We at the Artful Homesteader have embarked on a perilous and unconventional journey.
One full of danger and suspense.
Exciting and hopeful, yet unpredictable.
This trek must be traveled with careful attention to detail, and precise measurement.
This perilous mission is growing, propagating, and fruiting the prickly dragon fruit plant right here, in Northwest Washington. Where it rains a ton and has many, many cloudy days. Not the ideal, but the victim, excuse me, specimen has thrived with us for a couple of rainy months. So, that’s positive!
In the progress picture above you can see all the new growth sections on it. Then below, you can see one section started reaching for the sky in a weird thin arm like manner, which probably means it needed more light. So I put it under a full spectrum grow light to see if that fixes the issue. Not sure what it will do now. Time will tell. It also started getting aerial roots, which I removed.
I’m now trying to root the clipped sections to propagate it and have a dragon fruit family.
Fingers crossed!
If this mission is successful, I will have an abundance of home grown dragon fruits, or at the very least some amazingly cool cacti.
So, either way it’s a win!
If anyone reading this knows something about dragon fruit plants or has any tips, I’d love to hear about it.
Artful Homemaker 