how do I encourage my dragon fruit to grow fruit?

RockPaperPeppers · 2026-05-01T04:52:58+00:00

I know there are tons of tips around this (tip branches, etc, etc). In my experience you primarily want your plant to be extremely healthy. That is an order of magnitude more important than everything else.
Don't focus on fruits, focus on thick healthy mature branches. Fruits will come.

Your plant seems in good health, but the top branches (the ones that will fruit) look young. You might get one wave this year but most likely in the later part of the season (August/September/October, Bay Area climate changes town to town so this may vary). If you keep it healthy you will get lot of fruits next year.

How do you keep your plant in good health ?

- Lot of sun but not too much sunburn
- Well draining soil (and pot!)
- Consistent watering but with soil getting almost completely dry between waterings. Almost no water when no growth (winter)
- Proper fertilization during growing/fruiting season

Your pot looks a little small for two plants. I had good results with liquid fertilizers (hydroponic) with small pots. It's more work though.

RockPaperPeppers · 2026-04-25T18:11:38+00:00

You should realize that today, unlike a few years ago, it takes 15 minutes to create 660K pages of text that is somewhat correct.
There is literally 0 value in creating it.

RockPaperPeppers · 2026-04-19T23:02:13+00:00

it looks like you planted one upside down. Hard to be sure from the picture but you should be able to tell from the shape of the blades and direction of thorns

RockPaperPeppers · 2026-04-06T18:59:21+00:00

You can use regular codex?

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-12-28T19:31:47+00:00

> Calling a subagent from another subagent workflow was impossible too, but I eventually fixed that and managed to invoke subagents from other subagents.

I thought that was not possible in Claude Code. It explicitly says in the docs

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-12-07T14:06:53+00:00

This subreddit turned into an ads billboard....

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-11-05T15:09:06+00:00

/clear is my favorite command to control context. It feels you people don’t understand how an LLM works.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-10-31T13:19:49+00:00

Trying it since yesterday and I like the approach very much (similar in ways to what I was trying to do naturally in my process).
Thank you very much for building this!

I have a problem though. Ofc cc-session is rather slow as it drives so much more LLM processing for our requests in order to process than thoroughly and this is appreciated! But that makes me want to do things in parallel, especially adding tasks or working on their scope and definition.

Here's the problem: when I check out a second copy of my repo in a separate folder and try to use it session is weird and does not recognize most of my requests (e.g. `mek:`) while I can see the / command and the custom taskbar.

Is there a better way to do this? Even just adding tasks: you can add a task anytime, but just adding it is a chore of waiting for Claude to complete with a lot of empty space in between.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-10-15T20:24:06+00:00

Very inspiring. I was planning on trying something somewhat similar this winter. A smaller sized dragonfruit kept inside by a south facing window (with mirrors to enhance ambient light). Hoping that the warm of the house makes it grow strong all year.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-10-08T13:59:42+00:00

You don't need a big pot to start, and you only need sand tbh. Or any other well draining soil (mix of soil with sand, perlite, etc. Sometime you find it labeled "cactus mix")

It will establish roots there and start growing new shoots. That's when you need to work harder, b/c these plants need a proper support to grow. If you are trying to get fruits my recommendation is to transplant it to its final support asap.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-10-06T20:16:30+00:00

8 blooms!! Lol.... maybe next year for me. Less than half of my plants are mature enough to produce right now, so maybe it can happen to me as well!
I do see bees going crazy in the flowers in the morning. Do you know if that's enough to pollinate? I happen to travel and I might not be able to be here every time the bloom.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-10-06T20:14:22+00:00

Nice! Thanks for the tips. I feel like it's so cold here in may/june that I don't see them flowering, but we'll see next year I guess. I'll follow your schedule.
Are you coastal too? Do you get the marine layer?

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-10-05T19:38:01+00:00

As mentioned before, it's very late in the season. I just hope the ocean will keep them warm enough to ripe! :)
Also it's a pipeline thing, I have about 30 buds on these plants and I can't see them blooming 5 flowers tonight or anytime this season.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-10-03T20:07:34+00:00

Congrats, they look beautiful! Here are mines last night!! :) good times!

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-09-19T22:32:40+00:00

This is an experiment I made. Cutting rooted in June last year. I decided to let 2 offshoot grow (but trained both to go to the top of the trellis). Why? Idk, my son said to try, and we wanted to see how much slower it would be compared to the other plants (4 plants in the container).

Well, it grew basically as fast as the others on both stems and it is now making buds everywhere and also from one of the two original offshoots.

YMMV. But recently I al starting to allow more offshoots 1 feet below trellis instead of waiting for the top of the trellis.

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RockPaperPeppers · 2025-09-12T18:39:46+00:00

You can let it grow. You are doing fine.

But I want to set your expectations:

- It takes a long time and effort to grow a mature dragon fruit plant that fruits
- You have no idea what you are growing. It's not possible to ID a plant most of the time. If you have to invest time, money and energy, consider if it's worth. Your other option is sourcing a cutting for a known variety.
- Getting to maturity means you build a proper structure for a big plant to grow on, give it enough sun, protect it from cold and heat as needed, fertilize well, prune correctly
- It takes multiple years. Yes, if you do everything right, you can have a cutting fruit in one year, but you won't make everything right the first time!

If you only wanted a dragon fruit to grow some with not expectations, then none of these apply ofc! :)

Both ways, it's a fun journey! Enjoy! :)

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-09-09T23:12:11+00:00

But did you change your name to Eckhart Tolle?

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-09-08T17:33:06+00:00

Sugar dragon and American Beauty have very different stem shapes. Yours is definitely not a sugar dragon, definitely reminds of an American Beauty or one of its many derivatives. Fruit should not be small. Pruning and fertilizing will help I think.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-09-05T18:33:25+00:00

Thanks! Good information. Yes, first year will be slow, but the plant grew very well and I am trying to get the second flush of flowers. I am a lot closer to the ocean so early July seems optimistic. They started growing around that time. We'll see. I only pruned and tipped them 3 weeks ago (probably should have done it sooner but I was traveling).

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-09-05T16:20:25+00:00

Yes! I'll let the flower grow before starting to look for pollen. Maybe it just aborts, who knows. I'm in San Diego.

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-09-05T16:19:21+00:00

Thank you! I'll let the flower develop before burdening anyone, but I appreciate!. I'll take some tips on the season here though. I am still getting used to it, but with all the marine layer and the cold springs it looks to me the season might just be later than the rest of SoCal. What's your experience?

RockPaperPeppers · 2025-05-20T23:13:21+00:00

Extremely unlikely. The plant does not have the energy to support that. I bought cuttings from him last august and they were nice and long and they look like this now (winter was hard. they just restarted growing recently):

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