Hybridizing Dragon Fruit

Exclusive HybridNot yet released

Peachy Keen

The first ever PEACH flavored dragon fruit! Complex, wonderfully sweet, and mouth wateringly tangy!

Bred here from seed and sold nowhere else. Each one carefully selected from a pool of no fewer than 30 hybrid seedlings grown to maturity, so only the very highest quality makes it through our testing and tasting process. Ships from Cape Coral, FL.

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Exclusive Hybrid — propagation restricted

Peachy Keen is proprietary genetics of Hybridizing Dragon Fruit LLC. Cuttings, rooted plants, seeds, pollen, flowers and tissue cultures are supplied for personal cultivation and personal fruit production only.

Commercial propagation, cloning, tissue culture for sale, and transfer of viable cuttings to third parties for commercial use are prohibited without prior expressed written consent. See the full Exclusive Hybrid clause.

These terms will apply when Peachy Keen becomes available. You will be asked to accept them once, at that point — joining the waitlist commits you to nothing.

Peachy Keen has not been released yet. It is real, it is growing here, and everything below was measured on our own plants — but we are building up stock before selling any, so that when it does go on sale we can fill the orders instead of selling out in a day. The release will be announced on our YouTube channel.

Costs nothing, commits you to nothing. It tells us how many to grow, and you hear first.

Peachy Keen dragon fruit cut in half, showing magenta flesh flecked with fine black seeds. A whole Peachy Keen dragon fruit, showing the skin color and the shape of its scales.
Peachy Keen. Photographs by Jason Gentile. Photographed as accurately as a camera allows. The flesh pigment sits outside what a camera sensor can record, so in person these are noticeably more magenta, with a purple tint no photograph reproduces.
Two Peachy Keen fruit ripening on the plant, their skin a soft orange-salmon shading to green at the bract tips, held on thick green stems.
Peachy Keen ripening on the plant. Photograph by Jason Gentile.

Breeder’s record

Measured by Jason Gentile

Parentage
Selenicereus Purpusii × Halley's Comet (Selenicereus Guatemalensis × Selenicereus Undatus)
Fruit weight
About ¾ pound
Brix
20.1 °Bx
Flesh color
Magenta
Season
early May to November
Self-fertile
No — under test

When to pick it

Peachy Keen reaches peak ripeness 35–40+ days after the flower opens. Where you pick inside that window decides what you taste, and it is a real choice rather than a margin of error.

Picked at around 35 days the sweet/tart ratio is at its most balanced, and the flavor is at its most complex. Left to 40 days or beyond it becomes intensely sweet, but loses some of that flavor complexity.

Flowering and fruiting run early May to November, so a healthy plant gives you several rounds of fruit across the season — and several chances to try picking at different days and decide which you prefer.

Before you buy one

Peachy Keen 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.

Under test. It may prove self-fertile, but it has not fruited enough times unassisted for us to say so. Assume it needs a partner until we confirm otherwise.

How to hand-pollinate, step by step · Find a second variety that flowers at the same time

Breeder’s ratings

In order to score a 5/5 for flavor by HDF standards, a fruit must have a perfect balance of acidity & sweetness!

— Jason Gentile, Hybridizing Dragon Fruit, Facebook, 2026

Growth, hardiness and production are held to the same standard. Their definitions are not yet published.

  • Growth rate 4.5 out of 5
  • Hardiness 5 out of 5
  • Fruit production 4.5 out of 5
  • Flavor 5 out of 5

Jason Gentile’s own assessment of the plants he grows, on a five-point scale. Not customer reviews.

Full siblings

Peachy Keen came out of the same cross as 3 other varieties on this site. They are siblings, not clones — every seedling from a cross is genetically its own plant, which is why they taste and look different.

  • Florida Man — A top tier fruit with the perfect balance of sweet and tart. Averaging over a pound in size, with a flavor so good… it's CRAZY!
  • Gator Tail — An incredible blast of citrus, with notes of cherry Jolly Rancher and pomegranate.
  • Plumb Crazy — An absolutely delicious and incredibly sweet plum flavor, complex and rich with subtle notes and a wonderful tanginess.

Selected from a pool of no fewer than 30 hybrid seedlings grown to maturity. How the cross was made.

From the nursery

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