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sternus1 says... The reds you buy from places such as bunnings will all taste the same. While the variety you have is claimed be self pollinating, you will considerably increase the number of fruit you get by hand pollinating flowers. You will still get a decent crop if you do not do this however. You can buy superior dragonfruit varieties here: http://www.tamborinedragonfruitfarm.com.au/zencart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&zenid=c8c4e6723248f4d2cd66683ac71a8c29 | About the Author sternus1 Australia 3rd March 2014 11:59am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Tamborine stocks purples which are considerably better than anything Daleys stocks, particularly scott's purple. Their yellows are megalanthus which taste great but are small and viciously spiny. There is no difference between the Tamborine yellow and the Daleys yellow, same thing. The red Daleys sell is the standard Guatemalan, which is decent but not game changing. All whites are terrible, I've never had a good one and cannot understand why anybody would choose to grow a white variety. I have recently added natural mystic to my collection, which is supposed to be one of the better kinds. We'll see if it lives up to the hype. s | About the Author sternus1 Australia 6th March 2014 7:09am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... It's good for what we can get nationally. Better than what you'll get at Bunnings or Daleys. It is more red than purple, yes. This is the case with most of the purples, they're often a kind of magenta. Red Fox sells a variety called Aztec Gem which I'm convinced is Dark Star renamed, which is an excellent variety. I asked the seller if it was and got no reply. What is they say about silencing being further condemnation? Picture included.
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Edward says... We planted the Pearl Dragon Fruit a couple of years ago. It's a Vietnamese variety - red skin, white flesh. This year it produced 10 fruits and they were delicious. Quite sweet. We didn't do any hand pollination. Lovely large white flowers. We would definitely recommend them. They were certainly much more tasty than the red dragon fruit we bought in Coles which was not sweet but rather sourish. But we appreciate that this could be because of storage time in the shop. In the photo you can see the flower and two fruit ripening in the background.
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Anthony says... I'm growing both Dark Star and Aztec Gem which have both been purchased from reputable growers and their growth patterns are completely different. I haven't had the pleasure of either fruit yet but judging by the shape of the growth and colouration of plant they won't be close to the same. Growing side by side they are like chalk and cheese. Have just been out for a quick look and I would say that Aztec Gem is almost identical to my Voodoo Child. Same growth pattern, same thorns. | About the Author Anthony Queensland 6th March 2014 9:08pm #UserID: 9188 Posts: 92 View All Anthony's Edible Fruit Trees |
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nicg says... Hi Guys. I am in Perth WA. I have a red Dragon fruit that produced 3 beautiful and Tasty fruits a few weeks ago. I have a Yellow one next to it, same age and size, it has produced 5 sets of flowers at 3-4 week intervals but they blossom and just DIE!!!!! Very Frustrating!!! Can anybody offer advice. | About the Author nicg gwelup 4th April 2014 8:08pm #UserID: 7693 Posts: 46 View All nicg's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Anthony says... Hey Danny, great stuff. I am looking forward to growing a heap of crossed varieties from seed over the next few years. Glad to see you had the patience to see it through cos I'm sure it is very rewarding to see your new creation come to life. As a collector I would love to get some cuttings from you if it is a pink variety. Let me know how it goes and maybe we can work something out. Thanks in advance. | About the Author Anthony Queensland 12th April 2014 10:18pm #UserID: 9188 Posts: 92 View All Anthony's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Mary, they should have reached the top of a 1200mm high post by now. When you get flowers, as night follows day, you will definitely get fruit, being self pollinating. I got around 30 fruit this year after 30 flowers, did not lose a single fruit. If you are having problems, I can send you a really long piece, only limited by Aus post. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 13th April 2014 12:15pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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MaryT says... Thanks JohnMc1 - don't worry, my three pieces are still growing, just more sideways than upwards; maybe they need some help. They should get to the top in another year of so :) I think the trouble is there is not a lot of light where they are starting but when they get high they will be fine. Wow; thirty fruit - that is impressive. | About the Author MaryT Sydney 13th April 2014 3:31pm #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Took me 3 trellis before I figured out what John has just said about them doing well in shade. Baking sun will either wipe them out, or at least they'll never do well. They need so, so much more water than a lot of people think. Constant moisture in the soil. They love cow manure. Ideally, you want the running vines to be shaded, with the upper runners getting filtered light. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 13th April 2014 8:30pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Danny333 says... Hi everyone, I just picked my first dragonfruit off my seed grown plant. The fruit weighed around 260g each but I expect future fruit might get a little larger as the plant matures. I'm pretty impressed by the appearance of the fruit with its long green fins and electric pink flesh. It differs a little to the fruit that it came from as the original fruit had much shorter red fins and darker flesh. The taste was quite nice having a berry / grape flavour. It's always interesting growing a plant from seed as you always get something a little different :)
