The legendary upstart pitaya-bird's nest fruit is a high-end variety of pitaya. Its origin is Ecuador in South America. The varieties planted in China are all improved. Bird's nest fruit is round, full in shape, with yellow skin and white meat. Compared with the common pitaya with red skin and white meat or red skin and red meat on the market, the pulp is transparent, the juice moistens the throat, the pulp structure is silky, the taste is sweet and smooth like bird's nest, and the price is relatively expensive. Therefore, it is named "Bird's Nest Fruit", with the highest sweetness exceeding 24 degrees, which is the sweetest pitaya. Bird's nest fruit is rich in vitamin C, anthocyanin and other nutrients beneficial to beauty and detoxification, so it is called age-reducing holy product. And the output is extremely low, very rare and precious, so it is called rolls-royce in fruit.

Dare you plant a hundred pieces of fruit in the bird's nest? Is it profiteering or "pit" to grow bird's nest fruit? The bird's nest fruit market is scarce, and the domestic bird's nest fruit started late. Only Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Yunnan have a few large-scale planting bases. In addition, this variety is relatively delicate, with high planting requirements and a serious shortage of production capacity, so it is expensive. The average price of southern fruits is above 30 yuan/Jin, and the retail price is as high as 80- 100 yuan/piece. In some parks in the north, the retail price is actually 100 yuan/kg. More than half a catty of bird's nest, the north and south market prices are above 50 yuan/catty, and it is still in short supply. Seeing the planting prospect of bird's nest here, many people may be moved, but what you don't know is that although the bird's nest fruit varieties are precious, they are too "exquisite".

Under the climatic conditions that commercial fruits can be produced in batches, the whole cycle of bird's nest fruits is about 120 days, and the branches with flowers/fruits will not germinate again at the same time. From the perspective of plant physiology, the real annual fruit batch of bird's nest fruit will not exceed 3 complete batches. But nothing is absolute. For some experienced growers, this may be a huge business opportunity. Now is the high profit period of bird's nest fruit planting, so we can consider expanding the scale. When selecting crop varieties, novices should first pay attention to local conditions. First, they should choose local domesticated varieties, which have been used locally for many years and have strong adaptability to local natural climate, soil conditions and farming methods. Secondly, if you choose to plant new exotic varieties, you should ask about key cultivation techniques and production precautions.

Follow the process of small-scale trial planting, demonstration and large-scale promotion, and explore trial planting, demonstration supporting cultivation and plant protection technologies. Taking young shoots of Jinlong fruit as experimental materials, they optimized the cutting method and propagation conditions of explants through tissue culture and rapid propagation technology, and implemented industrialized seedling raising, which not only improved the quality of seedlings, but also greatly reduced the cost. The research and development of high grafting and seed exchange technology realized the direct grafting and seed exchange of pitaya rootstock. In order to improve farmers' planting management level, Haikou Experimental Station of Thermal Research Institute has formulated a set of efficient cultivation techniques according to the operating requirements of the technical regulations for green food production, including seedling raising, fertilizer and water management, pest control, production cycle regulation, fruit health care, post-harvest treatment and so on. For example, covering with grass instead of plastic film can not only maintain moisture and humidity, but also increase the organic matter content in the field.