Dragon fruit picking cycle is long, and some can hang fruit more than ten times a year. In Hengzhou City, the new variety of "Huangjing Dragon" dragon fruit is about to usher in the fifth mature listing of this year.
In the dragon fruit planting base of MengWanxin, a fruit farmer in the school chair town, the emerald green dragon fruit is growing well and is about to ripen.
Fruit Grower Meng Wanxin:
The variety now planted is the citrine dragon, which has a slightly sour taste, sweet and sour. The last batch has just been picked for a few days, and another batch is on the tree, and it will not ripen until the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It is understood that the "citrine dragon" dragon fruit is a new variety introduced from Taiwan by Mengwanxin in 2020, and the peel is yellow when ripe, compared with other dragon fruit, its taste is softer and sweeter. After 2 years of cultivation, the planting technology of Mengwanxin is becoming more and more mature year by year, and the annual yield of dragon fruit is also high.
Fruit Grower Meng Wanxin:
Now the yield is OK, there are 7,000 catties per acre a year. This variety was introduced in Taiwan, and I have been planting it for two years, and the price is still OK. The last batch of fruit was 5 yuan a catty, mainly sold to the north, and there are buyers who come here to collect it.