Dragon Fruit Plant at Home

      Dragon fruit has long been recognized by the ancient Chinese society as a fruit which brings blessings. Dragon fruit is usually placed between the dragon statues on the altar. Therefore, in the Vietnamese refer to as Thang Loy dragon fruit in Thailand and given the name Keaw Kheon Mang, the term England named Dragon Fruit clan, in Indonesia known as the actual NAGA BUM fruit plant is not native to the Asian continent, but it comes from Mexico. Areas of Mexico, dragon fruit called Pitahaya usual. This fruit into Indonesia the first time around 2000 year, that imported from Thailand.

        

Dragon Fruit Dragon Fruit has benefits included:
Balancing blood sugar levels,

• clean the blood,

• healthy neck,

• Used for beauty treatments,

• Power Strengthens Brain Work,

• Improve the sharpness of the eyes,

• Reduce the heat in and canker sores

      Terms grows, dragon fruit is now being widely cultivated in Indonesia. Cultivation using organic system that is free of pesticides and other synthetic materials are free. You can grow it at home also.

      The dragon fruit growing conditions area :
These plants can be grown in lowland, at an altitude of 20-500 meters above sea level with loose soil conditions, high in organic matter containing nutrients, with a pH of 5-7, should be enough water available, because the plant is vulnerable to drought and can rot if the excess water. Requires full sun light irradiation, so that the flowering process faster.

      Land preparation, prepare stanchion to enforce the plant, because this plant does not have a solid main stem.  Can be used on wood or concrete poles with a size of 10 cm x 10 cm, height of 2 meters, which is driven into the ground as deep as 50 cm. on the top of the pillar shaped iron given to the branch crop circles.

      One month before planting, you first make the planting hole with a size of 40 cm x 40cm x 40cm with a spacing of 2 mx 2.5 m with other plants, can place the front yard, rear or side as long as it’s specification accordance with these terms.

      Buffer, each pole / tree buffer was made 3-4 planting hole with a distance of approximately 30cm from the stanchion. Planting hole is then given as much manure cook 5-10 kg mixed with soil.

      Preparation of seeds and planting dragon fruit, seedlings can be propagated by cuttings and seeds but seeds are generally used in the form of cuttings. Cuttings are needed for materials with a plant stem length 25-30 cm were planted in polybags with planting medium in the form of a mixture of soil, sand, and manure in the ratio 1: 1: 1.


      Maintenance and Irrigation, in the early stages of growth irrigation conducted 1 to 2 days. Giving excessive water will cause decay.

      Fertilization, dragon fruit crop fertilization given manure, with a distance of giving 3 months, a total of 5-10 kg.

      Trimming the main trunk, main stem pruned after reaching a pillar height of about 2 meters, and raised two secondary branches, then each of the secondary branches trimmed again and grown 2 tertiary branch that serves as a branch of production.

       Harvest, after the plants aged 1.5 - 2 months, started flowering and fruiting. Harvesting at dragon fruit crop is done on the fruit that has a characteristic red color glossy skin, scales Tassels or change color from green to red. Harvesting is done by using a pair of scissors, the fruit can be harvested when they reach the age of 50 days as from the flowers bloom. In the first two years, each pillar can produce 8 hingga10 fruit dragon fruit, dragon fruit biggest harvest occurred in September and March.
Productive life of dragon fruit plants ranged between 15-20 years.

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