Spicy Exotics
Spicy Exotics Dragon Fruit is your source for over 100 varieties of plant cuttings for sale. Dragon Fruit, Pitaya, or Pitahaya originated in Central America and now can be found in most tropical areas. In the USA these areas include Hawaii, California, and Florida. It's a subtropical vining cactus. So it loves lots of rain yet can tolerate dry weather. Most varieties are fast growing making easily adaptable to new environments.
As mentioned above, the plant is a vining cactus with fleshy three sided growth and spins along the edge of this growth. The plant creates huge night blooming flowers that are beautiful and fragrant. If the flower is pollinated it will create one of the most amazing fruits. Varieties can be either red, pink, green or yellow skin with white, pink, purple, or red flesh. The fruit sizes can vary ranging from 0.5 pounds to a whopping 3.0 pounds in size.
Dragon Fruit Tip: Reuse soil bags for plant ties
To prune or not to prune once your Dragon Fruit reaches the top of your trellis.
Eradicating Dragon Fruit Pest the Leaf-Footed bug
2021 Taste Test of 19 varieties of Dragon Fruit
2021 flowering Season has started, Finally!
Spicy Exotics Tip: How to get larger Dragon Fruit?
A conversation on growing conditions in the Gulf South compared to the West Coast
Ohana Express Taste Test
Soil and Fertilizing Dragon Fruits in containers
Resin planter Dragon Fruit container
Palora variety Dragon Fruit two minute plant profile
Tipping Dragon Fruit plants
Sin Espinas variety Dragon Fruit two minute plant profile
Yellow Thai variety Dragon Fruit two minute plant profile
Comparing different variety Dragon Fruit before harvest
Red Jaina variety Dragon Fruit two minute plant profile
Cross-pollinating several different species of Dragon Fruit
Pollinating Dragon Fruit after a heavy rain: Part 3 The Results
Pollinating Dragon Fruit after a heavy rain: Part 2
Pollinating Dragon Fruit after a heavy rain: Part 1
Dragon Fruit cuttings available for order in 2019
Ways and ideas of caring for your Dragon Fruit plants during winter
White Flesh Dragon Fruit tour
Dragon Fruit Hack: Flesh to Stem cut
Red Flesh Dragon Fruit tour
Dragon Fruit plant stem grows into a fruit
June 2017 night time walk through Dragon Fruit varieties
Flower bud turned into a plant stem
Dragon Fruit variety walk in March 2017
Cross-pollinate with stored pollen