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["Shirley Murphy" <samurphy@isp.com>]

I am growing some dragon fruit plants from seed collected from a red fleshed fruit.  On a scale of 1 to 10,  I would rate the taste 11!  Of course there is no way to know if the seed grown plants will bear fruit like the one from which it came or if it will bear fruit at all.  It germinated within days and has been growing for about 6 months.  Since I live in zone 7 it must come inside for the winter.

In addition, I purchased a dragonfruit plant of unknown variety on eBay.

I have a few segments of either or both to share.  If anyone is interested please contact me offlist.

 

Shirley

 

Message: 3
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:48:45 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
From: "Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>
Subject: [NAFEX] Dragon Fruit
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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The Fruit Gardener was a good suggestion.  I have not liked the dragon fruit (fresh usually white fleshed) that I have had from the grocery store.  Insipid was the right term. I agree Trader Joe's has good dried ones.  At the 2005 NAFEX/California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG.org)conference there was someone there from the LA area doing breeding work on them.  The red fleshed ones that he brought to the conference to taste were to die for.  Really excellant!
You might try contacting CRFG.

Martha