Identifying flaky, tan striations on my dragon fruit/pitaya

San Diego, CA

Our pitaya has formed these verticle, flaky, tan striations on it and I am not sure if it a fungus/disease/ or what. Any help in idetifying it would be awesome!

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San Diego, CA

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Brooksville, FL(Zone 9a)

Mine has some of this also .

The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a)

Dragon fruit gets a stem rot which is bacterial - Xanthomonas campestris. I don't know for sure what the cure is, or if there is one, but Agristrip (Streptomycin sulfate) or Agrimycin is used for fire blight, which is also bacterial. I have absolutely no idea if this will work in your case or not. I just can't seem to find much about the treatment for X campestris in dragon fruit.

It looks really bad in your plant, and I would consider tossing it and starting over...

Sarasota, FL

Any chance this could be sunscald? Or cold wind damage?

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