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sometimes dragonfruit plants get The Rot. it spreads & liquifies the plant. pic 1 shows a pretty bad case of rot.
i've seen different suggestions for fixing it, but the one that seems to work is to scoop out all the rot w/your bare hand.
i did that, washed it with soap/water (like a wound) & it dried up within a day. (see pic 2.)
i'll monitor this section for more rot. if it repeats, i might split this section off.
#dragonfruit is a remarkable plant. it's a cactus that likes to climb & then hang down. it grows air roots to grasp whatever it's climbing.
you can break off segments & plant them. full sun is fine. it does very well in tropical dry places.
it has an amazing ability to recover from wounds or rot. it can even live with little scabbed-over holes in its flesh, like the hole seen below.
i love their giant flowers & tasty fruit. <3 dragonfruit!
@sebastian beautiful! it'll just keep climbing until it decides to start hanging down.
here's a huge dragonfruit at the garfield park conservatory in chicago. it climbed all the way to the ceiling. in nature, this would all be up in the branches of large trees.
the plant shown is only 9 months old and has made about 3 meters.
they keep climbing, all the way up into the crowns of trees.
@sebastian very impressive. where is it?
@mk30
this one is near Mombasa, Kenya
This one at botanical gardens Berlin also isn't quite free to climb up further ...
