After 3 years of trying I finally have my first fruit nearly ready. 100’s of flowers later but I got it now all thanks to your tips!!! So excited to try my first ever dragon fruit and I grew it!!!
My “trellis” is so packed and ridiculous just from not knowing even kinda what to do that I’ve been taking cuttings for family and friends. Everyone is so interested in it. I can’t wait to build a couple more with different varieties! I will be watching all your videos on how to do so!
@@GraftingDragonFruit I've got a few questions about my dragonfruits and was wondering if you would talk with me about it on insta or something like that. Because that would be very useful
I always love your videos! So educational, but delivered so simply and straightforward! Thank you for helping me learn how to set up my future dragonfruit plants for the best success. So excited to hear about the desert king - I’ve heard amazing things!
I have a Halley's comet plant that is really big. I have it growing up and over an old tyre. It's been flowering for a couple of years now but no fruit. I've just realised it is self sterile. I've purchased another variety which the garden centre assured me was self pollinating, though I don't know what the variety is. I'm hoping it will flower this year and I can start crosspollinating. I heard cross pollination gives better quality fruit even on self pollinating plants. I'm in Cyprus, Europe. Great videos by the way. So helpful
Good Morning! Sir, Thanks! A lot for very useful information video. Right now I'm watching your information video from Malaysia. Wishing you all the best. 🙏🙏
I planted cuttings last summer and this year I had 6 dragon fruit. It was delicious! What do you do after all fruit removed to prepare for next year? TYIA.
Thank you so much! Very helpful videos. I just pollinated my dragon fruit for the first time 2 weeks ago. I believe (after watching your video) it is also a white sapphire. Fingers crossed in about a month I'm tasting my first home grown dragon fruit. Now I need to watch more videos to help me know when it's ripe. Lol.
Yeh, sir Richard, u r a jolly + good looking guy ur videos a very educational. I also have a selfsterile df I use it as a rooting stalk its roots are strong. Now you showed me something I myself should try to cross pollinate and have hybrid variety. Thanks to educate me. I like all ur videos, waiting to see how ur cross pollination works.
Great content 👌. So I noticed that you mentioned that when pollinating the stigma,we have to make sure that the pollen travels down the tube, so if we don't get it down the stigma tube,will that decrease the chances of it fruiting?
Hi I started watching your videos about the dragon fruit plant and I’m impressed of your beautiful plants. Where are you located at? Do you sale them or the seeds ?
Was there a follow up to this one, and E8 showing the fruit? I got to this point and its like the last chapter of the book was torn out! I'm so keen to see the end results from all this work. Did I miss it somewhere please?
Richard you’re so good about dragon fruit , I watched your video couple times and try to clean up my dragon fruit tree has been tryout, I’m not good at it . But now I got one just propagation and taller , I want to find out the wooden frame so my plants can stand taller ! If u can tell me more , thx 😂👍
Hi I love that fruit and it's so interesting the process I like eat them but here we can found in same places but is very expensive greetings from Paris France 🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼
Hi thank you for this guide. My dragon fruit had so many flowers but was not producing the fruit. Will sure try this when next flower blooms. I would like to know, if you have any videos about how to build the house/support trellis for the dragon fruit tree please
I'm not sure what kind of dragon fruit I have. I germinated seeds from store bought fruit. I don't know what variety they are but I bought a red one and a yellow one, both white inside. 3 years later and im getting actual growth now, might make cuttings to root this year to set in forever pots.
Queen of the Night 😍😍😍 most beautyful flower ever 😍 .. how often do you water the cactus and is it possible to trim the catus so it doesn't get so high?
Great vid, with the lightening in the back and the beautiful flowers.. On the other note for the past two videos you have had cool shirts. Any merch coming out??
Thank you! There was thunder and lighting the night I did this video. It was so cool to catch them in the background 😁. They have been some shirts that people been making for me but I do plan to create some merch once my website is finished!
I have just found your channel very informative. I was given a dragonfruit plant and have grown it, it now has 2 flowers starting, i am unsure of the variety, so i wont know if it is self pollinating or not and i dont have any others to cross pollinate any alternatives here? Thanks Brett
After dragon fruits have been harvested, do you remove the branches? If you do remove the branches, how to get new fruiting branches for next year? But if you keep the branches, are you going to get fruits from the same branches next year? Remember, you have removed some or many small flowering buds from the same branches. Are new flowering buds going to regrow from the same spots?
