Grow Your Own Dragonfruit! (Beginners Guide + Farm Tour)

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Intro to Dragonfruit. Subscribe to see how this land evolves. Ep6
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[@b2bhomesteading]

Thanks for watching! If you're new to the channel, here is the first video I did of the property: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXXEZnRrjMSje7c

[@ramdane7792]

I admire your farm. I am from Algeria. Please talk more about this fruit and its like, how to pollinate its flowers, etc. I have a very small branch of dragon fruit. I hope to God Almighty that it will grow and sprout. Share your experience with us. Greetings, wonderful farmer

[@Cherene68]

Purple dragon fruit taste awesome when frozen. It’s like an icy pole 😍

[@inoshishidesu]

My folks used to use old bike wheel rims to hold the structure on the top of posts so it cascades out further.

[@chefcamsey1375]

Great work mate 👍

[@gillestheophile9682]

This is so cool. Thinking of doing up a couple of pots up for mum for mother's day. Could I come past and grab a couple of cutting of your red and yellow varieties? Cairns locals so happy come with the fam and support the cafe too. Love your content on both channels. Cheers

[@nftarchitect2522]

Hahahaha, that turkey thing was hilarious. Do it again

[@manicmasterofmetal2620]

I am loving both the ocean going channel and the homestead channel. Great content. You are living the life I wish I had. I am happy to come along for all your adventures. Thanks for sharing them.

[@tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120]

Love you input on the dragon fruit ✔️💯. I'm growing dragon fruit in Victoria with great success. Also love the farm set up✔️.

[@jenniferbent487]

Well done to you,I just started to grow the Dragon fruit 👏 😊

[@inoshishidesu]

Nice work legend! Great to see this content also.

[@b2bhomesteading]

Cheers brother, hope to catch up soon!

[@HollyRoseBeecham]

Your ducks are so adorable! 😍

[@GoneTroppo]

Aren't they??!! 😊

[@colleenbalch328]

Thank Az for another look into the land life!

[@christianhendry7136]

I live just south of Brisbane and would love to get some dragon fruit off you if we could find a way to make it happen. Loving all the videos!!

[@dolceman9]

Thanks for sharing love your farm , from Orlando Florida

[@MHeadrick-xo2jl]

Hello, I've been living in Florida for about 7 years now & have tried starting dragonfruit, it's hard to find someone to get cuttings from but I've gotten a couple fruits from the starts I've gotten...I would love to get a couple starts/cuttings from you of the purple variety!! You were asking your chickens to start laying...Im a massive chicken person...before living in Florida, I was raised & raised my kids on a farm on my family's homestead in Washington state. ..you might try light therapy for your chickens & provide them with oyster shells, crush them up a bit. ..not sure if you have access to oysterchells or not but it's the best most natural way to get your chickens to lay!! Mine have always laid all year long with occasional breaks during the snowy months, even then, my arcana & Rhode Island red still laid all year especially if I used light therapy, basically a chick light/heat lamp on a timer...leave it on for 4-6 hours from dusk(after they go into the hen house)just use a timer plug so they have enough time in the heatlamp/chickens light to get their systems boosted along with the oyster shells, again..crush them into at least 1-2" chunks some smaller are good. ...its the calcium they need...they'll eat what they need & within a few weeks you should be back in business with eggs!! Arcana lay pastel green, yellow, blue & sometimes pinkish eggs, they're all edible & kids love them!! Rhode Island are brown eggs & the Leghorn lay white eggs...often double yolkers...if you have a large hen that's undisturbed!! Anyways, how can I go about getting a couple cuttings from you? You can email me @( [e-mail] ) and message me here with your email so I know what to be looking for, I get hundreds of emails every day!! Anyways...that purple dragonfruit looked very juicy & delish!! I know it's so weird that store bought taste like nothing compared to home grown dragonfruits!! Im soo excited to get a couple cuttings...Im disabled so I get my wheelchair outside to play with my plants flowers & harvesting the seeds from my mother of millions...I can send you some if you'd like..I have 3 varieties...until I moved to Florida I didn't know the name of them, my mom had one when I was young & I've wanted one evert since but she died when I was just 17 so couldn't ask her the name if she even knew but I have thousands of plants now & 3 different varieties & 4 cousin plants like them...all from gifts of the babies & plumerias all from pieces of other people's garden cuttings or from refuse piles of people's gardens trimmings left for the garbage collectors, I haven't bought a plant since I moved here except from a garage sale someone got stationed in California but were being deployed to Japan so he just gave me a bunch of scrappy looking plant starts he'd put in some starter pots...just a couple of various plants, plumeiria starts & crown of thorns...its soo beautiful now that I've taken care of them!! I got a plumeria pod 2.5 years ago & got 50 seeds from it, I started them in 2seperate plantings to guarantee I would get at least a few plants!! I was new at them here, now that I know how to save the seeds from a pod, I lost a big starting pod last year, my son accidentally knocked it off the plant with the lawn mower...I was so upset, a week later someone bumped my 1st draginfruit & it turned black & fell off, I Literally cried losing both the plumeria pod & the dragonfruit all within a week 😢...anyways, I look forward to hearing from you!! I can't get around much so all my joy is playing with my plants, harvesting seeds & so on!! Ohh my name is Misty Headrick...I wasnt sure if I should pull that long piece of draginfruit down or cut it & start a new plant? It just shot up 4'+ in just 3weeks!!! 😊❤🌷💮🌻🐝🌼⚘️🌺🏵🪷🥀🌸🪻🌴🌞

