ENJOYING DRAGON FRUIT

ENJOYING DRAGON FRUIT

Texture Dragon Fruit

Dragon fruit is oval shaped and colored red with sparse scales are not sharp. Perhaps the outer appearance of this fruit that makes it called Dragon Fruit. Flesh is white with many small black seeds are edible. Has a watery texture of the flesh, so it's refreshing. Efficacy of this fruit, among others, to lower cholesterol, the problem of whiteness and improve memory.

Type of Dragon Fruit

·       Dragon fruit has several types based on the fruit, among others:

·       Dragon Fruit White with petals at the tip of the fruit with green and light green stems yellowish.

·       Red Dragon Fruit, by having many petals, straight rod dark green and have thorns that meeting.

·       Super Red Dragon fruit, valvate little, green stems and delicate.

·       Yellow Dragon fruit, with a smaller size, about one-third of the average size of the other Dragon Fruit.

Origin Dragon Fruit

Many are wrong and take the fruit came from China because of his name, but, in fact the fruit came from the desert in Mexico. This plant is a type of cactus that is able to live in dry areas and the Latin name Hylocereus undatus. The tree is a cactus like plant with thick-trunked small thorns. The fruit will grow and grow at the tips of the branches dangle.

Dragon Fruit Planting

Because it is easy in maintenance as well as plants that do not require large areas, you can grow your own fruit in a small area such as the home gardener. In addition, because it is a type of cactus plants, fruit crops in dragons easy to maintain.

Physical plant length and height can also be a cover or a fence at home. Since the end of the dangling fruit, commonly used buffer so that the tree can stand upright. The treatment is done to maintain and get good fruit is:

§  In the early seedlings, fertilizers give as much as 2 times per week for two months to stimulate growth to help stem the growth of stems and branches.

§   After that, stop the application of fertilizer and watering is only required once per week for 1 month. Do not give too much water because this teanaman including the type of cactus that does not require much water and can rot the roots.

§  Further, when the branch began to develop, provide fertilizer to stimulate growth of the fruit. Do 2 times a week until the fruit appears.

§  In order to keep look good, do crop plants that still look neat and not too much. Sisakan four main branches so that plants can get enough food so that plants grow well.

Dragon Fruit can be harvested after the age of 9 months and can grow for 20 years. Flowers bloom at night and in the morning to get worse. Next, will grow to be the fruit to mature a month afterwards. To quote it, cut the stems so little fruit that was quoted more durable.