What does the dragon fruit tree look like?

Dragon fruit, also known as red dragon fruit, dragon bead fruit, immortal honey fruit, etc., gets its name because it looks like an angry red fireball. The pulp inside is like sweet cream, but it is also covered with small black seeds, mild texture, fragrant taste and rich nutrients. It contains plant albumin and anthocyanins that are rare in ordinary plants. Let's take a look at what the dragon fruit tree looks like.

What does the dragon fruit tree look like?

Pitaya is a perennial climbing succulent plant, the plant has no main root, a large number of lateral roots are distributed in the shallow soil layer, and there are a lot of aerial roots, which can climb and grow. The rhizome is dark green, stout, up to 7 meters long and 10-12 cm thick, with 3 edges, flat edges, wavy edges, climbing roots growing at stem nodes, growing on other plants, with 3 ribs and small thorns in the depression of each stem node. The leaf has been degraded and the function of photosynthesis is borne by the stem. Flowers white, large ovary inferior, fruit oblong or ovoid.

When will the dragon fruit ripen?

The ripening period of dragon fruit is from May to November every year. Huolong fruit is a kind of fruit with high yield. it begins to blossom and bear fruit 12-14 months after planting, and can blossom 12-15 times a year. April-November is the fruit-bearing period, and the fruit is ripe 30-40 days after flowering. It can be harvested when the fruit changes from green to purplish red gradually. The single fruit weighs 500-1000 grams, produces more than 20 fruits per column in the second year after planting, and enters the full fruit period in the third year.

What are the conditions for growing dragon fruit?

1. Temperature: lukewarm dragon fruit is not afraid of high temperature and low temperature, the average annual temperature is not less than 18 ℃, the average temperature in January is not less than 8 ℃, the extremely low temperature is-3 ℃, the duration is not more than 6 hours, the optimum growth temperature is 25: 35 ℃, the temperature below 10 ℃ and above 38 ℃ will stop growing.

2. Soil: the dragon fruit has a wide range of adaptability to soil, and can grow well in mountain, dry land, semi-dry land, stony mountain, wasteland and waterlogged low-lying land, especially the dragon fruit grafted with the local quantity, its adaptability is more extensive.

3. Moisture: the dragon fruit is a drought-tolerant plant, but it needs plenty of water to grow. If the dragon fruit planting land is short of water for a long time, it will cause the dragon fruit growth to stagnate, and even the original stout fleshy stem will slowly wither.

4. Illumination: the dragon fruit is a typical solar plant, which likes warm direct sunlight. If the sunlight time is long and the sun is sufficient, the photosynthesis is especially exuberant, the flesh stem is stout and green, the flowers and fruits are rich and productive, otherwise the amount of fruit is obviously reduced.

5. Fertilizer: the dragon fruit grows fast, and the fertilizer needed in the whole growth cycle must be sufficient. Sufficient nitrogen fertilizer should be supplied in the early growth stage to help the plant grow fast, tall and strong. In the middle and later stages of plant growth, more balanced application of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be applied to increase plant photosynthesis.