How to Grow a Dragon

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If you get a lot of rainfall in your area, plant the dragon fruit plant on a hill or mound, so that the water drains away. It prefers mildly acidic cactus or succulent soil (for good drainage), into which I chuck some earthworm castings (ph neutral) when I'm feeling generous. Peel the pink skin off easily to reveal a bright white flesh that is flecked with tiny black seeds resembling seeds from kiwi fruit. If you’re growing a variety that has spiny fruits, spines can be brushed off with a clean dustpan brush prior to harvesting. Also known as Drago, the Canary Islands Dragon Tree and the Dragon’s Blood Tree, this sub-tropical plant’s name derives from the Greek word “drakaina”, meaning female dragon.

Often a raised bed or container of some sort is used in conjunction with this type of stake to ensure good drainage.If you’re growing outdoors all year long, you’re going to want some heavy-duty support to maximize your dragon fruit growing potential. This Colombian cultivar is also known as “yellow dragon” and produces small, spiny, oblong fruits with thick yellow skin. Once pitayas have been cut up, they will keep in the fridge for a couple of days in a sealed container.

I’m not going to mislead you – pitayas require a significant amount of maintenance, at least at the beginning. In general, dragon fruit is ready to pick when the skin has colored up, but most of each bract is still green. If you grow from the cuttings of a stem, it could take much less time (depending on how large your cutting is). Originally from Wales, Rachel has lived in Leeds and London and is now settled in Cheshire with her husband, two young children and a very daft dachshund.Fill a seed-starting tray or small pots with the potting mix, leaving some space at the top for watering.

Taller cuttings should be staked to ensure they don’t fall, and care taken when handling them to prevent any damage to the growing tip. As a point of interest, it is said that this resin was used as a wood dye to stain the famous Stradivarius violins.Much later in the history of these plants, the French imported them to Southeast Asia at the beginning of the 19th century, giving the dragon fruit its introduction to Asia. If your Dragon has a full Hunger Bar, you cannot feed it any further, you can only feed your Dragons if their Hunger Points are below 100. Young children tend to be highly receptive to the rhythms and patterns of language: hence many of our most successful picture-books have rhymed.