... What is the point of mixing cricket (dung I would suppose) with wood chips, wetting it, and letting it sit 3 weeks? What happens during the three weeks?...
The reason I asked is that there may be some intervals during the day when the tree may be shaded. If it receives sunshine all day then that is fine. My pitaya...
Hi, Anybody know about fertilizer application and fruit yield, Vietnam uses a lot of fertiliser and the yield can reach 50-80 tonne, while the Taiwanese uses...
Dear Paul Quoting from 'the book' ( you really MUST buy this book ) . "Cricket is very hot, much more so than fresh chicken manure, and will burn the roots of...
Hi all. Has anyone seen a commercial crop of any variety growing in Costa Rica? I am starting a business proposal to start a small organic pitaya farm in...
Hello Everyone! Well in response to Leo's question about the fruits of ocamponis and grandifloris. The Ocamponis fruit was small and bright red with many tiny...
Aloha Brad, Do your plants in the field get all day sun? Do some types usually burn more often? I bet its ok since you have such high humidity. Have you heard...
Hello, I just bought some (red) dragon fruit seeds from tradewindsfruit.com and was wondering how hard are they to grow. I do not know what variety they are...
Brad, How are you Pollinating the flowers - can you explain how, what, when and related procedures involved in doing this.. Productivity increase? Size of...
Hello Rottensquid and all, I think that your email address rottensquid makes me laugh. Why is it that you name it this way? Mine is aromagem why because I...
Hello Leticia and all, I've seen and eaten the best of pitaya's in Guatemala, where they serve them everywhere and you see them blossoming at Lake Atitlan...
Hi Surjan! In response to your question about pollinating. I normally pollinate all my pitaya flowers by transfering the pollen from the anthers inside of the ...
Hello Zeljka and all, I had been to Guatemala, Antigua and Costa Rica but I never were served this fruit but I remmembered that when we went to the rainforest...
Does anyone think a potential commerical planting of H. Ocamponis would be a great choice? Why wouldnt there be one? It just seems as if Undatus and polyzhrus...
Hello Leticia and all, my son Simon, who was with me in Guatemala for that fabulous trip, will be back from school in Scotland this Saturday and I will have...
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:26 am, dghays01 wrote: ] What temperatures have people noticed pitaya tolerate down to? ] What symptoms are typically noticed as a...
Hi. You can see white spots appearing, they will generally recover though. Also, the branches turn to mush; about 28 deg F is noticable damage. Dayton ...
The reason I asked is that there may be some intervals during the day when the tree may be shaded. If it receives sunshine all day then that is fine. My pitaya...
Hello All! Happy holidays and please forgive my poor spelling and atrocious grammar in all my posts. Some one wrote in a while back that they had crossed Sp....
Hi Richard! I'm not an expert but I suggest checking out all the pictures in the photo section. Pruning technique depends on what kind of trellis you have. If...
Aloha Brad, It is very reasonable to expect to be able to get a polyploid pitaya with colchicine treatment, as well as interspecific hybrids from the different...
Breeding new pitaya hybrids is great fun for most of us. Getting a good unique hybrid would send us to the seventh heaven. However, most of us do not have any...
Dear Sainarong, Thank you for your replies and explanations. Currently is on the peak of rain season here. It is expected that rain season will be ended around...
