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Candy, I hope you get lots of buds this year on your Hylocereus undatus. I have just started growing this, and I was wondering if I can grow this in full sun. It doesn't get much higher than 90 here, but I do have a couple of holes in my leaves, and I assume that is from full sun, but I could be wrong about that. Also, do you recommend allowing this vine to climb a structure, or should I just plan on staking it? I do have a bare cement/brick wall available since I just got rid of some English Ivy (God, I hate that stuff). I would love to grow it there and let it climb the wall. Over on the other side of the wall is my Koi pond, and I think it would look really neat if I got white blooms over the water. This is the wall in question below. It would be right next to this Bougainvillea which is actually planted on the other side of the wall, next to the Koi pond. Of course, since I'm a renter, I imagine I would have to leave them when I go and just take cuttings. I am growing them in containers since I have them on top of where the Ivy used to be. (I used total vegetation killer on the Ivy roots.)
Unlike my Epis this guy lives in the lathe house in the summer and the greenhouse in the winter. It's a beat up piece that I'm nursing...another one of my rescue missions. It still looks rather chlorotic, but hopefully if it ever gets warm and stops RAINING!!! (it just hailed here...I don't even want to think about what it's done to all my Euphorbias that I just put outside yesterday).
Other than the less sun I treat it just like my Epis...too cold here for it outside in the winter until I get it healthy. I think the structure is a good idea, although if I knew I was leaving within the next few years, I'd make the structure portable and take the whole thing with me! Plant it in a big pot half submerged in the ground and give it some sort of trellis if it gets too big. Mine is just staked at the moment.
Holes in leaves could be snails...they really got to some of my leaves this year cause it was so wet.
Oh, gosh, Candy. I'm so sorry that you had hail! Yikes! I'm surprised that you are getting hail in April. Darn it all! I hope your Euphorbias will be all right.
Thanks for the tips on the Hylocereus! We will be moving in a few years, and I plan to take nearly all the container plants with me unless they become too large to travel well. Our next move will most likely be out of state. I'm going to take your advice and keep mine in a large container with a large portable trellis. I've heard that a plant can take several years to bloom from a cutting so once it starts blooming, it is a thing of value!
I couldn't get Ruth's link to work. It said the server was down so I'll try that again later.
Thanks again for your help. You're a peach! I can always count on you for answers.