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Danny333 says... Hi Mike, the flavour was much sweeter than the white varieties you get at Woolies but still not as sweet as something like a mango. The flavour itself was more intense than the white variety too. As for the parentage, the original fruit came from Singapore ( probably imported from elsewhere in Asia ) and how the seed arrived here in Oz shall forever remain a mystery ;) I've posted pics of the original fruit compared to my variety. As for cuttings, I don't really want to start cutting the branches off just yet as the plant isn't very large. But in the future I'm sure I could let a few go :)
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Mary and Trevor says... I have read that you need to fertilise and water the red dragon fruit. I can't see that, we planted one that was 2 stems about a meter high in 2007, three years ago I had 51 fruit, the following year there was 264, I built a trellis 3mtr high, 3mtrs wide and 15mtrs long and now it has taken over my garden. This year we have has over 500 fruit in the first 3 flowering and now it got excited and has flowered again. I have never watered it (it lives on rain) and I certainly don't fertilise it. the fruit is very sweet but you cannot eat that many but with the treatment we have given the jungle it is still a prolific producer. too much in fact and this year there are over 500 in three lots of flowerings, many we gave away, a lot went to my chickens | About the Author Mary and Trevor Ningi 19th April 2014 5:12pm #UserID: 9832 Posts: 3 View All Mary and Trevor's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... As someone who grows a lot of different types, I can say pretty confidently that they all behave differently. Some are crazy slow growing, some are crazy fast given the same treatment and conditions. Every purple I grow, excluding one, is slower than the reds. The thornless yellow has proven to be very fast, I don't grow any whites. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 19th April 2014 8:49pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Diana says... Hi sternus, Mary and Trevor, Where dd you get a thornless yellow sternus? Yellows are nice but the thorns are offputting and they have an extra irritant in them as well as being sharp. Have you had some fruit from it? Mary and Trevor- would you be interested in swapping a cutting for something? Thanks | About the Author Diana western Brisbane 21st April 2014 9:45am #UserID: 3004 Posts: 284 View All Diana's Edible Fruit Trees |
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VF says... Hi Nat. I drop in a Tamborine every now and then for fruit. Best tasting ones imo are Jacky Lee (has a real sweet/sour contrast like a raspberry), Lemonade (truly has a old- fashion lemonade taste), Scott's Purple (sort of like a grape lolly), and Pink Diamond ( a small duck-egg size fruit, good all-round 'fruity' sub-acid flavour- can't put my finger on flavour, but is delicious). | About the Author VF Wongawallan 29th April 2014 9:52pm #UserID: 6795 Posts: 736 View All VF's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Danny333 says... The pink dragonfruit are coming along nicely. This one weighed 503g, nearly twice the weight of the last ones :) It made the best smoothie, tasted kinda like mulberry. The other fruit on the vine are getting quite a bit larger than the first ones too.
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sternus1 says... Sun or wind damage. Not a fungus, there's too much sun for any fungus to survive in those conditions, especially since you're coastal. It's hard to grow dragons in coastal spots. Have you got this planted in sandy soil with a high salt content? Lennox heads is a beautiful corner of the world. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 20th July 2014 10:43am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Yeah, not a lot you can do about it unless you cobble up some kind of shading screen. Could be light reflecting off something magnifying the heat causing blistering--a tinted window, something metal, even glossy bare cement/ rendering can act to magnify light. Shouldn't affect your harvest too much, just make sure it gets plenty of water, and is heavily mulched.Use hardwood chip for this, it's perfect as it holds in moisture but lets water drain through the soil. Fine particle mulches, including straw based kinds, will form a water repelling mat over time, and you'll end up with wet mulch which will rot the base of your dragon and dry soil underneath where the roots need moisture. You can't ever let the soil dry out, and what the roots sit in has to be free draining. They go mad for fish based liquid fertilisers such as powerfeed, even the pros use this in their drip lines on commercial-scale farms. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 20th July 2014 1:08pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Rust is caused by shading and a continuous presence of surface moisture, and generally occurs after period of consistent drizzle and rainfall. Not only can it not take hold without these conditions, but it cannot survive without them once established.It's something that affects things like figs and climbing berries, things like raspberries and youngberries. I'm not even sure that dragons are susceptible to puccinia infections, if they were, they wouldn't get very far in their natural rainforest environment as an understory plant. There's too much sun exposure for rust to be the culprit. It may even be cold damage, as frost can causes similar lesions to those in my experience. The spots will go soft and rot, and will probably heal over to grey colored, hard callouses. This can be ignored, as it is a cosmetic problem. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 20th July 2014 3:19pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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The poster formerly known as... says... Got this one from Red Fox about four years ago. Only put it in the ground this year and its fruiting well now. It originally fruited in its pot on upright growth along the fence. The fruit is delicious, like a grape cross strawberry. I'm pretty sure it was a seedling as when I went out to Nanango to pick it up there were dozens of seedlings growing in the shade house. Very similar to Azttec Gem and Dark Star in fruit appearance though.
