Produce Diversity In Organic Farming By Adding Dragon Fruit Cacti

If you enjoy something really exotic and really rewarding and have the plain

, hot tropical sun free from any shadow from early dawning to late sundown, then farming dragon fruit cactus is simple. Go search for a dragon fruit farm and chose a cactus variety of your preference. White dragon fruit of purple dragon fruit. The quality is nearly the same. Ask the dragon fruit farmer to give you a few segments of a dragon fruit cactus. Such segments are about 20-40 cm long. Cut the lower half of the segment and place into soil. 8 months later you may have your own first delicious and truly exotic tasting dragon fruits! Replace old dragon fruit cacti after about 3-4 years. The older the cactus, the smaller the fruits. If you plant too many cacti-seedlings on a single pole, then the dragon fruit plant may lack nutrients and make small fruits. Be generous to mother nature and mother nature will be generous to you. Mingle dragon fruit cacti among flowers, green vegetables or in a shadow free neighborhood to other blossoming or fruit bearing trees.

In dry sunny areas of your land you can mix dragon fruit cacti with vegetable or flowers

Raising dragon fruit cacti is easy and care free. Keep in mind that dragon fruit cactus enjoys plain tropical hot sun from as early as possible in the morning time until as late as possible in evenings. Hence plant your dragon fruit cacti in plain sun, outside of shadow from houses, trees or nearby hills or mountains. In addition, dragon fruit cactus prefers NO standing water during rainy season, hence NO flat areas that might be inundated for days or weeks during rainy season!

You can easily mix dragon fruit cacti with flowers or vegetables without negative effect on yield for both. Every 3-4 meters a cacti and the empty sunny space in between with beautiful flowers, herbs or vegetables. Just like in jungle where many different plants grow strongly and healthy side by side very close to each other. Just figure out what other plants love the same location as the cacti. Obviously plants with little water needs growing in rather poor soil.

Give the cactus cut a holding pole to climb up. If you plant your cactus cut directly at the final location, then there is NO need to attach the cactus to a pole. A newly cut segment of a dragon fruit cactus plant is placed about half its length into soil, other half above soil - right next to a 2 3 meter high pole you place deep into the ground for supporting of the cactus plant. A dragon fruit cactus climbs up and grows some kinda air-roots that hold onto the pole or even onto a plain concrete wall without string or attachment!

Dragon fruit cactus develop fast. From a small young cactus seedling - a cut segment of an old dragon fruit cactus until fruit bearing dragon fruit plant approximately 8 months only.

After a brief blooming period, the dragon fruit flowers turn into fast growing fruits. When the outside is red all the way, then it's time to cut the fruits. A strong rose cutter is ideal to harvest ripe dragon fruits. Dragon fruit cacti produce more one harvest per year. Some dragon fruit cacti are blossoming, others have fruits and other cacti are empty and recovering for next season. In the Kingdom of Cambodia you find pleasant tasting dragon fruits all year long on local marketplaces.

Hence with right planting management and rejuvenation of your dragon fruit farm, you may have at least some fruits all year long. Sometimes more, sometimes less - but all year long. Notice that harvest during cloudy or rainy season, the dragon fruits are almost tasteless and nonsweet or even slightly sour. Truly sweet and really exotic tasty dragon fruits are harvested only a few weeks into hot sunny dry season with blue sunny sky all day long . From then and all hot sunny season all dragon fruits are sweet AND really tasty.

The Philippine islands have few dragon fruits only and only during a brief period once p.a.. The Philippine dragon fruits are tasteless and slightly sour. Hence obviously in the Philippines dragon fruits are farming in wrong location. Remember the need for day long shadow-free hot tropical sunlight. In the Philippines we have many high mountains, even on islands, raising late dawn or early sundown! Ideal locations in the Philippines would be places in sunny areas like top side of low hills.

by: Hans Neukomm

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