How to Remove Flower From Dragon Fruit

[@SophyaAgain]

Oh my God ... Oh my God ... I've got four fruits growing and getting red. And there are more three I think they're very "pregnant". I tried to take off the flower but it was already dry and hard to remove so I left there. Next year I'll remove them. Thank you for your advice Richard.

[@jillklann4516]

Thank you ! Mine are just starting to form buds so I’m watching all your videos. I’m taking notes.

[@guadalupeveles8345]

Thank you so much for making videos like this with all the information to have beautiful dragon fruit plants God bless you

[@wn6580]

I love your videos. I'm learning so much from them. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Blessings.

[@72armydad]

Love your stuff. I am about to build a massive garden and DF is one of my fav. I have yet to eat a red flesh fruit. I am a disabled Army Vet and gardening is very relaxing for me. I have never grown DF but looking forward to do it. Thank you

[@heman8252]

From Surabaya East Java , thank you for the very useful information for DRAGON FRUIT farmers

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi He Man, you’re very welcome. Thank you for watching my channel.

[@joannewu8031]

thank you for uploading the videos and sharing all the good info. Following your method, my dragon fruit plant is bearing the first ever fruit after 3 years.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Joanne Wu, Thanks for watching my videos! Yayyy, congrats on your dragon fruit bearing fruits! That is very exciting :)

[@Z06ChevyVette]

Beautiful full growth!!!! That tree is awesome!!!! Congrats!!!!🙏🏼🤙🏼

[@davidhopson407]

Thank you so much for all your knowledge and wisdom...just starting out with my first plant and preparing my custom built enclosure for them as we speak due to the UK's climate lol

[@dax2443]

Got it! Left, right, up, down, B, A, Select, Start

[@juanadame126]

oww thats cool! its a cheat in some games buddy..

[@AnPhuDailyLife]

You’ve got a real talent for growing

[@aishareentv2652]

Wow so great now I know how to removed thank you for learning. God bless

[@satyanarayanamendu6231]

More nerrative and soo good to hear your voice. Keep it up

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@AndysCuts]

Holy crap! This video needs more views! Thumbnail on point

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thanks bro!

[@marilynmarkos5283]

Wow!How Nice Your Dragon Fruits 💕 Watching you from Athens Greece Bravo Godbless Always

[@Tluangtea-dd1zh]

Like from mizoram,i like your video,i learn alots of things,so im so happy,im waiting for another video 👍

[@ahmedfouad6060]

from Egypt many thanks to you... you make me happy with this information...

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Greetings, from California! You’re very welcome, thank you for watching my videos. It makes me happy that you are happy. Please keep enjoying my videos and information.

[@ahmedfouad6060]

@@GraftingDragonFruit thank you my friend and i hope you to visit my country Egypt... you are welcome.

[@kennethwilson4316]

Have been growing 4 varieties of dragon fruit for a year and look nothing like yours. I believe when I make my raised bed and use a concrete /styrofoam post for the DF to climb as well as your trellis design ... should start showing promising results. Will keep you posted. Thanks for all tour videos and advice.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Kenneth, please keep me updated I would love to hear about your progress. Chicken manure is a great source of fertilizer that will feed them throughout the year slowly. They love it and you can get results just like me by simply just adding this to your garden routine.

[@tokyotech]

Can you talk about how to tell when a flower is successfully pollinated? All my flowers become bulbous and appear halfway like a mature fruit, but then they eventually fall off before full maturity. I'm wondering if this means they were not successfully pollinated.

[@deepajohn15]

Same here also happened

[@pushpanaresh3371]

What is the reason for so many dislikes. He is doing such great job of teaching. God bless.

[@pacificgatemusic7147]

Loving it bro. Would like to try planting these dragons soon. M in the 3rd episode on your vid. Will cont. After work. 😆 said ur giving away the trimmings hope i can try one. Thanks for taking the time bro.

[@Livekerala]

hi, thank you for adding dragon fruit videos, we have red varieties at our farm

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Welcome!

