ah yes i have been waiting for this video. good tips for if you want to set someone up with a cutting that may be inexperienced or may just want fruit/flours as quick as possible. well done
Cheers mate. A mate of mine lived in an apartment and grow a cutting i gave him in a similar fashion. Its a cheap and easy way for anyone to grow dragon fruit 👌
Yeah buddy, good information. Valdivia Roja, Paul Thomson's #7, Valdivia Ranch Red, and Jala all grow on some granite rocks in the yard because they taste like veggies to me. Keep em coming.
@@DreaminDragonsFruit ripens much faster on the side touching the rock. Lots of chlorosis because we’ve been around 90+ degrees in ‘Merican (Fahrenheit). In winter, they love the granite facade and do well in zone 9b.
I have never had a trellis for my dragonfruits.... just 3 bug tyres, on top of that is a 100 litre water trough with some holes drilled in it and filled with soil... then a big pot on top of that with my cactus growing.... the branches are so strong and long, and I used your method of grafting onto the end of one of the branches, so I should have a red and yellow dragonfruits produced on on branch :) WIN WIN!!
I have a pot of dragon fruits when I had no idea about their habits. They need to drop down before they flower. So, one tip I found on the Internet is to put the pot on a tree stump or on a wall. My trellis is just too low and now I don't want to prune back, build a new trellis and wait another year or two before getting fruits again. The idea of putting the pot on a high spot is not alwasy easy for everyone. So, I came up with a new idea and I have just set it up today. My idea is to buy a bigger pot, fill it with good mix for dragon fruits and sit the existing pot in it. This raises the height (in my case) to a perfect height. It also offers extra good soil for the dragon fruit plants to grow better and produce more fruits. The roots will just escape into the lower pot. You affectively double the amount of soil. There is one important thing that I also plan for. The weight of the pot and the plants will just get heavier each month and eventually will become over 100kg. The compaction of the soil in the bottom pot will be intolerable. So, I bought a cinder block and put it inside the lower pot to support the weight of the top pot. This soil compaction problem is solved. And to avoid the top pot falling when there is a storm, I put a few wooden stakes to surround the top pot.
Nice one mate! 👍 A million ways to grow them, its a massive score when you find something that works perfectly for you, particularly if its cheap and easy! 👌👌
@@DreaminDragons I checked around and one advice is to plant dragon fruit plants in wheelie bins! The bins are tall, big, and tough and the price is reasonable. You can wheel it quickly around your garden and move with you as you move to another house. I reckon the size 120L is perfect in most cases. The 240L bins are massive and would support a big bush.
Very likely.. less nodes, less plant material, probably a smaller root system. But very nifty technique to see if somethings worth growing in a trellis or strategic if you dont have much space or ability to build or home a trellis. For what its worth i had a pink panther 1PW that this season gave me 30 fruit across 2 waves and a connie mayer that did the same. Edgars baby in its first summer in the pot gave 5 fruit..
I think you should not even use a pot if you don't have to move and carry the plant with you. Just plant straight into the soil and let it droop over the side of a raised garden bed or a wall. You would need over 1.2m of clearance for the plant to have enough room. Dragon fruit plant's roots will co-exist with the lawn. Feeding the lawn will feed teh dragon fruit plant too. There will ne bo worries about the water logged situation and root rot.
If you have good soil, drainage and space, definitely plenty of benefits to growing in the ground 👍 haven't done it myself, but noticed some of the pots that u thought would be super root bound had roots poking out the pot, through the deck and into the soil below and were thriving 👌
@@DreaminDragons My brother has 3 large dragon fruit bushes in the ground in Sydney. They just coexist with the lawn and give a lot of fruits each year. He does not take care of them at all. I think the moths and the ants do the pollination for the flowers. He gets a bout 100 fruits from the 3 bushes each year. Recently, one of them had the trellis partially collapsed so the bush is sprawling on the ground. But that does not matter. THe bush still have flowers and fruits but probably not as many as before.
Sorry to hear it didnt meet your expectation. To reiterate; get a cutting, put it in a pot of soil.. let it grow outwards rather than upwards.. easy peasy 👌
I got it Good idea and I love it, I actually have a very high pot and always wondered what to do with it. Perfect for that Dragon fruit plant Plant it and let it grow down yeah
Ah yes! Will surely try this method someday once i get myself settled back home for good. Experimenting and taking down notes is fun!
Plenty of ways the grow these bad boys haha
ah yes i have been waiting for this video. good tips for if you want to set someone up with a cutting that may be inexperienced or may just want fruit/flours as quick as possible. well done
Cheers mate.
A mate of mine lived in an apartment and grow a cutting i gave him in a similar fashion. Its a cheap and easy way for anyone to grow dragon fruit 👌
The champion with another easy video. Growing dragons made easy
Cheers mate, appreciate the lovely words 🥰
Yeah buddy, good information. Valdivia Roja, Paul Thomson's #7, Valdivia Ranch Red, and Jala all grow on some granite rocks in the yard because they taste like veggies to me. Keep em coming.
