I will always wait for the blooms to open completely before hand pollinating 😊 I don't have Lisa yet
@jamesbilly2528
4 жыл бұрын
Hello Martin. Could you please tell me of some reasons to why some flowers do not have any pollins in their pollin sacks ,although i have covered the flower in a bag befor it had opened.Thank you and keep up the good work.God Bless.
@usmarma9467
3 жыл бұрын
Bees are not effective pollinator. They just take all the pollens but fail to pollinate. So what i doing is I cover all the flower buds with plastic bags and next morning I pollinate them. It works
@graymartin2275
3 жыл бұрын
Yes very good. But some flowers the bees pollinate perfectly...
@usmarma9467
3 жыл бұрын
@@graymartin2275 Yeah Gray! But most of the fruits are smaller than hand-pollination
@graymartin2275
3 жыл бұрын
Nor for me
@graymartin2275
5 жыл бұрын
DF have large beautiful flowers that only open once for about 12 hours beginning in the vet late afternoon or evening and closing the next morning long before noon. I do all my pollination from very early morning to be finished before 9 or 9:30
@darleneswetz8325
27 күн бұрын
Yes
@owenismo
6 жыл бұрын
Another awesome video Gray. What size are those nursery pots? You don't find it useful to go any bigger? And do you use drip irrigation or do you water it yourself.
@graymartin1555
5 жыл бұрын
These are 2 gallon pots (Oh sorry for the delay!!!! I'm working on farm time---a year here and year there...). I cut the bottoms off. I tried growing in 5 gallon many years ago with big drainage holes but I ran into cramped roots and plants yellowed
@MdKamal-mv4fj
5 жыл бұрын
Flautist
@dianastarodub7592
Жыл бұрын
Hello!your American beauty is yellow you need to measure the ph in your soil..and give it fertilizer to higher up your ph
@JamesEndo1
4 жыл бұрын
Do you also grow specimen trees I see or is that your neighbor? So if Lisa and Sugar Dragon dont do well in the highs and low temps, then what are your recommendations on best dragon fruit varieties that can handle the highs and low tempo in CA, AND PRODUCE good tasty fruit? I'm in San Jose. Thanks for sharing your expertise and experience.
@graymartin2275
4 жыл бұрын
James the BIG problem with the variety issue is duplication due to renaming and the rampant distribution of plant matetial... So I stayed clear of most of it after a great effort to inform the groups early on with UC and enthusiasts. So I would rather remain removed growing a few selections i believe work for me commercially. But the good news is that the Facebook group Los Angeles dragonfruit growers and even us DF growers have members that really have strong opinions about good varieties. For me 8S is too small, Lisa plant breaks down easily, Phyical graffiti is mostly not attractive enough although sometimes has beautiful fruit but too many small sizes due to pollination issues... Kim of LA group has many taste tes descriptions. Her Rixford is not true but there are a lot of misnamed varieties... If it works for you who cares if the name is accurate--nice to know but not essential. Read the many posts...
@MomtazGarden
5 жыл бұрын
What is the right time to pollinate Dragon fruits.
@fernandogarcia9381
5 жыл бұрын
Why do you use pots instead of planting in the ground?
@graymartin2275
5 жыл бұрын
The bottom of the pot is cut off so the roots are actually in the ground. Wht we don't plant more plants like this I don't know... I do. It prevents digging a hole and putting roots deep in the ground where the soil is hard and lifeless....
@34LIANG
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Mr Martin, is there a way of managing the plants or using certain fertilizers to improve the sweetness of DF?
@graymartin2275
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, mostly no. Genetics is the biggest influence. Think about children. Maybe with good nutrition and exercise a child could be influenced to grow 1/4 " maybe less... Samw with fruit sugar. Large fruit are typically sweeter. I so hear people saying their feet formulation is best.. But in my experience no...
@ksaechao35
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Gray, Thank you for the great video. I have five years old Haley Comet. It supposes to be a self fertile. However, I corrected its pollens and did the hand pollination to make sure it forms fruit. It was very disappointed to see the flowers turned brown and fell off. I didn't know what did I do wrong. Can you give me some advise? By the way, I live in Oakland, CA. I still have some more flower buds. They might be opening in the next 3-4 days. Hope to hear from you. Kevin Saechao
@slipknot95maggot
5 жыл бұрын
Hard to say without more info, not every flower from a self fertile plant will set fruit with its own pollen no matter how correctly you do it so maybe you just need to keep at it, perhaps you pollinated incorrectly, perhaps your plant is otherwise unhealthy or insufficiently nourished, perhaps your plant for one reason or another, even aside from food and that, underwent stress of some sort and aborted the process to save energy or something. Could be a lot of things. Hopefully by now you've tried again and it worked but.. Best advise would prolly be get another plant. Self fertile doesn't mean it likes its own pollen, just kinda means it can roll with it sometimes if it has to. Match your HC with a SD for its often cited great pollen or a HM for the (best gosh darn dragon fruit ever) *cough* sorry, the flavor, etc. Not all plants need pollen from a different plant but all plants sure would prefer it from another plant. You'll get more fruit from two smaller dragon fruit plants than one big self fertile plant, so even if you don't have much space or money or whatever you're still better off with multiple plants. You'd want to keep them big enough to set enough flowers that they'll bloom at similar enough times for you to cross pollinate but otherwise even with the extra plant you get more fruit relative to plant size
@graymartin1555
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry KS for some reason I don't get notified of comments and hence I am only now seeing questions! Oakland! You may have factors I cannot help. The procedure is fairly easy, but you have to know you have fresh pollen! Does this video show the pollen dust in the fingers?
