Planting potted dragon fruit needs to pay attention to the seed, soil, fertilizer, watering, pruning and other conditions.
1, seed planting
The dragon fruit pulp is completely removed, the method of removing the pulp is very simple, directly with the hands of the pulp crushed, and then placed in the water to rinse clean, rinsed dragon fruit seeds can be planted directly. When planting the seeds evenly spread in the pot, and then covered with a thin layer of substrate, spray the substrate with a spray can spray moisture on the line, basically 1 week or so will be able to grow seedlings.
2, soil requirements
The dragon fruit on the soil requirements are not strict, but the drainage should be good, the soil to the best sandy loam. Dragon fruit pots can use rotting leaves, river sand, charred rice husk, etc. for mixing. If you use general soil as a substrate, such as vegetable garden soil, rice soil, mountain mud, etc., you can mix the right amount of river sand into it.
3, fertilization management
The principle of fertilization of dragon fruit, as with other flowers, adhere to the principle of thin fertilizer, spring before the emergence of dragon fruit, as well as dragon fruit fruit before expansion, you can apply organic fertilizer.
4, watering management
Drought Avoid Flooding dragon fruit, usually can wait for the surface of the potting soil is about 1/3 dry, and then watering, in winter, you can wait for the potting soil is completely dry, and then watering, in addition to pay attention to loosening the work of the easy to slate the soil is very important.
5, pruning management
The dragon fruit can be in a branch to open a number of flowers or even nearly 30 flowers, in order to effectively ensure that the results, as well as fruit, can be retained on each branch 1 ~ 2 flowers, remove the excess flowers. The branches that have already borne fruit should be pruned heavily after harvesting the fruit, and the weak branches that bear much fruit should be cut away, so that the thick basal branches left behind can grow new branches again, in order to ensure the fruiting rate in the coming year.