The propagation methods of dragon fruit are: cuttings, potting, grafting.

1, cuttings

Cuttings in the spring is the most suitable time, the cuttings choose to grow full of stem nodes, cut off the length of 375px small section, until the wound air-drying inserted into the sand bed or cuttings directly in the support frame under the side of the concrete column. The cuttings do not need to be watered later, keep the soil dry and start watering after 10 days. About 15-30 days can be rooted, the root grows to 3-100px when transplanted to the seedbed.

2, choose no pests and diseases, strong growth, stem flesh full of "measuring tape" as rootstock, grafting in sunny days. Dragon fruit stems with a knife cut plane, the scion inserted, aligned with the formation layer, tied with cotton thread fixed, in 28-30 ℃ conditions, 4-5 days the wound joint surface that there are a large number of healing tissue formation, scion and rootstock color close to the two vascular bundles have been healed, grafting success, and then can be moved into the pseudo-planting bed to continue to cultivate.

3, potted plants

The germination temperature of dragon fruit seeds is about 25 ℃, to choose a relatively fine particles of culture soil, you can also use commercially available seeding soil instead. Be sure to remove the pulp and gum attached to the seeds, otherwise the germination is prone to grow mold. For stylized small potted plants, the seeds should be spread densely, especially around the edges, otherwise they will be planted out sparsely and lose their beauty.

Extended information:

Pick the notes of the dragon fruit:

1, deep color

Deep-colored dragon fruit ripeness, sweet taste. Selection should also look at the dragon fruit body "scales", green is relatively fresh, if the color turns yellow, indicating that the preservation time is too long.

2, Humpty Dumpty

Good dragon fruit is generally "Humpty Dumpty", rounded stomach, slim figure is not good. Need to be reminded that, buy dragon fruit do not want to be big, the head of the medium on the line.

3, feel heavy

The same shape and size of the dragon fruit, be sure to choose the heavy feel of the one, the heavier the more flesh.

4, a little soft

Good ripeness, sweet taste of dragon fruit, when pressed by hand, will feel a little soft. Feel too hard raw flavor is heavy, too soft means cooked.

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