Breed your own dragon fruit

What the method rests on

• The seed parent (the plant accepting pollen) contributes roughly 60% of the genetics; the pollen parent roughly 40%.
• Ocamponis, Costaricensis and Guatemalensis genes are strongly dominant — an Ocamponis father still stamps the bracts of the fruit.
• The goal of a cross is a hybrid superior to its parentage. Crossing two random cultivars is not hybridizing.
• Grow out as many seedlings as possible; evaluate on the first fruit; cull anything outside the acceptable range.
• Evaluation requires identical growth conditions — differing light, temperature, water or nutrients invalidate any phenotype comparison.
• Sustained vigor is the gold standard. Temporary vigor and true hybrid vigor are different things, and neither predicts flavor.