[@Riggerkenny]

The farm and plant content is amazing, we need more! Keep it coming 😂

[@user-dy3vd6vf8m]

Love your vids mate, would love to see more content on this channel

[@user-gk1qp1ky4o]

Lots of love from Cameroon. Would love to have some dragon fruit branches to see if it does well here in Cameroon

[@lanaanderson1922]

🙋‍♀️ yes please! I would love to buy some cuttings. Your plants are so healthy and that fruit looks delicious

[@angelamuller6931]

We loved our dragon fruit. Any surplus we would slice, skin and all and dry them. Beautiful, taste sweeter.

[@obliviouspeople]

Will visit sometimes when in cairns.

[@plowestory]

Very intertesting and keen as to grow these - next time I'm up your way I will hit you up legend. keep up the great work - Thank you.

[@theunboiledfrog1258]

That looked so delicious ❤

[@johnkhamisishabaansnr.8710]

Inspirational, keep up the great job friend. Am an inspiring dragon fruit farmer in Kenya

[@ricoconnor3351]

Lov’n the content m8 A tour vid of the cafe is a must plz.

[@jubileeroberts118]

Great stuff Bala love watching and learning from you. Hopefully, I can get your location right and visit your cafe when i come for holidays in December. Much love from🇵🇬

[@Santo-one1]

Thank you for sharing 🙏 watching from Southern California

[@franiannarone8196]

Love seeing this❤️

[@CEvalley]

Awesome place you have bro. I live in west central Alabama. I would love to have some dragon fruit.

[@wallywombat164]

Fantastic mate. Thank you. 😅😅😅😂😂😂

[@b2bhomesteading]

Cheers Wall!

[@barber0611]

I don't know if you call them the same thing in Australia....but in the USA we have a chicken breed called red star....they are the most reliable layers....don't go broody....mine even layed all winter and it got down below freezing for two months

[@GRolla101]

I have lived in cairns for 11 years now and never heard of elarish 😂 have to check it out if I'm heading south

[@maureenbartolo6375]

From Innisfail and have the purple dragon fruit. Love it so sweet and full of flavour..

[@bigphil2300]

Can you post cuttings interstate? Would love one if you can get it to NSW!

[@ashkim7963]

hey man another cairns local here i would love to come and pick up some maybe this weekend and chill out in the cafe

[@pauljohns8215]

Good video, wish to lose a bit closer. I’ll leave in New South Wales

[@GoneTroppo]

Great vid, Az. Yeah, we're keen if you're considering selling any. We'll nosey up and check out the store some time soon. :)

[@clubgus07]

Mate i will certainly visit next time im in FNQ your farm and Cafe weather and road conditions permitting it looks a neat place to spend some time with nature and the farm animals ! Definitely, Dragon fruit is similar fruit to grow like Pineapples you can plant em and forget because these two fruits need patience nearly 2 years to produce thanks for showing us the purple one tis my favourite one , the supermarkets down here are selling the ones grown in Australia they got a good taste to em but once they change over to the imported ones they have no taste like water, $7.99 imported Pitaya that tastes like a bottle of $2 water. thx for the tour.

[@carolinelloyd1858]

Loving this new homesteading channel, keep it coming!! 👌😊

[@ChangingTide]

Hey mate, I'm definitely keen to grab a few dragon fruit offcuts, please!

[@stevejenkins646]

What a champ 🖐✊️

[@beauharris683]

Very keen on a variety of cuttings bud! South East Queensland. Let me know if it works for you. 👌

[@andrewallison2118]

Awsome display of different dragon fruit you have there , we have common pink dragon fruit and we cant seem to get past the flowering stage and the flower drops off and that's it ? what's your cure ? oh captain !!!

[@indigosussmilch85]

Ohh I live on the Sunshine Coast and would love to get some self pollinating dragon fruit varieties!! We live in a pretty small townhouse but so far have 2 dwarf banana types, passionfruit, citrus and raspberry plants plus some other herbs etc. Could definitely swap you some native raspberry plants if we can figure out how to transport them :)

[@joshgolding9113]

Loving this content !!! Just curious do the dragonfruit plant stay in the pots their entire lives ? Or do eventually outgrow the pots and get put in the ground where they are ?

