Well its been a white and look whats happened. They are starting to look like cactus now compared to last time (sorry about that camera trouble). You probably cant tell but the largest of the dragon fruit cactuses are about 1cm in length not including the stalk bit.

More pictures will be posted soon.

Great news look at that.

Well time for an update and look at what's happened. All the seeds have sprouted and doing well. Some are about an inch long and some even have brothers sprouting next to them.

I will be concentrating on these rather than the cotton wool as these are doing so well.

More sprouting seeds

From the photo you can see that the shoots are doing well and also the other 7 seeds have just sprouted and are showing good signs.

Even more new growth

As you can see from the photo there is more growth. Top right of the second tray and bottom middle are the growth from before, but now there are more on the first tray, bottom, bottom and top middle have some shoots as well.

First signs from the soil

WOW first growth from the soil sown seeds. as you can see in the photo the left middle pot and the top right pot have some growth, little white specks, not much at the moment but its something.

First Sproutings

Well after a few days of nothing 5 of the 12 seeds have sprouted into the first stages of dragon trees. Not very big only about a centre meter in length and have two green leafs. These are the only leafs it will have in its live and they will be shed as it grows.

Signs of first growth

Here is the latest picture. I have circled the seeds with growth as its white on white so quite hard to see. (click on image to see a close up). Hopefully the rest will sprout soon.

First signs of growth

Well, having just had a look at the seeds on the cotton wool I can see signs of the seed case cracking open. So soon there will be some growth. Pictures will follow as soon as there is something to see.

Setting of the seeds part 2

OK here is the second sewing of the seeds. 16 little pots have been sewn with one seed in each watered well and placed in a warm area.

Hopefully in a few days or so there will be some germination.

Setting of the seeds part 1

Ok, this is setting of the seeds part 1. I have set the dragon plant seeds on a bed of cotton wool in a plastic container and gave it plenty of water, then placed it on the windowsill above the radiator to give it plenty of warmth. Hopefully in a few days there will be some germination.

I will set the other seeds in the compost soon and get them going so they have the same amount of growing time.

Dragon Fruit opening

Ok this is the dragon fruit that I have spit in two. As you can see the pulp that you can eat is an off white colour, doesn't taste of much though.

The black dots are the seeds and there are plenty of them so if it all goes wrong there are plenty of chances.

I thought would do it in two ways.

1. In soil as it would normally grow. Not really going to see much as they are covered.

2. On cotton wool, this way you will be able to see all that goes on.

The Dragon Plant Fruit

As this is the first post I will show what a Dragon Fruit is if you have never seen one. This is a picture of it as it is fresh from Tesco supermarket.

It has pink skin with pink and green scale looking ridges hence the dragon fruit name.

Tomorrow I will be cutting it open and showing the inside ready to gather the seeds.