What causes dragon fruit flower and fruit drop

Dragon fruit is a fruit plant that can be enjoyed both for its flowers and fruit and for harvesting the fruit to eat, and many households grow it as a potted plant. That way, you can admire the flowers and fruit during the flowering and fruiting period, and when the ripe season comes, you can also taste the nutritious, delicious and sweet fruit.

But if you want a potted dragon fruit to have an attractive plant shape, bloom and bear fruit on schedule, and ultimately let you harvest the fruit to eat, care and management work is very important. If management is inadequate, flower and fruit drop may occur during the flowering and fruiting period. So, what is it?

The main reason dragon fruit drops flowers and fruit may be that the plant is growing poorly and has accumulated few nutrients. And the cause of this result may in turn be that the potting soil does not have enough fertility, or that nutrients are lacking because fertilizer was not applied in time.

If dragon fruit accumulates too few nutrients during the flowering period, not only will the number of flowers be small, but their quality will also be poor, so it will inevitably affect the subsequent fruit-setting rate. In particular, if the flowers the plant produces are relatively thin, small and deformed, even if the buds can open, the fruit that forms afterward will still drop.

Therefore, in this situation, we should try our best to protect the fruit, because it is already too late to change the poor flowering result. To do a good job of protecting the fruit, try to keep the fruit tree strong, because protecting the tree is also an important aspect of protecting the fruit.

Generally, after flowering we can spray the potted dragon fruit with Weibu Guoli and boron power to supplement some phosphorus, potassium, calcium, zinc and boron elements, which can promote the growth and development of young fruit and reduce abnormal fruit drop. At the same time, we can also spray Weibu Genli calcium and energy to promote rooting and strengthen the tree, thereby achieving the effect of protecting both the tree and the fruit.