Thank you guys!! I have not watered them since I repotted them. Because I was reading and it said to not water them until they have a root system is this correct?
I guess the odd bit off water won't hurt but the idea is to prevent the cutting from rotting, which can happen if they sit in wet potting mix and haven't yet taken as a plant.
wow! Does that mean you, you threw away a lot because they were damaged or what??? Hope the ones you keeping make it.I can only guess that it's as old as the house that is supporting it is - about 10 years old.
If there was I haven't seen any of it yet. Just the spectacular flowers:
A whole load of cuttings had to go but I'll put some healthy ones on stakes in the orchard and trial them.
I got a heap of cuttings from a very large vine over a year ago.
To transport them on the day I stood them up in old horse feed bags. All 3 bags were full of cuttings all standing up in there together.
Because I couldn't plant them immediately, I stood the bags under a large hibiscus tree.
There they stayed for over a year until recently. I just watered them occasionally & they got some rain I guess.
I poured a bit of liquid fertilizer over them 3 times I think.
The bags fell apart from sun on them but the cuttings were all good to go with large root systems & new shoots.
I have planted most out around the base of several palm trees & tied the shoots onto the trunks.
I still have a few to do.
Most of them have grabbed hold of their palm tree & are running up the trunk & branching.
Some are wanting to go somewhere else & sending long branches out in search of other trees I guess.
I think I only lost a few of the original cuttings that got cactoblastis grubs in them.
But I didn't loose any due to leaving them there all that time.
So this is a way you can get your dragonfruit cuttings to take without potting them.
I wonder if the soil might cause root. Mine that were left standing in bags had no soil but it was a humid moist environment inside the bags where they developed huge root systems.
The roots went through the rotting bags & into the dry soil under the hibiscus tree.
I had to cut away a lot of root systems to release some of the cuttings from the ground.
So Ash you could do that with all your prunings. Just stand them in old feed bags & leave them somewhere shady until people want them.
Mine would have gone on living in that situation forever I think. They would have eventually taken over the hibiscus tree though.
So I got all excited a week or so back and planted 3 poles in the ground to grow some Dragon Fruit on. Was on the lookout for some kind of support rings for when they grow up. I have no welding or forming gear so was limited to what I could buy locally. Nothing too great in the shops and simple round rings were upwards of $30. So on a whim I ducked into an Anaconda outdoor shop and picked up some kind of fishing net-thingies for about $6.50 each. I guess you'd get them at BCF as well.
Pretty cunning don't you think?
Of course I had to cut the netting off but the black nylon support string came included.
I'm hoping it's going to be strong enough when the plants have grown up that high...which might be a while.
Great tips @Mark Healey and a wonderful image of your farm. How many plants do you usually grow up each post? It looks like at least two or three?
