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Here's one to test you  

A very sweet customer brought me a dragon fruit plant they had grown from seeds recovered from a supermarket fruit.  It's like a low sprawling cactus and seems pretty fast growing.  The stems arch down and sprout roots from the ends.
  
Has anyone grown one of these and if so what can I expect  

[Lardman]

How odd .. but incredibly interesting.

Google shows up some bits including the fact they're not self fertile. 

[DD.]

Never heard of it, but having Googled, this piccie is  not a recommendation!

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Never heard of it, but having Googled, this piccie is  not a recommendation!

Oh well    and not self fertile      Will grow it on just to see what it does but may have to purchase a stunt double fruit for bragging rights then 

[DD.]

Don't let it put you off, that's one opinion amongst 1,000's I'm sure!

However, if you don't mind, I'll wait until you report back!

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Hey if I manage to grow one it will be the most fantastic tasting fruit EVER (and I'll never admit any different) 

[DD.]

Then when I try it and it fails - I know where you live!

[JaK]

Have you got a pick of the plant?
 I ate my way through tons of dragon fruit when I was pregnant, could it be why my daughter has a firey temper I wonder???

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Then when I try it and it fails - I know where you live!

  

I'll get a piccie on here JaK - it's a really odd little plant 

[grenhouse]

I tried a few years ago but lost the seedling, that was in my phase of planting a seed from everything I bought, which was fun but not very fruitful!

The dragon fruits I ate when in singapore tasted very different to the watery ones you get from supermarkets now a days, and hell of a lot cheaper!

steve

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Ok - here is the odd little beastie.  Please excuse my grubby windows - they have to put up with a lot of plants growing next to them 



The customer who brought it in is a lovely old lady who comes in 3 times a week at least - more for a chat than anything.  She said the seeds came up like mustard & cress and were very easy and you can root stems and make new plants from them as well 

[jonewer]

My parents had a couple of these when they lived in Bulawayo. I thought them quite tasty! Beware that the cactus grew quite big - 20ft or so, I doubt they'll do so well in our climate though, Bulawayo is verging on desert in the dry season.

[Babstreefern]

I absolutely adore dragon fruit .  Its like eating a giant kiwi fruit.  I don't know if you can grow them in our climate though

[Trillium]

I'd never heard of dragon fruit before this post. And that foliage makes me wonder who was foolish brave enough to first give it a try. Ouch!

[chimaera]

As far as I can tell it is a true cactus; dragon fruit are (I think) one of the forest cacti you get in Mexico (as is the Christmas cactus) what is naturally an epiphyte growing on branches. It is pollenated by large moths and bats so probably won't set indoors!

Charlie