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sternus1 says... The red fox hybrids are better than tambourines imo. I actually know where bernice from red fox got her 'original' stock. I have 4 unique cv's from the same breeder, I suspect they are first gens in Aus. A lot of the matts landscape types are going to be bummers in the subtropics--- well that's my prediction for a bunch of them anyway. I have all of a them excluding the whites which I won't grow because they don't rate for me. My Capistrano valley and sin Espinas look promising but who can say. Anthony has being brix readings on a couple lately and some of the Tamborine types have been disappointing. These days I'm focused on other fruiting cacti. I have all the high quality opuntia I need, Mexican commercial types etc. I scour the globe looking for good epi fruits but so far I've not turned up much. Some of the columnar fruits such as steno cereus gummosus are reportedly excellent but you'll find a unicorn in Australia before you'll find cuttings. Scored a really good Harrisia so recently which is never going in the ground because they've got about about as much feral potential as anything could have really. It's not martinii, no idea what it is. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 5th January 2015 10:57am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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The poster formerly known as... says... I'm not so fussed on Brix in DF. Although the sweeter purples are better than the bland whites and standard reds the ones with a bit of tang or citrus or berry notes really attract me more than super high sugar. The first scoop of the fruit this morning had a bit of kick to it, which I liked, but I didn't get that with the rest of the fruit. It is sweet and slightly complex as it is though. I recently got an epi cutting from a friend that he said fruits consistently for him and tastes good, so Im looking forward to getting it going and test them. I thought the DF varieties with colured flowers were crossed with epis at some stage of their genealogy, which is why the flowers are colourful? (eg Bruni or the Jade Red from Tamborine) and why they often fruit poorly? | About the Author Theposterformerlyknownas Keperra 5th January 2015 11:15am #UserID: 3270 Posts: 1552 View All Theposterformerlyknownas's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Dragon breeding is pretty confusing, it's almost impossible to know where the boundaries of heritability end without having a crack at crossing them with other cereus. It's true that most are crossed with epiphyllums, but my guess is that the colour in the fruit is coming from elsewhere--- something columnar. A lot of the candle cacti or barrel cacti produce fruit with electric purple flesh and it's quite possible something from This line has been bred into dragons somewhere along the line. I've got a rare cereus that bears red fleshed fruit with blue skin--- I don't mean blue in the Grey sense, but actually blue. It's pretty small and perhaps it will never fruit or won't before I've either lost interest or am dead, but if it does, I'll try cross pollinating and grow the seeds and see what happens. Who knows, maybe I'll create a blue skinned Dragon. I dabble in breeding but I'm not serious business about it. I think to really do it well you need way more patience, organisation and dedication than I have to muster. I suppose the upside to it all is that they get from seed to fruit so quickly unlike virtually everything else. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 5th January 2015 11:32am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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The poster formerly known as... says... I meant the colourful flowered DF varieties as being epi crosses, rather than the coloured fruit. But I guess the colourful flower genes could come from other jungle cacti. I enjoyed reading about Eckhard Meier's cross breeding on Matts Landscapes site a while ago and thought I'd like to give it a try one day, probably when my kids are a bit older and I've got a bit more time on my hands. I like hand pollinating annonas and the like and I think it is something I'll eventually get into. | About the Author Theposterformerlyknownas Keperra 5th January 2015 12:13pm #UserID: 3270 Posts: 1552 View All Theposterformerlyknownas's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Anthony says... As far as I know the brix readings are accurate as I have tested mangos at 22 which is apparently at the top of their range. I'm not sure what a dragonfruit at 20+ brix would taste like but they must taste very sweet. Here is the Aztec Gem I picked at 37 days. 16 brix, 220gm and very nice.
