Thursday, February 14, 2008
Learn tips on how to prepare a dragon fruit for a fruit salad dish
Learn tips on how to prepare a dragon fruit for a fruit salad dish in this free video clip on healthy recipes
Pitaya @ Dragon Fruit
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Dragon Fruit Pitaya
Dragon Fruit Pitaya
There is few ways to propagate the Pitaya Plant. The most comment way is from cutting. Other ways is growth the plants from seeds.
We do not recommend commercial grower to growth Pitaya from seeds due to few facts below:
1. It take too long time to begin harvest from seeds. Our new technique which used long cutting can start bear fruits as soon as 4 months.
2. Growing from seeds can not guarantee the clone of Pitaya. Some mutant or genetically change might occur during the self or crass polination.
Dragon Fruit Pitaya
Monday, February 11, 2008
About Pitaya - Dragon fruit
Pitaya or dragon fruit origin and native from South America, is a popular fruit over there. It has been brought by Holland and France into Asia. Now, the main cultivate are in Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan.The exact origin is unknown, but is likely from Southern Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica. It is cultivated around the world in tropical regions.They are also found in Taiwan, Okinawa, Israel, and southern China. The pitaya blooms only at night; they are large white fragrant flowers, typical of cactus, that are often called Moonflower or Queen of the Night.
It is a nutritional fruit. Nowadays, the Pitaya has been cultivated on a large scale in Malaysia as well as in other country.
Normally we catteries the Pitaya into three type.
1. White Flesh, Red Outlook, Hylocereus Undatus
2. Red Flesh, Red Outlook ,Hylocereus Polyrhizus
3. White Flesh, Yellow Outlook, Selenicereus Megalanthus
Usually, The Pitaya is grown in the tropical lowlands. It is a tropical fruit. It can be grown with organic fertilizer, and without any pesticide and chemical.
The fruit is juicy, with a subtle fruity flavors. Red Pitaya is pleasant to eat and when sliced the fruit is especially attractive.
The species Stenocereus gummosus in the Sonoran Desert has been an important food source for Native American peoples. The Seri people of northwestern Mexico still harvest the highly appreciated fruit of the pitaya agria (Spanish), which the Seris call ziix is ccapxl - "thing whose fruit is sour".
~Pitaya - Dragon fruit
It is a nutritional fruit. Nowadays, the Pitaya has been cultivated on a large scale in Malaysia as well as in other country.
Normally we catteries the Pitaya into three type.
1. White Flesh, Red Outlook, Hylocereus Undatus
2. Red Flesh, Red Outlook ,Hylocereus Polyrhizus
3. White Flesh, Yellow Outlook, Selenicereus Megalanthus
Usually, The Pitaya is grown in the tropical lowlands. It is a tropical fruit. It can be grown with organic fertilizer, and without any pesticide and chemical.
The fruit is juicy, with a subtle fruity flavors. Red Pitaya is pleasant to eat and when sliced the fruit is especially attractive.
The species Stenocereus gummosus in the Sonoran Desert has been an important food source for Native American peoples. The Seri people of northwestern Mexico still harvest the highly appreciated fruit of the pitaya agria (Spanish), which the Seris call ziix is ccapxl - "thing whose fruit is sour".
~Pitaya - Dragon fruit
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