Dragon fruit update 2024.15: Update on the last toothpick grafting.

Update on the toothpick grafting of the hybrids from the back-cross of KXT RR with KVA. Lesson learned: no need for plastic bag protection after grafting; leave the grafted seedlings outside right away is better than "protect" them inside; directly grafting seedlings on branches with a tiny hole better than grafting them on freshly cut surface of the branch.

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Thanks for sharing

[@yipee2010]

Thank you for sharing your update 👍

[@Backyarddragonfruits]

Taking your advice my wife did trellis top graft seedling and hers is taking off. Mine on a potted root stalk, is the same size as the ungrafted seedlings. So, I put 3 more trellis tops 3 days ago, with no bag. 1 dried up and fell off by the next morning. The other 2 still look good. Thanks for the great videos 👍

[@xiaoli2142]

Nice to hear your successful story!

[@liorsilverstein9802]

you seem to be a very sweet lady, love you alrerady and the pitahayas.

[@bryanjuarez9024]

Wow nice grafts how did you do the one on the side of the branch and not on the horizontal cut ones?

[@xiaoli2142]

Thank you for watching my video. I just cut a small cross on the side of the branch and insert the tip of the toothpick into it and make the hole a little bigger for the insertion of the seedling with a diagonal cutting at the end and light scratch on the side. This way, the open injury on the root-stock will be minimum so with less fungal bacterial infection.

[@liorsilverstein9802]

what kind of climate are you own, rainy? humid tropical, desert, cold, what zone please I like very much what you are doing. I can recreate pitahaya from seed but I have some problematic cacti seeds I want to graft.

[@xiaoli2142]

I am at North Central Florida 9a. We are rainy, humid, hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Every winter, there are always those few freezing nights that will kill dragon fruit, so I have to have a greenhouse to grow them so that I don't have to worry about if they can survive the winter.

[@liorsilverstein9802]

@@xiaoli2142 ah ok how did you do vs the hurricanes?

[@liorsilverstein9802]

@@xiaoli2142 I am in the caribbean, I get same water minus the freezing. Also hurricanes

[@xiaoli2142]

@@liorsilverstein9802 We are at central Florida so there is some distance towards both coast so most of the hurricanes miss us.😊

[@liorsilverstein9802]

@@xiaoli2142 ah perfect, it can be a nightmare for hylocereus