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| Hi all, In the past 2-3 years, I've planted about 7 Dragon Fruit plants. The cutting were from different sources and were different in size. They're all white-meat varieties. This is the first year I got a good amount of fruits (~20) but I noticed only 2 of the plants produced big, sweet, delicious fruits. The other plants only produced tiny (~baseball size) fruits that didn't taste good at all. Do you think I should get rid of the plants that produced bad fruits so I don't waste another year, or do you think they'll improve? |
This post was edited by lonehawkstation on Sat, Nov 22, 14 at 13:03
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| I would propagate more of the good one and get rid of the inferior one. Tony |
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- Posted by konrad___far_north 3..just outside of E (My Page) on Sat, Nov 22, 14 at 18:51
| Don't' think many grow it since it's more of a tropical fruit, sometimes I buy it at the market for $2.00 ea. [white] Mostly they taste good but sometimes not so good. Are the pink flesh any better? |
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- Posted by lonehawkstation (My Page) on Sun, Nov 23, 14 at 21:39
| @Tony, thanks. @Konrad, it's quite popular in So. Cal where the weather allows Dragon Fruit to thrive. Not sure if you got them from a farmer's market, but the quality of home grown fruits are miles better than the ones from commercial markets. At least in my experience. My aunt has a variety where the flesh looks red/purple. They're smaller than the white flesh variety but much sweeter. |
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- Posted by Fascist_Nation USDA 9b, Sunset 13, (My Page) on Tue, Nov 25, 14 at 13:43
| 1. Remember dragonfruit is not particularly sweet so you want to consume them before anything else that is sweet or they taste like water. 2. Once fruiting starts on anything you should evaluate the fruit produced over about a 5 year course as fruit can indeed improve with plant maturity (or conversely a maturing tree's fruit can degrade; in which case usually you give it a second chance to rule out a chance environmental issue causing it). |
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