How to Take Dragonfruit Cuttings ✂️🐉

Dragonfruit, or pitahaya, is incredibly easy to propagate from cuttings. It's a fast rooter and once established will grow like crazy. Here is my personal method for taking a dragonfruit cutting and rooting it successfully. If any dragonfruit growers out there have a different or better method, please drop me a comment! Always looking to learn.

P.S. If you want to learn how to grow dragon fruit from cuttings, please watch my full dragonfruit playlist.

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[epicgardening]

Do you have a method for dragonfruit cuttings that works for you? Let me know :)

[RAREDRAGONFRUIT]

Your strategy is a flesh cut. Flesh cuts are most successful when they are near epiphytic root shoots and might perform a bit better, but are more prone to rot. Honestly, these plants are very resilient...Any cutting does fine as long as it's in the shade and doesn't get too cold or overwatered. We prefer a stem cut, where you cut the stem and most of the little "nub". It might be slower to grow, but it is more resistant to rot when rooted in water or soil. We prefer to grow cuttings in Fox Farms Happy Frog Potting Soil. It has humic acid and promotes root growth. We are also experimenting with more "unique" methods on our channel. Your plants will do well, thanks for sharing.

[angelicarmor]

Thank you for this video! Trimmed back some random cacti growing signs my palm tree (in FL) a couple of years ago mainly to avoid being stuck while getting my mail... A week ago I noticed some fuzzy things on the ground, realized they were deaf flowers, looked up at the palm tree & realized it was flowers from that random cactus! 😮 I'm new to gardening so didn't think much of that cacti... But after a little research I realized it's a Pitaya Dragonfruit! I feel so excited & blessed to have one of these beauties growing wildly in my own yard! & now I'm going to try to grow some from cuttings!! 🙏🏼🌵💮 😊

[DeeLoStuff]

I bought some cuttings about a year ago and I used the water propagation. They rooted so quick! Planted them during spring, made sure to keep them somewhat moist and they took off!! They’re so big now!

[lionessm]

Thank you for this video! I just scored a big hunk of dragon fruit that fell off of a clearance plant at Lowe’s. The guy said I could take it home and try to propagate it. It already has air roots on one section. This was the perfect video to watch before getting started and letting The cut ends dry out. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[chrishuizar]

I've been buying rooted cuttings but thought I'd try rooting my own cuttings. I tried the method of rooting with the stem cut to a nub. I let dry (scab over) and after 8 weeks... nothing. The cutting is still in great shape but I thought it would have rooted by now. Its been in the shade in very good weather. Originally I was going to use the EG method of cutting off an inch of the bottom but was convinced otherwise. I watched this video to reconfirm what I should do. My 4 unrooted cuttings I have now have been cut and are scabbing over as we speak. Hey Kevin nice job. You're the reason I started growing Dragon Fruit. After I watched your video on how you grew your first Dragon Fruit I thought it was something I would like to try. Now I'm starting a Dragon Fruit alley on the side of my house like Richard of Grafting Dragon Fruit just a little scaled down from or so my wife hopes. Once you start it's hard to stop. 9 varieties so far and counting. Next stop....edible landscaping.

[h_infinity]

I love the music you use during your timelapses. I feel like it adds a very calm aesthetic to your videos 😊

[MickyBellRoberts]

Between you and Mark in Aussie, y’all are the best teachers.

[MonicaVillegas]

I just found your channel (trying to get some tips on growing dragonfruit) so naturally I went through the 3 part video series, and now I can't stop watching all the videos!!

[Robin-tried-it]

I can only imagine all the plants I would have if I was on the "friend's and family list" of all my favorite gardening YouTubers 😂

[arb]

I just received a dragonfruit cutting and I appreciate your tips especially regarding cutting off the ends, I now will plant it properly. Thank you

[Oyepapa]

I watched this video about 6-7 months ago. Took a 1 foot cutting from my rotting rusted dragon fruit plant. Waiting 2 days and planted it in a 1 gallon pot. After 2 months it was about 2 feet and has been climbing since. The cutting is now over 6 feet tall in less than a year and in a 1ft x1ft x 3 foot deep pot with a 6ft chemically treated stick and surprisingly still loves to root on it. I just refreshed my memory by rewatching the video and took a new 18inch cutting from the original plant and I am going to repeat the process.

[doodahgurlie]

Awesome! I didn't know it was this easy. My sister-in-law had a gorgeous and very tall dragonfruit plant that she didn't care for anymore and she basically was going to leave it outdoors and let it die. I wanted it so bad, but didn't have the space for it and would have to drive it back to my home which was 6 hours away, so I didn't take it with me. Had I known back then, I would have taken cuttings and tried to grow my own. Good news is she will try to grow it again (she didn't want the other one because it didn't fruit, whereas I just loved the plant whether it fruited or not) and said she'll grow me one as well.

[giannissamos]

Hello from Greece Kevin! please make an episode about the temperature that must the weather have so the dragon fruits grow better and the price of moisture!

[torineeley]

I just watched your dragon fruit series and I can't wait to try it out on my dragon fruit plant. It is my first time owning one and now I have even more hope that I will do good.

[kaylinde]

My dragonfruit was growing like crazy on my apartment balcony. When we moved I had to cut it up to transport it. I WISH I knew I could save the pieces I cut off! But like you said this plant grows fastttt and is always so forgiving

[valeriesanchez]

Got my cutting off etsy for $14.00 . Poked my hands with no mercy. But got it planted. Fortunately for me it shipped precut. So hopefully it roots soon

[Gardenerd]

Thanks for including the bit about where to trim the cuttings. Everyone else is leaving that out.

[XantheSpark]

I have a dragonfruit cutting a friend gave me a few months back, but it hasn't grown at all! I chunked it into some dirt in a wide 1 gallon pot but it has remained exactly the same size, although it hasn't withered either. Today, I decided to change its dirt in an attempt to see if I can get it to grow, and when I removed the dirt, I found that it had made plenty of roots, so I find it strange that it hadn't grown. I put in the same pot with only sphagnum moss mix this time and I moved it somewhere where it gets sun all day long. I hope it grows and gets as beautiful as your dragonfruit! Thanks for this informative video~

[benzworks]

I've found after doing this it's always better to start them off in the shade for a few months. I use to put them in sun and they would dry up and look bad. Then I placed them in full shade and wow, with in a week or two full green color and a few even produces fruits on a cutting about 9 inches long.