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[Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>]

I don't grow them but have tried eating many of them
and every one I have ever had was insipid. I've had
lots of good prickly pears but never a good dragon
fruit. I understand that there are varieties that
taste good but I've never run across them. It's not
just me either. Do a search for "dragon fruit
inspipid" and you'll get lots of hits.


--- h black <hblack1925@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I have a Hylocereus but I got it
> primarily for the blooms. 
> It is spectacularly beautiful.  I get fruits, which
> are red and about the 
> size of a medium plum if I hang the plants outside
> where they can be 
> pollinated.  I grow them in hanging baskets and have
> had maybe 4 fruits per 
> plant.  I expect mine, being selected as
> ornamentals, are not the finest 
> fruit.  I found them a bit like prickly pears, kind
> of insipid.  I do keep 
> them pruned - they seem to bloom best if kept dry
> over winter (from Jan thru 
> March or longer)
> Hector Black, zone 6 middle TN.    They're outside
> all summer in baskets.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "V. Michael Bove Jr." <vmb@teakettlefarm.com>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers"
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Is anyone else growing dragon
> fruit?
> 
> 
> >
> > On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:48 PM, S & E Hills wrote:
> >
> >>  Is new growth
> >> tender (can it be trained if one starts early?) 
> I'm picturing
> >> giving it a
> >> tomatoe cage like structure to be trained around?
>   I know such
> >> wonderings
> >> are not likely helpful, but they might be a
> consideration in the
> >> future.
> >>
> > The answer is, sort of.  The new growth comes out
> about 2" thick so
> > it's already somewhat stiff.  Also note that if it
> touches anything
> > like wood or masonry it almost instantly produces
> a huge mass of
> > roots that anchor it to the surface (which might
> be helpful in
> > training but likely is not where you want it
> attached).  This is
> > certainly a learning experience for us...
> >>
> >> RI/Mass border, huh?  Which area, Woonsocket,
> Attleboro, Pawtucket,
> >> Chepachet?
> >
> > Know where Sheldonville is?  (a village in West
> Wrentham). We're
> > between there and Diamond Hill.
> >
> > Best,
> > Michael Bove
> >
> >
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