Late Entry Sour Tangie

Week 5 - 6 weeks of growth Sour tangie is going really well. It’s healthy and putting on some good size too. I think it’s about to flower, which I am hoping for so I have a chance at least to finish the grow within the contest time frame. I have to say it’s a bit stringy and sort of hangs everywhere, but it may be because it’s young and the stems are still a bit flimsy. For a bit of interest I have attached some pics of my awesome dragon fruit plant which flowered beautifully earlier this week. It is a cactus like plant which looks ugly as hell for the most part. When in season, small buds appear along the stalks which grow and turn into long bulbs prior to flowering. They flower properly for one night only! It is an awesome sight as you can see. This is the one chance to get out at night and hand pollinate the flowers. The female organ protrudes from the flower with fingers raised waiting to be pollinated. You can greatly assist the process and increase your chances of fruit if you get out that night and collect the pollen from the rear of the flower, and rub it into the protruding receptor. I am fascinated by this, and was quite excited about this fleeting moment of beauty on an otherwise ugly plant.