Re: Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus undatus)
Just for the record, my beautiful Dragon Fruit is going
mushy sitting on water and no sign of roots. After
learning that it is the fruit of a cactus, that is to be
expected. I don't have the patience to try and grow it
from the tiny seeds because it would have to be an
enormous plant indoors to bear flowers and fruit. If
anyone wanted to grow one, the quickest way would probably
be to buy one of those little cacti that it is used as the
rootstock for.
Diane Pertson
----- Original Message -----
> I just got back from a week in Naxos (Cyclades, Greece)
and saw H. undatus
> growing there with a huge fruit on it. Not lots of
humidity there in the
> summer so it seems pretty tolerant. Being able to grow
things like that
> makes me want to move to warmer climes...Seattle is
great for some things
> but anything other than our once-in-5-years freak warm
winters would turn
> that one to mush...
>
> I didn't read all the other posts, but just be aware
that the flowers,
> though spectacular and huge, smell sort of like dirty
socks.
> The bats like it that way. :)
>
> bob
