Richard Le’s Dragon Fruit Journey

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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When Richard Le got into dragon fruit in Orange County, California, it was all a mystery to him. He received a plant and learned he could grow one without even trying. This led him to a desire to learn more about dragon fruit cultivation and care. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3To9TcJBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4a3yp8BBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3IuVeq8EGHomesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3IuVHsoLearn 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, the first outdoor epic gardening, the Beat podcast episode I figured
0:19.3	who else to have on than my personal mentor, the god of Dragon Fruit, Richard Lee.
0:25.0	Yo, what's up guys, it's Richard from Grafton Dragon Fruit.
0:28.0	Thanks for having me here today at your podcast.
0:30.0	First time I ever doing it, so we'll be interested interested see how this gets going.
0:34.0	Yeah no man I mean it's it's cool to have you here obviously the beautiful
0:37.4	dragon fruit in the background if you're listening and not watching the show
0:40.1	I'd say go ahead and check the channel out because you said a beautiful backdrop here
0:44.4	all dragon fruit you gave me yeah and you kind of really were the one that started me on my
0:49.8	journey and like lent me a helping hand and taught me but I think for this first episode this week and this is all on Dragon Fruit this week guys I kind of want to hear how you got into it because to me
0:59.7	You're like way up here, you know, and so like when did you start it's funny story that you
1:05.1	ask because I never really thought that would be a dragon fruit guy yeah and this kind of
1:09.6	all happened by like accident right started with getting a home from my wife where her dad were buying
1:18.4	properties and at that time I was doing this transitional phase where I was just
1:22.3	moving. Yeah. I was getting this transitional phase where I was just moving.
1:23.0	I was getting a new job, starting my career,
1:26.0	so I thought I was just going to be doing that for the rest of my life, right?
1:30.0	I work at UCLA with kids, with epilepsy.
1:32.0	Oh, yeah, still doing that to today and to find Dragon Fruit and have that now as my hobby,
1:38.6	it's like unreal because it has like brought so much peace to me in a way because after I'd have to travel I live in
1:45.0	Orange County I drive to UCLA and that's just like that's LA traffic that's crazy
1:49.8	so going home after two hours what's a better way than to spend it in your garden
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