Physical graffiti

This plant is radiant.

Seedling Dragon Fruit

This seedling fruit survived in the winter.   She is the only seedling left.   I am not sure if it is red or white.

Physical Graffiti

This pitaya plant was the only piece of hylocereus that survived through the winter.   On the spring, I found a 5- inch piece of physical graffiti still alive and trying to grow.   I cut off the dead portion and put the cutting in a pot.   It is growing nicely.

Delight Dragon fruit

The delight hylocereus is growing. The plant has been a slow grower thus far.   I hope this last growth flush results in a long, strong, and healthy limb.

Selenicereus Megalanthus

Delight Dragon fruit

The delight plant is finally growing. I put a trellis around it last week, so I can now accommodate long branches. The delight plant always seemed like a slow grower.   I moved it to a sunnier spot and it's growing better. I hope it can put on a few long branches before winter sets in.

Tangerine tree

The citura tangerine tree looks like it is going to flower for the third time in five months. It it's growing steadily.

Citura Tangerine

The tangerine fruits are growing nicely. They are shiny and deep green. They are slightly smaller than a ping- pong ball. There are nine other teeny fruitlets from the most recent flush. Some are shiny and plumping.  Others may yet abort.  The whole tree looks healthy.   I have discovered that I really don't need to water much, perhaps once biweekly.

Dragon fruit garden

I trellised all my larger dragon fruits. The dragon fruit in front, the small one, was grown from seed. It is the only ceiling dragon fruit that I have left. The rest perished during the tough winter. Someday I will have fruit.

Citura Tangerine

The tangerine tree is growing quite well.  I hand pollinated most of the first flush of blooms until the summer rains came.  When the second flush of blooms came, it was still raining.  I was unable to hand pollinate.  I don`t expect a lot of fruit to come of that second flush, but some of the fruitlets look like they might form fruit.  Other blooms have already fallen to the ground.  The fruitlets from that second flush are concentrated on one main branch.

  

  

The larger fruits are about the size of a small cherry tomato.  I

 am surprised that the tree is carying so many little fruits.  I hope this does not lead to alternate bearing.

Lowes Dragon Fruit

The mystery hylocereus undatus from Lowes is still alive.  The plant is beautiful, though it does not grow as vigorously as the Physical Graffiti.  On the other hand, it grows much better than the Delight dragon fruit plant.  I still wonder what type of fruit the mystery plant will give.  I hope it is good.

That`s my grandpa Casper`s cactus in the background.  The dragon fruit is in th foreground.

Growth, Physical Graffiti

The Physical Graffiti dragon fruit has doubled in size since the begininning of the summer.  I am going to over-winter it in the house this winter.  The pitaya cannot tolerate cold temperatures.  Perhaps I can get some fruit next summer, Lord willing.