Mystery Dragon Fruit Growth

I brought my tropicals indoors on October 17. Most times, my plants don't grow well indoors despite being in front of a south-facing window. I decided to ditch my 5000K lights and get 6500K lights. I also placed more lights on each plant. As a result, my mystery dragon fruit plant has grown greatly even though it is indoors. Below is a before-and-after picture on 10/17 and 11/24.

Mango Mania

I started buying freeze-dried mango chips from my grocer. Man! Those things are expensive but good. I regularly buy fresh mangoes from the market, but they taste bland at best. I decided to try growing my own.

My Mallika mango pictured below arrived November 11, 2015. I pruned it pretty severely because I must train it to stay small and compact. It was about 5' tall when it arrived. It's been about 2 weeks, and I am anxiously awaiting to see when it will flush new vegetative growth. I am using a water meter to test the soil before watering. If my meter reads wet or even moist, I don't water. If it reads dry, I water. Since it is late fall and nearly winter, I must keep the tree indoors. I have it positioned at a south-facing window and I am running 2 grow lights. I just ordered a Pickering mango, and it should arrive Saturday.

Dragging Dragon's Inside

I brought my plants inside.   The nighttime temps are going to be near freezing.  God willing, I cannot wait to see what next spring and summer will bring.  Hopefully fruit.
 

Dragon fruits, getting big

The hylocereus plants have grown nicely this summer.  I hope that I get some fruit from Lowe's.   It had deep purple flesh and tasted like a beet.  I hope my fruit from my plants will be much better.

Talinum fruticosum perhaps?

I have no clue what this is.

Dragon Summer Flush

All of my dragons are growing new shoots at present.  I hope the biggest one will flower.  There is still time.  If it doesn't flower within the next month, it will run out of warm weather to ripen the fruit.

Potted Dragons

I finished repotting the last and largest plant around 9:30 last night.  I like view uniform the poles look.

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New Support Trellis for Dragon Fruit Plants

<\p>Two days ago an Asian gentleman knocked on my door. He wanted to by my large aloe and dragon fruit plants. He said his had died because he left them outdoors during the winter. Well I sold him some "thanh long" as he called it. He suggested that I use a 4x4 beam as a trellis. I had already began to think about changing the trellising. The ladder trellises that I was using kept blowing over with the breeze. It seems he solved my problem for me. My only concern is that I could not find non-pressure-treated lumber. I hope those chemicals don't leach into my dragon fruit. Additionally, I planted an extra pot of dragon fruit just in case someone knocks on my door next year. I'll be ready.

Delight dragon fruit

this is my delight dragon fruit plant. There are actually two cuttings that are growing, one in front and another in back. The cutting in the front seems to be more vigorous and is therefore growing stronger. I hope to get the stands to 2nd up. I remember that my original the light dragon fruit plant had really thick stands. Unfortunately, the original plant died in the hard winter of 2014. The weaker plant in the back was cut from the original plant. It will probably be at least another year or two before I can get this plant to fruit.

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Seedling dragon fruit

this is my seedling dragon fruit plant. Its growing slower than the other more established plants. But at least it's growing. I don't know what type of fruit this will you. my best guess is that the fruit will be white.

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Physical Graffiti 2

this is my second Physical Graffiti plant. This plant was started from a cutting of the survivor of the winter of 2014. The plant is trying its best to catch up with my larger Physical Graffiti. I have discovered that physical grafitti plants are very resilient and fast growers.

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Selenicereus megalanthus

the yellow dragon fruit has grown just a little bit. The students are spindly due to lack of light. I have decided not to fuss too much over this plant because the probability of getting it to fruit is low. It means a much more tropical environment then I can give it. I have read that people in Florida California and Texas have problems getting it to fruit. The chance of me getting it to fruit here in North Carolina is slim and none. So I will let it grow, but I'm not going to worry myself too much about it.

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