Hi everyone! I just went thru all the pages in this thread and i felt compelled to chime in. Ive been growing cactus plants for about 6 months. Initially i just wanted to grow nopales/cactus pears but i ended up ADD'ing with dragon fruits.
I purchased a yellow dragon plant from Pineisland for 35 bucks but was told it would take at least a year to grow some fruit. Later that week i called a local nursery and the person in charge told me they had 1 year old dragon fruit plants for 15 dollars so i purchased another "yellow dragon" and a "large Vietnamese white" plant. The plants i purchased needed some "training" the Vietnamese white is so huge it broke the trellis and started to drag on the ground. The yellow dragon was a little easier to train. Soil wise im using perlite, sand, organic compost, cow manure and some mulch. I have two of my yellow plants setup Vietnamese style in 28 gallon container (i think) with a untreated fence post wrapped in burlap. I had some sort of fungus infection on my yellow dragon that was giving the vines some rust colored dots i treated it with coppercide hoping it might help, let see. I have cuttings im willing to trade i would also appreciate some advice on getting my dragons on tip top shape and ready to bloom. Here you have my efforts at planting dragon fruit here in sunny south Florida.
Yellow Dragon fruit tree
My guard dogs making sure nothing disturbs the lady of the night.
The yellow DF i purchased for 35 dollars at pine island. :/
Here are the other two DF i purchased.
