Years ago, I received some prized Dragon Fruit cuttings.   If you gave it to me, you know who you are and thank you.   Excellent tasting fruit and beautifully bright purple. 

Last year, we finally got fruit and it was purple inside and the most sweet delicious fruit.   Just today, we got our first flower of this year.    2nd photo (can't seem to get it right side up even though photo appears right side up on computer, it comes out sideways below)     

What area/zone are you growing these in?

Did the donor have success with their plant and were they in the same area?

That flower is gorgeous! Do you need a greenhouse to successfully grow this plant? I've only ever heard of dragonfruit tasting bland, so thanks for sharing and correcting that misconception!

This plant looks so much like something my grandmother grew in her window.  I never saw it bloom, but the plant itself looks like what she had.  Knowing what I know now she'd be considered an organic gardener.  She kept a container with egg shells and water that she watered her plants with.  I didn't know anything about vermiculture until I was grown, but she had a wooden box in the basement with worms.  I always thought she only used them for fishing, but I'm sure she used it to fertilize her garden.  She would have us feeding them corn meal.  I remember when she ordered a banana.  It was a tiny little thing.  I can't remember it getting big, but then maybe I just didn't recognize it later.  I was a kid after all.  I ordered a banana around Christmas.  When I look at it I think of her.  I'm seeing hints of pups at the base of the plant already. 

Anyway, forgive me for going down memory lane.  I'd be interested to know where you're growing your plant too and how you take care of it over the winter.

The ones in the stores are so bland that i wonder why people buy them. This one is sweet and the fruit color is bright purple/magenta. It grows like crazy in coastal southern ca. No winter protection. Weather pretty good. I've read that it needs a pollinator. Since i only have one in bloom, i'm not sure if it will produce fruit. I've tried to move the pollen around on the flower in hopes that it will self pollinate. I remember the label on one of the cuttings was Purple Haze but it has been many years since i received fhe cutting and memory fades if that was for this dragon fruit or if it was for another optunia cutting.