CRFG/dragon fruit

18 years ago

last month I attended the California Rare Fruit Growers national meeting held in Fullerton, CA. Among the many informative speakers, my first one was Ramiro L. who does alot with dragon fruit. He brought in to the meeting 7 boxes of freshly picked fruit, after his informative presentation, he offered us the fruit. I was very excited, to say the least. I tried very hard not to make a complete pig of myself.

The whole event was very nice and well put together, not to mention all the like-minded people.

first pic is of the boxes that Ramiro brought, there is also a box full of white fruits on the floor.

my haul

This one did not even make it home. The photo does not do the color justice, very dark magenta and the flavor was excellent.

I mostly ate them chilled from the icebox, I did experiment with lime, plain yogurt, but mostly just peeled, sliced and ate (with my daughter).

Last photo is DF granita with a cute little hand in it.

hope you enjoyed, I did,

-Ethan

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stanofh 10a Hayward,Ca S.F. bay area
18 years ago
Now you got me wondering about the white dragons-lol. The taste was??. The fruit with green to the edge have more show than the all red.In New York those fruits sell for $9 apiece I heard on the Today show a few weeks ago. A small fortune of free fruit in those boxes.
murahilin
18 years ago
Those all look very nice. Do you have any dragon fruit growing already? Are you going to try and grow the seeds from any of the fruit that tasted really good?
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red_sea_me
Original Author
18 years ago
taste varied according to color, some were very bland and cacti tasting. Better fruits had watermelon, mullberry, and blackberry(?) hints. One of the white-fleshed fruits had a nice zing.

Murahilin, I do have some DF growing and am in the process of trading for a few more varieties. I still need to contact Ramiro and find out what varieties of fruit he brought. I would like to get cuttings of specific ones. I took pictures of whole and cut fruits to help ID. I did save about an 1/8th of each fruit for seeds. I will for sure plant some of them for fun. Are you growing them yet? If you have room they make beautiful cacti and the right varieties have good fruit, so long as the ants dont eat them.

-Ethan
murahilin
18 years ago
I have 3 different different varieties growing right now. Physical Graffiti, American Beauty, and a very good tasting Yellow skinned white fleshed variety with no name. Hopefully I will finally get some fruit this year. After flowering for two years in a row and no fruit I think they look as though they finally got pollinated this year. Its been a week and none of the fruit part has turned yellow and dropped off yet. Which varieties do you have?
red_sea_me
Original Author
18 years ago
Through trade, purchase, and just plain generosity, I now have 7 varieties, though some of them are just cuttings. I've 'American Beauty', 'Physical Graffitti', 'Voodoo Child', Roger Meyers, Joan M's, orange, and yellow (from 3 different genetic pools). I also have plans to trade/purchase a few more.

I hope your plants will finally set fruit for you.

-Ethan
murahilin
18 years ago
Of the ones you have which do you think is the best tasting? I checked today and it looks like out of the eight flowers that I hand pollinated, two set. So I will be looking forward to two Physical Graffiti fruit soon.