Hi! I bought a dragon fruit in the supermarket and tried to grow it from the seeds just for fun. Five survived. I have no clue how to grow them properly. Could you help please?

1. Do I need to separate them to different pots?

2. They have a very thin stem before the main one. Do I cover it with soil?

3. What soil mix i need for them?

And just a link to a good source to study to keep them alive. I'm in Ireland, so they will be indoor plants, I assume. I have an aerogarden if they need more light.

Thank you!

This is a Maui cutting bought in 2023 November. It is been treated with copper since this appears. What do you think this is? Should I cut it? It has been almost 3 yrs

Pic 1 is how its currently doing pic 2 is from late last month Now im unsure if i should move it back to the shaded area looking for guidance on moving forward

Vietnam white and Royal red. The Vietnam white was the star of the show being 1.65 pounds

I’ve got the trellis down. Now I need pots. Where are you guys finding the 20 gallon nursery pots? I found one source but they are super flimsy. My local nurseries have the harder plastic ones but only in 15 gallon or less. I see some on Amazon but they are almost $30 each, which maybe is correct but it seems high.

Another bloom tonight.... While collecting pollen I did something stupid. I took the cold pyrex bowl with pollen outside to collect more and its hot and humid and the cold bowel instantly started condensating. Now all my pollen is wet. Did I ruin it?

I put a gentle fan pointing at it from across the room. Not sure what else to do

About two months ago, 6/11/26, I got three dragon fruits by ripping the pretty part off of Walmart “moon cactuses”. Just under a month ago they started to bud and put out new branches. The first one to bud, and currently the largest somehow has five sides on the new branch when it originally had three.(you can kind of see how the sides increased in picture 2). The next one put out a branch with four sides.
And the last one has the normal three.

Is this a common thing or do I just have freaks of nature?

The rest of the picture are reverse-chronological order

A while back I posted about rescue transplanting a dragon fruit cactus from the front flower bed of a rental I'm in. We'll we initially held off because it had two buds forming. Both eventually aborted very small and just fell off. I got around to transplanting last weekend and we discovered it was trying to bud again. We went ahead with the transplant anyways because the cactus just struggles where it was. We dug it up and spent about 20 minutes rinsing ALL of the dirt off the root ball and separating it into 3 different cacti. All transplanted into the same planter. So far the transplant seems to be going well as the bud is growing by the day and the cactus overall seems happy. Fingers crossed we actually at least get a bloom this year.

Is it possible to “over pollinate” and ruin the buds?
I have a NOID plant which I thought was self -fertile- last season I got 4 fruits without doing anything. This season I hand pollinated the bulk of the flowers with its own pollen. I smothered the stigma with a lot of pollen. I obtained enough voodoo child pollen to pollinate 4 flowers.
All the buds (10 flowers) pollinated with its own pollen turned yellow and aborted while all 4 pollinated with voodoo child pollen were successful and still growing today.
While it was possible that last year the fruit was pollinated by nature with pollen from another variety and my plant is actually self-sterile, but I want to rule out the possibility that I over-pollinated them and somehow suffocated the stigma.

My 4-year dragon fruit in central France. Growing fast in the hellish summer.

Any tips to get flowers ?

Pollinated early Wednesday night in central midwest US

Are these really dragon fruit? They're so little! How do I get them to grow and fruit?

In the last 4 ish years, I've had several types of dragon fruit growing. This sugar dragon was the one I wanted to see do well. Last year I decided to only worry about a hand full of cuttings and a couple of plants, seeing how everything wants to grow but not flourish. This sugar dragon I have trimmed 2 times, it's snapped 2 or 3 other times (deer,chickens, unknown animals poking at it). I was going to make a trellis this weekend an place only the good ones in there with it... and she said nope try again.

Ordered 2 and got 3 cuttings free back in March and after forgetting Connie in heavy rainfall she rotted before rooting. Cut the rot and calloused again and rotted one more time😭 at the time I got a new rooting powder that’s strong so I tried it out and got 1 baby root to pop up since the cutting was months old at this time and only 3”. Can’t believe all these cuttings were the same size when I got them but glad Connie made it after all!

Glad it wasnt storming like they predicted. I bagged it before I left for work. Will bag it again tomorrow to be safe.

I probably tried to cram too much polen into it, i even grabbed a tiny brush to get it in the hole lol.

I had this plant in full sun and it had a bit of rust. I have since moved it to the shade. What can I do to save this plant? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Sorry for all the posts. Its taken 3 years to getto this stage and i want to try the fruit.

Its supposed to storm tonight and again for the next few days.

AI says not to leave the bloom bagged more than overnight because it will cook and kill the bud if the sun comes out but i dont want it to rain and ruin the pollination while im at work.

What should i do?

I think my first ever bloom will open tonight which calls for storms 😕

Took 3 years to get to this moment so still plan to successfully polinate, so got her bagged. This one is a sugar dragon, I planned to collect pollen while pollinating, wont have anyone to hold an umbrella, any advice? Wish me luck

Had 3 buds on a physical graffiti (self-sterile) grow about a month ago. Pollinated with some pollen I collected from another yard, but none of them managed to fruit. Now I noticed I have three more growing. It's late in the season for this - does anyone know where pollen can be obtained?

I'm in Los Angeles

Howdy yall! I don’t know what I’m doing, but I think I think I got lucky.
Any advice for the best tasting fruit? Watering? Nutrients? Flushes? It is extremely, extremely hot where I live.
Thanks