You will need to cut the fruit in half and then scoop out the seeds. To grow a dragon fruit from a cutting.
Make the cuts slanted.
How to grow dragon fruit plant from cutting. Stake a wooden dowel 4 inches straight down into the planter about an inch away from the cutting. Growing the mature plant dragon fruit need to grow up a trellis but they need to be able to hang their side branches out from the main stem or from a beam or frame on top of the trellis in an arc. Cover with soil and firm around the edges.
Backfill the soil and compress it slightly to keep the cutting upright. Remove lateral growth until the stems reach at least a few feet up their support. Plant the root end of the cutting about 2 inches below the surface of the soil.
Using a germinating tray plant the seeds in soil but make sure that they are close to the top. To get a major head start begin with a dragon fruit plant. Dragon fruit needs full sun choose a sunny area in your garden or a sunny windowsill that gets at least six hours of sunlight a day and good drainage to avoid wet feet trim a cutting from a mature plant.
After twelve plus years with my dragon fruit experiment growing from seed with minimal sunlight i basically have an extended dragon fruit cutting do yourself a favour and skip the early stuff. Prepare the soil bed. The seeds need to be separated from the flesh so wash the seeds and dry them overnight.
Step 4 move the potted cutting to a filtered or partial sun location. Take cuttings from the. Purple dragon fruit cutting white dragon fruit cutting.
Potting the dragon fruit dig a hole in the middle of your pot and place the cutting 2 to 3 inches deep. Planting and caring for your dragon fruit 1 let cuttings dry before planting. Dragon fruit can be propagated directly from the seeds in the fruit.
If you obtain a fresh cutting it is best to let it dry in a cool shady spot for about a week. Cut segments of dragon fruit stem 6 to 15 inches long off of year old stem sections on the mother dragon fruit plant using a sharp clean knife.
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