@domtam6571
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Kaeqvmienh, I’m in Hayward, CA. Would love to trade some of my dragon fruit cuttings for some of your Haley’s Comet.
@ardp202
3 жыл бұрын
Hello can you pollinate those flower that you forced open are they any good now ?!
@graymartin2275
3 жыл бұрын
The short answer is they are good and can be pollinated. The longer answer is that if the flower is self fertile meaning it does not need another pollen source to set fruit then I dont take all the pollen. I try to take half... This leaves enough for the bees to do their work. If it is not self fertile then the pollen is of no use to the flower so I take all and if I want fruit set from that flower I need to pollinate it with different pollen. How it works for me is o mix the pollen... So in theory I'm giving some of the same pollen back but also I am giving different pollen. It works for me fine.
@Faith2CLE
4 жыл бұрын
Did you graft the dragon fruit plants and if so onto what? I had a plant and it never bloomed, did I do something wrong? God Bless!
@graymartin2275
4 жыл бұрын
I really don't use grafting commercially. So far I have not seen a need. Dragon fruit need light to flower they like moisture when they are young and they love organic matter on the surface of the soil.
@David-wu7lz
5 жыл бұрын
Why are you not a fan of Sugar Dragon? It’s supposed to be very sweet.
@graymartin2275
5 жыл бұрын
OK, thank you for writing. Recall I am a commercial grower. Small fruit are more difficult as they require more labor. Sugar Dragon also has a thin skin or a skin that is easily bruised and would require more care than my standard fruit. Lastly my personal preference for taste is not for AD as to me it has an "earthy" after-flavor that reminds me of wild cactus fruit... so collectively I just don't rate it high but for pollen I love it!
@David-wu7lz
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, that helps to clarify what you value in a variety. But based on your comments, it does sound like Sugar Dragon may be over-rated in terms of taste. I have some growing but have yet to have a chance to taste it.
@graymartin2275
5 жыл бұрын
Hey David. For some reason I have trouble making replies on my computer and I'm not all that comfortable typing on my phone so I do a voice text for these comments. Sadly sometimes when I'm driving. Like the reply I sent you this morning. This year I intend to dry sugar dragon. But differently than slices as I do with some of my damaged dragon fruit. I intend to put it on a string and dry it whole. This is done with Persimmons sometimes. It's my favorite dried fruit of all time. Slice dragon fruit is pretty darn good. Equal to sliced persimmon. So I'm hoping my whole fruit dried sugar dragon comes even close two whole fruit dried persimmon. You have to use the astringent type of Persimmon for this. All the best.
@David-wu7lz
5 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to hear how that turns out. I totally agree-dried whole persimmon (hoshigaki) is the best dried fruit ever.
@louiefernandez6419
5 жыл бұрын
Sir, how will you remedy, the flower will not dev. into fruit!!!. asap. tnx!!!
@markjasondelacruz3962
4 жыл бұрын
louie fernandez did you know already the answer about your problem?because I have the same problem too...a flower that not develop into fruit...
@baljeet890
5 жыл бұрын
Do you think that structure would hold for in long run
@graymartin1555
5 жыл бұрын
I'm hoping my new system holds... If you look at a recent video you will see my old trellis is failing bad!!!!
@josephineluyeye7477
4 жыл бұрын
Peut-on avoir des explications en français ? S'il vous plaît ? Merci beaucoup
@loemheak1275
5 жыл бұрын
Hi sir, what does your dragon fruit took time ?
@graymartin2275
5 жыл бұрын
Try again Loem. Not sure "took time" sorry
@babeemzalonzo29
5 жыл бұрын
Hi ask only how many yrs it will bears a fruits
@graymartin1555
5 жыл бұрын
DF bear fruit quickly! One year sometimes... Two years you will have plenty!
@om35559
5 жыл бұрын
Do you need to hand pollinate or it work it self also?
@graymartin2275
5 жыл бұрын
Sometimes early in the season when it is cold maybe too cool for bees or the bees have lots of other food then you might need to hand pollinate the self fertile types but otherwise only needed for the non self fertile varieties
@yasseralaraj4882
5 жыл бұрын
Do you sale cutting?
@GreenMonsterDee420
5 жыл бұрын
Hi can you show me tell me how to grow my plant please. Do you have an Instagram?
@graymartin2275
5 жыл бұрын
Not active on instagram... There are lots of resources for the beginner, I try to help those a little more advanced. Best of luck
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