It's been so darned dry in most parts of Australia this spring summer 2019!
But I was absolutely thrilled to see 7!! flowers on two plants which all opened on this phase of the moon.
I'm sure all my other plants are only weeks behind those first two.
How are everyone else's DFs doing?
During winter I ordered a pearl and an Aussie gold DF which got planted last Monday.
So I now have many dark reds, a pink, some yellows, the pearl and the gold.
I also have around 50 rooted cuttings off my plants just waiting for me to gather strength to put in posts to grow them on. One good thing about DFs is that the cuttings never die. They just get bigger while they lay under a bush waiting to be planted!
Hi ClissAT, just added my 1st post this morning regards DF's where I wrote that the recent drop in humidity past month or so have affected my flowering resulting in many buds ready to flower but still not committing to do so, only had 3 flower over night/early morning.
I asked the question if anyone else had buds not opening due to the drier than normal conditions all over, where I was boldly suggesting that this may be caused by the lack of humid days this season.
And then I've gone thru your post about you having flowers in November?
Now I'm completely stumped, ha!
I don't normally have buds on my DF vines until hallway thru December.
So, I've just checked your weather and its really not that much different from me here in Hervey Bay for Nov '19 where I found 29max- 21min and approx. 60-65% Humidity for Pomona.
Up here it may have been a wee bit warmer but I wouldn't have thought it would be enough to change fruiting schedules as much as a 2 months delay.
And I've read on Marks reply he has fruit ready to go? Think I'm a bit more than stumped truth be told.
I first saw Dragon Fruit back in 2000 when working up in Vietnam where it was muggy, sticky & rainy every minute of the day, and they grew them all over. So, instead of treating them as a cacti, I have been trying to simulate the watering schedule the same as up in Asia where they grow in abundance, you can see my photos where I have poles wrapped in Jute for the feeders to grow up and through and I also have drippers at the top which then allows the Jute strapping to become completely soaked after a few minutes of the tank pump on.
My season here in HB starts with the 1st bud mid December and the last fruit picked around end April.
Although I was told by a neighbour whom is also now growing DF from cuttings I gave them, they have a friend in HB who had flowers mid December, but not anywhere near you or Mark in the areas you all live.
I compost and fertilise a few times a year and water every 3 days where my soil is now dark underneath and teaming with worms. The vines become very thick and dark green and produce beautiful fruit.
It may be that I'm pampering them a bit too much, no?
Then again, my neighbours hardly water their DF's and theirs are at the same stage as mine, go figure.
cheers, col.