I have several varieties I bought online that are not the varieties they say they are. How do I determine what varieties I have and if they are self sterile or not because so far I’ve lost 7 fruits trying to hand pollinate them. Appreciate the help!
I am growing a cutting I got from my niece but I don't know what kind it is. How do I know if I need no pollinate it or not as this is the only one I have?
Hi, i got a dragon fruit plant from a friend and it has flowered twice since i got it. 8 flowers the 1st time then 10 flowers. I hand pollinated them and no fruit has set. They just go yellow and drop off. Its the vietnamese white variety and the person i got it off does not cross pollinate so i dont think thats the problem. My wife waters them everyday, is that too much? What other reasons could it be for not setting fruit? Thanks
Hi Richard. All my cuttings are from the same plant… I’m not sure of it is self sterile. If it is… will it work if I take the pollen from a neighbouring flower even if it is the same cutting stock?😬
Hi Richard, this is my first time growing dragon fruits. My plants are 10mths old but one is already flower budding and I don't know if I need pollen from another plant to pollinate it. I have three types (yellow , red and undatus). But the one that is growing buds is the yellow one. Do you know if they need to cross pollinate or self pollinate? If they need to cross pollinate do you have pollen that I could use and how do we go about it? I really appreciate your chanel it has taught me so much. Thanks for the help.
I have three cuttings of Alice dragon fruit that I am going to pot. Once they flower, can I cross pollinate from one to the other or do I have to have a different variety?
What if I don’t know which variety that I have? Should I do both self pollinate it and cross pollinate? Lol! I don’t think I would have fruits this year yet. I bought the cutting but can’t remember what I bought. lol !
Thank you for all your sharing of info about growing these unusual fruits! We bought an unknown variety at a farmers market in Fallbrook several years ago. The fruit is small and purple inside. Is there a way to determine which type it is? And is there any particular type that does well in the Bonsall/Fallbrook area?
How can i grow a desert king fruit, if i have to pollinate it with poline from different variety, basically every time i have a cross breed and not a desert king, or i don't get something? Please explain it to me.
Hallo Bro Richard lee,why not provide light to make easier for insect to work at night to pollinate flowers and make it easier for you to work. In indonesia all garden dragon fruits used light for .thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you for the tips! I bought a large rooted cutting online, it's about 2 feet. Should I just let it grow up and eventually it will grow all the legs? or should I prune it at some point?
Hi Richard, I believe one of my dragon fruit plants is a red jaina because of the vibrant red flesh and the cracks in the ripened fruit. Can you please tell me whether that variety is self-sterile, self-fertile, self-pollinating, or a combination? Thanks.
Hey, love your videos, i know this is an old video but i got some questions hopefully that can get answered. I followed all of your how to episodes and i have branches poppoing up everywhere. I removed all of the from the main branch and my initial 5 branch from the main. I want to know, do you let anymore branches grow from your initial 5 branches? Or do you keep removing them and only let those 5 branches flower for the rest of its life? Can your initial 5 branches continue to give fruits for its life? or will i have to regrow the 5 branches again from the main branch?
Very interesting. Question: once you have the pollen, how long it last ti be reuse as many times as you want? And where do you storage it? Inside the frig, outside?
I have been following your tips and after 2 years I finally have some buds on one of my dragon fruit plants, BUT….I have no idea what variety it is. How can I tell what varieties I have and if they are self pollinators or not? Any tips?
I am in a similar situation. I got an Asunta and several other No ID varieties given by a hobbyist. The first 5 Asunta flowers were aborted. But not bummed out because that means the plant will bloom again. You need an American beauty, sugar dragon or a Vietnam white which are universal pollinators. More plants means more blooms, more fresh pollen. Vietnam whites are readily available. Good luck.
After 3 years of trying I finally have my first fruit nearly ready. 100’s of flowers later but I got it now all thanks to your tips!!! So excited to try my first ever dragon fruit and I grew it!!!
That is so AMAZING to hear! Congrats on your success and, I am so happy to know that I was able to help you be successful!!
