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Purpusii (Mexico)
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
- Fruit weight
- 3/4 to 1 pound
- Brix
- 16.2 °Bx
- Flesh color
- Magenta
- Season
- Late March to November
- Sweet or tart
- Leans sweet
- Self-fertile
- No
Hardiness
This is one of the hardiest dragon fruit plants I have seen. It takes full sun all day, along with unrelenting 90% humidity with no shade. Lasted through the "Florida Freeze" with no damage at all. Very heat and cold tolerant.
When to pick it
Purpusii (Mexico) reaches peak ripeness 30–35 days from pollination.
They get slightly sweeter.
Before you buy one
Purpusii (Mexico) 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
- Grandiflorus, pollinated by Purpusii July 23, 2026
- A preview of #39 June 18, 2026
- Grandiflorus pollination successful May 26, 2026
- Woody ribs, and why they are worth breeding for May 6, 2026
- One of the thirty Purpusii hybrids April 28, 2026
- The mother fruit, beside hybrid #3
- The first Purpusii x Halley's Comet fruit
- The first Steno hybrid fruit, harvested
- Superbloom
- The first of many nights of pollination