Organic Dragon Fruit Agriculture In Kingdom Of Cambodia

If you love something really exotic and really awarding and have the plain, hot tropical sun free from any shadow from early  morning  to late sunset, then growing  dragon fruit cactus is easy. Go visit a dragon fruit farm and chose a variety of  your preference. White dragon fruit of purple dragonfruit. The quality is nearly the same. Ask the dragon fruit farmer to give you a few sections of a dragon fruit cactus. Such segments are about 20-40 cm long. Cut the lower half of the section and place into soil. 8 months later you should have  your individual  first  pleasant tasting  and truly exotic  savouring  dragonfruits! Replace old dragonfruit cacti after about 3-4 years. The older the cactus, the smaller the fruits. If you plant  quite a few  cacti-seedlings on a single  rod,  then a  dragonfruit plant may  miss nutrients and produce  small  fruits. Be generous to mother nature and  mother nature will be generous to you. Mingle dragonfruit cacti among blossoms,  greens or in a shadow free  neighbourhood to other blooming  or fruit bearing trees. Producing dragon fruit cacti is simple  and maintenance  free. The e-book "organic farming" pictures show you the basic steps on how to  produce  your own personal dragonfruit cactus. Retrieve that dragon fruit cactus  enjoys plain  tropic hot sun from as early as possible in the morning  until as  belated  as possible in evenings. Hence plant your dragonfruit cacti in plain sun, outside of shadow from houses, trees or next  hills or mountains. In addition, dragonfruit cactus favours NO standing water during rainy season, hence NO flat areas  that might be  flooded  for days or weeks during rainy season! If you want to see more information in regards to Philippines nature. Give the cactus cut a supporting pole to  mount. If you set your cactus cut directly at the final  emplacement, then there is no  need to attach  the cactus to the pole  as here in the picture. A newly cut  section of a dragon fruit cactus plant is placed about half its length into soil, other half above  ground - right next to a 2 3 meter high  rod you  pose deep  into the  ground for  supporting of the cactus  flora. A dragon fruit cactus climbs up and develops  some  rather  air-roots that  take hold onto the  rod  or even just  onto a plain concrete wall without string or attachment ! Dragon fruit cactus develop  rapid. From a little  new cactus seedling - a cut segment  of an old dragon fruit cactus - to fruit bearing dragonfruit plant  roughly  8 months only! After a brief blossoming  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 dragonfruits. Dragon fruit cacti produce  more one harvest   p.a. . As you see on the cacti pictures, some dragonfruit cacti are blooming , others have fruits and other cacti are empty and  recuperating for next season. In Philippines you find   pleasant tasting  dragonfruits all year long on  regional  marketplaces. Hence with proper planting management and rejuvenation of your dragonfruit farm, you may have at least some fruits all year long. Sometimes more, sometimes less - but all year long. Notice that harvest during  over cast  or rainy season, the dragon fruits are almost tasteless and sugarless   or even just  slightly  sour. Truly sweet and really exotic tasty dragon fruits are harvested only a few weeks into hot sun drenched  dry season with blue sunny sky all day long. From then and all hot sunny season all dragonfruits are sweet AND really tasty. In the Philippine islands  we certainly 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 Philippine Islands dragonfruits are growing  in wrong  location. Recall the need for all day long  shadow-free hot tropical  sun. In the Philippine Islands we have many high mountains, even on islands,  farming late  morning or early sunset ! Ideal locations in the Philippines  would be places in sunny areas like  top side  of low hills.