Tipping Dragon Fruit Branch to Help Induce Buds

There are a couple special techniques that I do to help my dragon fruit branches induce more buds. Check out this video to see what I do to help kick start your dragon fruit signals to start budding!
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[@epicgardening]

Nice! This is a smart technique. I did a heavy prune of shaded / lower branches + a higher PK fert and that induced for me!

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

You know exactly what to do! That is how I approach Dragon Fruits that are being "stubborn" and not inducing me buds even though I know they are mature enough! Works every time!

[@ssnmurtydanturty1838]

Very smart technique. I have been waiting for flowering since several months after planting.Single stemmed dragon plant grown with out branches for about 6 feet high.Now I proon the tip so as to get more branches and flower buds. Thank you for sharing the technique

[@myexoticfoodplants6727]

Great info, thank you. This should help me with growing my plants in the UK

[@TOMTUSA1]

I have cuttings from my American beauty for those who are starting out, or anyone who wants them. Supplies only while they last.

[@joejoe3185]

Hello, if you have some still available I would love to have some. I'm just starting out so it would be helpful. Thanks Joe

[@TOMTUSA1]

Where are you located.@@joejoe3185

[@carrideaton6503]

Same here, just starting an would love some cuttings.

[@teresitatowning8675]

I absolutely enjoyed watching your dragon fruits Videos , cause your plants are very healthy and clean ... Also I noticed it your plants have more healthy fat fruits and I just live that ... I can’t wait to start to plant me some one day after I retired from working .... So congrats on your successful dragon plants !!! You absolutely inspired me to plant some ?! 👌⭐️🥰

[@hergreenthumb990]

Yes, tipping is the trick. Gives stress for the plant to produce buds. Amazing

[@trplanetgaming8153]

@Donald J what happens

[@dieterschulz3419]

@Donald J But it is summer now in Florida. Should I drop some ice u think I have buds?

[@antonettetagud8290]

Wow! What an amazing tips you've shared in your dragon fruit. So impressive.

[@valenfanai8317]

I have planted in my terrace,so many branches and bushy,now i cannot control,last week i cut them off hope it grows much better this year..

[@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953]

Have you looked into flora blend vegan compost tea ?? I ve had great benefits from it and it makes a great foliar spray too

[@sharonbirdwell2201]

Hi I bought a dragon fruit two years ago and it is now in bloom. I had one and I didn’t know how to hand pollinate it so of course it just fell off. I have one that open tonight and I did the hand pollination and I have one more bud that should open in the next couple days and I’ll do the same and I’m praying for fruit. I want to thank you for this video so now I can try and get some more buds on it

[@jahmoan69]

You make me fall in love with Dragon fruits...i thank you for that ...i dont have face book ...but I have your KZbin channel for notification ..👍

[@MasonSanchez.]

I'm in the desert in SoCal, and I planted 7 dragon fruit cuttings on August 23rd of this year, and now I have one little growth on one of them. They seem to be doing fine!

[@familyj4715]

Great video Richard for helping show for the beginners

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thanks brotha!

[@d.h.morgan8193]

SO glad I saw this. As a result, I had more flowers and fruit this year!

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

I am so happy for you! Congrats on all your flowers, it must feel amazing to accomplish!

[@cathy40]

Mine started fruiting as soon as i started fertilizing twice a month with half strength miracle grow. Fruit is huge!

[@redangrybird7564]

You are right, fertilizer is key. No matter how much trimming or dancing under the full moon, no fertilizer, no fruit. Cheers 😀✌

[@Phil-ld8uv]

Thank you Aloha from Hawaii

[@vrosi1963]

will try this on some older plants i was given that produce no buds

[@jepoyznatureandanimallovers]

Thank you for the impormative tutorials about the dragon fruit sir..your Tips about dragon fruit is really helpful.new friend sir watching fr:Philippines👍

[@thelifeanddimension]

I grafted puple variety on vietnam whit and its successful.thanks Richard for such an idea

[@maibammomon2280]

Very good job

[@manolitomata2265]

Thank You so much for the information, it’s a great help for us as beginners.

[@nirmalameda3920]

Thanks for sharing as my plant has grown long but no bud, now I will try this in my plant.

