Quickest and Easiest Way to Grow Dragon Fruit - No Trellis Required!

Wanted to grow dragon fruit but don't think you have the space, the skill or the money to put together a trellis or frame? Today we're growing dragon fruit the easiest way possible without any fancy bits and bobs. Quick and simple.. Jackpot!

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Just your average Australian backyard grower; hoping to build a collection of all the the answers to the questions I had when I started off the hobby.

[RAREDRAGONFRUIT]

Yeah buddy, good information. Valdivia Roja, Paul Thomson's #7, Valdivia Ranch Red, and Jala all grow on some granite rocks in the yard because they taste like veggies to me. Keep em coming.

[JasonIsaia]

The champion with another easy video. Growing dragons made easy

[SCArtandGrafts]

Ah yes! Will surely try this method someday once i get myself settled back home for good. Experimenting and taking down notes is fun!

[Honestandtruth]

Gotta Love this video and very Useful information 😅😂👍

[ninjasquid]

ah yes i have been waiting for this video. good tips for if you want to set someone up with a cutting that may be inexperienced or may just want fruit/flours as quick as possible. well done

[iiFX_Colleen]

I have never had a trellis for my dragonfruits.... just 3 bug tyres, on top of that is a 100 litre water trough with some holes drilled in it and filled with soil... then a big pot on top of that with my cactus growing.... the branches are so strong and long, and I used your method of grafting onto the end of one of the branches, so I should have a red and yellow dragonfruits produced on on branch :) WIN WIN!!

[Honestandtruth]

WOW 😳😯. You are so Smart and Funny as well 👍👍 just Subscribed too

[petermai]

I have a pot of dragon fruits when I had no idea about their habits. They need to drop down before they flower. So, one tip I found on the Internet is to put the pot on a tree stump or on a wall. My trellis is just too low and now I don't want to prune back, build a new trellis and wait another year or two before getting fruits again. The idea of putting the pot on a high spot is not alwasy easy for everyone. So, I came up with a new idea and I have just set it up today.

My idea is to buy a bigger pot, fill it with good mix for dragon fruits and sit the existing pot in it. This raises the height (in my case) to a perfect height. It also offers extra good soil for the dragon fruit plants to grow better and produce more fruits. The roots will just escape into the lower pot. You affectively double the amount of soil. There is one important thing that I also plan for. The weight of the pot and the plants will just get heavier each month and eventually will become over 100kg. The compaction of the soil in the bottom pot will be intolerable. So, I bought a cinder block and put it inside the lower pot to support the weight of the top pot. This soil compaction problem is solved. And to avoid the top pot falling when there is a storm, I put a few wooden stakes to surround the top pot.

[danielross]

I find this method even after a few years produces lower yields

[petermai]

I think you should not even use a pot if you don't have to move and carry the plant with you. Just plant straight into the soil and let it droop over the side of a raised garden bed or a wall. You would need over 1.2m of clearance for the plant to have enough room. Dragon fruit plant's roots will co-exist with the lawn. Feeding the lawn will feed teh dragon fruit plant too. There will ne bo worries about the water logged situation and root rot.

[alansmith]

Can you tell me what state / area you are in?

[minhhop]

You do not even talk or explain about the main things that need to be