In this video, I show you a simple gardening hack for harvesting thorny or spiny dragon fruits.
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Fruit with spikes
Im stoned asf rn
Thanks for this video, I'm starting my dragonfruit garden and can't wait to get one of those types!
Those hoselink ratchet pruners work a treat
I have grown a yellow passion fruit plant from seeds of yellow passion fruit, it's now 9 month old, the growth is very good and it's flowering heavily, i also hand pollinated but it's not setting any fruits…what should I do ?
Mark, I have what appear to be dragon fruit plants that grow randomly in my trees. I have no idea how they got there (probably the pesky cockatoos) but they have been there for years and have never fruited. How can I get them to start fruiting?
Simple idea. Very cool. Always great to see you and part of Australia.
Could you do the same with prickly pears?
That's good it doesn't have any small glochid like American cactuses do. If you ever somehow get something like Prickly Pear cactus growing out there (probably in a greenhouse) you're going to have to treat the fruit like stinging nettles and wear gloves and burn the glochids off
Honestly, I don't think I've ever had dragon fruit before.
I've never been a fruit person. I've always been a veggie person haha.
Dragon fruit is more expensive than meat, where I live
Dragon fruit is really good but it's pretty expensive here in New Jersey. I bought one fruit yesterday and it costed $8.
How does the flavor profile of that variety compare to a red fleshed fruit like Lisa or Rosa?
Plant: spends ages developing spines to protect the fruit.
Mark: brushy brushy
Wonderful guru
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We have dragon fruit in Chicago. I haven't tried it yet because it usually costs between 5 – 7 USD! for one.
Clever! Yay!!!
Count you blessings young man. Your Mom and really Really love you. Yes. “It’s Good”!
God bless.
I wonder if this would work with this prickly cactus pears?
I watched this short like right before I went to sleep and I dreamed that I didn’t use the brush technique and had thorns stuck inside my hands and couldn’t get them out no matter how hard I pulled on them. Always use the brush technique people.
Looks tasty… never heard of
You are the Steve Irwin of fruit
Great!!