Top 5 Dragon Fruit Varieties

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Late winter into spring is the best time to get started with dragon fruit. If you’re wondering what the top 5 beginner varieties are, Richard has you covered! Here, he discusses the best first-time cultivars, and why someone might prefer each. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3wFAKIiBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ItDsmXBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Toc0NHEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3v9zlczLearn 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	We're back at the Epic Homestead with Richard Lee grafting Dragon Fruit, my personal dragon fruit mentor and
0:19.3	deity, the god of dragon fruit. We're back.
0:22.9	So we talked Rich about your story, how dragon fruit grow,
0:27.8	but if someone's wanting to get into it this year,
0:29.8	if you're listening to this podcast,
0:31.0	the time it comes out, Jan Febb march like it's a good time yes
0:34.0	to get started it's perfect so why don't we start them off with the top five
0:38.2	varieties that someone should consider okay so glad we're getting into this because, you know, this question does pop up a lot and this is going to
0:46.6	set you up to want to grow dry fruit long term.
0:50.6	Nothing sucks more than growing drying fruit, not being able to try and fruit
0:54.0	and giving up without ever getting a reward right?
0:56.0	That could be the saddest thing in the world, right?
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:59.0	And that's the story that I hear a lot of the times
1:00.0	until people run into my dragon fruit channel
1:02.0	and graphing dragon fruit. I actually have a video about that. at the time until people run into my Dragon Fruit channel and Grafton Dragon Fruit.
1:03.4	I actually have a video about that what are the top five beginner varieties to grow.
1:08.0	So if you guys are interested, you can go out there and check it out.
1:10.9	But top five would be Sugar Dragon. We talk a little bit about
1:14.4	sugar dragon how they're self fertile, but you need to hand pollinate them. But I still think it's
1:20.3	worth it because one, they produce massive amount of fruits and they do a lot of
1:24.0	pushes so dragon fruit once during the summertime they can actually have four to five waves
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