Common Dragon Fruit Mistakes

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Did you know the dragon fruit is a tropical cactus? That means it needs slightly more water than your standard desert cactus. However, too much water causes rot. Richard Le of Grafting Dragon Fruit runs down the most common dragon fruit mistakes, and how to avoid them. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/43gvEP1Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48RvPRTBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/43guhA0EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3V6mqmjLearn More: Dragon Fruit Plant: Strange But DeliciousConnect With Richard Le:Richard’s journey with dragon fruit started many years ago when the taste of one blew him away! In order to have easier access to them, he embarked on a journey to grow his own. In the process, he discovered that there were many other varieties out there instead of just the common Vietnamese White. This led to experimentation and creation of a technique to speed the growth process of dragon fruits through grafting. To share what he learned and discovered, Grafting Dragon Fruit was born.   Today, his goal is to share his knowledge with everyone on how to grow and graft dragon fruit easily in their own backyard! Instagram YouTube Web Site Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, hello my friends, we are back.
0:15.0	Dragon Fruit Week with Richard Lee, grafting Dragon Fruit.
0:18.7	He's branded up on the shirt if you're watching on the video podcast
0:21.5	at the beat on YouTube my dragon fruit
0:24.6	God how are you I'm good I'm good thanks for having back now of course man so
0:28.3	we've talked a lot about different varieties yesterday yeah but if someone's like really getting into this, I've noticed a lot of
0:36.2	questions about what's this on my dragon fruit, how do I know when to do this. So I figured today's
0:41.4	episode what we could talk about is avoiding some of the most common dragon fruit mistakes that people make.
0:47.0	So for me, let's maybe just start with watering.
0:50.0	Okay, yeah, yeah. So, even though Dragon Fruit is a cactus, they don't like to be water too much.
0:57.1	They are a tropical cactus, so in Philippines, it's always humid over there, right?
1:02.5	But it's raining and the soil over there
1:06.2	is typically very sandy.
1:08.0	If you ever see in the Philippines,
1:09.5	they always have like bags of sand
1:11.3	and they actually root everything in there and in that type of medium
1:14.6	dragon fruit do super well in it they like really fast draining soil and they sit too
1:19.7	long into there and they can get root rot very easily and once that happens it just kind of kills the whole
1:26.7	cutting from the base they turn yellow they rot you get this foul smell and if you poke it it's kind of like
1:32.4	pus coming out of It's gross man.
1:34.1	I've actually I've had it and I think with a cutting that got like stuck in a pot
1:38.3	or there's water stuck in the bottom and you press and it just falls away. It's like rotting flesh or something.
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