[@tonyaction5284]

Thanx for letting me know. I’m a first time grower in Miami Fla. and I left the flowers dry up on the fruit. This caused the fruit to rot and fall off😭😩

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Next time! It's all a learning experience for everyone

[@tonyv1505]

I was going to say that isnt it better to let nature do its job but you obviously know what you're doing judging by the health & size of your plant so ill take the tip thanks for sharing

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Tony, nature can definitely do its job but this just helps keep the fruit pest and moisture free. It helps keeps your fruit stay damage free and very pretty once you harvest them. Sometimes critters love to hide in those dry flowers and eat the fruit from within. Thanks for watching!

[@dragonv7863]

i thought my dragon fruit flower just died until see your video, Thanks for sharing.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

You're welcome!

[@nerissafolloso2488]

I like how you demonstrate the care for dragon fruit that’s why l keep watching your channel thanks and god bless 😃

[@albertomagdua7109]

Splendid!

[@silviajordan2173]

Very grateful to your very gracious teaching very interesting

[@kaidentoysngarden5497]

Hi, thank you so much for sharing very useful tips. I have 1 dragon fruit about 1 year 3 months old. It just had 4 Flower’s bloomed. I’m not sure if the tree I have is male or female type. I will have to wait n see. Thanks

[@mavicgabayan9967]

Hello Richard....from my understanding the reason why we removed the dragon fruit flower is to avoid insects from staying in the flower & fruits....Because what I did is I just leaved the flowers to dry until harvesting the fruits.

[@ell343]

Naku maganda yan sa katawan, yan bulaklak ng dragon fruits ginagawa namin soup yan,,, dito hk

[@angelinaacariaga1741]

how

[@Naturelover00023]

Hi, i have two questions 1- I’ve noticed dragonfruit plants produce two types of limbs, one kind tends to get chunky full of water while the other is skinny, long and seems to grow faster, how should I choose which limbs to Prune, long and skinny, the chunkier ones, or both? 2- is it true that weather needs to reach a certain temperature for dragon flowers to actually become fruit? Thanks for all the knowledge you share

[@kimanhtran9575]

Very nice show how to remove flower. Thanks

[@jetpromys]

Thanks for sharing this. I've had a big problem with the dragon fruit creating the flower, the flower rots and the fruit falls off in the early stages, so maddening. I hope this solves the problem.

[@CamarenaFarms]

Your problem isn't the flower rot. It's the pollenation. Hope you've figured it out by now!

[@jetpromys]

@@CamarenaFarms I watched a video on how to pollinate. But I do wonder if the compost I have it in holds too much moisture. What do you recommend for soil?

[@aquaseahorselove3939]

Did you ever figure it out? Mine’s doing the same thing.

[@jetpromys]

@@aquaseahorselove3939 I'm still having the same problem. I think I might have to transplant them to get them into dryer soil. There's a lot of compost in the pot which might be holding too much moisture.

[@aquaseahorselove3939]

@@jetpromys I’m convinced mine must be self sterile. I’ve started a different kind of dragon fruit so I can cross pollinate them and see if that solves the problem. Good luck with yours.

[@edithkurashige1483]

Thanks so much for sharing always good information.

[@zackzimmer7167]

This is pretty satisfying.

[@marciecamrin4731]

My dragon fruit rarely fruit. I"ll have13 and only one will fruit. They all blossomed but turned yellow real quick and dies. What am I doing wrong? Are there not enough bees. My husband tried pollinating with qtips but no luck. This will be my fifth year and I only harvested 3 in all those years.

[@tkjho]

The flower is sweet & edible. In China, unfertilized flowers from a closely related species 霸王花 are picked and sun-dried, then used to make soup with pork or chicken. Doing it your way you get both the fruit and the flower. As the flowers are fresh, if they're not moldy or rotten, you can probably use them as veggies in stirfries. To minimize mold formation, slit the flower longitudinally into 4 quadrants a few hours after they close to improve ventilation.

[@SalviMithrin]

Great video. Would you explain when in the season to prune to improve flowering, increase growing, etc?

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you, Salvi Mithrin. I will definitely make a video on that topic when that time comes for me so I can demonstrate and explain as I am pruning my dragon fruit plants. Pruning for me usually starts in November when the last set of flowers all bloom and harvested. Then pruning will begin. I’ll make sure to cover all the content in the video. I appreciate your suggestions!

