10-19-2013, 04:55 AM
Dragonfruit like to drape on things (you will see them lounging on stone walls, fences, arbors)
The first dragon fruit plants brought to the island (actually on the first ship FROM their homeland of cent/south America TO Asia) were off-loaded in Honolulu due to their near-death condition...some of these did flourish, but were not fruit bearers, so there are many plants around all of the islands that do not produce fruit....
The other thing about them is it seems that either due to their high cost, or the affinity of fruit flies to them, most growers cover the fruits in those little horticultural bags ... papaya will definitely grow there...as to the lychee...40ft is kinda WAYYY huge to replant (just the root ball alone would be massive....of course cutting back the crown & roots (kinda like what bonsai growers do) would have an outside chance of maybe working...but the tree would probably take as long to get over all of it (if it made it at all) to make just planting anew worth while...
The first dragon fruit plants brought to the island (actually on the first ship FROM their homeland of cent/south America TO Asia) were off-loaded in Honolulu due to their near-death condition...some of these did flourish, but were not fruit bearers, so there are many plants around all of the islands that do not produce fruit....
The other thing about them is it seems that either due to their high cost, or the affinity of fruit flies to them, most growers cover the fruits in those little horticultural bags ... papaya will definitely grow there...as to the lychee...40ft is kinda WAYYY huge to replant (just the root ball alone would be massive....of course cutting back the crown & roots (kinda like what bonsai growers do) would have an outside chance of maybe working...but the tree would probably take as long to get over all of it (if it made it at all) to make just planting anew worth while...