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Turns out it's different for everyone, depending on your climate and the weather that season. That's the thing I am trying to answer by crowd sourcing it.

A bunch of us have been logging our buds and blooms, and the numbers are starting to add up across varieties: which ones bloom quickest, when the season really peaks, roughly how long bud to bloom to harvest runs for each cultivar. Sugar Dragon's running about 35 days bud to bloom so far.

You can poke around what everyone's finding here and filter by your variety and region.
tendra-app.com/dragonfruit/stats

In the mobile app, If you log your own, the app predicts your next bloom and harvest as soon as you've recorded one bud and refine it based on your historical data and will soon be based on growers around you.

Full disclosure, I'm the one building it (Tendra Plant App). The dragon fruit side is free: journaling, logging buds, the predictions. There's a paid tier but it's only for the AI plant ID and disease diagnosis, which you don't need for any of this.

Note: Full bloom of my red robles a couple nights ago on that picture

Less petals and less stamens compared to a healthy one. 2nd pic is a healthy flower which opened at the same time.

My favorite variety, I am ready for it.

Been working on the side on this bud > bloom > harvest tracker which helps tracks how many days from bud to bloom, and from bloom to harvest.
Once you log your first bloom, you can see when the next round is coming. The timing of each variety depends on many factors including variety, weather and climate. It uses the average variety duration, but once you start logging some entries, it will use it and predict quite accurately when the next bloom or harvest will be for your specific plants.

The app, Tendra Plant, is live in the gplay and appstore if you want to check it out. This is all work in progress, so happy to improve it based on feedback. Which I am doing every day for my own needs.

EDIT: App is entirely free to use including all features listed above. Only paid part is the AI id and diagnose which I have to pay for since it uses an AI service.

I've got a tropical food forest and I just wanted one place to journal it. Every app I tried either didn't know my cultivars or had nothing on pollination, which is kind of the whole game when you're growing fruit. I have been looking for things like when a Hass and a Fuerte flower or how cold-hardy each one is, the stuff I need to actually pair varieties so they have higher chance to pollinate.

So I made Tendra on mobile phone.

It's a journal first, built to make logging and keeping up with your plants easy, whether that's a whole garden or a few plants indoor. It goes deep on cultivars when you want that, but it stays general enough to work for any plant. You log them, take pictures, write notes, set care schedules, keep whatever you want on each one. All of that is free.

There's AI in there too, for diagnosing a sick plant and ID'ing something you don't recognize. That part costs me money every time someone runs it, so it's the one paid piece. It's a convenient way to add plants to the app, not the point of it. You can use everything else and never touch it.

If you can give it a shot and tell me what's missing or what you'd like to see improved let me know. Still building it out.

PS: That's my trees in the pics. Including my Oro Negro which is doing great in Socal zone 10a.

I've got a tropical food forest going and I just wanted one place to journal it. Every app I tried either didn't know my cultivars or had nothing on pollination, which is kind of the whole game when you're growing fruit. If it can't tell me when a Hass and a Fuerte flower or how cold-hardy each one is, the stuff I need to actually pair varieties so they pollinate, it's not much use to me. Same with knowing my Physical Graffiti dragon fruit needs my Sugar Dragon to set fruit.

So I made Tendra.

It's a journal first, built to make logging and keeping up with your plants easy, whether that's a whole garden or a few plants on a windowsill. It goes deep on cultivars when you want that, but it stays general enough to work for any plant. You log them, write notes, set care schedules, keep whatever you want on each one. All of that is free.

There's AI in there too, for diagnosing a sick plant and ID'ing something you don't recognize. That part costs me money every time someone runs it, so it's the one paid piece. It's a convenient way to add plants to the app, not the point of it. You can use everything else and never touch it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tendra-plant-garden-care/id6751827971

If you grow food, or just keep a few plants alive indoors, and you've wanted something easy that still takes cultivars and pollination seriously, give it a shot and tell me what's missing. Still building it out.

SoCal, 10a. First rack, flowered at end of winter and the wind beat it up for weeks. Leaves are shredded, and fingers kinda small for a cavendish banana tree. Any hope this will be any good?