My “trellis” is so packed and ridiculous just from not knowing even kinda what to do that I’ve been taking cuttings for family and friends. Everyone is so interested in it. I can’t wait to build a couple more with different varieties! I will be watching all your videos on how to do so!
Once you get the hang of it, you’re unstoppable! 😁
Nice !😊
@@GraftingDragonFruit I've got a few questions about my dragonfruits and was wondering if you would talk with me about it on insta or something like that. Because that would be very useful
Please upload episode 8! This series has been so helpful!
He usually goes a year between videos... But now it's coming up on TWO years... So yeah, let's get episode 8!
Thsnks for sharing details on how to pollinate. Thanks for sharing
Mine just bloomed daytime 😊
Nice weather you got coming there .
Thanks much Richard, what a passion you have, lose sleep for DF, great job
It’s gonna be another busy night for me Richard.
I enjoy watching your work👍👍
Busy night is a good night!
So so nice,your very inspiration and your teacher👍👍👍thank you somuch💕💕
Wow... Fascinating. Thank you. I learn new method.
So fascinating watching your vids very interesting, .
Thank You for the Useful tips. Your tips are easy to understand.
Thanks a bunch!
informative video
I diced to start to plant it cuz of u Richard
Thank u sooo much
Once again, Sir Richard, it's from your videos that I learnt what ai know now, thank you so much for all ur videos
Love the supreme headlight buddy😁much love♥️
I always love your videos! So educational, but delivered so simply and straightforward! Thank you for helping me learn how to set up my future dragonfruit plants for the best success. So excited to hear about the desert king - I’ve heard amazing things!
Thank you so much 😁❤️
True 😁
Richard levelin up with the cool intro graphic. As always, great information! Thanks!
Thanks bud, been trying to make the videos a little better every time. I’m a one man team at Grafting Dragon Fruit 😁🤙🏼
Thank you Bro. Richard for your videos
Love your T Shirts
Great work!
Enjoy your videos.
That’s awesome! When I get my new dragonfruit plants and set them up permanently, I’ll definitely rewatch this whole series along it’s growth!
I have a Halley's comet plant that is really big. I have it growing up and over an old tyre. It's been flowering for a couple of years now but no fruit. I've just realised it is self sterile. I've purchased another variety which the garden centre assured me was self pollinating, though I don't know what the variety is. I'm hoping it will flower this year and I can start crosspollinating. I heard cross pollination gives better quality fruit even on self pollinating plants. I'm in Cyprus, Europe. Great videos by the way. So helpful
Good Morning! Sir,
Thanks! A lot for very useful information video. Right now I'm watching your information video from Malaysia.
Wishing you all the best. 🙏🙏
تحياتى لك من جمهوريه مصر العربية
Awesome tips
Beautiful flower! Love your videos greetings from México❤🇲🇽
Thank you, greetings! 😁
Thank you sensei
Thanks!
Loving that shirt Richard! Looks good!
That is a pretty sweet shirt!
Thankyou for sharing with us Richard 😊
I planted cuttings last summer and this year I had 6 dragon fruit. It was delicious! What do you do after all fruit removed to prepare for next year? TYIA.
Love your videos. It looks like a storm brewing behind you 😳
Yet again a very fun and informative video on dragon fruit. Thanks !
Amazing 😆
Gracias Sensei Richard. Aplico todo lo que enseñas en tu canal. 🙌🙌
You’re welcome!
Is good to know I like how you told and talk and you are very good looking
Thank you so much! Very helpful videos. I just pollinated my dragon fruit for the first time 2 weeks ago. I believe (after watching your video) it is also a white sapphire. Fingers crossed in about a month I'm tasting my first home grown dragon fruit. Now I need to watch more videos to help me know when it's ripe. Lol.
Yeh, sir Richard, u r a jolly + good looking guy ur videos a very educational. I also have a selfsterile df I use it as a rooting stalk its roots are strong. Now you showed me something I myself should try to cross pollinate and have hybrid variety. Thanks to educate me. I like all ur videos, waiting to see how ur cross pollination works.
I ran into your channel and wow. Would love to try n grow a dragon fruit but my climate doesn't allow it. Keep up the great videos and info
Mantap bang lanjut pidio nya
Great video brother!!!🤙🏼
Glad you liked it!
