How To Start Growing Dragon Fruit

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How should someone begin their own dragon fruit orchard? It’s super easy! Take a cactus cutting, plant it, and prepare for pollination. In this episode, Kevin and Richard detail ways to get started, growing tips, and the different varieties you can grow. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48GnOzmBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4a6apBUBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/49J1Tc6EGHomesteading Book: https://growepic.co/437kWtYLearn 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	Welcome back my friends to another episode of the Beat Pod with Richard Lee
0:17.0	aka Grafting Dragon Fruit, aka Plant Daddy, that's Me's, Personal Dragon Fruit, God and Mentor, back on the show.
0:26.3	Dude, good to have you here.
0:27.3	Man, thanks for the elaborate introduction.
0:30.1	It makes me feel good every time I hear that from you.
0:31.9	It's true, I mean it's the truth.
0:33.5	You know, you've really brought me down this journey.
0:36.1	And so why don't we bring everyone else down the journey
0:39.1	and talk about how to actually get started growing
0:42.3	this incredible fruit? it is way different when you think about growing fruit right?
0:48.0	Like I have an orchard I got citrus I got grapes I got avocado I got all sorts of different things.
0:52.0	Yeah and dragon fruit just is not following those rules at all.
0:55.2	And so if we talk about how to start,
0:57.3	yeah.
0:58.3	Where does someone even begin?
0:59.3	So funny you say, like you say that for Dragon Fruit fruit it might be a little difficult for
1:04.1	someone as experienced with you but for me dragon fruit is probably one of the
1:07.4	easiest and when I jump into other crops like tree fruit trees and stuff that I
1:11.2	don't do too well. Yeah.
1:13.0	So, dude, yeah, I mean, growing dragon fruit is super easy.
1:16.0	You can get the exact fruit that you want by just taking a branch off of them,
1:20.0	and we call them cuttings.
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