[@LOANNGUYEN-zs7fx]

Thank you so much for your tips and tricks! I’m going to try and watch the results and I will let you know if that works!💯👏👌👌🙏🙏👍👍💪💪

[@jepoydsfishing5280]

Thank you so much for your video. My father has a dragon fruit business in the ph. Your video helps a lot.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

You're very welcome Jeffrey! Im happy that I am able to help you and your father out with growing Dragon fruit for your business. That is amazing.

[@deepaksoni4999]

im from india .I am your subscriber . i learn a lot of thing about dragon fruit to you . i am growing it om my Terris . thanks.

[@lornamazapaintingartshow2020]

It’s a beautiful garden😀🙋‍♀️

[@amolrajepatil9233]

Ok Hmm need to check more of your work

[@itsjude1]

What time of year is best to do this to encourage budding? In the fall for spring flowering?? In the spring, for summer flowering?? Thanks!

[@user-cy9zd5mg5h]

This is very helpful for me ❤️ yay thanks for sharing your video ❤️❤️

[@rebecaluisacevedo1135]

Soo happy I ran into your channel. I have a dragon plant and she is about 5ft tall. I don’t know a thing.. 1st time and learning about them. I live in Florida. Saw your trellis thank you for that. Can’t wait for the next phase of my dragon fruit 🙃🤩

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Rebeca! Thank you for watching and becoming a new subscriber to my channel. I hope that you find everything you need here to step up your dragon fruit gardening skills. First step is to build a sturdy trellis for them to grow on and the rest will happen from there. Happy gardening! :)

[@gardencenterwarrior8880]

Thanks so much for this tip !!!

[@reh-lalah8155]

So nice to harvest lately

[@remediosusmancollection1384]

Hi hillo my friend good luck to ur grafting of dragon fruit

[@valeriesanchez3074]

Such a pretty cactus

[@yolandac5936]

I need to try tipping my dragon fruit trees. I have them for over a year now they just keep getting longer but no buds. Thanks for sharing!

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

You're very welcome! If tipping them still doesn't produce you buds in the growing season. Then definitely try to give them a boost with some bloom fertilizer to help induce buds.

[@yolandac5936]

@@GraftingDragonFruit Thank you!

[@user-ol1er2vq9o]

Hi Richard, thank you so much for all your videos. Your videos seems to work like a charm. I have a question. Can you use floranova and recharge after fruits are set? I want to get more buds and healthy branches. Thank you.

[@FreddiesFarmPHILKEN]

thank you for sharing this video.. it is very insightful. i have a backyard operation here in Nairobi, Kenya. I plan to plant 3 acres in the future.... cheers keep up the good work!

[@faithfoodandtravels611]

thank you for sharing.

[@omshomestead]

You’re trees are awesome!!!!!

[@juangallegosmarques1033]

Megusta El cultibo Como cem brarla

[@lamt99]

Thanks Richard, i watch halfway and went out in the near-dark and tip off all branch i believe that can produce and bear fruits. I hope that my df will bears fruit soon. Your videos have been so helpful, I wish most youtuber videos are like your, most at them are not as detail as your and they last more than ten minutes. Dude, you ever thought of getting into longan and jambu apple. Heading down to socal to buy some. Not alot of videos out there like your growing and fruiting longan and rose apple-jambu.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you lamt99! You are so awesome to say those nice things about me and my channel. I wish i had more room to grow more fruits. But the Dragon Fruits occupy all the space. I cant stop getting more varieties! The collection keeps growing. Lol

[@dieterschulz3419]

Yes I like Richard so honest and really detailed easy to understand encouraging.

[@lukeoskam5510]

I had a really good budding season this summer here in San Diego, but a majority of them wound up dying/falling off very early instead of developing further. Do you have any suggestions on how to attack this? I figured it was due to the ridiculous heat we had so was thinking shade cloth might be needed? Cheers for all the info!

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Luke, buds tend to fall off early because it is a sign that the plant cant tolerate that many buds on them. They will abort themselves to balance out the ratio for them to have energy to focus on the ones that are there. This is totally normal and has nothing to do with you or weather. As they becoming more mature. They will be able to hold onto more buds as time goes.

