Potted planting method of dragon fruit

If you want to feel good and nourish nature, planting potted plants is a good choice. The traditional potted plants made of flowers and plants are too delicate and only have the value of ornamental and beautification. In recent years, many plants use germinated plant stems as potted plants, and some use finished fruit seeds as potted plants. This can not only beautify the room, but also experience the joy of harvest.

Potted planting method of dragon fruit

1. Take a fully ripe dragon fruit and take out some flesh. Then soak it in water and crush the pulp.

2. Then sift and wash with a filter cloth several times to remove the excess pulp.

3. Filter again several times until the pulp is completely separated from the seed. Then dry the seeds.

4. Take an impenetrable basin and put some crushed stones on the bottom (usually some potted shops will have this kind of crushed stone for sale).

5. Then sprinkle some soil to cover the gravel.

6. Then you can put a mold and sprinkle some gravel outside the mold so that the soil is isolated from the gravel.

Then sow the sun-dried seeds in the soil and gently spray some water with a spray can. Note: do not pour water directly.

8. Cover it with cling film. Remember to lift the cling film every other day and sprinkle it with a spray can.

9. After 3-5 days, you will find that the seeds begin to germinate, and then the cling film can be removed.

10. After a while, the seedlings will begin to grow taller again.

About a few weeks later, the seedlings began to grow into "cactus" with small thorns.

12. when the seedlings grow a little stronger, they can be poured out of the pot and planted separately.

13. If you get older, the dragon fruit will begin to bloom.

14. After flowering, it will bear fruit, and you can taste the fruit.

Growth habits of dragon fruit

The dragon fruit is very adaptable and can be planted in an environment where the temperature is not lower than 8 ℃ for a long time, and it can be put indoors in places with low winter temperatures in the north. A small amount of cultivated dragon fruit can buy seedlings or ask friends for some pruned branches (10-15 cm long), which can generally survive when inserted in plain sand. If well managed, flowers will be seen more than 70 days after planting seedlings.

The dragon fruit can blossom continuously from April to November every year. The mature fruit weighs more than 500g, and the big one can reach 1500 grams. The skin is bright red and dazzling, with golden scales. There are two kinds of red and white pulp, the fruit is sweet but not greasy, light and fragrant, better than cantaloupe, excellent taste.

Cultivation and management of potted dragon fruit

The dragon fruit is very resistant to drought, so the water does not need to be irrigated too frequently, but to keep the soil moist, the organic fertilizer solution based on nitrogen fertilizer can be diluted once a week. The lateral buds on the stem branches should be removed and the item buds should be retained so that they can grow taller.

When the plant is about 1 meter tall, cut off the stem tip about 3 centimeters long at the top, so that lateral branches can be sent out at the top so that they will not grow any more. When the apical lateral branch grows to about 50 cm. And then on the edge of the basin with a high bamboo pole, tie the crossbeam at the top of the bamboo pole, and tie the side branches to the crossbeam to make it flat or droop naturally.

When the lateral branch is more than 80 cm, the stem tip should be cut off about 3 cm to reduce nutrition consumption, promote flower bud differentiation, and blossom and bear fruit earlier. If well managed, it will blossom in 7-8 months.

What kind of soil does it take to grow dragon fruit?

Pitaya belongs to the cactus family, choose six common fields / two sand / add two mushroom dregs or boiler dregs (depending on your local situation, you can use nutritious soil instead of soil, as long as it is not particularly alkaline soil, there is no mushroom residue instead of perlite. If none of the above, just add some sand, the important thing is not the early soil, but the later fat to keep up with).

If there is mature organic fertilizer, it can also be mixed with the above-mentioned soil and placed in the middle and lower part of the flowerpot, that is, in the part of the topsoil below 10 cm, where the root of the dragon fruit is still out of reach. After the root is developed, the nutrition can be absorbed naturally (if you plant dragon fruit, don't fertilize it, for fear of burning to the root, if you have roots, you have to wait until new roots grow on the old roots or fertilize them after more than 20 days.) The rootless seedling should wait until it has grown more new roots (about two months before fertilizing); do not install too much pot soil, the soil thickness of 25 to 30 centimeters is enough.

Dragon fruit is a tropical plant, its seedlings are very similar to the cactus, the personality is also similar to the cactus, like drought. Therefore, when planting dragon fruit in pots, we must be careful not to be too wet. In wet and cold places, you should pay attention to basking in the sun to the dragon fruit seedlings, so as to help the dragon fruit grow better.