It’s been 1.5 years since I set up my dragon fruit alley here at the Epic Homestead, and they’ve grown in well…but I need to prune them back and assess their health to make sure they keep producing for years to come.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Intro
00:14 – Pruning
02:31 – Disease
05:03 – Fertilizing
06:30 – Conclusion
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I am definitely going to come back later and binge watch all of your content omg. Special interest activate
Is there anywhere I can purchase dragon fruit online?
I love gardening. Love this cannel
The plant that can take surgery
Hi Kevin! Just wanted to drop a comment and say thank you for all your videos and tips! All very informative and helpful. We just moved to a small farm and are starting to get some animals. We have rabbits , quail, chickens, ducks, and maybe we'll be getting a pig in the future. What I'm really interested in is gardening this year. Love all your videos about corn! And strawberries! I'm definitely going to try to grow both of those and maybe even watermelon this year. Thanks again! And Keep on growing!
i was literally eating a dragon fruit as this video was playing. Not from my own garden, though.
Now you have the epic homestead where you have so much more food you grow I'd love to see you, and maybe Jacques get in on it too, do the 30 day survival challenge again! I feel like with your own backyard chickens it will likely be much easier this time around.
I have very small dragon fruit cuttings that are rooted. They are not showing any signs of new growth. How do I get them growing
Can you do a mulberry plant care pls? Thank you
This is a really fun video. I'd love to see one for permanent plants you'd put in- perhaps considering zones that might have a frost.
We have blackberries, and they come back every year, produce well, and are totally worth their permanent place in our small yard. I tried to grow Dragonfruit a few years ago, and we just weren't quite in the right zone for it. It lasted a couple years but never grew well.
Now I'm in a questionable zone again- technically zone 9, we do get some frost which is manageable, but we get a lot of really hot days, 100-120 degrees, and I'm not sure what can withstand our awful temperatures.
Is there any chance that you would consider making some longer podcasts?
You can also use copper fungicide on Potatoes with blight. Both diseases hate copper.
Do you sell cuttings I’d like to buy some or recommend a place that sells them
I keep trying to find a way to grow these far up north. Alas, no greenhouse yet.
Thanks for keeping us updated . I received cuttings a couple of months after you posted a video on dragon fruit and have been following your advice e and your journey.
I have a question:can you hand pollinate a dragon fruit flower while it’s opening?
Try a more permanent trellis next time.
When it comes to tipping how far is preferable
Me watching this knowing im never gonna grow dragon fruit: “ah yes, interesting.”
I just bought a dragon fruit. I live in AZ and I've heard they do well out here but I'm wondering if, given the heat, I should adjust the watering schedule or sunlight exposure?
i gotta question here, if to add fertilizer to my plants, should i raise up the layer of mulch??? (same as adding more compost) or place the fertilizer on top of the mulch??? thanks
My great aunt passed away and were cleaning her house and i found she has a bout a 50 foot dragon fruit plant growing along the back of her house she trelised against the trim of the house. i took about 15 cuttings with me im going to root 🙂
Check out Self Sufficient Me. He shows an easy way to de-thorn a dragon fruit before harvesting.
Please post more dragon fruit
Kevin I'm in Florida and most of my dragons are in ground, but the ones i've grown in pots are only good for about 2yrs max then become so root bound they start getting stunted growth and diseased. I'e seen people separate the tops from the roots and set the tops into a fresh pot and shade it a little and it will reroot.
Tastes like Peruvian apple cactus which is all over AZ neighborhoods. When it flowers it is beautiful. I am not a fan of the taste of this fruit.
If I’m putting 4 cuttings on each side of a 4×4 post and trellis, can I plant 4 different varieties?
On the off chance that you read this comment, would like to know if you are in Nevada, would love the possibly of getting some clippings of your dragon fruit. We had one chance when some came through Lowe's but it had some sort of fungus we couldn't get rid of, and haven't seen any since. So sad :(.