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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Is anyone else growing dragon fruit?
  • Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:10:09 -0700

There is a discussion group for Hylocereus, aka "Pitaya" run by Leo Manuel. Go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PitayaFruit/
It's an unusual fruit in the U.S., but in the tropics it's very widely grown. The people on the list estimate there are as many as 20,000 varieties of it worldwide.
-Lon Rombough
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On Sep 30, 2007, at 1:26 PM, V. Michael Bove, Jr. wrote:

After a trip to Taiwan last year (where I got hooked on the very
civilized practice of eating Hylocereus fruits for breakfast), I
decided to install a dragon fruit plant in my greenhouse. It grew
slowly and overwintered nicely in a 5-gallon pot with a small trellis
in it, but when I put it outside for the summer it threw out six-foot
branches in all directions. There's no way that wild flailing needly
thing is going back inside until I tame it a bit. Has anyone any
pruning or tying-back experience to share? Thanks!
Michael Bove
Teakettle Farm, Z6 (MA/RI border)

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