Dragon fruit is eating my house!

[Stevetoad]

Just thought this was cool how its growing up the side of my house.

[Hammer]

Are those the same dragons that went extinct in 1344?

[waykoolplantz]

The big one says "I don't need no stink in pipe"

[JungleGina]

It could happen! While visiting Oahu last year, I saw what looked like dragon fruit overtaking the side of the valley on Roundtop Drive going up Tantalus.

[rprimbs]

It could happen! While visiting Oahu last year, I saw what looked like dragon fruit overtaking the side of the valley on Roundtop Drive going up Tantalus.

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Wow that is amazing! I've got a couple of Viet varieties I need to get into the ground. I want to cover a wrought iron fence with them. It doesn't look like I'll have any trouble!

[Stevetoad]

It could happen! While visiting Oahu last year, I saw what looked like dragon fruit overtaking the side of the valley on Roundtop Drive going up Tantalus.

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Holy dragon!

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Puff the magic dragon

Livin' by Steve's house

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Santee,

Little Steve paper loved that rascal puff,

And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Get a trellis and train it on the trellis so it doesn't trash your house. They fruit like crazy and will attract bats at night.

[Stevetoad]

Puff the magic dragon

Livin' by Steve's house

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Santee,

Little Steve paper loved that rascal puff,

And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Get a trellis and train it on the trellis so it doesn't trash your house. They fruit like crazy and will attract bats at night.

I have others that are being trained but most I let go all natural.

[rprimbs]

Puff the magic dragon

Livin' by Steve's house

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Santee,

Little Steve paper loved that rascal puff,

And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Get a trellis and train it on the trellis so it doesn't trash your house. They fruit like crazy and will attract bats at night.

I have others that are being trained but most I let go all natural.

Do you put on a miners light and hand pollinate in the evening -- like the guys in the CRFG do?

[Stevetoad]

Puff the magic dragon

Livin' by Steve's house

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Santee,

Little Steve paper loved that rascal puff,

And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Get a trellis and train it on the trellis so it doesn't trash your house. They fruit like crazy and will attract bats at night.

I have others that are being trained but most I let go all natural.

Do you put on a miners light and hand pollinate in the evening -- like the guys in the CRFG do?

I havent had very many flowers so far. theyve all grown a ton this past year so i hoping for more flowers this year and i will hand pollinate them. last year i had 3 flowers and 2 set fruit and then a raccoon or opossum ate the fruit before it was ripe.

[Luisd]

The other day bloomed this, H. stenopterus,

the flower was closed before 7 am, flower keeps open longer time in H. undatus.

I obtained here H. undatus fruits with pollen of Epiphyllum.

Selenicereus also has beautiful flowers

[rprimbs]

The other day bloomed this, H. stenopterus,

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the flower was closed before 7 am, flower keeps open longer time in H. undatus.

I obtained here H. undatus fruits with pollen of Epiphyllum.

Selenicereus also has beautiful flowers

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Beautiful flowers. I wonder if some of the Hylocereus - epiphylum crosses get good fruit. Blooming during the day would make them more ornamental and more likely to be pollinated by insect like bees -- so that there wouldn't be the need to pollinate them by hand in the evening.

I am growing four types of dragon fruit. The yellow -- Hylocereus megalanthus (Selenicereus megalanthus) , the red, white, and purple -- Hylocereus undatus, and Hylocereus costaricensis. My plants are not big enough for cuttings yet but when they get bigger I would love to trade cuttings with other people.