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07-27-2013, 06:34 PM | #701 (permalink) |
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Re: Dragon Fruit
Dark Star (easy to tell which ones was on the sunny side of the plant).
The tally from the blooms from a week or two ago (fruit set from flowers): Dark Star, 20 of 21 Physical Graffiti, 3 of 3 Purple Haze 2 of 3 Vietnamese Jaina, 1 of 1 DM |
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Any recommendations for how I should be fertilizing them?
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Yay roots!!!! Physical Graffiti at the end of July.
...And Growth! American Beauty. I have some issues and questions though that I need some help with. My physical Graffiti has little shoots starting, they don`t look like the AB growth above, that are coming from the base of the vine. Do I want to remove these to promote the little shoot that is now starting near the top? Do I only want to train basically one singular continual "branch" to the top of the trellis and then let it branch out, or is it better to have two or three "branches" climb up to the top of the trellis? I basically want to do a smaller version of Dangermouse's trellises but in a pot, with either one or two varieties per pot. Here's the new growth on the PG: Also my Purple Haze has some wierd hard fungus spots on it that have not spread at all in a while. It is only on the small segment on the top so far and am not sure whether it is fine, or I should just remove the top segment before new growth starts and let it take over as central vine, or if I should leave it and spray it with copper? Last edited by Hammocked Banana : 08-16-2013 at 02:35 AM. |
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Come on wheres the help from all the DF guys?!? What should I do with the piece that seems to have fungus growing on it? I would rather cut it sooner than later if I have to...here's an update from the weekend.
American Beauty Physical Graffiti...should I remove this from bottom and just allow one vertical vine or allow to branch now? Last edited by Hammocked Banana : 08-19-2013 at 09:21 PM. |
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Yummm. That looks amazing!
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Organic Laboratories, Inc. http://www.organiclabs.com/InfoSheets/3in1FAQ.pdf (kinda smelly from the fish oil in it, but if your stuff is outside shouldn't matter). A few days after spraying with the 3-in-1 those spots dry up and you can kinda flick them off with a sharp knife (almost seems like that stuff is some kinda scale). Any horticultural oil or oil/soap would probably work. Just don't spray in the heat of the day, I sprayed in the evening. On your growth at the bottom, I would remove it, just because it is so close to the bottom (no hurry in doing it, not hurting anything). How you let it branch out is up to you, I've seen the single stem up to the trellis, most of mine are a single stem until about 1/2 way up the pole, then they branch out to 2 (most of mine also have 2-3 plants at the bottom). Or just let it do it's own thing, my American Beauty is that way, 2 plants at the base, when it got to the top of the pole it was 9-10 branches. DM |
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Top to bottom.
1st row: Vietnamese Jaina 2nd row: Purple Haze 3rd row: Physical Graffiti 4th row: Dark Star Thinking I may have gotten mis-marked cuttings, what was marked Purple Haze actually looks more like Halley's Comet to me. Will have to wait till my Halley's Comet fruits to see which it looks like. Tho the fruits we have been getting from what I have marked as Purple Haze are really good. DM Last edited by Dangermouse01 : 08-24-2013 at 12:36 PM. |
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Lucky lucky!! Everytime flowers are set to open we get a huge rain storm, so far not one fruit this year...Uggg
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Its getting cold here really quick unfortunately, so I've had most of the plants in a few nights that went down to 2-4C (35-40F google tells me), some minor frost. Took a pic of the DF this morn that are growing. Still no growth from the Vietnamese Jaina cutting but the American Beauty cutting has 17 inches of new growth and the growth on the physical graffiti is so fat and over 10 inches! Had to swap out the stakes for unbroken ones because they are growing so fast, hopefully they don't get too out of control over winter, they still have a couple more weeks to grow out side yet.
L to R: Physical Graffiti, Purple Haze and American Beauty. Last edited by Hammocked Banana : 09-24-2013 at 01:36 AM. |
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Hi all!
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U got any dragon fruit down there in Portugal?
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Hi my friend! I have the yellow pitaya and some cuttings of other var. on the way! I'm very exited to have some dragon var, they seam quite good!
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I hope it does better for you than it does here in southern CA. I'd rather eat the yellow fruits shipped in from Mexico than those grown in San Diego.
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That seems like an excellent collection u have started!
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Do certain characteristics indicate a certain variety of dragon fruit? For example, can the number of spines, depth of the wavy border, color of the stem, etc. indicate the variety or even the color of the fruit.
I purchased a moon cactus from Lowe's. The grafted moon cactus died long ago, but the dragon fruit root stock still thrives. I was kind of wondering what type of hylocereus it might be. Here is a picture of a cutting. These are my dragon fruits: physical graffiti, delight, and 3 unknowns.
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Thank you! Yes i'm very happy, just hope winter pass fast!
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