Dragon Fruit Tour Of My Dragon Valley! How I'm Growing My Dragon Fruits
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2023
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In this video, I take you on the long awaited tour of my dragon valley and show you all the dragon fruits variety I am currently growing! I also share what my future plans for Grafting Dragon Fruits and the goals I want to achieve with making new dragon fruit hybrids and more accessible to everyone.
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What are your favorite Dragon Fruit varieties?
The 5 I have not created yet. Started last year, now I have 69 varieties in my back yard, my dream is to create 5 New Dragons and name them after my 5 Kidz
My favorites are the ones I grew from seed. I have one I call Godzooky that tastes fantastic and produces more fruit than all my others combined.
Of known varieties my favorite for taste would be sugar dragon.
My wife wants to try them all. I did get her a clipping of one last year. Been watching, learning, and growing from you. When the store opens I definitely will buy a few cuttings (had bad luck with seeds).
@StrattusAD it's best to start from a mature Cutting, if you like I can Share any of my 69 Varieties
@@pedromunoz4468 Wow 69!! That's amazing and that's a super cool goal. Keep us updated with the future 5
So my roomy bought me a dragon fruit plant, and shortly thereafter UA-cam deemed it necessary that I watch you. Yes, I subscribed. As a retired landscaper, this is a new experience, I've never cared for succulents but the fruit intrigues me. My baby is thriving and I am searching for the perfect pot for the back deck, we have deer that decimate anything I put in the ground.
Your roommate knew how good dragon fruits are! Good luck with your journey and thanks for supporting the channel :)
Congratulations on your move to a new location! We have been subscribed to your channel for a very long time and still believe you are the “Dragon Fruit King”. We love how you describe & educate the rest of us novices!
Thank you so much and for the support!
Thank you for making this video. Good to know others have setbacks from time to time from weather damage and what has worked for you for recovery.
Very welcome! Thank you for watching and hopefully it was helpful for anything that you're experiencing.
Thank you for sharing your collection with us.
My pleasure!
Happy seeing you Richard! Lots of new ideas ahead. Keep it up!
Thank you Alik, I hope you’re doing well! Your Dragon orchard looks amazing, I might have to come visit sometime!
Fantastic!!
Because of your helpful videos I bought 12 Vietnam Red plants and they have been growing about 1 foot a month which is amazing to see. I can't wait to see them flower and finally produce some fruit for me one day.
So glad you're having great success! You will have fruits soon enough!
Hey ,Richard thanks for that solidarity, I tried to plant Siam c variety , in Dubai 3 years today am very excited to see my first blooming . Hopefully u content will enable expend my research . Thank u much.
Wish you the best of luck! I'm sure you will get fruits soon enough
Hey Richard I am a big lover of this cactus species, I love the new set up tour and the plants.
I am looking forward in one of your videos that you grow a 'somatic' grafted dragon fruit hybrid of to unique varieties. the before and after results. Thank you
Thank you so much. Stay tuned for more!
WOW you have so much space now! love it. Can even get your daughter a swing set to go outside to play on when you're working with your dragon fruit!!! now that's a nice yard. I learn more and more with each video you put out. THANK YOU.
That's the plan soon! Thank you for watching and glad the videos help :)
Please let me know as soon as you’re about ready to launch. You have several cuttings I would love to have in my garden!! Thanks for all your great advice and information!,
Be sure to follow all my socials so you don't miss an announcement
dude, totally cool... I'm so jealous !! wish I could grow my own 😊
Hopefully one day you can!
Can’t wait for your different varieties catalog.Richard you are DF bomb😊 😊 😊
Coming soon!
Great tour of dragon fruit alley. I hope I can get a few of your different varieties someday
Thanks for watching! I’m working on getting these varieties releases to everyone soon!
Congratulations on Baby Boy!!
Thanks bro!
@@GraftingDragonFruitI have 2 of that Variety 😂
@pedromunoz4468 😂😂😂😂
I would love to see how you prune a mature dragon fruit plant ,to recognise stems that would not produce any more.
