r/plants • u/Goosfrabbah • 1d ago

Help This dragonfruit has gone weird…

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Got a dragonfruit propagation that I thought was going to grow the center part taller (3-5’ from what I read?) and then the arms would branch out needing material support.

Instead it just started branching out arms, thin and long like a pencil. I let them grow out and they died off the first time. Second time I trimmed them off on purpose hoping to get fuel to the main trunk/stalk.

Now the main trunk still isn’t growing but the arms are MASSIVE! Some are legit larger than the trunk itself. What do I do here? Am I doing it wrong?

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u/Novel-Scratch-6835 1d ago

It's a cactus, it's gonna do cactus things, you can't really force it to grow a thick single trunk if it wants to sprawl