Looking for cutting of Dragon Fruit

does anyone have a cutting or two to share for postage? Trade?
Thanks,
Lali

Gymnocalycium cacti ( reds and yellows without chlorophyll) are usually grafted onto Hylocereus. Did anybody here try to grow one of those? They should be producing one of the Dragon fruits!

Hi Ursula and Lali! Yes, I am trying to grow them. I found them at Home Depot for $4 each. They had the colored balls gymncalycium cacti already broken off of them so I bought them. The regular Hylocereus plant in a five-gallon container costs about $30. Here they are below. I think that they are either Hylocereus undatus or Hylocereus polyrhizus. New growth has a red tint to it.

Here is one of them a year and a few months later. I guess they tend to grow slowly. I am hoping for flowers next spring.

So are you saying that they use dragon fruit as the base for grafting those orange/yellow/red cactus ball on?
Are there two types of dragon fruit?

Yes and yes:-) Actually, there are many varieties of Dragon Fruit. Here are some links:

http://davesgarden.com/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=hylocereus&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search
http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/dragon/
http://www.geocities.com/wenjin92014/foto2001/dragon.htm

Clare, this is terrific. You actually did that and your plants look great. Especially the plant in the second picture certainly looks very promising. Good job!

Thanks, Ursula:-)

Clare, did you just knock the grafted top portion off? What did you do with it then? Can they survive without the lower portion? Seems like they are lacking chlorophyll

I bought one at HD to give it a try so any help you can offer is appreciated.

This is really cool, I've been wanting to grow a Dragon Fruit, too!

Now, I'm going to have to go see if I can find a grafted cactus, somewhere.

I found mine at Home Depot.

Lali, the "Gymnos" without chlorophyll would not survive without being grafted, unless they contain some small portion of green. There are some which are mottled green, dark red and yellow, they might have a shot of growing on their own.
Good luck with your Hylocereus.

Yea, that's what I was thinking. Just hate to toss it. I don't really have anything to re-graft it onto.

Begoniacrazii, sometimes the grafts don't take or fall off, and these were sold as "failed grafts" at Home Depot for $4 each. I would just toss the top part if you can't find a failed one. Ursula is right that they are usually colored and can't survive on their own.