How to Train Your Dragon (Fruit)! | Pro dragon fruit growing tips

Learn how to grow dragon fruit from South Africa's Dragon Fruit Lady. Our seed guru Sean had the rare opportunity to chat to South Africa's very first commercial dragon fruit (pitaya) grower, Jackye Riddle from Dragon's Den Exotics, who gives us the low-down on how to grow dragon fruit at home in your own garden – from planting dragon fruit cuttings to erecting a dragon fruit trellis and general dragon fruit plant care.

Exotic dragon fruit is a superfruit that is indigenous to Central and South America and now grown all over the world – including South Africa. Commercial-grade dragon fruit varieties have been jealously guarded for years by commercial growers. For a limited time, Livingseeds.co.za have 6 stunning dragon fruit varieties available for the South African home gardener. This is the first public release of high-demand commercial varieties with the flavour and health properties that are demanded by processors and customers.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Why dragon fruit?
2:11 Different dragon fruit varieties
4:02 Dragon fruit pollination
6:00 How to train your dragon fruit vines
7:40 Vegetative and fruiting growth
8:34 Can you grow dragon fruit in frost areas?
9:43 Growing dragon fruit in containers
10:32 Does dragon fruit go dormant in winter?
11:21 How to feed dragon fruit vines
12:02 Aerial roots
13:03 How to prune dragon fruit
15:32 How to grow dragon fruit from cuttings
19:55 The DON'Ts of dragon fruit growing
22:03 Wrap-up

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Livingseeds.co.za provides quality heirloom and open-pollinated seed to private vegetable gardeners and small-scale market gardeners in South Africa – seed that can be harvested and kept from year to year without the need to buy specialist seed from large corporations every season. We would like to see people become more self-sufficient and take back the ability to produce their own food!