Awesome! Thank you for your instructions
Just subscribe.. growing 3 types and hoping for fruits in the future
I have Queen of the Night plant and been thinking of it would give me Dragan fruits. 🤣
This is a very interesting video 7:25
Awesome
Great content 👌. So I noticed that you mentioned that when pollinating the stigma,we have to make sure that the pollen travels down the tube, so if we don't get it down the stigma tube,will that decrease the chances of it fruiting?
Hi I started watching your videos about the dragon fruit plant and I’m impressed of your beautiful plants. Where are you located at? Do you sale them or the seeds ?
Was there a follow up to this one, and E8 showing the fruit? I got to this point and its like the last chapter of the book was torn out! I'm so keen to see the end results from all this work. Did I miss it somewhere please?
Richard you’re so good about dragon fruit , I watched your video couple times and try to clean up my dragon fruit tree has been tryout, I’m not good at it . But now I got one just propagation and taller , I want to find out the wooden frame so my plants can stand taller ! If u can tell me more , thx 😂👍
Great sir Richard, hope to see the fruit you pollinated today. 🤦🤦. Stay safe always.
Hi I love that fruit and it's so interesting the process I like eat them but here we can found in same places but is very expensive greetings from Paris France 🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼
Thank you, in United States there are abundance of them everywhere.
Hi thank you for this guide. My dragon fruit had so many flowers but was not producing the fruit. Will sure try this when next flower blooms. I would like to know, if you have any videos about how to build the house/support trellis for the dragon fruit tree please
Sounds like you need to cross pollinate. Yes, I have videos on my channel to build those. Just search trellis within the video section
I'm not sure what kind of dragon fruit I have. I germinated seeds from store bought fruit. I don't know what variety they are but I bought a red one and a yellow one, both white inside. 3 years later and im getting actual growth now, might make cuttings to root this year to set in forever pots.
With cross pollination, will the fruit taste different compared to pollinated with the same variety?
Awesome videos! Thanks! 🙂
Queen of the Night 😍😍😍 most beautyful flower ever 😍 .. how often do you water the cactus and is it possible to trim the catus so it doesn't get so high?
Great vid, with the lightening in the back and the beautiful flowers.. On the other note for the past two videos you have had cool shirts. Any merch coming out??
Thank you! There was thunder and lighting the night I did this video. It was so cool to catch them in the background 😁. They have been some shirts that people been making for me but I do plan to create some merch once my website is finished!
Great information thank you. Where do you recommend getting cuttings from?
Hi great videos and awsome collection. How do you know if its a self sterile or not?
I have just found your channel very informative. I was given a dragonfruit plant and have grown it, it now has 2 flowers starting, i am unsure of the variety, so i wont know if it is self pollinating or not and i dont have any others to cross pollinate any alternatives here?
Thanks Brett
Also what species are self pollinating and which are not? Thank you
After dragon fruits have been harvested, do you remove the branches? If you do remove the branches, how to get new fruiting branches for next year? But if you keep the branches, are you going to get fruits from the same branches next year? Remember, you have removed some or many small flowering buds from the same branches. Are new flowering buds going to regrow from the same spots?
How do you make the trellis for them?
You can also plant dragon fruit
I have several varieties I bought online that are not the varieties they say they are. How do I determine what varieties I have and if they are self sterile or not because so far I’ve lost 7 fruits trying to hand pollinate them. Appreciate the help!
I am growing a cutting I got from my niece but I don't know what kind it is. How do I know if I need no pollinate it or not as this is the only one I have?
Suggest the pruning of my plant
Is there a way to store the pollen to use later if I don't have any other flowers that day
Hi, i got a dragon fruit plant from a friend and it has flowered twice since i got it. 8 flowers the 1st time then 10 flowers. I hand pollinated them and no fruit has set. They just go yellow and drop off. Its the vietnamese white variety and the person i got it off does not cross pollinate so i dont think thats the problem. My wife waters them everyday, is that too much? What other reasons could it be for not setting fruit? Thanks
Hi Richard. All my cuttings are from the same plant… I’m not sure of it is self sterile. If it is… will it work if I take the pollen from a neighbouring flower even if it is the same cutting stock?😬
Would it be possible to share a couple of pics with you to see if you can tell what species of dragon fruit I have?
