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[Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>]

On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Michael Nave wrote:

> I don't grow them but have tried eating many of them
> and every one I have ever had was insipid.

Because the Light Brown Apple Moth quarantine prevented me from  
bringing our member's produce to our booth at the Botanical Garden  
this last Sunday, I bought some tropical fruits for the CRFG booth,  
including a pitahaya.  I had never had one fresh before.  And, yep,  
it was insipid.  However, Trader Joe's used to carry dried  
dragonfruit and it was really quite good.

In the May & June 2005 issue of The Fruit Gardener, on p. 19, there's  
a short article, "Growing Dragonfruit When There's No Space  
Available", which seems to indicate its natural habit is to sprawl.   
However, what was meant to be a temporary home by the side of the  
garage door ended up being a good place because the pitahaya used the  
garage wall as a trellis and grew nearly straight up from a 2 gallon  
pot.


Megan Lynch

Berkeley, CA
Zone 9b