tv show
Thanks bro!
Congratulations 🎉❤
Thank you!
I have a trellis with 4 different varieties of dragon fruit on it. All have started to bud. Trying to research flower to fruit times for each of the plants. So far I’ve found
Delight 41 days
Sugar Dragon 42 days
AX+ 60 days
Condor ?
Are these about right?
Purchased all from cal poly nursery 2 years ago.
Thanks
Condor takes about 40-45 days
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Thank you! Hope to visit one day
Hi Rechard can I have some asuga branch please thank you so much .
Wow, how many trellis did you relocate?
Do you still have fox farms in your older pots????
Yes, all my older pots have fox farm. I’m currently making the change Gary’s best top soil. It has more sand in their blend so it drains better. I’ll be testing this new potting soil out this season.
@@GraftingDragonFruitHi Richard, been followed you since started. I’m planning to use Gary’s top soil as well. Do you use 100% of Gary’s top soil or kind of mix with something? Thanks
I plan to add about 20% of Fox farm into Gary’s top soil to incorporate the organic fertilizer into the mix’s. That way the dragons have readily nutrients to feed right away.
With Gary’s top soil make sure to add your organic fertilizer to the top of soil.
@@GraftingDragonFruit thank you! So mix 20% of foxfarm then add organic fertilizer like VermisTerra Earthworm Castings - Organic?
That is correct! Gary’s top soil tends to dry out daily so adding 20% fox farm should keep moisture in enough to not dry out everyday and enough to drain on winter rainy days.
Honestly, i would have just bought a hydraulic table cart for less than 300 bucks from harbor freight. It can get it off 2ft off the ground. So all the tops of the df wouldn't be pushed in too much.
Now that I know the viewers would like to see all my process bad or good. Ill definitely consider making more content about that. Thanks!
Blessings on your new home and on your upcoming baby 🙏🏻. Wanted to ask something can I mix different polen varieties to cross pollinate? Like Mixing Ecuador Palora, AB and SG polen to pollinate each one or other varieties. Some ppl have mentioned me that Ecuador palora polen is not good for other varieties is it true?
Yes you can mix pollen variety to cross pollinate but I would not recommend using Ecuador Palora to cross pollinate. Palora seems to fail on a lot of other varieties becuase ive tried it myself to try to create new varieties but the Palora pollen would fail when I use it to cross other varieties. So yes its true.
Thanks a lot for clarifying my doubt Richard 🙏🏻
Richard, you should let me know, and I could give you a hand
Thank you for offering :)
Congrad
Thank you!
How many dragonfruit pots did you move?
I moved a total of 22 establish dragon fruit plants!
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So quick!
My fiend wat plant caddy did u use were did u purchase it?
Just used a standard moving dolly found at home depot
How many years after seed germination will pitahaya bear fruit?
It can take 3-5 years for a seedling to bear fruit. If you want it to be faster I recommend grafting the seedling.
Question if you lived in Vegas like I do, it gets to 110F+. How would you protect it from the heat, the dragon fruits.
Shade cloth. 30-40% and mist it at night when flowers aren't opening. I don't live in Vegas but my setup is similar to the nursery at home depot... my shade cloth is about 8-10ft above ground... covering most of my yard.
Thanks for chiming in!
What’s the current soil mix you use ?
My current soil mixture in my pots are all fox farm ocean forest. But this year, I’m making the switch to a mineral based soil. All the dragons will be moving to new soil medium called. Gary’s best top soil.
@@GraftingDragonFruit Thank you for providing information.🫡 I have a few ocamponis that I imported from Mexico (wild no ids). One has bigger thorns than el grullo, and the other 2 variety’s have medium thorns and the other has tiny thorns that are barley visible with its unique traits. The fruit from those no ids are actually tasty and sweet
Wow that’s so cool! Finding wild native dragon fruit is always fun and even better when they taste good!
@@GraftingDragonFruit one of the buds were broken into WAYYY before it was bloom time and it still managed to turn into a fruit. The dark green small thorned ones love crawling onto rocks also trees, but they grow in cool areas by rivers on rocks usually. They have round and nice looking wild fruit. The extremely thorny DF that grows in drier areas by mountains, have skinny longish fruit (they share the same traits as el grullo and el grullo Jalisco, is 3 hours away) I just started with my DF growing journey and locally someone sells trellises that are very well made for $30 and 25 gal pots at my local nursery are $8 local construction sites by my area don’t give the scrap 2x4 and rather throw it away at landfills 🥲
You’re on your way to become a dragon fruit addict just like me. Welcome to the club 😆
Patrick! 😆
My best friend and biggest supporter! 😁
And congrats Richard!
Thank you Daisy!!!
Just got a Worth Lime Richard, is there any information you might have on this variety?
I haven't encountered that one just yet. You'll have to keep us updated!
I moved 9 hours away about 2 years ago and my dragon fruit was about the same as the last one you packed in and it fell over 😢
oh no! Hope you were able to grow some new ones
How can i get cuttings from you? Thanks.
Goal is to have some available on my website later this winter.
Thanks Richard.
what is the average weight? I think 225 lbs
I would say you’re pretty spot on. Around 200-250lbs per plant!
Give me some new hybrid dragon seedling
Try asking the FB group
pls dont do the thing that epic gardens does where he pops out of random spots. It looks really awkward in his video production when you seem him squatting then stand up into the frame of the camera. Is it suppose to add some aesthetic video production? I t really annoys me when I see him jump or stand into the frame of the picture. Plsssssssss dont be like him,,,,you are so much cooler
haha thanks for the feedback. Just trying different things with the new content coming out
Why is the weird guy wearing a mask outside?
There was a lot of dust from moving.
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Your comment is not relevant
@Kristian Pham
Congratulations
Thank you!