[@osmosia1998]

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[@fruitdudragon9730]

@@GraftingDragonFruit How can I get a self-pollinated variety and can I make my plants self-pollinate please answer me

[@ThinkEddiee]

@@fruitdudragon9730 you can find some on Facebook

[@vonnguyen2287]

Hi Richer love ur video and love ur dragon fruits. I have big dragon pot n it bloom nice for 2 years now but it turned yellow n fail off no fruit. I’m sad! I tried to pollenate it but I did it wrong. Now I see ur video it make sense . So I’ll will try next year. Wish me luck. If I don’t have fruit I’ll go still ur!! Lol thank u .

[@picofecastle6995]

Thanks for the info you shared to the viewers God bless you.

[@sheilacatindig1201]

How to have that kind of dragon fruit trees? Yours are so looks healthy...is there any fertilizer ?

[@debrafuller5693]

This is a wonderful video!Thanks

[@kittyzhan9708]

Wow! Great video

[@jakegoakes]

I like how you deflowered it.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you

[@beatatalagtag1854]

Thank you for sharing this video. Informative way of removing df flower.

[@emmalaniceberano7270]

Thanks, now I know how to do it, my dragon fruit flowers dried up 4 days ago.., have to do how you did it...thanks thanks...

[@leephan8364]

Awesome! Very interesting information . Thank you!

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you for watching!

[@lucyagajanian7963]

How often do you water the dragon fruit when they start flowering? And what vitamins do you give?

[@BIRDS360]

nice video

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thanks Birds!

[@chauluu7337]

Great video bro! Keep it coming 👍🏾

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you, Chau!

[@naniagustiah759]

thank u for sharing this video. I've had that before, already harvest but when I move it into another place they dont growth anymore

[@elizabethgolding2754]

Hi Richard Thank you for your very informative videos. I just learned that my “night blooming cactus” is really a dragon fruit plant about two months ago. I have been enjoying the plant for 10 years! I have quite a few that grow in my yard. After learning about dragon fruit from your videos we pollinated several flowers and had one fruit. It was delicious. Then we pollinated 27 flowers in the next bloom. None grew into fruit. Then I saw the video where you removed the flower and then the stigma. I just pollinated 5 tonight. Will try and follow your instructions over the next week or so. Do you think that because the flowers and stigma were not removed was the reason we had no fruit? I live in Florida. Thank you for any insight you may have.

[@Meskarune]

Some dragon fruit need to be cross pollenated from a seperate plant.

[@aquaseahorselove3939]

Were you able to figure out how to get fruit from it?

[@nandakumargowda6637]

Good information ❤

[@kiavang466]

Richard - love watching all your videos its been so informational but I was wondering if you have a video on how to make budding blooms. My dragon stem I have been growing for 2-yrs now has not had one bloom and I would absolutely appreciate your help. thank you.

[@elpeludelmonte2009]

Wonder if the plant use the minerals of the decaying flower to make itself stronger for the next crop 🤔 ,love your videos

[@pimpa523]

Thank you very much for this clip...I will start doing now

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

You're very welcome!

[@greenguider]

They can handle heat, drought, humidity and poor soils but will grow tastier fruit with regular watering and rich soil. Choose a sunny spot and then boost the soil with compost, manure and certified organic pelletised fertiliser. A dose of lime is also beneficial.

[@koulor4397]

Interesting always wanted to plant dragon fruits this is very helpful thanks

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

You’re very welcome Kou Lor! Right now it’s the best time to start growing Dragon fruit. Their season is from May-October after the winter comes they go “dormant” and won’t grow until spring-summer season is back.

[@chanhsaephan8413]

I will try to remove my flowers this way next time. I might have cut mines too early🤔. Keep posting!!! Too bad I live so far from you, would love to see it in person...yup, I’m impatient 😆

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Chanh! Didn’t know you were one of my subscribers. Thanks for watching and supporting my channel! You are awesome. Usually 2 days is enough time for the fruit to accept pollen. I just wait the extra amount of days because I’m paranoid and give it time to separate so it’s easier to snap and pull off. 😄

[@sn-zg6gb]

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[@dieterschulz3419]

I like the way you vlog and explain.please more educate us like my Dragon fruits stems are so skinny what fertilizer to use to be fat stem.and hopes to bear fruits successfully since i got end to yellow and drop so discouraging.thanks a lot.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Dieter Schulz, thank you for watching my videos and I’m glad you are finding them helpful and educating! Here’s a new video I just posted that will help your dragon fruit stems grow thick and healthy again. It also helps boost their immune system to prevent diseases. Organic Compost Tea Recipe for Dragon Fruit kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXjbdJyNYrWDY6M

[@cynthiadelabahan1251]

Hi Richard, I seem to have bacteria forming on the cactus arm ( yellow with brown spot) where 4 fruits are on. Will the fruits still grow normally ? I plan to cut off the arm after the fruit is harvested if it matures even with the damaged segment. Any suggestions on how to prevent bacterial rot?

