I got 2 dragon fruit cuttings in the mail and after watching this I put them both in water and left on the porch since I live in Central Florida and it's extremely hot so no heat pad needed. 1 week and they both have roots, this works very good. I have zero experience with dragon fruit yet they both rooted 🤗. I'm very happy. Thank you very much for sharing this.
Great video, using your advice I saved my plant from root rot and got three cuttings that have all rooted now! My cuttings were smaller so I used a shot glass for each. Going to pot them soon!
Thank you for the tips. I just got a dragonfruit cutting and wanted to try a water method for rooting. I'm also attempting this in the winter. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the video, Richard. I put 4 cuttings in water in plastic containers and put the containers on heat mat on 4/25/2022. One of my cuttings showed roots today, 5/5/2022. So about 10 days.
Great video! While waiting for my heating mat to be delivered, this idea came to me since I had them laying around…fish tank (or any container) and an aquarium heater. It works! I laid the heater at the bottom…do not let heater touch the bottom if using a plastic container, for obvious reasons. I used an eggshell light diffuser as a platform in which I elevated above the heater with bricks. The key is warm water. I set the heater to 80 degrees F
I planted a few cuttings and it took 2 months for them to root I have a heating mat and didn't know that it would stimulate roots Now that I know it changes my approach And your video on cactus rust was very helpful Thanks for the wisdom
It friggin woooorrrrrked!! I can grow anything in soil it seems, but every attempt I have made at cloning in water has failed miserably. I got a dragon fruit plant from my local nursery, mother nature released an atmospheric river on California for weeks straight, and my plant started rotting... I took 3 cuttings a few weeks ago and followed your advice to the letter. They have all rooted and are ready to go in the ground. I even got a clone of a damaged rose bush to start in the same way. Immensely grateful. +1 Loyal Follower
Just ordered my heating mat! Thank you very much for this innovative advice, I'm excited to root my cuttings! If you ever give a class or seminar I'd to be the first in line to enroll. Blessings to you, sir Much gratitude 🪴🌴🌿
Wow, my dragon fruit cuttings just arrived this week. I just started my cuttings using this method. Trying to build my food forest on the Sonoran Desert!
Wow, Very nice. I noticed that I had better results from rooting in water vs soil, I didn't think about the heating mat though! Ordering one now! Thanks for the awesome video!
Oh great video! My cutting are in a container with water, but I didn’t know they grow faster if you put them on a warm place. I’m going to try but using the top of my refrigerator.
Richard, you're a genius. I tried the heating pad. I put 5 cuttings in 3 different containers (glass and plastic) and I got roots in 2 weeks. Then I tried 2 new cuttings in a plastic container and I saw roots in 2 days. 2 days!! Thank you... now I need to buy good soil and pots.
I broke the tip off of my very first dragon fruit plant. Not wanting to waste it I basically did this. Only instead of the heating mat I put it the an east facing window where it was warmed like a greenhouse for about half the day. It worked great for me. Glad to see this is a successful technique on a larger scale.
Hi Richard, thank you for your video, I plan to buy this heating mat & have some quesrions 1. do you need the thermostart to check the temperature of the heating mat or you just plug it in the outlet and use it ? 2. do you plug ( the heating mat) in the outlet continuously in 14 days (/until you see the root) ? 3. where you put the heating mat on, is it hot/ damage the surface that we put the heating mat during these 14 days ?
Thats great looking forward to trying this out and I was wondering if you ever grew them from root stock? I bought 2 different kinds one cutting and 1 just a root stock.
It’s been a long time didn’t hear something from you .... The way to use heat mat is so very helpful!!!!! We will try it some days. ( Cám ơn đã chia sẻ “ kinh nghiệm “ quý báu của Bạn 👍 ). Have a good weekend 🥂🥂🥂
beautiful explanation .... I have adult plants and some in the lower part in contact with the ground become yellow and soft, why? too much water or too much sun exposure? the aerial part is green and in excellent health. 
That is an awesome idea. Definite going to try it. A friend gave this dragon fruit, I don't know what kind are but they need to be trim. I want to do the trellis you have been showing. Thanks for your information, love it.