[@indupacs.a.6215]

Thank you very much for the tips! Very generous!

[@GreenLife1217]

Great idea, Your cultivation is excellent

[@albertomagdua7109]

Thank you

[@AgriIdea]

Good Content, Carry-on Bro

[@saraswatikuwalekar1573]

When is the season of tipping

[@leidotif1494]

Very nice technique

[@KyleySumrall]

Can you take a video when do you tip your dragon fruit please? So i know when to tip my dragon fruits.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Will add that to my video list!

[@rscrohmingliani6294]

Thank you for the video and the idea

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

You’re very welcome, thanks for watching my videos!

[@elvenedrozo7918]

Thank you of the info sharing with us. God bless you!

[@tonymixadventures4897]

hi good day

[@veronicadecastro3328]

What month should I start tipping?

[@greenwoodhawaii]

Interesting! The problem I'm having is that my plant is starting to flower nicely but it ends there. The fruit doesn't take. They start turning yellow and fall off before developing. Very frustrating...

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

The main reason why this happens is because the variety of DF you have is Self-sterile. It won’t be able to fruit without pollination from another DF variety. Grow another variety and cross-pollinate the pollen with each other. You’ll start to see them stop falling off and produce fruit. You can find info on cross pollination in my channel.

[@spencercox8972]

What zones can you grow a dragon fruit in? I am in zone 8b and I would like to try to grow them. Thanks

[@jamesbilly2528]

HI once again our KZbin friend. Have you a video on how to make your own compost tea, If not could you please show us how to go through the whole precedure, Thank you . And god bless.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi James, the compost tea is up now!

[@kittywong4692]

How long have you planted until you have fruit?

[@tonymixadventures4897]

hi good day

[@godoflove6296]

Oh! Thank u very much,i have dragon fruit but only growing up up,but no fruit,so i do that u say,,

[@davescheer5038]

I live in west central Florida and have a guy down the street that grew dragon fruit ,his plants were going nuts in two years time the plants covered about 30' of wooden 6' fence and were solid green without any yellowing or bad spots , the plants were getting morning light and then the fence blocked the main branches from getting direct light , I've been growing my dragon fruit for 8 yrs and mine were always yellowing and dying off and I was in such envy of this guys plants, his plants were coming over the top of the fence facing a alleyway and had at least 70 to 80 fruit ! People were stealing his fruit and he got frustrated and cut them down and stopped growing them , how often do I need to water and give fertilizer ? I need to talk to this neighbor what ever his secret was I need to find out ! ✌🏻👍🏼.

[@philoskitchen]

Very informative useful video super

[@NgaLe-yu5vh]

My came 20 flower happy And slow flower turn yellow and gone How I keep to product fruit I did same you introduce you show Fell sad

[@talantrinh9767]

Love your video!!What the the best Time of the year to plant dragon fruit?

[@abaabquhar]

Thank you so much for your video. Could you please do a video or tell us how to shape (tie) the plants? Yours look so neat and beautiful and mine looks like a giant mess!

[@roselieolaya8735]

Can you help me how my dragon fruit can bear fruits so many flowers but it did not continue to become fruits

[@AutisticWombot]

You may need to manually pollinate the flowers. I suggest taking a toothbrush or makeup brush to pollinate the flowers. Just brush the flower on the anthers and then drag the brush over the middle of the flower, it'll get the pollen into the flowers' ovum and produce fruit.

[@sajidahali-ohab4642]

I tipped mine 2 weeks ago and only got a couple new branches...why no flowers, I gave it chicken manure beginning of the year and every 2 weeks a 6-6-6 fertilizer. What am I doing wrong!!!

[@cooliipie]

This is the video I've been looking for

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Awesome!

[@lucieneflimaterapeuta]

Very good, I liked see yours dragon fruits. Thanks.

[@chaparritahernandez2654]

Exelente tus videos, deberías considerar poner subtítulos a tus videos gracias 😉

[@user-ws7fb7uh3j]

How do we prevent fruit fly worms in the fruit eithout heavy pesticides.

