This is Ecuador Palora dragon fruit, unlike other dragon fruits the flowers are on a long stem far from the fruit. Whereas dragon fruits normally take anywhere from 30-50 days to harvest the Ecuador Palora takes approximately 120 days and is considered the sweetest of the dragon fruits.

People have asked me how do you get dragon fruit from a plant that is self-sterile (unable to use its own pollen to produce fruit). I had to do this very thing tonight. So here are the five steps I used for this plant.