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Cynthia, your fruits will still grow normally so no need to worry about that. I would let the whole fruiting cycle finish and once its done you can do 2 things. 1. Treat it with copper fungicide and spray the infected area to stop the spread and kill the fungus. 2. Cut the whole cutting off and discard it away from your other plants so that it doesn't spread. I hope this helps, you can search through my videos for info on how to treat cactus fungus. There's a video of me showing ways to remove them. - Richard

[@cynthiadelabahan1251]

Grafting Dragon Fruit Thank You ! It’s great to have advice from experts.

[@cynthiadelabahan1251]

Hi Richard, how can you tell if the fruit develops after removing the flower? Is there a possibility that even after manually pollinating the stigma that the fruit won’t develop? Thanks!

[@richardgraham1167]

How do you treat the flowers if you plan to make tea from them? The flowers you plucked were moldy and not looking like they'd make a tea which I would want to drink. thx!

[@chandanaamarasinghe5486]

Never seen this before.Tnx.

[@MomtazGarden]

Informative video, thanks for sharing :)

[@winniem1989]

wow, what a beautiful plant

[@sandiegotropicalgarden3531]

Awesome tips 👍thanks for sharing 👍👍

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you!

[@ishratfarzana8140]

Don’t need to remove the flower. When the fruit grow up, the dry flower will remove naturally. It’s not good for fruit to force for removing the flower part.

[@emmalaniceberano7270]

Maybe I won't remove the flowers, just wait to fall. I'm worried I might cut the stigma..

[@usmarma9467]

Actually removing the flower is good cause in the rainy season the flower root and maggots start to eat the whole flower and turned the young fruit drop

[@a-yiathoj6391]

@@emmalaniceberano7270 Some don't but it gets dusty inside if left too long and other things can grow in there because the flower is basically dying. As Richard said, it can create bad conditions for the fruit if you don't. Besides, the stigma is pretty hard to remove while still fully moist.

[@maivantri1381]

I don’t think so! Removing the flowers is necessary in wet conditions

[@elsaantonioventura1046]

How do I remove the flower from yellow dragon fruit?

[@hergreenthumb990]

That's my favorite part removing the flowers from dragon fruit. It's addictive. 🤣

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Its definitely very satisfying to pull off the flower. So I know what you mean about it being addictive. 😄

[@hergreenthumb990]

👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣

[@lashan6685]

Can dragon fruit grow in Houston Texas

[@pankajkumarsharma1320]

Nice demonstration bro, I would like to know the schedule of Nutrition we need to provide for healthy growth and fruiting.

[@zhilahaghbin4766]

all good tips, thanks

[@KrishnaPrachi]

Awesome

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you!

[@priteshsojitra8396]

Good information healthy plants

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Pritesh Sojitra, thanks for watching!

[@gladysliyanage7852]

Dear richer can you please explan why are you pull flower? Please show us how to plant this fruit in the pot thanks

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

I take off the flower to prevent moisture from sitting inside and causing rot to the fruit. Also sometimes fungus can grow and infect the fruit so I take pre caution by removing it when it detaches from the fruit. I have videos on how to grow them in pots in my channel. Please browse through my video list to see them all. Thank you

[@NaturallyVibrant]

Aloha. We live in Hawaii. Last year no problems with dragonfruit. Beautiful, ripe, not eaten by pests. This year every one is eaten by a pest - all the way through - with holes on two sides and hollowed out. We have geckos and birds but I never see them eating the fruit. After the fruit starts to die, ants show up. Any ideas as to what is eating them and how to prevent it. Mahalo.

[@juanitocruz7787]

Hi Richard, after removing the Dragon Fruit Flower,how many days doI have to wait until it is ready to be harvested?Thank you.

