Lisa,

It is gorgeous....I've been wondering what to use to keep up the dragon fruit. Right now mine is on a little triangular tomato cage....I would love to see how you kept your looking so great.

Can't wait to see that bloom open!

ooooh! I want dragon fruit!

Lisa,

That is soooo cool. And I have a question for you. You have a chirimoya, don't you. Do they breed true from seed? I used to eat them all the time in Chile and recently bought a fruit here, wondering if those big seeds would be worth planting.

Susannah

I stayed up intil 11 last night, and got to see this!

The photos do not do them justice. Very pretty flowers, even when only partly opened!

They really stand out at night, almost glowing.

Susannah, yes, you can grow Cherimoyas from seed easily. I have 5 or 6 of them. My oldest one is about 10' tall, and is a very attractive tree. You will need to hand pollinate them to get fruit, in Florida. Definately worth growing!

Lisa

Gorgeous Lisa

Lisa: Is dragon fruit a particular cactus, night blooming? I think what I have is an orchid cactus but not sure. I thaught it was a night blooming cyrus but found out the cyrus flowers are much smaller and and have a aroma.
Mine looks like yours. dinner plate flowers. It had developed red fruit a couple of times but fell off. Yours is blooming a lot earlier then mine. It usually has its first flush in June and them three or four more during summer. Mine is growing on a palm and what is left of a dead oak tree. The weight of the plant was so heavy it broke off the trunk about 15 feet up. One night I had 55 flowers open.

Lisa, the flowers are lovely, now how long before the fruit will be ready to eat?

Lisa, I must confess to a little confusion also.

I have some cactus that came from my grandmother house.

She called it night blooming cirrus , but we never ate the fruit.

This IS the dragon fruit , right ?

D`Ann

Thanks for staying up to watch the show and photographing it for us to see, Lisa! Gorgeous flowers!!!
~Betsy

I hope that's what I have to look forward to - eventually. My dragon fruit is only about 6" tall and has a LOT of fuzzy little thorns. Is this how they look when they're babies?
What are their requirements? Right now, mine's in a pot. I'd be willing to build it it's very own "tree" to get that sort of result! cora

Wow, sure glad you stayed up to catch these beautiful blooms. Wonderful! Are they scented?

FlowerLady

As far as I known, all Cactus fruits are edible. The fruit from the pickly pear cactus is widely eaten and used in preserves.

There are many different cacti that look like the Dragonfruit vines pictured above. Apparently, some do not fruit? If you want the yummy edible varieties, get named ones. They grow easily from cuttings.

I didn't get to smell the flowers, they are too high, and I didn't want to climb a ladder in the dark.

A cactus with 55 flowers has to be a stunning sight!!! WOW!! I can only hope to get such a show in the future!

Mine now appear to be forming red-finned fruits. Yippee!!!! I hope they stay on.

Lisa

I love white flowers.

I have two magnolias and their flowers are beautiful and big, but yours are, wow!!!they seem to glow in the dark!

thanks for sharing. teeka

Lisa,

Those flowers are just stunning! As for chirimoya, the one I had wasn't very good. I saved the seeds, but I'm wondering if I should try to buy another one in hopes of better flavor. I'd really hate to plant one, raise it up to a tree, do the hand-pollinating trick, only to get disappointing fruit. There are so many millions of other things I can spend my gardening time on. weeding and pulling virginia creeper out of just about everything top the list at the moment. But thanks for the info. I'll save the seeds anyway, simply because I have such a hard time throwing out anything that might make a suitable plant here.

Holy Jeepers, Lisa, that looks bigger than the eggplant that ate Chicago! Stunning blooms! I have a small dragon from Gary that I think is getting too much sun, I need to move it to sacred ground "Under the Pergola" where Everything grows! I need Dennis to build a pergola over the whole yard! lol

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!