I’d say it might be possible to do in an aquarium -> empty aquarium + heater which will have the same effect as a matt and it might have the same result
Hey thanks for this! With average (mean) daily temperatures a little over min 22oC - max 32oC (approx min 72oF - max 90oF) would this be fine without heating mat? Also do they prefer to be in a sunny window or a darker corner?
Hi, really love your channel. I'm new to growing dragon fruit, I tried this rooting method but it's been 6 days and I have 0 roots on all 5 cuttings from wallace ranch. Should I abandon this and implant them in the ground? I'm in Sacramento and our current weather is 60s at night and 80s 90s in the day.
I've got a couple of large patches of dragon fruit can I just take cuttings and place them in water like a bucket outside since it is very warm here in Florida and get them to root , we water every day or two since it hasn't been raining and do a water change every couple of days instead of the mat ?
Good evening ChaoGa, would you be so kind as to show a picture of the Dragon Fruit in the hydroponic set-up? I use the hydroponic for our Romaine Lettuce, I would've never thought of trying hydroponic on DF, thank you in advance for your consideration. JC
Hello Richard do you,have any cuttings of the Asunta 5 potco variety. Thanks richard for any help you can give me,on where i can find a plant. Thanks again.
I already planted a bunch of cuttings in pots with soil, about a week now. After watching this video, can I remove them from the pots, put them in water, and try this method? I’m in the Los Angeles area and the nights are getting colder now. I have a heat mat.
I followed the same technique - exactly the same heated mat and put the dragon fruit in water in a vase. Just over a week later and no signs at all of any root growth. What am I doing wrong? Does it matter how you cut it? The cuttings are mature cuttings (around 20 inches long) and had been left for almost 2 weeks to callous over. They were mostly cut from the stem part. Should I try again and try doing a v shaped cutting instead? I see on the v shape cutting it looks like you cut away the flesh but left a visible and protruding stem section. Is that the best technique? Thanks!
Hi Richard, a friend brought me seeds from Cuba, they call it Pitaya plant, the plant has a few years is beautiful and very healthy but never got any flowers at all, any suggestions? Where can I send you pictures? Thank u so much
i really recommend using a glass container without a thick bottom, when I used plastic containers the heat from the heat mat didn't transfer at all in the water, but this is an amazing method
Do you use any rooting powder in your water? And do you use just tap water or purified water? I saw another video were she used filtered water and not tap water.
As you are so much into this hobby, please try this. I think it will work really well. You really do not need to change the water at all. First, I recommend using a bucket and put water in as you would normally do. Then pour about 20ml of bleach into the bucket to sanitize the water, the bucket and the bottoms of the cuttings over 1 minute. Then discard the water and put new water into the bucket. Then put an aquarium airstone into the water and connect it to an aquarium air pump. The air will be bubbling in the water and add a lot of oxygen into the water. This will help keep the water fresh forever. Bacterial growth will be minimal. The oxygen will help the stems root very quickly. Another thing I also like you to try to root and graft the stems at the same time. The idea is that you should be able to graft different varieties on unrooted stems and root them at the same time. This will save a lot of time. I have just done a bunch of grafts and root them at the same time. In a few weeks I can report the outcome. I expect success because grafting dragon fruit plants is so easy. I get 100% in my first attempt!
Just adopted a dragonfruit from a neighboring gardener who was throwing it out. It's in rough shape. I watered it for several days then transplanted it to the good soil in my garden. Watering it when it had previously been water neglected did cause some rot on one of the stems. It turned yellow and mushy. I cut it but there was some healthy green stem on one end so I cut that too. I will trim and callous that stem and try your method to root it. I've been watching for a while now and was planning to buy a dragonfruit with a bit of stem on it to try rooting. I think this might be easier to try my first dragonfruit propagation. Very excited. I don't expect I will get fruit in San Francisco weather but I'm moving to Vietnam soon and will start over there. Dragonfruit is so cool.
I got 2 dragon fruit cuttings in the mail and after watching this I put them both in water and left on the porch since I live in Central Florida and it's extremely hot so no heat pad needed. 1 week and they both have roots, this works very good. I have zero experience with dragon fruit yet they both rooted 🤗. I'm very happy. Thank you very much for sharing this.
