The spectacular Pitaya Dragon Fruit flower opens at night to be pollinated by the creatures of darkness and marvelled over by a shirtless ape wearing a Nikon camera…
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'that is a gorgeous flower. After looking at the stems, I wonder if I might have one, too! Mine is still a baby. I will have to watch your other video about dragon fruit now!
Wow, Mark, that's just stunning! I'd love to have a go at growing one, but it may be too cool near Wollongong.
brillant buddy
An absolute beauty <3
I WISH I COULD HAVE ONE OF THESE DRAGON FRUIT TO GROW I HAVENT HAD ANY LUCK WHAT SO EVER WITH DRAGON FRUIT
I sell these in the US. I have Edgar's Baby. Find on Amazon http://www.helloorganics.com. I'm out of Yellow right now.
We got 3 flowers on one of our plants last year, then we got some heavy rain and they all fell off. The same plant has just started to flower again in the last couple of days, about 20 this time. Fingers crossed we get some fruit this time.
Dang bud! You're thick! Must have done a lot of lifting? Thanks for the vid too! I can't wait to get some yellow dragon fruit! I hear they are the best!
I've got two varieties of night blooming cereus with similar flowers, and now I'm growing dragonfruit. Pollinators are bats, moths, and I believe beetles. There's usually lots of beetles on my blooms. The magnolia is a similarly huge flower with leathery petals and the reason is because it evolved before the evolution of the bee, so it's flower is all about attracting beetles.
Ohhhh wow…it's beautiful. I am from India and we have a similar plant at my mum's hone but we plant it for the flowers it doesn't grow fruits. The flowers are beautiful and fragrant and opens only at night.
I love the stately manner of this one of a kind specimen. If I had one like it, I just might fall in love with it. But enough about the ape…the flower is cool too!
Hey Mark, I have a new Dragon fruit plant! A local nursery sold me a fairly large plant with one yellow fruit on it. I later realized it was a cutting from a larger plant. I’m going to plant it. My question is: how many times do these plants fruit in a year? (I live in a hot climate-mild winter) how long do you think this cutting will take to produce fruit again?
That is a beautiful flower but you said in a earlier video that it only does this for 12 hours so one maybe 2 nights and that's it? The fruit looks amazing!
Isn't that just beautiful! Love it!
Nature sure is amazing …
Plus that's a very strange looking plant … LoL..
Amazingly strange…
I'll subscribe if there's one more shirtless video (with full body)
Good boy, Scoot.
Wow that's huge! Beautiful.
I find you very attractive. Yummy. P.s. I'm gay.
Just don’t go hand pollinating philodendron at night with your shirt off. People will start to wonder.
I'm just seeing this after being a faithful follower.. Loved it Mark. You've never once Not put a smile on my face with one of your vids. Thanks for the cheers mate! =D
Аmazing flowers..never seen before.. thank you for video
Just kidding love your channel i know how hot QLD Australia can be from experience
Probably the dog was looking for a mid-night-acidfrog treat, but I'm certainly right that he was out there for you, loving you, keeping things cool! Thank you for this wonderful flowers it brings me memories.
When you first started touching the pedals, they looked almost feather like. Very pretty indeed.
The spider in the beginning, was that an orb weaver?
FREAKING AWESOME THANKS MARK FOR SHOWING THIS =)
Easy on the eyes…and I’m not talking about the flower!
Woof