Will work on a video to do that
❤ them all
I like your video. Follow your video all the time and glad to see that you have a big yard now. Congratulations!
Glad you enjoy them. Thank you for the support!
Congrats to your new Dragon Valley!
Thank you!
Yay! You are back! Congrats on the new house!!!
Thank you! ☺️
Thanks for adding more videos!
It’s my pleasure! 😊
Love the dragon fruit! (and the crocs!)
Best way to walk around =P
I'm fascinated by Red Laverne, but how does it taste? Your new Dragon Valley looks great, looking forward to seeing it develop! Also, yes I'm interested in seeing how that Sugar Dragon recovers. Thanks for the tour!
It's so good! I’ll be sure to report in
Love to watch you always
Thank you for watching and the support!
Thanks for your showing of the beautiful dragon plants. Please announce when you will sale your dragon cutting. I would like to try the ones with red flowers and Asunta ones. Thank you.
Will do!
Well…now you got more space than you had before…as far as the weather if you are around the 22 then you have very nice temperatures….I live by the end of the 57 and sometimes we get about 100 degrees and I am growing my dragon fruit ok…I am so glad that you are sharing your knowledge with us, I would like to grow about 6 varieties for now…I haven’t been able to get a lot of fruit from any of my fruit trees ( lemons, grapes, passion fruit, pomegranates, cherimoya, peaches, plums, mango, etc etc) and yet I spend more money maintaining the plants it is cheaper to buy all of the fruits including the dragon fruits, at the swap meet in la puente California they sell 6 yellow dragon fruits imported from Ecuador for $7….thanks again for all the information
I’m sure you’ll get fruits eventually! Just need some help from nature’s pollinators. Once those trees are ready to start fruiting, you’re going to be enjoying so much!
You got me inspired to try dragon fruit again after a mystery variety from Lowe's didn't go well. I got some cuttings online and they're taking off great. I built a trellis with top box a bit too tall but I think it'll work. After 4 months they're about 4-5 feet tall from the original 6 inches. Very excited.
That is awesome! Good luck with the journey
Felicitaciones desde PANAMÁ 🇵🇦
Wow great i have been following you and have learned a lot i am Nepal thank you
So glad the videos help! Hopefully I can visit Nepal one day
@@GraftingDragonFruit please do and must visit my farm when you come
From the former yard to where your at now big ole difference... about the ASUNTA baby asunta sound good Rich.... oh about that top 5 self sterile/self pollination just go for it cant im still waiting bro
Keep it coming....
Happy planting.
Thanks bro 🙏🏼 that video is on deck!
@@GraftingDragonFruit All good brother....can't wait...
Keep the vidz comin.
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Congratulations!!! 👣🏠🤩
Thank you so much! :)
12:15 that variety flower looks preety good having dark pink/red colour
It's so nice!
Great video with lots of useful info.I would like you to clarify the self fertility of Hana.Hana in my place in India always needs to be cross pollinated to set fruit.
Richard I am so glad that I found your channel. I went and did some work at a man's house Mr. Vo and he gave me some cuttings from his dragon fruit. I don't know what kind it is with the language barrier. But a super super nice man. Your channel has helped me with what I need to do. Thank you!! I would also like to see about getting some European yellow from you, so let me know thanks. Joe
Happy to hear the video helps! When my website launches, I will be selling what I have available, but quantities will be a bit limited to start out
Congratulations...for your boy..............
Thanks!
I’m so happy that you came back with new videos! Thank you! 😃
Your new way of filming is nice, at the same time, background music is somehow annoying after some time. Please don’t imitate what other UA-camrs do to “stand out”. You have an unique way to deliver content and we all felt in love with your old style that is SO natural! Keep going and stay yourself! You’re a very nice guy 🙂 keep going! Amazing content!
Thank you! 😃
i noticed the flowers get stuck and not opening sometimes, so i helped it by loosen the petals and it’ll open to normal blooms.
That's a good strategy. Sometimes they just need a little push
Troubleshooting some issues would be good.
