Aborted dragon fruit flower and columnar cactus fruit

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jojogarden Lakeland, FL(Zone 9b) Aug 21, 2016

Returned from out of town trip to see a dried-up flower hanging from one of my dragon fruit cactus. At that point I hoped a fruit might develop - as you can see from today's pic, that didn't happen. But, we are keeping close watch now in case we get another bloom - I have my handy paint brush ready, lol. Last time both plants created a fruit out of a total of 3 blooms, so I'm hopeful.

In the meantime, I was pleasantly surprised today to see my first potential flower/fruit on my columnar cactus!

Does the columnar cactus act like the dragon fruit? Are they self-fertile (I only have one columnar cactus, so can't hand-pollinate)? TIA,
JoJo

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jojogarden Lakeland, FL(Zone 9b) Aug 24, 2016

UPDATE on columnar cactus: had a good hard rain last night - could this be a result of all that extra water (and will go away when it dries out?) or is this fruit in the process of aborting? Is there anything I can do for it at this point? Anything different I should do next time it tries to make a fruit?

TIA,
JoJo

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Beach_Barbie Kure Beach, NC(Zone 9a) Sep 24, 2016

JoJo, did the cactus produce any fruit? I would love to see fruit on mine, but so far no such luck.
Barb

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Oct 08, 2016

It's the sun and heat that cause those blooms to abort. The cooler temps coming should allow the full process to happen. This happens on my Cereus all the time.

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jojogarden Lakeland, FL(Zone 9b) Nov 07, 2016

Barbie, no fruit 😢

Zenomorf, that is good news - we'll renew our close watch for this system...although it doesn't get very cool here in Fl, lol.

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Nov 10, 2016

What counts is the fact that it gets cooler instead of hotter during and after fertilization. Keep us updated.

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Beach_Barbie Kure Beach, NC(Zone 9a) Dec 09, 2016

I isn't know that Xenomorf. Thanks!

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