You’re welcome Cathie, you’re correct, they need plenty of sun. Another thing to consider could be competition from the roots of the mulberry tree.
Growing dragonfruits is a bit like keeping bees in that they keep you guessing & asking questions. For example, wondering why some branches produce fruit while others don’t.
Just a dear diary type of update on the 4th of March. I harvested 38 today with a total weight of 21 kilos. That averages out to 552grams. 636grams was the avg. weight a few weeks ago.
Today, the 10th of April, 70 of those flowers are now beautiful fruit ready to harvest, the last of this seasons crop.
Wilma took some photos today:
It was a long time between flower to fruit, possibly on account of a lot of rain & cooler weather. It seemed like the fruit wasn’t going to fill out & ripen. However, success at last.
Incredible to behold 
thanks for posting Jeff!
In reply to my “dear diary” post, today I harvested 54 for a total weight of 25.05 kg. An av. wgt. of 463.8gms. A few of the fruit were up around 6-700g. Over all, the average weight decreases as the season progresses.
7-1-22. Hi Weber, any flowers or buds this year? We’ve had lots of rain, consequently our dragonfruit started earlier than last year. I’ve actually got one fruit ready to pick, plus a few more in the coming week, however new buds galore from this recent rain.
PS. The following morning: It rained most of the night, however it’s supposed to clear up this morning. As soon as the rain stops, I’ll go out & do some tip pruning on any new branches. That coupled with the night of rain might bring on another load of buds. I really should give each plant a drink with liquid sulphate of potash to help encourage even more buds.
Hi Jeff. Good to hear from you.
Yes, the dragonfruit has budded. Have some nice fruit developing. Good idea to give it a prune and some food. Getting to it straight away.
This rain is pretty relentless, although today we had just a few minor drips, but still overcast.
Hope you and your wife are well! The nectar flow is outrageous.
Hi Weber, thank you, it’s great to get your reply.
It’s been sunny for most of the day. The bees are working flat out. I’ve been feeding a lot of my nucs at home here during the recent rain, however my main hives seem to be doing ok. I had 2 nucs that were due to check for queen-rite. Somehow during all this recent rain, they both got successfully mated.
Yes, I found the bees even go out in the rain, and do big orientation even when it drizzles.
Guess we lost a lot of good forage to the rains here a while back. I saw all those big gums in flower, and it all rained out. But hey, there’s more right now.
A few sunny days should do the trick.
Took honey off most hives in between the rains just before Christmas. I reckon they are all full again.
I’m not even harvesting any flow frames in this humid environment. It’s just gonna turn too watery.
I’m right out of boxes to pile on top of hives, so, next nice day, will harvest a lot of frames for spinning and pressing.
Got myself a nice 4 frame electric spinner from lyson. So smooth.
I have a few nucs where I wasn’t sure I should feed. Was more concerned about a lack of pollen and was about to open feed pollen, but then things turned ok.
The nucs have been a tad slow but going well now.
The swarms I caught are insane. Need more boxes….
@JeffH Is this dragonfruit? It’s hanging over my fence from the neighbours…
Hi Fred, it looks like a dragonfruit. I think there’s quite a few different plant species that are similar, that don’t produce fruit. You’ll just have to wait & see what develops from those flowers. I have 3 varieties, red, white & yellow. The fruit starts off green after the flower, then changes color as the fruit reaches maximum size. The yellow turns yellow, with white flesh, or similar white to the white ones. Both the red & white turn red on the outside at maturity.
I haven’t seen where the fruit looks yellow just after the flower, like in your photo. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
PS @fffffred I wondered if you were on speaking terms with your neighbor because the obvious thing would be to ask your neighbor if those plants produce fruit. I was thinking that if not, you could turn up at the door with a packet of Tim Tams & ask him/her 
I say if they are on your side of the fence, they are yours 
Of course, offering a pack of Tim Tams would be more neighborly…but around here, it’s legal to cut limbs of neighbors’ trees that overhang into your property - going vertically up from the property line.
Hi Eva, my point about asking the neighbor was in relation to finding out what species the plant is, & if it produces edible fruit.
There’s a few myths about dividing fences where I live. It’s a common belief that overhanging fruit belongs to the other neighbor, when in fact it doesn’t. It still belongs to the owner. However the owner can offer the neighbor to pick & keep whatever hangs over. Legally the neighbor can pick the fruit, but he/she must offer it back to the owner.
Any branches hanging over can be cut at the neighbor’s expense, before safely placing the material back onto the owners side.
The owner has no obligation to cut any overhanging branches, however the owner is liable to pay for any damages caused by the branches or roots of the tree.
We are on good terms with all our neighbours. A jar of honey goes a long way. As a result I get figs in return and Macadamia nuts from another neighbour across the road.
20-1-22
@Webclan ,This morning we woke up to 65+ flowers. Yesterday morning was 55+, while the previous morning was 8. There looks to be about 15 or more tomorrow morning.
Yesterday we didn’t see one honey bee in them, just a couple of native bees. Earlier this morning we saw about 2 honey bees. One hour later, the flowers were abuzz with bees, filling up on pollen.
Wilma took some photos:
Jeff, your dragonfruit is amazing. They look pretty tidy as well.
Ours are a little behind, but more and more buds appearing.
I must find out about pruning them after fruiting. It’s a wilderness around here.
Hi & many thanks Weber. I need to keep them reasonably tidy so we can mow under some & work in my vege garden with the rest.
We finished up with 29 more flowers today, with one solitary one to open tomorrow. The bees were more prolific this morning.
Once the bees find them, there be heaps, as long there’s daylight. They’ll be foraging till dark. 
I’ve got 3 buckets with a total of 30 fruit ranging from 350-850 grams each, plus a nice cluster on a branch, which I cut up to freeze yesterday. I picked 3 more buckets after that, that will get cut up to freeze today, with still quite a few more to pick after that.
They look great Jeff!
I was in the supermarket a couple days ago. There were dragon fruit there for $7.99 each. They were a fraction of the size of yours and quite withered looking.
You could make a fortune with your fine specimens.