I had 2 I thought were dead on bottom and as I was digging them out found the still had roots.
I’d also vote for recommendations for best varieties for hot, cold, rainy etc
Will add that to our future video list! Thank you
Hi Richard! I just started diving into growing dragonfruit a few months ago. I love your information and wish I still lived in SD so I could maybe meet you one day (I’m up by Fresno now)!
I now have two 20 Gal pots with 4 each of a dragonfruit plant I got at Lowe’s. It’s the red flesh/red skin, supposedly self fertile. Do you know what variety it could be?? What’s a good variety to get as my next that I could use for cross pollination if needed?? Thanks friend! Keep up the awesome and fun work!
That’s really hard to tell as it’s almost impossible to identify if it’s not labeled.
Sugar dragon or pink panther are great for cross pollination
Hello, Richard, my columbiana and Palora from you are fruiting this year, last year flowers bloomed too late, they were all frozen and died.
I put beach umbrella on each of my pot, tie 4 corners of the umbrella to the wood with strings, they protect my plants from sun and rain, works pretty well except the umbrellas only last for a year or two, then have to replace them, I stock the beach umbrellas when they are on sale, all the plants are green and beautiful, survived the rain and sun.
That sounds so amazing to hear! I’m glad they are all doing well. I hope the fruits do well for you this season so you can enjoy all your love and labor!
@@GraftingDragonFruit 😊❤️
Congratulations 🎉 It is great to see the new place. What about Asunta legacy?
What about it?
😊I really enjoyed your tour . You are a natural reacher and I especially like that you happily share your knowledge. When a bud aborts or you remove excessive buds, will new buds form on the same spot? How long does a stem bear fruit before you cut if off.
Thank you for your kindness and support! When buds abort or removed from the branch they do not form back on the same spot. We call that a “dead node”. A mature fruit branch can bud up to 2-3 season before I decide to remove them. A good time to remove the branch would be after 60-70% of the branch has bud/fruited or if it’s being over grown by other branches then that would be a good time to remove that branch.
I am glad to see new videos and congratulations on your new home ! I have been following you for a little over two years when a friend gave me one dragonfruit cutting. I now have two trellis that are big and full of branches, which are flowering like crazy. I had about 5 flowers last year but my hand pollination was unsuccessful. Right now I have pollinated over a dozen flowers and a couple have aborted. How do I know what kind of plant I have ? A guy told me I have sugar dragon which is a self pollinator but I have not been able to get fruit. Can you post a video on troubleshooting fruiting on newer plants that you don’t know what strain you have. Are my plants too immature to set fruit even though they flower? Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Thank you for your ongoing support and patience with me, there will be more videos to come!
If your dragon fruit is a self-sterile variety they will abort even after hand-pollination with its own pollen. If your noticing that you’re hand pollinate them and none of the flowers set into a fruit then it’s most likely they need to be cross-pollinated. If you have more than one kind of dragon fruit variety I suggest you take their pollen and cross-pollinate them with each other. This will ensure that your fruit will have a successful pollination.
Sugar dragon is a Self-Fertile variety but it is not Self-Pollinating. This means that their own pollen can be used to set the flower/fruit but they will not self-pollinate themselves. With Sugar Dragon I always collect their pollen and hand pollinate them to ensure every flower will set into a fruit. Sugar Dragon is a great universal pollinator. You can use it’s pollen to cross-pollinate most self-sterile varieties. I recommend you start saving and collecting Sugar Dragon pollen to start pollinating all your varieties that have been giving you trouble setting fruit.
If your plant is producing flowers then that means it’s mature enough to set fruit. It’s the pollination process that’s causing them abort.
These are the main reasons why a dragon fruit flower would abort. Hope this helps!
@@GraftingDragonFruit I wonder if I sent you photos of my dragonfruit plants you could identify what kind it is ?
How often do you water them now? i live in San Jose. My dragon fruit after 3 weeks turn yellow then drop out. Thank you
It just depends on the weather and soil. It varies based on the two factors
What is the mesh bag for? When do you put it on?
