My Dragon Fruit plants started blooming in August. They flower at night and are closing by the morning. Many are self-fertile, assuming there's something around (like me with a paintbrush) to get the pollen from the male parts transferred to the female parts. Some are self-sterile, and need something (e.g. me) to get pollen from a different species before they'll set fruit. The issue is, of course, that you can't control which plants flower when, so you don't always have a choice.
The flower at the top left is a Zamorano, a Honduran H polyrhizus cross purchased early 2022.
The others are Delight, H. undatus X H. guatemalensis also purchased as a cutting in early 2022.
There were arguments online about whether either of these were self-fertile. I moved pollen between all these flowers and most of them set fruit.
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