Dragon Fruit...

[Moli]

From this...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/molidoodle/DSC04051.jpg


To This...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/molidoodle/DSC04128.jpg


Finally this...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/molidoodle/DSC04129.jpg

[Mags]

That's amazing! :shock:

[Moli]

That's amazing! :shock:
I sowed those seeds 4 days ago and they have come up already..The big plant is 3 years old now.....

[dandysmom]

Wow! :shock: Amazing indeed. The big plant looks sort of like an aloe, or some sort of a cactus. Didn't you get the fruit from the market? What does it taste like?

[Moli]

Wow! :shock: Amazing indeed. The big plant looks sort of like an aloe, or some sort of a cactus. Didn't you get the fruit from the market? What does it taste like?
Got it from Tesco's, never tried it, bought it for the seeds, its very like kiwi fruit, seeds are through the flesh....

[yola]

So will the seeds eventually grow up to be like the prickly plant in the hanging basket?

If so, I'm impressed . . . flowers are currently completely beyond me :roll:

[dandysmom]

I was so intrigued by this I Googled it. Here's a long but informative link. It is a cactus from South America, and apparently extremely good for you nutritionally. But needs a very warm climate and is pollenated nocturnally by bats/moths, so afraid you won't get any fruit, Moli! What a fun thing to try!


http://dragon-fruit.biz/

[Moli]

I was so intrigued by this I Googled it. Here's a long but informative link. It is a cactus from South America, and apparently extremely good for you nutritionally. But needs a very warm climate and is pollenated nocturnally by bats/moths, so afraid you won't get any fruit, Moli! What a fun thing to try!


http://dragon-fruit.biz/
Thanks for the info Eileen, was not really bothered by fruit, love to get different things to try and grow....these are in my conservatory, which gets very hot in the summer....

[dandysmom]

Ah, forgot you had a conservatory! I was going to ask you for some spare seeds but it would never do well here; house not warm enough in the Winter.

Oh well, I can grow an avocado instead! :D

[Moli]

Ah, forgot you had a conservatory! I was going to ask you for some spare seeds but it would never do well here; house not warm enough in the Winter.

Oh well, I can grow an avocado instead! :D
Thats a shame, I have hundreds of seeds too....:?

[angieh]

I'm impressed Moli. I have grown Agave from seed this year and Aloe Vera. I thought the Aloe had passed away, but it's still alive. You have to be careful not to overwater those sort of seeds. How have you watered your Dragon Fruit?

Will have to bring them indoors overwinter as I don't heat my greenhouse.

[farthing]

Wow, that's impressive, it must be a plant with recalcitant seeds, most plants need their seeds to be dried and 'ripened' but a few can be grown straight from the fruit- kiwi is the same. We grew some kiwi work to try and reproduce them using micropropagation, but it was very hard to get the medium right and they all grew looking a bit brittle and anaemic.:lol:

[Moli]

I'm impressed Moli. I have grown Agave from seed this year and Aloe Vera. I thought the Aloe had passed away, but it's still alive. You have to be careful not to overwater those sort of seeds. How have you watered your Dragon Fruit?

Will have to bring them indoors overwinter as I don't heat my greenhouse.
All I have done is watered it Angie....

[dandysmom]

Angie, I don't know about agave, but my aloes live in the house Winter and Summer and do fine. One aloe is over 40 years old!

[dandysmom]

Thats a shame, I have hundreds of seeds too....:?

Well, if you wouldn't mind then please do send me a few seeds and I'll give it a try! Nothing ventured ...... :-D

[random]

Oh wow that's brill, might give one a go myself!

[angieh]

All I have done is watered it Angie....

Moli, I guessed you had but a guide would help - eg. once a week, when the soil has dried out etc. :-D

[angieh]

Just read some of the info on the link Eileen posted. Very interesting - another "wonder fruit". I'd certainly like to try growing if you could spare a few seeds Moli?

I am trying Goji berry and Honey berry this year - but no berries yet!

Now where can I get a couple of bats?????

[Mags]

Now where can I get a couple of bats?????

Try the local cricket club, Angie ;) :D

[calismum]

Try the local cricket club, Angie ;) :D

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I am v impressed moli. Be interesting to see how long it takes the seedlings to look like the mature plant.

[angieh]

Try the local cricket club, Angie ;) :D

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[Moli]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I am v impressed moli. Be interesting to see how long it takes the seedlings to look like the mature plant.
The big plant took about 3 years...

[Moli]

Moli, I guessed you had but a guide would help - eg. once a week, when the soil has dried out etc. :-D
Tbh, I water it when I remember to.....:roll:If you pm me your address I will send you some seeds also...

[dandysmom]

I looked in Whole Foods but they don't carry Dragon Fruit :(

[dandysmom]

I'm sorry to say that after two attempts I've had no germination at all. :( I thought perhaps I hadn't washed the gel off thoroughly so tried again, still nothing.

I have wondered if perhaps the envelope was x-rayed when it went thru Customs ... I normally have a quite green thumb.

[angieh]

I have to confess I have had no germination either. My little seeds looked to be already splitting when I planted them and I was so hopeful but nothing has happened.

[dandysmom]

Glad I wasn't the only one then, Angie. Guess I can scrub the x-ray theory, Maybe the seeds have a short viability span???

[Moli]

Glad I wasn't the only one then, Angie. Guess I can scrub the x-ray theory, Maybe the seeds have a short viability span???
Did you put cling film over them ladies???

Shame they have not sprouted, wonder if perhaps its too late in the year...I would over winter them, and see what happens int he spring....

[angieh]

I put mine inside a plastic bag .................

[dandysmom]

Yes, I used cling film over the pot.