The mesh bags are for hybrids I cross-pollinated the night before. It’s to prevent natural pollinators from contaminating it with other source of pollen.
Where are you getting your pots? I can't find many big enough for my 10" trellis base.
Blud really giving them pot strain names
My favorite df are connie mayer and otange peruvian almost venus.
Those are solid
Please retain a wonderful weekend and dwell positively overly Best wishes
Thank you and you as well!
Can you explain how the numbering works with the asunta line?
It's just a new hybrid of it that's created.
I want to start a Dragon Fruit Nursery in South Florida. Can you point me in the right direction to buy bulk cuttings of the sweet yellow variety?
Hello Richard can you show us if the Palora hybrids are still growing.
Will definitely try to do a video!
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Richard,
Very good video. Can I come and visit your valley. I live in Los Angeles near orange. I need to learn from you how to make pollination my dragon plants.
No fruit nor flowers, growing very good but no luck 😃
At this moment I’m not doing visits because I have a newborn. Perhaps in the future once my baby gets older I can have visits again.
I recommend you using a bloom fertilizer to help induce some flowers. A great one I use is Floranova bloom. Mix 1.5 teaspoon per gallon of water and feed it to your dragons. You’ll see them flower in a week if not, repeat the process again after 10-14 days.
No problem, I can understand
Congratulations 💐
Thank you
I saw your other videos, prunes and tip cutting. For sure I’ll follow those tips……😂
Fabulous Dragon Fruit farm…
I have a couple dragon fruits on my land - one it starts flowering. When do we get fruit(s)?
Depends on the variety, but usually ranges from 30-60 days
I hope you will provide something for your international viewers on the website. If you can't ship cuttings, at least seeds. Looking forward to it.
Hopefully one day!
You used to have Red Jaina, but I see its not on the tour. Did you get rid of it, if so, why ? Were you able to do any cross pollination's with it ?
I've recently started watching a lot of Gary's videos. Have you considered growing them in ground? Gary states that once the roots of trees stop expanding, the trees will slowly die. How big are your pots? How long do the plants stay in there before they are root bound? Maybe if you cut off the bottom, they can grow into the native soil. Although you wouldn't be able to move them after.
I have some dragon fruit that I grew in ~15g clay pots. They seem to be suffering because there not enough root space and soil. It doesn't help that the clay pot is thick and the 4x4 uses a ton of space. My dad in Oceanside grows then in ground and they are huge. I'm considering up potting or growing in ground but I would have to pull up some pavers.
My pots are currently 20 gallons but I’m upgrading them to 25 gallons with Gary’s best stop soil for next season. The plants have stayed in my 20 gallon pots for about 4-5 years now and I’m finally seeing the decline of productivity. Many of my pots now has grown roots at the bottom of the pot and rooted into my native soil. I tried to move one the other day and I saw the roots bounding it to the ground.
How are you going to upgrade your pot with your mature, root bound tree? I need to repot a few of my 20 gallon pots but don’t know where to start. I think the roots have rooted into the soil as well. Any advice?
Richard @17:36 what about adding some shade umbrellas for these couple of hot weeks/ months? Especially for the sugar dragon 🐉
Yes beach umbrellas work great to provide shade. I have them and would use them when we have heat waves.
@@GraftingDragonFruit next week it’s going to be in the 100°, so get ready! It’s going to be a hot one 🥵
How can you tell the difference between yellowing leaves due to sun burn, over watering, and lack of nitrogen? Does under watering also cause yellow leaves like in regular plants?
Yellowing on branches during hot days means it’s sun burn.
Dehydrated branches means your either under watering or over watering.
No no growth or productivity means lack of nitrogen.
Sensei Richard is back 🤗
I’m back, thanks for being patience with me!!
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Where do you buy your cuttings, i'm from the philippines, i want the self fertile and self pollinating american beauty , do you sell them and how much plus shipping, thank you
I don’t do international shipping at this time
What is better climate for dragon fruit, southern cali vs southern Florida ?
