very healthy dragonfruit. What was the LED floodlights for?

a friend of the family gave us lots of dragon fruit cuttings after seeing that we only had 2.

Mine has kind of passing the regular blossom season in my zone due to transplanting. After browing the web, I saw some commercial growers in Vietnam to use lighting system to extend the growing season. So I bought a White SMD LED Flood Light Bulb from Amazon, and it seems to work for me.

hi, phuc,
I believe you are in Orange County. I like your idea to let Pitayas climbing on the pine trees. And you're going to have a lots of dragon fruits soon...
~Enoc

Do you by any chanche have a Vietnamese White Jania cutting for sale or trade for an epicactus cutting? I planted one this year and out of all 11 it was the only one that didn't take root or grow.

Enoc - I still have not tasted a dragon fruit, but your plants look very happy - let us know how the fruit tastes after it ripens...

mangoD

wasn't really my idea.

i saw a house with dragon fruits climbing pine trees on euclid near mile square park and the person that gave us the cuttings suggested we do the same, but to me they will not have enough sunlight so i planted a few near the wall.

and yea i live in oc, do you live in oc? because your cherimoya is amazing. my cousin and aunt each has a cherimoya tree and they're about 8 feet tall yet few flowers.

i'm trying to germinate sugar apple seeds, but i went crazy the other day and cracked all the seeds from puerto rico open. i ordered new ones from india and hopefully i have better luck with those and the seeds from the same family friend.

Wizzard419 - I bought all those cuttings about 3~4 years ago from eBay. As I can recall they are all Vietnamese (50% are Red and 50% are white flesh). But I have no clue on which varieties I got. Based on last year harvest, all of my friends and I like Red flesh. I gave 2 pots away to friends before I transplanted to ground, so I lost the tracking what I have left. I have to wait for fruit ripen to ID them. I also pruned some down before transplanting and I just left them under the shade. Some of them seems to grow root already. If you like, I can give to you. Just not sure what they are. I will viist UCI campus every 2 weeks to see my daughter, so I can deliver to you if you are in OC area.

Phuc - yes, I live in LA county (hacienda heights). Since you mentioned mile square park so I think you know Roger Meyers. I purchased several tropical fruit plants from him before, but I have runined or killed most of them. I am not good at taking care those Tropical Fruit trees, so my Atemoya tree is the only ONE thing I can be proud of today. Last year I cut a piece scion wood shoot and left in a pot. It growed root and I grafted my Atemoya on top of the shoot. You know what it survived, but I gave it a friend. That means cutting from Cherimoya/Sugar Apple/Atemoya is possible to grow root. I ordered a box of Cherimoya fruits for all my co-workers last year from Cherimoya.com, it costed me almost $6 each fruit. So I put some of seeds to ground, but I have only ONE grown up and now it has only 1 foot tall. So growing from seeds really needs patientce. Good luck on your advanture to those SA seeds. I will do more cuttings of my Atemoya in this coming winter, so I can give away next year if you are interested.
~Enoc

i've never actually been to roger meyers even though i live a few blocks away. maybe he got scared when i told him i'm just an impoverished student, but every time i asked him about setting up an appointment he just wouldn't answer my email.

his prices sound reasonable, but there are others at the swap meet selling almost the same things.

there was a guy at the goldenwest college swapmeet selling 3-5 cherimoyas for 10 bucks, i haven't seen him in awhile, but i don't go every weekend either.

Nice cacti and interesting idea about the led, had never heard of that. Hopefully the next pics you post will be of the harvest.

good luck,
-Ethan

@enocchen

Great, just tell me a place and a time and I will be there.

Hey Enocchen, if you're still on gardenweb, I'd love to know how your dragon fruit are doing. Did the LED lights produce flowers throughout the winter?

Here's one clump here in the SF bay area (Hayward). Behind some auto repair shop.

Here is one I noticed while driving down a street in Oakland near Lake Merritt. It's growing on top of some people's carport. Bad photo-I pulled it off of google street view. DF is middle and left, not sure what is on the right.

I bit the bullet and bought some cuttings on ebay. Regan's is supposed to call me when they have some in stock, but I wanted to have some rooting in the interim.

Rhino,that's Chayote on the trellis. You can see the roundish leaves on the far left.
No frost there by the Lake. Seems to get nice summers too. Warm when I've been by there. It might be closest to a subtropical climate the bay area has. Some other good spots too..but that's another topic-lol.

Does anybody in Los Angeles area have dragon fruit in bloom now? I planted two types with purple and pink flesh last year. Pink flesh one is blooming and striving, full of flowers but it's not self fertile, it keeps dropping flowers after blooming. Purple flesh one isn't groing that fast and might take another year to bloom. I need to get some pollen for cross polination, apparently pollen can be kept in refrigerator for up to 30 days. Anybody can help me? I'm in San Pedro area. Thx in advance.

I know that they have been blooming in San Diego the last two weeks at least.

Dragon fruit are so easy to grow. It only took me less than two yrs to have first fruit but the next coming summer hihi. I started early July 2015 with a helped of root hormone for a quick start. And cover a little during two months winter and two months hot summers. Forgot to mention I am from Granada hills 91344 z10a

Its coming along great Tuan. I can see its going to have a nice paver patio around it.

One of the tropicals that gives good returns are the Guava's. As always,Mango tree's also. Cherimoyas. White Sapote- but thats a full blown tree and I cant promise you would love it. I do..but some can't take the custard texture.

Persimmons in fall give a lot of fruit. I'm waiting to endorse banana's. For you Papaya's should be easy. I hear Thai "Red" is a heavy producer along with the common Solo.

Anyways- nice Pitaya set up.

Thanks Stanofh! My mom's house has a big persimmons over 20 yrs and so much fruits every yr. today I walk around my neighborhood and saw a mango tree. I will stop by later this weekend for more inf. On the mango tree. Stanofh...I saw a few picture of your yard posted and wondering... do you have any cherimoya tree? And what varieties?

Good afternoon to all, I did not read thru all of these coments, I know the topic here is growing Pitaya, but where can I purchase this fruit? I live in near the Lax are in the city of Inglewood. thx.

YELLOW DRAGON FRUIT : I'm very interested In having yellow dragon fruit. If any of you out there can share cuttings I will be glad to pay for shipping and your costs. "Share the fruit" , I have loquat I've started to grow form seed I'd be happy to share. I live in Sacramento Ca.