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sternus1 says... Aztec gem has made the cut into my new grove and is rates as the best of the types available in Aus for me. I do like Scott's purple too. It's worth growing. I still think good old Colombian red is a winner too. Anthony have you had any success with Costa Rican sunset or sin Espinas? Would like a brix report on those two. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 7th January 2015 8:02am #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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syd says... Hi, thanks for all the info you've all shared on dragon fruits. I want to grow a purple/red/magenta(?) dragon,specifically I've eaten the fruit of one here which has an aromatic fragrant perfume when cut and a magical flavour - subtle not noticeably sweet. I'd appreciate your advice on which variety might fit that description. (Ed. it was an intense colour, it looked a bit like the aztec pic above. Didn't remind me of grapes, more fragrant, less sweet) Also I don't have much space that doesn't get blistering or reflected sun. I could grow it up a wall that doesn't get much sun but gets water runoff dripping on it after heavy rains & gets some late Nth western sun at the top - much less sun to no direct sun if I keep it below 2m high and in a pot. Also in a pot I could move it with the removalist trolley so it gets some Nth sun to keep warmer in winter if that helps. Due to those constraints, I'm also considering the Tyalgum variety when it's next available (or Frankies) - I could grow Tyalgum in a corner where it gets a touch of Nth sun and a bit Western & NW sun in Winter only. Is it realistic to hang one of those from a hanging pot or dangle it off a verandah without it climbing everywhere like a possessed maniac? (Ed: gathering the Tyalgum is not a pure dragon fruit? Is it as nice tasting as it sounds? I also have a narrow space I could grow one in the shade - as long it doesn't try climbing - I could bring into the sun in winter) Thanks heaps for any suggestionns | About the Author syd Sydney (inner city) 4th April 2016 11:36am #UserID: 13654 Posts: 1 View All syd's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Hellen says... Three varieties of Dragon Fruit / Varieties of Pitaya Fruit exist All varieties of the dragon fruit plant are vine-like cactus which yields a triangular cross section when cut perpendicular to the direction of growth. All three varities of dragon fruit cactus flower at night, growing best in moderate climates. White Fleshed / Pink Skinned: Hylocereus undatus These are perhaps the most common variety of the three varieties of dragon fruit cactus and are slightly to significantly less sweet than the pink or red fleshed pitaya fruit. White Fleshed / Yellow Skinned: Selenicereus megalanthus Generally the sweetest of the three varieties of pitaya, and with smaller sized fruits. Colored Flesh / Pink Skinned: Hylocereus polyrhizus Of the two pink skinned varieties of pitahaya, the sweeter. Yielding fruits larger than those of the yellow skinned dragon fruit (with fruits up to more than 2 lbs in weight). https://wikihomenutrition.com/dragon-fruit-health-benefits/ | About the Author Hellen :D 13th October 2016 2:57pm #UserID: 14758 Posts: 1 View All Hellen's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Raphael says... Hi to you all. My problem is:- At first I just liked the flowers did not know that they would produce fruit. Now I have flowers but even when I try to lend a hand in pollination I do not seem to get the fruit to set, when the flowers starts to die so does the rest of the stem just goes an orange colour and drops off. What am I doing wrong please, I have been using a blusher brush and make sure that some of the pollen is on before I do the deed. Raphael | About the Author Raphael LOCHINVAR 15th November 2016 2:35pm #UserID: 14964 Posts: 6 View All Raphael's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Littlegougou Strathfield 4th February 2017 12:04am #UserID: 15513 Posts: 3 View All Littlegougou's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Michael D wakeley 14th February 2017 7:11pm #UserID: 1938 Posts: 116 View All Michael D's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Grant Lennox Head 15th February 2017 11:45am #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Michael D wakeley 16th February 2017 9:08pm #UserID: 1938 Posts: 116 View All Michael D's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Grant says... I purchased this post, for the price I paid definitely not worth making! http://www.concreteposts.com.au/contact/head_office_factory/ Here's a link to their website, not sure where Wakeley is but perhaps there is someone close that makes them or a reseller of these guys. | About the Author Grant Lennox Head 17th February 2017 1:40pm #UserID: 6119 Posts: 156 View All Grant's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Anthony says... If anyone is interested in a few pics of various Dragonfruit from this years and last years crop you can check out my instagram @lockyervalleydragonfruit . They are all my own pics from my own dragonfruit patch of 50+ varieties and all purchased from reputable growers/suppliers, so are true varieties. Many varieties still to flower this season and a few that I haven’t tried personally. So far it’s been a great season and there should be plenty of fruit to show. | About the Author Anthony Plainland 18th November 2017 8:55pm #UserID: 9188 Posts: 92 View All Anthony's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author ivepeters CARINDALE,4152,QLD 20th November 2017 10:01am #UserID: 6741 Posts: 527 View All ivepeters's Edible Fruit Trees |
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