Southern Cali would be best, we don’t get the strong winds or humidity that’s over in Florida.
Richard; I need some cuttings of PALORA,ASUNTA FOUR , RED & PINK LO VERNE ; when can I get them?
My website will be releasing cuttings this fall of November.
Www.graftingdragonfruits.com
All the best,👍froom Assam
Thanks!
Is Palora the answer to year-round fruit?
Through my experience with Palora, that’s what’s been happening for me. I have a constant supply of Palora ever since it started to flower/fruit for me. In my area it does very well after being grafted. Give it a try to see if it’s also true in your conditions.
How can I get Gary’s best top pot online ? I live by Eastvale CA and I still don’t understand how to order on that site.
You’ll have to contact Laguna Hills Nursery they will direct you in how to get their product ship to your local nursery’s.
Thnx for all just question he need more after blooming & Pollination 🤔🇩🇿👌
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@@GraftingDragonFruit Sorry dragon fruit Need more water after pollination🤔 Thnx
do you sell cuttings off your dragon fuits?
In the near future yes, they will be on my website. Www.graftingdragonfruits.com
Go toooo
I just start watching a few of your videos. I recently bought my own garden so im just a beginner but Im wanting to design something simliar to a food forest. I d love try to grew dragon fruit too, but sadly im living in germany. Do you know any variaty that fruits and can live in germany, maybe in a green house? Thanks in advance. Where i live the coldest month its about -1 ° C in the night and the warm month are 22 ° C. Thanks so much!
Green house should work since you're able to control the temperature a bit better
Thanks! Which variety would you recommend for this temperatures?
Yoo Richard much blessings 🙏🏻, I have a concern on ecuador palora can I plant it in the same pot with another variety? Im thinking planting EP and VWhite in the same pot can I do it like that or can It cause Issues?
Also yesterday I did a pot with mixed varieties which are AB, SG and PG, is it ok?
Yes you can plant any varieties in the same pot. I do it all the time!
Nice bro 🙏🏻 I was wondering why you planted Ecuador palora individually is there a reason?
Richard, I bought my Ecuador Palora at Cal Poly 4+ years ago as a baby plant. I separated some of the branches and repotted them however, I have only had one fruit form, but it did not mature. What have you done to your Palora that makes it produce so well for you? I’m a little jealous! 😉
I also have 2 plants of dragon fruit,planted directly on the ground it is 1 yr and 3 months old, but no signs of fruit on it yet. I'm wondering how old this dragon fruit produces fruits?
We're just so excited to see it having fruits. 😅
Takes 2-3 years usually depending on cariety
Also, how often do you water in high temperatures?
It just depends on your soil. If it feels dry or crumbles, it's time to water.
@@GraftingDragonFruit Well,blooms were beautiful...so far they continue to drop...will continue to feed it worm casting and enjoy the blooms until it decides to fruit.
It's peculiar, my Sugarcane and Guavas plants are doing great.
Hi Richard, is it possible to buy some of your dragon fruit? I live in Brentwood California, and i’ve watch you years back and i got interested on how you plant dragon fruit. Thanks
When my website launches, I'll have some limited quantities available.
Hi do you sell dragon fruit cuttings?
Not at the moment
Hey Richard what are your top 5 dragonfruit varieties?
Sugar dragon
Pink panther
American beauty
Condor
Natural mystic
Congratulations on your son! I’m new to growing Dragon fruit. I bought some and I don’t have a name. I found some at my local nursery and still no name. Do you sell clippings? I would love to know what I have and what I’m buying.
Thank you and congrats to the start of your journey! I’ll have some available later this fall. Try asking in my FB group. There’s a lot of sellers
Thank you! I’m not on FB but I’ll get on a friends page and find someone. I’ll check back with you in the fall.
Howmany years wants Seedling plant to fruit?
Seedling takes 3-5 years to fruit. If you graft it, it will only take 1 year.
Asunta X
Which variety is the most productive?