Great video, using your advice I saved my plant from root rot and got three cuttings that have all rooted now! My cuttings were smaller so I used a shot glass for each. Going to pot them soon!
5 days in and i see roots on 1 of my cuttings! so excited, thank you for sharing this method!
Thank you for the tips. I just got a dragonfruit cutting and wanted to try a water method for rooting. I'm also attempting this in the winter. Thank you so much.
This worked for me.. grew roots within 10 days! Thanks bro!
Thanks for the video, Richard. I put 4 cuttings in water in plastic containers and put the containers on heat mat on 4/25/2022. One of my cuttings showed roots today, 5/5/2022. So about 10 days.
Great video! While waiting for my heating mat to be delivered, this idea came to me since I had them laying around…fish tank (or any container) and an aquarium heater. It works! I laid the heater at the bottom…do not let heater touch the bottom if using a plastic container, for obvious reasons. I used an eggshell light diffuser as a platform in which I elevated above the heater with bricks. The key is warm water. I set the heater to 80 degrees F
Thank you for thinking of us ! 🙏🏻🥰
I planted a few cuttings and it took 2 months for them to root
I have a heating mat and didn't know that it would stimulate roots
Now that I know it changes my approach
And your video on cactus rust was very helpful
Thanks for the wisdom
Thanks soooo much! I've learned so much from just the last 3 videos I watched of yours! I wish everything was this easy!
Thanks for sharing Richard! This method have been a game changer for me.❤️
Glad it was helpful!
It friggin woooorrrrrked!! I can grow anything in soil it seems, but every attempt I have made at cloning in water has failed miserably. I got a dragon fruit plant from my local nursery, mother nature released an atmospheric river on California for weeks straight, and my plant started rotting...
I took 3 cuttings a few weeks ago and followed your advice to the letter. They have all rooted and are ready to go in the ground. I even got a clone of a damaged rose bush to start in the same way. Immensely grateful.
+1 Loyal Follower
Amazing! I didn’t think dragon fruit vines would root in water but this is a game changer! 🐉
Definitely a game changer!
This also worked for me! Great tip, I also got great root growth!
Just ordered my heating mat!
Thank you very much for this innovative advice, I'm excited to root my cuttings! If you ever give a class or seminar I'd to be the first in line to enroll.
Blessings to you, sir
Much gratitude 🪴🌴🌿
Absolutely amazing i wil;l try this out! Great video
WOW. what great info. game changer. God Bless You Brother
wow amazing idea for faster rooting thank you richard for sharing
Awesome. I have some more cuttings coming and will do this very same thing. Thanks dude
I had several cuttings that I have been trying to root for two months. I bought a mat and followed your technique and 4 days later I now have roots.
I would like to share my experience. Every one please listen to me!!! THIS REALLY WORKS GUYS. Thank you Richer two thumbs up
This is perfect! Will definitely try this method.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, my dragon fruit cuttings just arrived this week. I just started my cuttings using this method. Trying to build my food forest on the Sonoran Desert!
Nice me too 👍🌱🏡
I'm a first time grower to the dragon fruit and I'm very excited. Thank you for sharing. Watching from Southern California
Welcome and good luck!
Great tips Richard, thanks for sharing 👍👌
No problem 👍
Awesome thanks for sharing all your input !!!
No problem!
just got some bamboo to root this way.. great tip! I had some growing in a pond., some did rot but the orher half were doing well.
Wow, Very nice. I noticed that I had better results from rooting in water vs soil, I didn't think about the heating mat though! Ordering one now! Thanks for the awesome video!
Glad it was helpful!
I needed this ... right now!
Oh great video! My cutting are in a container with water, but I didn’t know they grow faster if you put them on a warm place.
I’m going to try but using the top of my refrigerator.
Again like to thank u, for this info, after 10 days on 3 plants 2 hav produced roots so far..
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Richard, you're a genius. I tried the heating pad. I put 5 cuttings in 3 different containers (glass and plastic) and I got roots in 2 weeks. Then I tried 2 new cuttings in a plastic container and I saw roots in 2 days. 2 days!! Thank you... now I need to buy good soil and pots.
