I have read most of everyone's postings and have suddenly lost hope of joining the world of pitaya's. I live on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada....
I'm in Northern Ontario. I only have the one plant which I started from seed from a store purchased fruit several years ago and I have never seen the fruit for...
Thanks for the information. I got one from the grocery store that's pink and green on the outside (white with black seeds in the middle.) I had never seen one...
I have 30 or so 'dragon fruit' plants that I grew from seeds from a store bought fruit. The fruit was a type that you can buy readily in Vietnam, with white...
Hi, I, too, have several Pitaya seedlings and your reply was helpful but there is something that I don't quite understand. Do you mean that the pollen of...
My interpretation of seedlings/cuttings is as follows: Flowers of a non-fertile plant will require pollination from a species other than itself to fruit....
In it's simplest form, self fertile plants can pollinate their own flowers and produce fruit, non-self fertile (self infertile) plants require another plant of...
... This I find surprising, though admittedly, I'm not geneticist [heck, I'm not even sure that's how you spell it]. Assuming the gene for self-compatibility...
There are many different self-sterility mechanisms in plants and I have no idea what is the case in Hylocereus. In any case, pollen from a plant of a ...
Hi Warren, You are right it should be possible to get a self-fertile seedling from a cross of two self-incompatible plants, but it is less likely than if one...
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 01:43 am, Sven Merten wrote: ] Hi Jedd, ] ] Can you post a picture of the cuttings? ] Can you describe the stems compared to ] a Hylocereus?...
Hi, I'm looking for 2000 to 3000 seeds of Cereus peruvianus to do a home hobby experiment, hoping to get mutations and also just for the fun of watching...
Hi Jedd, That certainly is a Hylocereus and probably H. undatus if the flesh is white. Even if that variety has small fruit it is worth growing as it will be...
I received the following from Roy Dynan roy.dynan@... who can't write directly to the group: Hi Leo, I'm intrigued by the Hylo that can stand -7C. I...
Hi Leo Manuel, I'm a pitayaha wholesaler from Costa Rica, any informastion you need on buying this product please let me know. Thank you much. Radchid Chacon ...
I am using Joe Berry's method of supporting my cacti, except that I'm using local dead fall trees and wooden rings (will send photos when I get that digital...
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:05 am, d_u_a_r_t_e@... wrote: ] Do you mean that the pollen of different species ] is required to get fruit, or the pollen of an ]...
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:12 am, Sven Merten wrote: ] That certainly is a Hylocereus and probably H. ] undatus if the flesh is white. Even if that ] variety has...
I got the following letter today from Duc Nguyen, changing the terms of ordering dragon fruit cuttings to a minimum of 50 cuttings per order. I would not have...
As you know, the pitahaya is an exotic fruit of the cactus family. It was a popular Aztec fruit being mentioned in historical documents of the 13th century....
Hello Leo I am interested in planting pitaya on a small farm and will like to know if it would be adequate for zone 13. Summer temperature rise to 105 F. to ...
Hi all, I live in Wildomar, California, about 15 miles north of Rainbow Valley. Please let me know if I can buy some cuttings, especially the self-fertile kind...
My name is Ariel Shai 49, BSCAGR MSCAGR, a prickly pear and exotic fruit grower from Israel. Once I studied in Australia towards my PhD at the University of...
Dear Leo and Ariel; We have two types of White Flesh Pitaya (Red Skin). Some claim that one is from Vietnam and the other from Taiwan. Therefore we call it...
Hello, my name is Ed. I'm from Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. 10 months ago, I bought this strange looking fruit for a lot of money and and tried it. I liked it...
Dear friend There is a lot of information in the various articles refered by Leo. You should keep only one stem and all side shoots repot for additional...
You should give them something to climb on, and may need to tie them up to the pole. Soon the pitaya will produce aerial roots to hold themselves to the pole. ...
On May 3, I saw the first bloom bud of the season, on a Hylocereus polyrhizus. It may abort, of course, and will probably take longer to fully develop, if it...
I spotted pitaya buds in the Waipio Valley two weeks ago. It looked like ocampis or polyrhizus (short spine, grey green) The person had several kinds on a wall...
