8 Tips How to Get MORE Dragon Fruit Pitaya

Dragon fruit pitaya not setting fruit even if it flowers well? This video gives 8 tips on how to help get your dragon fruit vine to grow more fruit.

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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)

[normastitz]

I grew 500 poles in the Philippines. Concrete poles 8 ft with 2 ft in the ground and an old motor cycle tire fixed to the top. 4 cuttings to each pole and tied to the pole as they grew up. Prune all off shoots from the main stem leaving only the main stem to grow up and over the tire where they will produce multiple downward facing stems. They set fruit after 8 months and no problems with pollination. They had a flush of fruit around every 40 days from may thru November which is the wet season. After the season is over prune back the fruiting stems to increase the number of fruiting stems for the next season. The pruned stems which have produced fruit are the ones used for new plants. These plants can live for 50 years.I grew the red variety and got nice big fruit between 2-3 pieces per kilo. They can be kept for up to 5 weeks if refrigerated and can be eaten fresh, in shakes, in ice cream, dehydrated and make an excellent berry like jam. The dried flowers make an excellent chamomile like tea.Dragon fruit are one of the healthiest of all fruit.

[jo-annjewett]

I got cuttings of a dragon fruit when doing volunteer work at our local botanical gardens back in 2000. I first planted on a mesquite tree. It grew to the top and we had so many fruit. Eventually it actually broke the tree from the weight. I then planted cuttings on our chain link fence. It grew into a monster with a couple hundred blooms at once. Two years ago the Big Texas Freeze took it out and I forgot to get cuttings ahead of time. Miraculously a lady I gave cuttings to but didn’t even know, brought me cuttings from my original plant when she saw mine was toast. I cried. I now have them on wooden trellises in big pots. I have about 4 varieties now.

[leelee]

I'm in South Australia and I grew a few plants from cuttings. I lost interest in them, never watered them and lo and behold I went out today and found 3 large fruit. I've eaten one of them and it was sweet. I'm stoked lol.

[danihall]

The parrots are gorgeous! I always leave the high fruit that I can't reach for the animals. It's their planet too! Thank you as always for sharing.

[JustinRosinski]

As crazy as things are going on in the world right now, it is such a treat to be able to watch your videos and remember how good life can be away from all the madness—thank you for the reprieve! These videos are the best!

[conflectiz]

Not one dislike on this vid.
I love this man’s accent and his gentle nature.

[maddiehat]

I LOVE how you dont just throw hate to pests like parrots or foxes. I feel like you have a wider understanding on ecosystems and that having vegetables or chickens will naturally attract unwanted attention, and the ways you try to repel them, instead of training a dog to kill or using potentially toxic pesticides like industrial farms do.

[davidwolter]

With 4 feet of snow where I garden I have no expectations of growing Dragon fruit, but I found this video very interesting! Thank you!

[marcoursi]

Thanks Mark for this video...I Absolutely love dragonfruit...I have the red flashed red skinned variety here in Mackay and I think they are great tasting ones, way better than the white fleshed ones...A colleague of mine gave me a couple of cutting and I never looked back...I also found that the less I look after them the better they do....they just sit there next to my mature compost pile and thrive like there is no tomorrow...I'm lucky that here the winter is very mild and never had a problem...also rarely lost a flower, if anything they drop at the "bud" stage, but no problem, there is always plenty...They self pollinate very easily and I love eating every one of them...bonus: no one in my family likes them...More for

[randynelson]

I have a dragon fruit that I started from seed ten years ago and finely this year it decided to produce fruit. I am looking forward to the fruit fully ripening. It is growing along a chain link fence and seems to be perfectly happy there.

[braukorpshomebrew]

I'm growing dragon fruit for the first time, bought a stem two months ago. I'm so excited, and I'm glad you made a video about growing it!

[glenmills]

What an absolute pleasure watching this video. I did not know this plant. Very interested now. Thank you for not trying to compete with so many others but staying with good clear simple and clean language. I would give this 10 thumbs up if it was possible.

[Erasmaz]

Hi from French Guyana !! When I was in La Reunion island, I have got a lot of pitayas in my garden. ATTENTION PLEASE ! The best pollinisation is the cross-pollinisation. The pollen of the red variety on the pistil of the white variety and vice versa !!! The more the pollen you apply, the more the fruit is big !!! It's a night-job but the results are awsome. My biggest fruit dragon weights 1 kg with this method !! Otherwise, as a French guy, I really enjoy to view your videos !!

[luciatheron]

Great highlight of the season when it flowers. A real treat.

[lallu]

Thank you for the cool tips. I'm just beginning thinking about planting this at my home. Not in a disrespectful way, but I did get a good chuckle when that bowl fell over, and you went, "awww!"

[annelord]

Great advice: so now Im going to build up around the plant. The fruit so far has been green then yellow and fallen off so I''ll check the fertilizing and watering regime.

[EileenHjertum]

Really great tips - I have kept two dragonfruit alive in Toowoomba this last winter (in a pot covered by a plastic hessian sack) am going to plant them out this spring and will give them a a 2m post with two crossbars to promote branching. Thanks so much.

[renata]

I live in the Netherlands and started with some dragonfruit seeds last year. They take a long time but they are doing well. I am gifting 3 of them to someone with a little book of instructions in the hope he will also get to enjoy the fruits. Can't wait to see in about 4 years if this is working as planned

[DuckcuD]

I have recently discovered that my Mother has one of these in a small pot and has been growing it as just a small ornamental cactus with no idea what it is

so I am planning on planting it out and seeing if it will fruit, so this video is perfectly timed

[dice]

Great advices here ! Thank you. I'm about to start self-sufficient life soon and leave capitalism life behind me . So any good farmer advice is golden for me. Wishing you all the best mate