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harveyc · 09-22-2010, 10:30 PM

Yeah, Tony's right. On cloudy days I've read that the flowers can stay open longer. I've seen them open at 8pm and still open at 10am the following morning. You really should plan to pollinate them within the first few hours of being open.

These flowers put on quite a show but it's unfortunately that they're open mostly just one night. Best to have a lot of them so that you can always have lots of huge flowers to look at. At the test plot in Irvine, CA there were hundreds of flowers open still from the night before when we went out into the field at 9-10am during the field day in 2009.

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harveyc Been nuts, gone bananas harveyc's Photo Gallery Location: Isleton, Calif Find me on the map! Zone: 9b Name: Harvey Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 5,119 BananaBucks : 372,353 Feedback: 5 / 100% Said "Thanks" 6,025 Times Was Thanked 4,460 Times in 1,896 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 1,785 Times	Re: Dragon fruit flower opened earlier than expected, what to do??? Yeah, Tony's right. On cloudy days I've read that the flowers can stay open longer. I've seen them open at 8pm and still open at 10am the following morning. You really should plan to pollinate them within the first few hours of being open. These flowers put on quite a show but it's unfortunately that they're open mostly just one night. Best to have a lot of them so that you can always have lots of huge flowers to look at. At the test plot in Irvine, CA there were hundreds of flowers open still from the night before when we went out into the field at 9-10am during the field day in 2009. __________________