Create Your Own Dragon Fruit Hybrids

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Grafting and cross-pollinating dragon fruit is a fun gardening hack that can be really addicting. But what happens after you cross two plants? In this episode, Richard Le outlines the best ways to hybridize dragon fruit cacti. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/437e9k0Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3wSviBWBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3uTSob1EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3IwrVU1Learn 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	What's up my friends? We're back. The final episode for now with Richard Lee of
0:17.1	grafting dragon fruit, the dragon fruit god. We have talked about the
0:21.9	beginnings, how to get started, right?
0:24.0	And the mistakes to avoid and some of the best varieties.
0:27.0	Now I kind of want to go deeper though and talk about where this can go,
0:32.0	if you get really into it.
0:33.7	Yeah.
0:34.7	And I'll just share really quickly where I'm at.
0:36.1	So I have six varieties.
0:37.7	You and I are actually going to be replacing three of those varieties today.
0:40.8	And like you mentioned, if you really start to get obsessed with Dragon Fruit
0:43.6	if there's an improved version of a variety that you've grown out let's swap it out
0:49.7	you know so I kind of want to hear from you where you've taken this because you've made new varieties,
0:56.0	you've been tracking things, you've been doing experiments, like how far does the rabbit hole go?
1:01.0	I mean with every hobby that you get into there's always like the tip of the
1:06.2	iceberg and then once you go down that rabbit hole and you're just going to go into the
1:09.6	bottomless pit and you're never going to get yourself out. How deep in the pit are you right now?
1:13.3	Oh, man, like, I don't have enough space for what I want to do.
1:16.9	And my wife is now finally getting mad at me
1:18.4	because we've got kids and she doesn't want spiky thorn hanging everywhere
1:21.9	in a yard for them no place. I got to really choose how I want to do my projects
1:26.0	you know with hybridizing them. Picking the best ones of course you know to create a variety. so I got to be very careful because before I
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