Dragon fruit plants, also known as Hylocereus cactus, require regular watering, fertilization, and pruning to maintain their health and happiness. To grow a dragon fruit plant, fill a gardening pot with well-drained, well-draining soil and provide at least six hours of indirect sunlight. Allow the top inch of the soil to dry slightly between waterings to prevent root rot.
Dragon fruit plants prefer regular watering during the warmer months, but this extra water requires good drainage to prevent rot. Maintain a moist yet not overly wet soil by watering the plants every one to two weeks during the growing season, allowing the top inch of the soil to dry out between waterings. In winter, reduce watering to once a month and be cautious not to wet the leaves, as it can lead to fungal diseases.
To successfully grow your own dragon fruit plant, you need a location with well-drained soil in full sun to partial shade and ample space. Water generously for the first few days and avoid overhead watering to prevent pests and diseases. Since dragon fruit is a tropical succulent, water only when the soil is nearly dry. Overwatering is a surefire way to kill a dragon fruit plant.
Dragon fruit can tolerate occasional short bursts of cold weather but should be kept above 10 degrees. They can handle heat, drought, humidity, and poor weather conditions. To ensure the health and longevity of your dragon fruit plant, follow these basic steps:
- Choose the right location with well-drained soil and at least six hours of indirect sunlight.
- Water the dragon fruit plant regularly during the growing season, ensuring the soil dries out between waterings to prevent root rot.
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INDUCE BUDS ON DRAGON FRUIT PLANT | SIMPLE TIPS I always tip my dragon fruit when they get to a good length. The idea …
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Removing Dragon Fruit Flower helps your fruit stay fungal and pest free. This helps with limiting humidity on your Dragon Fruit to …
Have been growing 4 varieties of dragon fruit for a year and look nothing like yours. I believe when I make my raised bed and use a concrete /styrofoam post for the DF to climb as well as your trellis design … should start showing promising results. Will keep you posted. Thanks for all tour articles and advice.
Hi Richard Thank you for your very informative articles. I just learned that my “night blooming cactus” is really a dragon fruit plant about two months ago. I have been enjoying the plant for 10 years! I have quite a few that grow in my yard. After learning about dragon fruit from your articles we pollinated several flowers and had one fruit. It was delicious. Then we pollinated 27 flowers in the next bloom. None grew into fruit. Then I saw the article where you removed the flower and then the stigma. I just pollinated 5 tonight. Will try and follow your instructions over the next week or so. Do you think that because the flowers and stigma were not removed was the reason we had no fruit? I live in Florida. Thank you for any insight you may have.
Hi, i have two questions 1- I’ve noticed dragonfruit plants produce two types of limbs, one kind tends to get chunky full of water while the other is skinny, long and seems to grow faster, how should I choose which limbs to Prune, long and skinny, the chunkier ones, or both? 2- is it true that weather needs to reach a certain temperature for dragon flowers to actually become fruit? Thanks for all the knowledge you share
Hi Richer love ur article and love ur dragon fruits. I have big dragon pot n it bloom nice for 2 years now but it turned yellow n fail off no fruit. I’m sad! I tried to pollenate it but I did it wrong. Now I see ur article it make sense . So I’ll will try next year. Wish me luck. If I don’t have fruit I’ll go still ur!! Lol thank u .
Hi there, I’m new to your website. I’m from Brazil. Im growing dragon fruits, but the way I learned is a little different from what I could see in your plant. So can you tell me why do you do that way? I noticed that your plant is not growing from a single trunk, then on the top it spreads. Yours is spreaded from the bottom. Why is that? By the way, it looks very beautiful and healthy!!
Hi. I didn’t know about pulling the flower off. Thank you for showing how that is done. Your article’s are very helpful. Thanks! Question, if you don’t mind. … I live in Central Florida and have a Haley’s Comet Dragonfruit. It gets mostly sun and is well drained. I had 5 blooms this year and hand pollinated all of them. (One on one night, and other 4 the night after) on the night I had 4, I used all 4 to pollinate each other. Few days later, seemed like they took. They were firm. On the 5 th day, I could see the color separation and was able to pull the bloom off like you showed. But a day or so later, they turned yellow. 3 fell off the next day. The other 2 have some pink, but also kind of yellow. What did I do wrong? (Going to send this your dragonfruit friend as well, please don’t be offended. I’ve learned from both of you, lol)
Aloha. We live in Hawaii. Last year no problems with dragonfruit. Beautiful, ripe, not eaten by pests. This year every one is eaten by a pest – all the way through – with holes on two sides and hollowed out. We have geckos and birds but I never see them eating the fruit. After the fruit starts to die, ants show up. Any ideas as to what is eating them and how to prevent it. Mahalo.
Hi Richard. Love following all your articles on dragon fruit and will always do so. Would you be able to tell me what i am doing wrong on the dragon fruit flowers, When i am to pollinate the flowers,some that are supposed to be opened will not open at all,cause the tips of the flower are stuck like glue,Could this be from lack of watering.or from the ants that are on these flowers at earlier buding stage,Please help me if you know the cause, God bless you .
The flower is sweet & edible. In China, unfertilized flowers from a closely related species 霸王花 are picked and sun-dried, then used to make soup with pork or chicken. Doing it your way you get both the fruit and the flower. As the flowers are fresh, if they’re not moldy or rotten, you can probably use them as veggies in stirfries. To minimize mold formation, slit the flower longitudinally into 4 quadrants a few hours after they close to improve ventilation.
hi sir (namaste ) good morning, i am very happy to see your careing style, i am aslo learner for this, so i have got only one piller in my house, i am interest to made more so how long time it takes to make nex piller from same old piller ? (from old plants) pls help me, i am from nepal near Lumbini .
Hi there I lTownsville Australia Iv been following your articles for some time now 6 nights ago my dragonfruit flowered so I went and collected some pollen because I new that I had about 14 flowers going to be ready at the same time. So today being day 6 I thought I should remove the flowers off the fruit Townsville has had constant rain now for 4 days now and the flowers are very mushy and hard to remove so what should I do as I’ve had my dragon fruit plants now four 4 years and they have never produced fruit so I started following you for guidance and this year is the first time I have followed your instructions
Great information! I have a dragon fruit plant growing in a 5 to 7 gallon pot from 3 cuttings for 4 years now. I fertilize it with fish and kelp soluble solution consistently. It has strong and big trunks, and some roots sprout from the upper trunks to climb on the wall so I think they should be old enough to bear flowers and fruits. However, no flowers buds has appeared yet. I also have two other dragon fruit plants next to this pot, and they have flowers/fruits. So, not this one. Is there such a thing as a “sterile” cutting? If it is, how would you identify them earlier on? Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I am a DF farmer in the Philippines and this Richard is da bomb. He helps and educates so many improve their ability to cultivate and maintain their DF plants. What is also amazing is that this article has received 346 “thumbs down” ratings. You really have to have some serious emotional/mental issues to give this gentlemen and this article a down rating. But hey, wait what? There are 8,700 thumbs up, and if we look at these numbers as a population sample, by comparision, the thumbs downers are only 4% of the population. Seems about right huh? So, the take away is that 4 % of the populatioin are idiots 🙂 ….anyway thanks Richard…you’re the best! 🙂