I would either dig it up and transport bareroot to the new place, or take cuttings and plant those as they can grow fairly quickly.

Ok, I like the idea of barefoot transport. How hardy is a dragonfruit plant... will transplant shock the plant, prevent flowering? Or are they pretty resilient?

Are there any precautions we need to take? Like extra watering before and after, perhaps cutting the top a bit to lighten the load? I assume it's ideal to transport some of the native dirt, so the plant feels "at home" in the new planting spot.

Thanks again for your help!

If you are going to transplant the whole plant, keep the small joints in the middle from bending. If it gets completely bent and damage, then the top half won't survive.

It is better off to start from a cutting because it grows quicker. Here in Miami, it take less than a two months to sprout new growth and it fruits within the first year if you plant it early in the season right after the harvest.

My neighbor who maintains over 50,000 dragon fruit cuts and throws away about 3/4 of the tree after each harvest. They grow all back by the next season and fruits.

The older branches that already fruited are less likely to fruit again the following year, so he cuts them off. He wants a high yield the next year.

Cuttings that are mature are more likely to fruit the first year. The mature cutting is the ones where the tip of the cutting grows inward. A mature cutting could be one that has another growth coming out of it, but it takes longer to root and grow.

Tony,

I am in 10a Stuart and have started a few Physical Graffiti cutting up a 4X4 post. My Dragon Fruit grow a bit slower than yours.. A few years back I saw some Dragonfruit farms in South Dade, all growing up a center post then branching out. What part of the plant is your neighbor cutting off? The new growth off the top?

Craig

Tony, thanks for the detailed answer, this is very helpful!! I have the same question as Craig, does your neighbor cut the tops off, or do they cut old growth totally to the base, leaving new stems only? Would I have any luck taking those cuttings and rooting them elsewhere?

I'd recommend digging up and transporting the bare root, but after trimming the top. The plants can be rather fragile and I've snapped off the top portion while moving a potted Dragonfruit while not being careful enough. Good luck, let us know how it goes.

He cuts the branches on the top off leaving only one layer fully spread out at the top.

If he didn't do that, it would get too tall for the short migrants workers too pick on the ground.

It takes a lot of pruning to keep the trellises looking nice.

I have uprooted all my dragon fruit seedling for transportation now plz sugest me how to plant back to

Urgent help, please. I live in the tropics and termites are destroying the wooden trellis of my 5 feet tall dragon fruit plants. I need to transplant all five of them but don't how to begin nor proceed, and specially I don't want to damage them. I'll appreciate any tips.