Sugar Dragon is very productive. They can go up to 3-4 waves of fruits per season.
Question my dragon fruit is growing thin strokes
Help please
Watch my videos on tipping the branches
Are those 10 gallon pots?
They are 20 gallons
Look up Gary Matsuoka from Laguna hills nursery. His knowledge on soil is the right answer. Mineral based.
Thank you!
Always appreciate your channel. Do all Dragon fruit plants produce fruit? I ask because I have a 4yr old Plant producing beautiful blooms but then after a few days they fall.
P.S. I am using a eye shadow make up brush to hand pollinate. 😢 3:54 4:00
They should. Sounds like you may have to cross pollinate with a different variety.
@@GraftingDragonFruit Thank you. Do you sell pollen,so I can cross pollinate? Also,is this a one time procedure,or will I have to repeat this process?
@@alfredomiranda7002 I don’t at this time. Try asking if anyone in the FB group has some available. Might have someone in your local area that does
@@GraftingDragonFruit Thank you
Before I forget...how often do you water your Dragon fruit plants and how much water do you apply?
Asunta 4's baby that name sounds grewt and it tells a little of tbe Story
Thanks for the vote!
@GraftingDragonFruit hmmmm thinking about it it Souds Better Asunta 4 Baby 👶
Asunta 4 not opening? I only ever saw that once with one of my Dark Stars, but that was because of Hurricane Ian. The lack of sun for 48+ hours when it was going to bloom seemed to screw it up.
Yeah, Asunta 4 is notorious for having flowers pedal stick and not blooming. It’s a common issue here with all the growers in Cali.
I wonder what the sticky flower trait is for...my head immediately went to small mammals prying open the flowers to get nectar and pollinating that way, preventing bees and other insects from getting all the pollen.
Quantas variedades você tem?
Los siento, no hablas espanol 😣
@@GraftingDragonFruit um poquito
English?
@@GraftingDragonFruit any language that you speak i can aswer
Have you or will you ever look into the commercialization of Dragon Fruit?
Not yet, but that's definitely an idea to think about
What is your favorite dragon fruit variety taste-wise?
Have an episode coming for that. Stay tuned!
Do you have any tips for Organic Dragonfruit? Only 7 flowers so far.... doesn't matter how much I feed them! Can show you pictures, very healthy but not as much flowers as I was expecting.
Give them a bloom bud booster. If you’re looking for organic try this brand called “Dr. Earth Flower Girl Bud & Bloom”
@@GraftingDragonFruit , yeah I was looking at that. Unfortunately the only place I can get it is 2 hours away. Amazon is selling it and says it will take 2 and half weeks to be delivered. Do you know a place I can order it sooner?
Found a seller!
Glad you did!
Always insightful.Thank you
It’s my pleasure!
Richard, that yellow branch that's variegated and not sunburned, THAT'S Worth Lime. Exactly that. Yellow DF plant instead of green. Question is, if that's a Worth Lime Asunta, can anything be a Worth Lime? Like a Worth Lime Voodoo Child, for example?
I have a Worth Lime in my collection and that’s why I started to think that the Asunta seedling that I grew and started to show these same variegation made me wonder if it could be a variegated trait. It’s hard to tell since it hasn’t fruit for me yet so only further observation can really tell if it’s in fact a variegation. To answer your question, if you get lucky and grow a seed with these variegation then yes you can get different varieties that have this Worth Like variegated look.
Call it “rugratsunta”
Dont forget heavy magnesium helps with sun
Thanks for the reminder!
Dude you should really put some flowers around to fill up the space
Slowly working on the landscaping
Plant condition is not good.....use some fungiside with metalaxyl in it........best wishes
Plants just needed some adjustment and we had major heat. They are recovering and thriving now :)
How can you deal with the ants?
I leave the ants alone, the species of ants I have here only collect nectar and sap from the buds.
FRIEND, I NEED POLLINATING my dragon fruit plants, do you know anybody that can sell me pollen by any chance?
Where are you located?