Cheers for the kind words again mate!
How do they go out your way when sitting on the stone in winter and summer when hot/cold?
@@DreaminDragonsFruit ripens much faster on the side touching the rock. Lots of chlorosis because we’ve been around 90+ degrees in ‘Merican (Fahrenheit). In winter, they love the granite facade and do well in zone 9b.
Nice nice. Same outcome with the retaining wall stone..
I am replicating what he's doing in the video, but my dragon fruit is branching out in weird twisted shapes.
@@Brosky73eventually the weight of the branches will droop down.. some times they snap, but you generally shouldnt have much in the way of issues 🤞
I have never had a trellis for my dragonfruits.... just 3 bug tyres, on top of that is a 100 litre water trough with some holes drilled in it and filled with soil... then a big pot on top of that with my cactus growing.... the branches are so strong and long, and I used your method of grafting onto the end of one of the branches, so I should have a red and yellow dragonfruits produced on on branch :) WIN WIN!!
Nice one! Theyre such easy plants to have in the garden, with a little love you can get them flying! Hope they deliver the goods for you shortly 👌
Souns very interesting ! Would you post some pictures to share with us ?
Thanks !,
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Thank you so much for the kind words 🥰
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Thank you so much for the kind words and support 🥰
Very nice
Cheera mate 🥰
I have a pot of dragon fruits when I had no idea about their habits. They need to drop down before they flower. So, one tip I found on the Internet is to put the pot on a tree stump or on a wall. My trellis is just too low and now I don't want to prune back, build a new trellis and wait another year or two before getting fruits again. The idea of putting the pot on a high spot is not alwasy easy for everyone. So, I came up with a new idea and I have just set it up today.
My idea is to buy a bigger pot, fill it with good mix for dragon fruits and sit the existing pot in it. This raises the height (in my case) to a perfect height. It also offers extra good soil for the dragon fruit plants to grow better and produce more fruits. The roots will just escape into the lower pot. You affectively double the amount of soil. There is one important thing that I also plan for. The weight of the pot and the plants will just get heavier each month and eventually will become over 100kg. The compaction of the soil in the bottom pot will be intolerable. So, I bought a cinder block and put it inside the lower pot to support the weight of the top pot. This soil compaction problem is solved. And to avoid the top pot falling when there is a storm, I put a few wooden stakes to surround the top pot.
Nice one mate! 👍
A million ways to grow them, its a massive score when you find something that works perfectly for you, particularly if its cheap and easy! 👌👌
@@DreaminDragons I checked around and one advice is to plant dragon fruit plants in wheelie bins! The bins are tall, big, and tough and the price is reasonable. You can wheel it quickly around your garden and move with you as you move to another house. I reckon the size 120L is perfect in most cases. The 240L bins are massive and would support a big bush.
I find this method even after a few years produces lower yields
Very likely.. less nodes, less plant material, probably a smaller root system. But very nifty technique to see if somethings worth growing in a trellis or strategic if you dont have much space or ability to build or home a trellis.
For what its worth i had a pink panther 1PW that this season gave me 30 fruit across 2 waves and a connie mayer that did the same. Edgars baby in its first summer in the pot gave 5 fruit..
I think you should not even use a pot if you don't have to move and carry the plant with you. Just plant straight into the soil and let it droop over the side of a raised garden bed or a wall. You would need over 1.2m of clearance for the plant to have enough room. Dragon fruit plant's roots will co-exist with the lawn. Feeding the lawn will feed teh dragon fruit plant too. There will ne bo worries about the water logged situation and root rot.
If you have good soil, drainage and space, definitely plenty of benefits to growing in the ground 👍 haven't done it myself, but noticed some of the pots that u thought would be super root bound had roots poking out the pot, through the deck and into the soil below and were thriving 👌
@@DreaminDragons My brother has 3 large dragon fruit bushes in the ground in Sydney. They just coexist with the lawn and give a lot of fruits each year. He does not take care of them at all. I think the moths and the ants do the pollination for the flowers. He gets a bout 100 fruits from the 3 bushes each year. Recently, one of them had the trellis partially collapsed so the bush is sprawling on the ground. But that does not matter. THe bush still have flowers and fruits but probably not as many as before.
Nice one! Very durable and resilient plants!
Biggest problem as they age.. get soo juiced up and heavy. Great for fruiting, less ao for the trellis
Can you tell me what state / area you are in?
Hey mate
Im in Australia, NSW, Central Coast 👍
You do not even talk or explain about the main things that need to be !!!!!!
Sorry to hear it didnt meet your expectation. To reiterate; get a cutting, put it in a pot of soil.. let it grow outwards rather than upwards.. easy peasy 👌
I got it
Good idea and I love it,
I actually have a very high pot and always wondered what to do with it. Perfect for that
Dragon fruit plant
Plant it and let it grow down yeah
Nice one! Good luck! 🤞🤞
Nothing valuable !
Im glad to hear that you have already nailed the beauty and ease of growing dragon fruit 👌
@DreaminDragons ....No, this Guy Really Clueless 😅