Hello Yahoo Dragonfruit enthusiasts. Happy New Year! As some of you know I've been away from the site... but I'm back. How to begin? Just getting brushed up on...
Gray! Good to hear your voice. My trials and tribulations with a few rats and a little rot are minor compared with the big picture of the Ag industry. I have...
The truth is: Brad wins 'Letter of the New Year' Award! Thank you Brad for encouraging and renewing my interest in applied horticulture. What an amazing...
I don't post much. I mostly just read and want to share my excitement on my first dragon fruits. This one is the white flesh one that I purchased from Mike T....
I had two flower buds pop out a few weeks back. they were clearly not just new stems growing. They came out round like flower buds and about a 2 weeks later...
Hi every one. I am new as well and I have 800 dragon fruit (pitayas) and they have been grown for 14 months. I live in the subtropics of qld Australia. My...
Congratulations Janet, I am envious! I got 5 blooms but no fruit this year! My first year at Pitaya growing! I have a question for those with experience and...
Dear Roslyn, I have ten plants, some for 2 or 3 years -- and when I read your letter I was reminded of James Michener's Hawaii. There is a story in it about...
Thanks Patti, My red flesh one is suppose to be self pollinating but it only had one bloom and I couldn't reach it to try to pollinate it so I figure next...
Joanne, I am an amateur, but you might try placing an iron additive around the base of a few to see if that cures the "yellow" condition... Do you have any...
Gday Mate! I am a commercial grower in Hawaii and I may be able to help but you will have to explain your problem a little more thoroughly. Is it just the...
Rosyln The following points should be considered when making a disease diagnosis. 1. Disease symptoms may vary slightly from season to season and on their time...
I have over 40 varieties of pitayas from all over the world, but I have never seen pitayas turning yellow when they should turn green. 1. Whereabout in...
Your first pitaya plant should be a self-fertile one. I think it is rather sad to grow a pitaya plant for a year only to find that it either doesn't flower or...
I have a Vietnamese Jaina & Yellow Pitaya for over 3 years & never got a flower. Are these 2 self fertile/ self pollinating?? Right now they are in 55 - 62F...
Brad) our flowers were well formed. We are growing red skin and white flesh pitayas we have got 2 fruit that took in the 2 patches we have. this is there...
Roslyn! Your climate is perfect.. It sounds to me that you have planted 800 of the same kind , the common Hylocereus Undatus that is not self pollinating but...
I was thinking like you Sainarong---until Brad hit it with the yellow fruit really are aborting fruit. Now several members have suggested that Rosolyn plant...
There is a tendency for young fruit or flowers to turn yellow and drop off after rain. This can be reduced or prevented using minerals like calcium or plant...
Leo! Just where do I procure these completely self fertile red fleshed clones. I did not know they existed (at least on this side of the Pacific Ocean). Like...
I think you might be right about the plants been young. The 2 that were green and doing well were on dark green plants with good arial roots so here is...
Well more than anything this is a topic near and dear to me... I am afraid that there is no way I can do this topic justice without going back, and yes,...
I do not know much about the situation in the States, but here in Asia, we have many varieties of self-fertile, I think, magenta-flesh pitayas. No commercial...
You have got me, and others, interested. Once you've have found out the cause and the remedy thereof, please do not forget to tell us. Good luck! Sainarong ......
I have not made any test to ascertain whether my red/magenta varieties are completely self-fertile or not. And I do not know whether they are completely...
To all concerned! Roslyn sent me pictures and they were simply aborted flowers that were not pollinated. Her plants were healthy and if they would have been...
Sainarong, A few of questions. In regards to stigma length. Do your flowers have a stigma that protrudes 3-5 cm out away from the anthers? My only Asian type...
Thank you all that tried to help us. We are pretty sure we have 3 white and 1 red not yet flowering and I also have a red I have got seed up from early days....
Hello Sainarong: OK, we are planets away... I grew up in Hawaii so I know tropical and I am guessing you are more similar to Hawaii than So Cal where it is dry...
Leo, I am only a dabbler in Pitaya, but I think self-fertile vs self-pollinating is an important distinction. Although self- pollinating infers self-fertile, a...