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

The Vietnam white variety is best harvest at 30-35 days after the flower has bloomed. That’s when it’s at its best!

[@Bharat-Agro-Friend9082]

Increase your sound please. Good video👍

[@doodahgurlie]

Just curious where you acquired all this knowledge on dragonfruit? Did you have family in Vietnam with a dragonfruit farm or something?

[@coonuoithucungbreedingpets8845]

Hello...video very good

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you very much!

[@nestormueca4418]

Hello Richard, more power to your channel. I want ask you regarding my plant Dragon fruits, got a lot of flowers but turns down to yellow and dying, not becoming fruity, what’s the right cure to apply? Thank you for your immediate attention.

[@rohinidedge4654]

Good information

[@pablovazquez2265]

Thank you for all the great information, my plant just flowers it turns yellow and it dries, have you had that issue before?

[@bathtubshrimp2314]

Pablo Vazquez are you pollinating it?

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Hi Pablo, are you hand-pollinating your flower? If not this is one reason why they would bloom and fall off. Check my channel on how to hand pollinate a dragon fruit so you are prepared to do it when your flower blooms again. They shouldn’t fall off if you’re successful.

[@pablovazquez2265]

Bathtubshrimp I tried hand pollinate but it didn’t work, I guess I just didn’t do it right.

[@pablovazquez2265]

Grafting Dragon Fruit I appreciate you taking the time to respond, I already checked out your video on pollinating and I’m going to give it a try.

[@kikigoh2854]

Wow its was soo nice

[@GraftingDragonFruit]

Thank you Kiki!

[@kupua]

another fantastic vid

[@carmenr.v273]

Exelente video informativo. Es de mucha ayuda toda la información que compartes. Gracias guapo

[@jameshorsted5489]

Spot on mate,That's exactly what i do with my dragon fruit plant.

[@pokemonkidandart648]

Wow your dragon fruit tree beautiful

[@RodolfoSantos-q6q]

Why is the remaining part of the flower turns yellow and eventually fall off from the branch?

[@alfredomiranda7002]

Awesome sauce. Nice content. I had no clue of this flower removal front Dragon fruit. Very nice. I got two poisonous spiders on my Dragon fruit plant. Have you encountered this on your plants? And what's your suggest in regards to this matter? Thank you Al

[@crimsonraen]

Thanks for the video, good to know!

[@lindacopley3236]

This article was really interesting. I enjoyed it so much. Love learning about new things. Thank you!

[@alyssaelder2262]

Hi. I didn’t know about pulling the flower off. Thank you for showing how that is done. Your video’s are very helpful. Thanks! Question, if you don’t mind. … I live in Central Florida and have a Haley’s Comet Dragonfruit. It gets mostly sun and is well drained. I had 5 blooms this year and hand pollinated all of them. (One on one night, and other 4 the night after) on the night I had 4, I used all 4 to pollinate each other. Few days later, seemed like they took. They were firm. On the 5 th day, I could see the color separation and was able to pull the bloom off like you showed. But a day or so later, they turned yellow. 3 fell off the next day. The other 2 have some pink, but also kind of yellow. What did I do wrong? (Going to send this your dragonfruit friend as well, please don’t be offended. I’ve learned from both of you, lol)

[@wilhelminagallios7225]

Sir what 's nice time to remove the flowers! good if its not raining sir. thanks for your answer

[@魏风-x4e]

I don't mind the flower because I don't got any minibeast at home

[@margiemarcos6070]

I did it before and the fruit didn't grow big so I just leave them there it doesn't cause any trouble to the fruit at all. fruits weight 600gms and 500 each 😊 I grow them in containers

[@hanifmajumder7602]

very good my friend

[@yanjijay6752]

Was also wondering have you tried growing the yellow dragon fruits & red ones & how they do there & what do you do with the flowers.

[@danielhale8008]

I just got my first fruit about a week ago. The fruit itself is firm, but I never removed the flower I was nervous.. now it's mushy including the stigma... should I just do my best to remove best I can or just leave it.

[@jonathanespinoza8554]

Hey Richard I remove the string coming out of the dragon fruit. Did I messed up on that?

[@valeriesanchez3074]

If i am growing one dragonfruit cactus, Say i propogated cuttings from it, Would they be suitable for cross pollinating? Or would they be the same bariety as the plant i took cuttings from?