It’s been just over a month since I managed to get some dragonfruit seeds to germinate, and here’s how things have gone:

Germinating dragonfruit seeds on damp cotton wool.

The seeds germinated on damp cotton wool sealed in a ziplock bag in early March. I sowed six seeds and had a 100% germination success rate, eventually. You need to move the seeds off the cotton wool quickly, otherwise the plant roots will grow into the cotton wool, making it impossible to extricate them. I wasn’t entirely successful at that, so some of the sprouts were transplanted together with the cotton wool they were stuck in.

Two weeks after germination, and you see some cactus-like spines poking out.

After two weeks of the seedlings sitting in their new homes, I noticed fine spines coming up where true leaves should have appeared, just like those you’d see on a cactus. Hmm, I thought, this is interesting…

About a month old, this is the baby dragonfruit plant. It looks like a cactus!

A couple of weeks later, the little dragonfruit plants look more like young cactus plants! How cool is that?

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