Hey everyone. What's up? Welcome back to the podcast. Kevin here. So today is a really cool episode. I've been growing Dragon Fruit as many of you know for about a year now. So we've been coming up on October, which is October 2018 is when I planted the cuttings, and they've grown rapidly.

I've done two YouTube videos about it, and what I figured I would do is talk today about some changes

I made to its care to see if I could induce flower and bud

formation before the year comes to a close and if you're growing dragon fruit I

think you might find this interesting so what I did is I kind of looked at the plant.

Mine's growing on my front porch.

And my front porch faces the south,

and a lot of the stems, of course,

have fallen over that balcony railing railing and they're kind of trailing

down into my front yard. But of course there are also other stem offshoots that are shooting out

the back more towards the front door of the house which is under the awning

it's not getting a lot of light and I thought a little bit about the watering and

nutrition of the plant so I said okay if I'm a dragon fruit and I want conditions that force me to flower basically think that I have to

propagate myself what would I want?

And so what I ended up doing was I took off any stem that was pointing in a direction that

really was not going to get a lot of sun access because these are light loving plants.

I also took off any damaged stem and any growth that was below the

point where they were starting to fall over the balcony railing and didn't look like

it had a chance even to get towards the sun.

And so a big haircut, a big prune was the first step of the process.

Then what I ended up doing was I took some feathermeal

and I sprinkled just a little bit of that that's a very high nitrogen

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