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Halley's Comet
Purple fleshed variety with great flavor. Great production.
Cuttings of the most flavorful premium hybrids, taken fresh from the mother dragon. Ships from Cape Coral, FL.
Breeder’s record
Measured by Jason Gentile
- Parentage
- Selenicereus Guatemalensis × Selenicereus Undatus
- Fruit weight
- 3/4 to 2 pounds
- Brix
- 19.0 °Bx
- Flesh color
- Purple
- Season
- April to November
- Sweet or tart
- Leans sweet
- Self-fertile
- No
Hardiness
Extremely hardy plant, deals with cold weather better than most cultivars. Can sunstress into increased fruiting easily, but does not tend to burn.
When to pick it
Halley's Comet reaches peak ripeness 35–40+ days from pollination.
Sweeter if picked very late, but loses all acidity.
Before you buy one
Halley's Comet is not self-fertile. On its own it will flower but not set fruit. It needs pollen from a different variety, applied by hand on the night the flower opens — which takes about a minute and is genuinely enjoyable.
How to hand-pollinate, step by step · Find a second variety that flowers at the same time
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From the nursery
- A preview of #39 June 18, 2026
- Woody ribs, and why they are worth breeding for May 6, 2026
- The first Purpusii x Halley's Comet fruit