[@ramdane7792]

I admire your farm. I am from Algeria. Please talk more about this fruit and its like, how to pollinate its flowers, etc. I have a very small branch of dragon fruit. I hope to God Almighty that it will grow and sprout. Share your experience with us. Greetings, wonderful farmer

[@moorexsive]

Hey Az, I've got a cutting just in the ground next to our colourbond fence. It's only about 150mm long. Theres a few wild ones around the Caboolture area, so i think I'll just go grab a few more cuttings and see how I go. When it comes to them being against the colourbond fence, how would you recommend supporting them?

[@jaredwhitby6279]

Hey Az, I have recently got into dragon fruit growing and have got a couple of red flesh and white flesh plants growing atm but would really like to get some more different varieties of self pollinating ones if you have them. Thanks 🙏🏼

[@aturcotte119]

You need to keep your ducks separate from your chickens. The ducks can out eat them and you are starving the chickens. Thus low or no eggs.

[@BigBones12Gaming]

Hi Az, would love to give a couple cuttings a go! Just wondering how they would go down here in South Aus? Don't get frost here where I am.

[@jodityler5539]

Would love a cutting of something! We have a purple already 😊

[@ninjasquid2829]

I would be interested in purchasing a cutting.

[@kelliqh2721]

I would love to purchase some cuttings for my property in the NT, not sure about cross border rules.

[@vman4220]

How far north are you mate. Looks like some lush country.

[@glennegan3977]

Awesome channel. Mind you I think your girlfriend should eat a grub every episode 😂

[@prettyboyexclusive6614]

I need the yellow one and the one u was eating

[@paulybrah4203]

Weed flowers in the shorter days bud, anything under 12 hrs of light.

[@miguelalt8855]

Great video B2BHomesteading, thank you. I have a question, I am in South Florida and about 2 years ago, I planted approx. 14 Dragon Fruit plants (mixed varieties, sorry, did it before I saw your video) in groups of 4, grew very well on their 4-foot trellis, however the plants produced many, many beautiful, healthy-looking flowers but did not set fruit, I only got 3 fruits in the 2-year period. I have tried pollinating them in different ways, using my hand, placing the pollen in a container and using a soft brush to pollinate them, swapping the pollen from plant to plant with a brush or leaving them alone without success. Like I said, the plants and flowers look very healthy and pretty; an observation, I don't know if it's normal, in a group of plants, I find many bugs at the inner base of the flowers, they look like small brown weevils, they can only fly a little, (Nitops craigheadi ???). I don't know if they are harmful or beneficial, I don't know if that has something to do with no bearing fruit, apart from that, I don't see any other bug outside of the plants that affects them, any suggestions? Thanks in advance. I found a video that shows similar bugs to what I see inside the flowers: packaged-media.redd.it/gziy1fie01o91/pb/m2-res_720p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1692306000&s=8223b959ac41589632305a7bf5d68d2a57a6703e#t=0

[@MRajski]

The most likely reason for your lack of success with fruit is derived from the types of dragonfruit that you have assembled. Not knowing what kind you have just makes this more difficult but more specifically there are different types : SP - Self Pollinating and SS - Self Sterile. Most likely you have some Self Sterile varieties that require a different variety of dragonfruit to pollinate them. That is my best guess. Good luck to you.

[@christiegowonafolahan8553]

How much water does it require and how deep do the roots go?

[@darksidedsoonnelson2522]

I’ve been interested in planting a couple varieties but I live in New York. My plan was to plan them in pots and have them in my plant room but I heard the full sun and am like WTH😢. Can this be achieved in a pot in doors and then taken out side in the spring and summer and then brought back inside.

[@maddiefinneran1856]

I’m on the goldy would love to buy a couple

[@thomasprince4992]

need a brother adventure

[@user-go1he3xv8c]

I just saw your video about growing dragonfruit. I live in Miami and grow the one that is pink on the outside but white on the inside. I’d be interested in trying to grow the kind you have but I don’t know where to get it. Would you be interested in selling me a cutting?

[@alisonphilp7497]

Hey ads I’m in cairns mate I’d love some of ur dragon fruit cuttings mate. How do I get in contact with u brotha. I have a shop on Scott street in cairns bungalow if ur in town soon I’ll take a few. Urban iron cafe mate Love ur work I’m serious I’ll take a few mate for sure 🙏🇦🇺🤙❤️

[@OffGridInvestor]

They ALL gobble on demand. Found that out as a teenager

[@ikemartyn9688]

Hahaha turkey laughs

[@alisonphilp7497]

Tried to email u but invalid address bro

[@kingjames4886]

go eat a wallaby m8! I'm gonna grow a dragonfruit in this area which has frost!

[@leecoates6524]

i think duck eggs are way better than chicken eggs

[@francus7227]

He didn't reply to a single comment. Thumbs down 👎.

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