Very informative,Thanks 😊
My pleasure 😊
This is very informative. I wonder if this method would work for other plant such as Plumeria. Thank you so much for sharing Richard!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
I broke the tip off of my very first dragon fruit plant. Not wanting to waste it I basically did this. Only instead of the heating mat I put it the an east facing window where it was warmed like a greenhouse for about half the day. It worked great for me. Glad to see this is a successful technique on a larger scale.
What an awesome idea. Glad you made use of the scion that was tipped off!
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I have that same mat for my vegetable seedlings!!
Hi Richard, thank you for your video, I plan to buy this heating mat & have some quesrions
1. do you need the thermostart to check the temperature of the heating mat or you just plug it in the outlet and use it ?
2. do you plug ( the heating mat) in the outlet continuously in 14 days (/until you see the root) ?
3. where you put the heating mat on, is it hot/ damage the surface that we put the heating mat during these 14 days ?
Good topic Richard...😍😍
Thank you!
nice way to grow root cuttings. Added another heating mat around container to provide additional heat. : )
Awesome, thank you!!!
You're welcome!
I will try this thing.
Wow, what a great idea! Thx
You are so welcome!
Thank you very much.
Looks great, I'm gonna try it in a homemade cloner with an airstone + pump to keep the water fresher longer! Thank you
How did this work
Did using a cloner work?
So good
Thank you for the video always very helpful. Can you post a video of how to do the cut in the cuttings. Thank you in advance.
Thats great looking forward to trying this out and I was wondering if you ever grew them from root stock? I bought 2 different kinds one cutting and 1 just a root stock.
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure
It’s been a long time didn’t hear something from you ....
The way to use heat mat is so very helpful!!!!! We will try it some days.
( Cám ơn đã chia sẻ “ kinh nghiệm “ quý báu của Bạn 👍 ).
Have a good weekend 🥂🥂🥂
Awesome! Thank you!
beautiful explanation .... I have adult plants and some in the lower part in contact with the ground become yellow and soft, why? too much water or too much sun exposure? the aerial part is green and in excellent health.

Thank you for the tips! When roots show, how long should they grow out until you can transfer to soil?
How deep do you plant the tapered or v cut in the soil? Thanks
Ur videos very informative. Q. Do 4sides &5 sides dragon fruit stems can produce fruit?
Thanks for the information it work well I have about 130 cutting faster way for sure and ? I'm in Barstow ca you think they will do good
That is an awesome idea. Definite going to try it. A friend gave this dragon fruit, I don't know what kind are but they need to be trim. I want to do the trellis you have been showing. Thanks for your information, love it.
I’d say it might be possible to do in an aquarium -> empty aquarium + heater which will have the same effect as a matt and it might have the same result
How long can cuttings be kept before planting and what's the best way to store the cuttings?
Hey thanks for this!
With average (mean) daily temperatures a little over min 22oC - max 32oC (approx min 72oF - max 90oF) would this be fine without heating mat? Also do they prefer to be in a sunny window or a darker corner?
Hola, migo, wow excelente, saludos
Hi, really love your channel. I'm new to growing dragon fruit, I tried this rooting method but it's been 6 days and I have 0 roots on all 5 cuttings from wallace ranch. Should I abandon this and implant them in the ground? I'm in Sacramento and our current weather is 60s at night and 80s 90s in the day.
I've got a couple of large patches of dragon fruit can I just take cuttings and place them in water like a bucket outside since it is very warm here in Florida and get them to root , we water every day or two since it hasn't been raining and do a water change every couple of days instead of the mat ?
Hi Richard, can you propigate 3 inches dragon fruit in soil? Or has to Water propigate first?
Hi Richard please show a dragon plant that you’ve grown from seed and when you can start cutting the branches thanks
Thanks for the tip. I might just buy a heating mat. I clicked the link and put it in my cart. Just need permission from the boss now (my wife).
Yeah, amazing that I tried seeding in both, soil and hydroponic, they’re growing faster than in soil
Amazing!
Good evening ChaoGa, would you be so kind as to show a picture of the Dragon Fruit in the hydroponic set-up? I use the hydroponic for our Romaine Lettuce, I would've never thought of trying hydroponic on DF, thank you in advance for your consideration. JC
Hello Richard do you,have any cuttings of the Asunta 5 potco variety. Thanks richard for any help you can give me,on where i can find a plant. Thanks again.
