When you drive through the national highway in Ilocos province particularly in Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur, you can find vendors selling dragon fruits along the national roads waving the fruits to the passing travellers.
This is the season of dragon fruit. The pineapple shape but smaller and colored red fruit with the flesh of red and white is considered to be wonder fruit by some people because of its believed to be medicinal abilities. Of course never forget the delicious taste of the fruit that is between too sweet and bland taste.
Five years ago when farming of dragonfruit started in Ilocos Norte. The dragon fruit farm in Ilocos Norte started it all and went popular to the people because of the taste and nutrition. But aside from that, this cactus plant is not that hard to grow.
All you need is the branch. During the first year, a one meter branch could be cut by the length of 6 inches to grow the young shoots. But today, with the abundance of the plant, one branch with length of 1 meter or more is just planted as it is.
Make a post with the length of 6 feet. Make it stand in the pit or hole. You may put an old tire of motorcycles at the top of the post. Plant the branch of the dragon fruit. After one month, new branch from that planted dragon fruit will grow. After more than a year when the plant is healthy, it will begin to bear flowers.
Flowers usually start in the month of May (in the Philippines). The flowers bloom at night and wither in the next morning. From that flower will become a fruit. One month it will grow bigger and after a month the fruit green fruit will become red indicating it is already ripe.
Ripe fruit do not rot easily. It could take days before the rotting.
Want to taste the best of the dragon fruit, put it in the refrigerator then enjoy the soft, jelly and sparkling taste of the dragonfruit.###
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That's really a great experience. As a city boy, I had never tried to harvest any crops. It is all by seeing photos or watching it on TV. I am sure the harvester would have a good feeling in doing this.
It is not also common to have this kind of fruit in my city. If it does exist, it will cost an arm and a leg. I hope in the near future I would be able to experience this.
Love doing it, the feeling of picking that fruit without even care pricking with its thorns.
Have heard so much about this exotic fruit and still have yet to taste it. I have never seen it at the grocery store but it will probably be expensive because they would likely have to import it.
It was expensive during the first years, but now, with the abundance, the price even goes to $1 per kilo.
Interesting to learn about dragon fruit, thanks! I've never tried it, and I don't know if it's sold here. I'll have to research that!
Try to look for it in your place, the fruit is said to have medicinal capabilities.
I had a cactus which looked exactly like the image you have uploaded, with flowers and all but I did not see any fruit.
I have learnt something new today.
There are varieties that only bloom flower but not fruit. The fruit taste good, not so sweet.
Dragon fruit as far as I know is a very nutritious food.It is anti cancer fruit.It is also very expensive fruit,Though I haven't tasted this fruit, somehow, I long to buy and taste this fruit. This is a rare fruit in our city. I only saw this kind one time.It was sold by a farm owner of dragon fruit.That time was the supposed best time for me to buy, but that was a Sunday and I was about to attend the mass. When i went out after the mass was over, gone was the big truck selling dragon fruits.
Really? I've never been heared about dragon fruits but i hope one day i can go to ilocos all the way from manila and see the hystorical place in Vigan. I think Vigan is one of Philippines’ most beautiful
cities, as it showcases the Spanish heritage of
the country.
This reminds of my first time eating this fruit. It was added on a fruit shake that I bought in our school. It kinda tasted like watermelon while the seeds were like nuts.
Really dragon fruit is one of the best and sweet fruit in Pataya and along with it is most useful for heath. I gives many benefits to human health. As...
Dragon Fruit Cholesterol
Keeping a heart healthy low cholesterol diet? Don't worry about your cholesterol Dragon fruit cholesterol is not an issue. Dragon fruit is both low in cholesterol and has little to no unhealthy cholesterol producing fats (certain fats which are metabolized to cholesterol contribute to increased cholesterol levels more than even cholesterol itself in food sources of cholesterol).
Dragon Fruit Vitamin C
The amount of vitamin C in dragon fruit is high, and because the dragon fruit is a natural fruit providing you with a rich balance of nutrients coming along with the vitamin C, you absorb the Vitamin C in dragon fruit efficiently when you eat dragon fruit as part of your fruit healthy diet.
Dragon Fruit Antioxidants
Eat dragon fruit as a good natural source of anti-oxidants which help to prevent the dangers of free radicals which can cause cancer and other undesirable health detriments.The number, quantity, and variety of antioxidants in real foods like dragon fruit is completely unmatched by any food supplement or pills - even those claiming to have 'antioxidant' health benefits.
Nothing compares to the rich array of nutrients and antioxidants in a real natural food like the dragon fruit. Forget about junk foods and processed foods, as they are poison not foods! Even though a supplement claiming to offer a high amount of antioxidant benefits may sound good, the fact is that foods like dragon fruit have literally thousands of varieties of antioxidant substances and the supplement likely will contain only one (e.g. vitamin E supplements).
Taking a single megadose of a single antioxidant compound may in fact cause harm or be toxic! Stick with dragon fruit antioxidant sources and other fresh fruits and vegetables and avoid trying to take a shortcut through a pill.
Dragon fruit nutritional benefits also include the levels of dragon fruit antioxidants - the antioxidants in dragon fruit are numerous and varied.