[@jeremyvaldez6375]

We do this in Colorado to weed plants its called super cropping it a nice trick

[@emmalaniceberano7270]

Thanks for the info. I'll do that tomorrow, my dragon fruit been 3 years but doesn't flower...,I put manure , spray with fertilizer.. has flower only one..

[@luzc4945]

Thank you it works, more fruit for me

[@janicesearcy9832]

Did. You use seeds to start with my doesn't look like that you have wood like to see how they look like thanks

[@artlankaexploration]

thank you so much.Solved my problem

[@victoireazero4476]

Comment. Féconder. Le. Pîtaya. Tellement. Beaux. Cette. Plante. Qui. Rever

[@AbuSaleha415]

Nice

[@kishanari3766]

Hi i am from trinidad west indies..i now came across ur channel..can you tell me what fertilizer to use and what did you use the glue for....thank you.... best channel..keep up your great work.,

[@corazonmendoza79]

Amazing thank you for sharing.Godbless.im your new subcriber

[@dragoneggfarm3968]

My dragon fruit produce alot of buds but once the flower open it falls off. I've tired hand pollination. I got two other variety. The red doesn't produce anything and the yellow pollen doesn't help the white.

[@alfredomiranda7002]

How do you actually tip off your Dragon fruit plant? I tried with my hands, not easy. Do you cut off the tip of the branches? Thank you again Your professional assistance is greatly appreciated. Al P.S. What is the correct stage of the branch for tipping?

[@margaretdelaneydelaney1503]

Hi I’m not is the frame you have your dragon fruit growing on how do you keep it steady in the pot so that it doesn’t fall over thank you

[@wander-ly]

Thank you for the tips...

[@emmyoconnor3736]

Thank you for your info..

[@somrith1682]

So cool

[@umashanthisgardenkitchen1198]

Thankyou,Please show me the soil mix for the Dragon plant.

[@hongngocnguyen357]

In my area doesn’t have Fox farm potting mix, what should I use?

[@ProfessorPitaya]

Congratulations, very good.

[@sergioantonio2155]

Hi Richard, what is the separation between two pots.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Sergio, I don't have exact measurements but I separate them far enough so that branches aren't shading over each other and still able for me to fit in-between and do my daily maintenance with them.

[@emilyducta6675]

Thank u richard for tips to induce budding. I see some buds but they don't continue to grow and eventually die. What shall I do?

[@marissakay8121]

Thank you for this!! I’ve been looking for a educational dragon fruit channel! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 I don’t have Facebook but the community thing is a great idea. Can you recommend and reading material or websites where I can learn more about dragon fruit? I have one plant with three stems for two years now. Still not a pro 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thanks for watching my channel! I'm glad you're enjoying it and finding it helpful. I don't have or know of any reading material. That is why I created this channel to hope that I can provide all the information that is needed to grow them well. Stay tuned and you'll learn everything you need to know!

[@tonymixadventures4897]

hi maam new friend here

[@juancharlydiaz3894]

Está muy bonita la planta solamente hay un problema los pilares se hacen de metal para que su larga vida

[@yennamhanumanthareddy7232]

I am very happy thank you very ,much

[@michelrood2966]

I wonder if tipping stops the leaves from growing out altogether..

[@gkukel]

Why are there no thorns on the plants ?

[@punambisht3762]

I grew dragon fruit fruit seeds, plants are now 1.5year old. Now we to do, should let it grew or cut tips or upper branch

[@clintonwansink3052]

How old must dragon fruit be before they bloom and how long does it take from flower 2 havers thanks

[@ritchelbayron1626]

Thanks for this .😇God bless you

[@Aritri.111]

Very beautiful garden. I'm from India. I want to buy this varity. Is it possible?

[@ltgangachandkaipeng2641]

congratulations

[@pablodalmaso]

Hello!.. How much FloraNOva Bloom do you put tu each Plant?? could you help me with that?..

[@virginiatracy6127]

Tipping,how cool

[@danielbaluran9155]

Thanks for the tip . Its very helpful for us who just started to grow DF. But when can you do the tipping. At what age of the DF. Thanks

[@paulotorresvlog8407]

I have also drgon fruit in the house but planted into seeds

[@buduakash]

How much it's important to spray epsom salt to the dragon tree how is the process?