Hi Richard, this is my first time growing dragon fruits. My plants are 10mths old but one is already flower budding and I don't know if I need pollen from another plant to pollinate it. I have three types (yellow , red and undatus). But the one that is growing buds is the yellow one. Do you know if they need to cross pollinate or self pollinate?
If they need to cross pollinate do you have pollen that I could use and how do we go about it? I really appreciate your chanel it has taught me so much. Thanks for the help.
I just bought a red dragon fruit!
How do you know if yours is self sterile or self fertile or self pollinate?
I know where you got that nice looking shirt hahaha 808 HDG ;-)
Way to represent with that nice looking shirt. :)
Do you know where can I get Ecuador dragon fruit plants. Thanks you.
Richard, are still making your website or is it up now?
What kind of pollination is Ecuador Palora?
I have three cuttings of Alice dragon fruit that I am going to pot. Once they flower, can I cross pollinate from one to the other or do I have to have a different variety?
Please do Turkish subtitle I dont understand english
What can cause dragon fruit branches to dry out?
What if I don’t know which variety that I have? Should I do both self pollinate it and cross pollinate? Lol! I don’t think I would have fruits this year yet. I bought the cutting but can’t remember what I bought. lol !
Can you store the pollen you collected? How?
Thank you for all your sharing of info about growing these unusual fruits! We bought an unknown variety at a farmers market in Fallbrook several years ago. The fruit is small and purple inside. Is there a way to determine which type it is? And is there any particular type that does well in the Bonsall/Fallbrook area?
How can i grow a desert king fruit, if i have to pollinate it with poline from different variety, basically every time i have a cross breed and not a desert king, or i don't get something? Please explain it to me.
Hallo Bro Richard lee,why not provide light to make easier for insect to work at night to pollinate flowers and make it easier for you to work.
In indonesia all garden dragon fruits used light for .thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Where can I buy healthy dragonfruit starts?
There are many nocturnal pollinators. Birds, bats, moths, etc.
My 3 year old Dragon fruit cuttings seem to be long and thin. Not as thick as yours. what is the cause of this? What is the fertilizer mix, 16 16 16?
How do you collect the seeds??
Thank you for the tips! I bought a large rooted cutting online, it's about 2 feet. Should I just let it grow up and eventually it will grow all the legs? or should I prune it at some point?
Prune when it reaches top of the trellis
how many days! It will dry up sir
If i got a plant from someone that doesn’t know what kind it is. What happens if i don’t have multiple flowers open in that same night?
Hi Richard, I believe one of my dragon fruit plants is a red jaina because of the vibrant red flesh and the cracks in the ripened fruit. Can you please tell me whether that variety is self-sterile, self-fertile, self-pollinating, or a combination? Thanks.
Hey, love your videos, i know this is an old video but i got some questions hopefully that can get answered. I followed all of your how to episodes and i have branches poppoing up everywhere. I removed all of the from the main branch and my initial 5 branch from the main. I want to know, do you let anymore branches grow from your initial 5 branches? Or do you keep removing them and only let those 5 branches flower for the rest of its life? Can your initial 5 branches continue to give fruits for its life? or will i have to regrow the 5 branches again from the main branch?
How long from the time the bud first appears until it opens up and is ready to be pollinated?
I had about 18 flowers and pollinated all of them, but only one produced a fruit. All of them a grown from one. What went wrong?
Can you link to the exact head lamp you found?
Very interesting. Question: once you have the pollen, how long it last ti be reuse as many times as you want? And where do you storage it? Inside the frig, outside?
Here’s the answer to your question!
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Thank you, I just watched the other video. Appreciated for your prompt answer.
I have been following your tips and after 2 years I finally have some buds on one of my dragon fruit plants, BUT….I have no idea what variety it is. How can I tell what varieties I have and if they are self pollinators or not? Any tips?
I am in a similar situation. I got an Asunta and several other No ID varieties given by a hobbyist. The first 5 Asunta flowers were aborted. But not bummed out because that means the plant will bloom again. You need an American beauty, sugar dragon or a Vietnam white which are universal pollinators. More plants means more blooms, more fresh pollen. Vietnam whites are readily available. Good luck.