That does kind of look like it, but right now all my DF plants are in new leaf stage, so I suspect that might be a new section growing.

Your plant looks like it might be too small to produce flowers at this stage. By any chance do you know the variety?

I bought cuttings last year on ebay. they were labeled "white, red, and "puple". This is the one labeled "white".

These cuttings have been putting out new growths for the past 2 months and still are. But the other new growths looked spiny, this one is not spiny.

Hmmm, might be a white Jania, if it looks like the supermarket ones then you've probably got that also called a vietnam white.

It's entirely possible, but usually I hear that the critical mass for a DF plant to fruit is about 8-10lbs. I can't recall if they will still flower though.

Sorry...looking like new growth flush to me.

Yeah , not a flower ....

so what does a dragonfruit flower bud look like? Or are you guys just basing this on the fact that you can't believe a dragon fruit can bud that early?

Something like this

It's not a belief, it appears to be the standard rule for all dragonfruit varieties. It still needs to be quite large before it will put out flowers.

I'm going to cross my fingers and see what happens. I will update later. Maybe my dragonfruit hasn't read the rulebook!

Jun...most of us have seen the unbelievable so that is never a factor. We are basing this upon the "been there, done that" fact. Every one of us here have plants that put out new growth and our impatience and excitement to see a flower overrides the plain fact. Keep the plant happy and growing and it will bloom soon enough...or not soon enough.

ohiojay, its good to hear that someone still believes in the unbelievable. It would be pretty boring in the garden without a few of those moments. About the "been there, done that", I have seen my mother in law's dragon fruit budding at a very young age, although it was a little bigger than mine is now. The flower bloomed and fell off, did not fruit until the second season. In it's third year, she collected over 30 fruit. I say, keep the hope alive, it's always exciting to see our plants do amazing things, isn't that why we put in so much effort to grow them?

lol, there isn't that much effort to growing them, just keep them away from trees you don't want dead and give them water.

A university is seeing how hard it is to kill a dragonfruit field right now since the claims of it's drought tolerance are questionable.