How long after they root do you put them in soil?
Hi there, would you suggest rooting on stratum media?
do you use your city tap water, or would rain water be better or if it matters at all.
I already planted a bunch of cuttings in pots with soil, about a week now. After watching this video, can I remove them from the pots, put them in water, and try this method? I’m in the Los Angeles area and the nights are getting colder now. I have a heat mat.
Awesome videos but hot does the heat mat need to be?
I followed the same technique - exactly the same heated mat and put the dragon fruit in water in a vase. Just over a week later and no signs at all of any root growth. What am I doing wrong? Does it matter how you cut it? The cuttings are mature cuttings (around 20 inches long) and had been left for almost 2 weeks to callous over. They were mostly cut from the stem part. Should I try again and try doing a v shaped cutting instead? I see on the v shape cutting it looks like you cut away the flesh but left a visible and protruding stem section. Is that the best technique? Thanks!
Hi Richard, a friend brought me seeds from Cuba, they call it Pitaya plant, the plant has a few years is beautiful and very healthy but never got any flowers at all, any suggestions? Where can I send you pictures? Thank u so much
Which month is best time to grow/ root....or can I grow in any month?
Do you have to do anything special to transfer them to soil?
i really recommend using a glass container without a thick bottom, when I used plastic containers the heat from the heat mat didn't transfer at all in the water, but this is an amazing method
Great tip! My plastic containers are really thin so they work with the heat
Can you place them in water without the heating mat and will they still root?
What type of sunlight and shade requires??? Please say ...
Do you use any rooting powder in your water? And do you use just tap water or purified water? I saw another video were she used filtered water and not tap water.
did you let the cuttings in the second cup callous? do you have to let them callous?
Can you take them right from the plant and root them in water on a heating mat?
Hello,
What is the PH in the water you are using?
Hi grafting dragon fruit how i wartering my dragon fruit when they have started. buds ? Thanks
V good from india
Can we grow fig cutting also by this method?
will the dragon fruit once cut and put into the dirt will it still root and grow ?
Should you dry the freshly cut or put it into a bucket?
May I grow this indoor?
Can this work on tiny ones that break off?
Mahalo for all your wisdom! What if I don’t have a heating mat can it still root in the cup n in the counter?
Yes, absolutely! You can leave it in a cup and leave it in your garage or counter.
My apologies that was Kim Phans post I shared from April 1, 2021 she’s always sharing valuable info with 20 plus years of experiments and knowledge
She is the best 👍🏼
@@GraftingDragonFruit why did you remove the link I posted of her explaining rooting cuttings in water? That was excellent info.
If you dry your cutting for 3 to 4 day will it still root
As you are so much into this hobby, please try this. I think it will work really well. You really do not need to change the water at all. First, I recommend using a bucket and put water in as you would normally do. Then pour about 20ml of bleach into the bucket to sanitize the water, the bucket and the bottoms of the cuttings over 1 minute. Then discard the water and put new water into the bucket. Then put an aquarium airstone into the water and connect it to an aquarium air pump. The air will be bubbling in the water and add a lot of oxygen into the water. This will help keep the water fresh forever. Bacterial growth will be minimal. The oxygen will help the stems root very quickly.
Another thing I also like you to try to root and graft the stems at the same time. The idea is that you should be able to graft different varieties on unrooted stems and root them at the same time. This will save a lot of time. I have just done a bunch of grafts and root them at the same time. In a few weeks I can report the outcome. I expect success because grafting dragon fruit plants is so easy. I get 100% in my first attempt!
Are there any books you suggest on growing DF ?
Just adopted a dragonfruit from a neighboring gardener who was throwing it out. It's in rough shape. I watered it for several days then transplanted it to the good soil in my garden. Watering it when it had previously been water neglected did cause some rot on one of the stems. It turned yellow and mushy. I cut it but there was some healthy green stem on one end so I cut that too. I will trim and callous that stem and try your method to root it. I've been watching for a while now and was planning to buy a dragonfruit with a bit of stem on it to try rooting. I think this might be easier to try my first dragonfruit propagation. Very excited. I don't expect I will get fruit in San Francisco weather but I'm moving to Vietnam soon and will start over there. Dragonfruit is so cool.