There are 2 different types of dragon fruit we talk about self fertile and self sterile.
I have gone written a more in-depth blog about these 2 types and pollination.
Self Fertile Dragon Fruit - These dragon fruit varieties do not require hand pollination they are self fertile and can pollenate themselves with their own pollen.
Self Sterile Dragon Fruit - These Dragon fruit varieties require x pollenating. They are unable to pollenate themselves with there own pollen or have a bad design where they are less likely to pollenate themselves.
Remember!! With out bee and pollinators even a self fertile dragon fruit can still drop its fruit.
To ensure fruit set we recommend all dragon fruit be x pollenated.
Self fertile Dragon Fruit- Arizonian Purple
- Alice
- American Beauty
- Blush - I would hand pollenate .
- Berry Beauty ?
- Bien Hoa Red
- Bundy red jade
- Black Dragon
- Broxensis Blue
- Capistrano Valley
- Cerise
- CFA Purple
- CFA Red
- Chameleon
- Champagne?
- Columbian red
- Columbian Yellow
- Commercial White
- Cosmic Charlie
- Crimson
- CFA Purple Heart
- Columbian Supreme Red
- Common Red
- Desert King
- Dwarf orange
- Ecuador Palora
- F1
- Ferris
- Frankie's Red
- Godzilla
- Grandma Cath's
- Giant Vietnamese white
- Georges White
- Hana Hybrid- not tested but set fruit on its own
- Honey White
- Hawaiian Purple
- Hylocereus Purusii?
- Hylocereus Guatemalensis
- Hylocereus Peruvianus
- Hot Pink Lady
- Houghton
- Harpua
- Hollywood white king
- Japan Pink
- Japanese Godzilla?
- Jelly Bean
- Jungle Jim
- Korean White
- K1
- Lady Elliot?
- Lemonade
- Lucille Lemonade
- Leon
- La Vern
- Lake Atitlan red- does better with hand pollenation
- Malaysian Purple
- Maria Rosa
- MPH
- Maui Dragon
- Mexicana
- Natural Mystic
- Neon
- North QLD Red
- Nor Red Curly
- Nicaraguan red
- Niezel
- Vietnamese white king
- Polyrisis
- Obwans daughter
- Oval white
- Ohana Express
- Oaxacan
- Palora
- Pearl White
- Peruvian Yellow
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Champagne
- Pink Diamond
- Pink Panther
- Red Crystal?
- Red Royal
- Red Jaina
- Red Magenta?
- Red fox/ Exit
- Red Jade
- S4
- San Ignacio
- Sugar Dragon
- Super nova?
- Sin Espinas ( I would x pollenate tho.)
- Shayna
- Southern Cross
- Seoul Kitchen
- Sweet Vietnamese white
- Taiwan Magenta?
- Thi
- Thai Red
- Townsend Pink
- Tricia
- Trish
- Tropical Pink
- Tropical White
- Thai Dragon
- Taiwan Purple?
- Thai Vietnamese King?
- Taiwan Purple?
- Thompson White
- Tasty
- Thick King
- Voodoo child
- Vietnamese white
- Vietnamese Red
- White sapphire
- Yellow Megalanthus
- Yellow Dragon
- Yellow Thai
Dragon Fruit that require cross pollenation, If your dragon fruit flowers and never develops fruit this could be why?
Self Sterile Dragon Fruit-
- Asunta 1
- Asunta 2
- Asunta 3
- Asunta 5
- Armondo
- Aztec Gem
- Ax
- Baby Cerrado
- Black Dragon
- Berry Beauty?
- Brunei 1
- Cebra
- Cordalba
- Cuban Royal
- Costa Rican Sunset
- Condor
- Champagne?
- County road
- Connie Mayer
- Dark Star
- Desert King?
- David Bowie
- Edgar's Baby
- El Grullo
- Frankie's Red
- Golden Dragon
- G2 - Paul Thompson g2
- Halley's/ Hailey's comet
- Hylocereus Setaceus
- Hylocereus Costaricensis
- Hylocereus Ocamponis
- Hylocereus Polyrhizus
- Hawaiian Red
- Honduran Moon Torch
- Hylocereus Purusii?
- Isis Gold / Ozzie Gold
- Israeli Gold
- Jackie Lee red
- Japan Pink?
- Japanese Godzilla?
- Jungle Jim?
- Kathy Van Arum
- La Vern Red
- Lady Elliot? not yet tested.
- Lisa
- Lychee White
- Orejona
- Maria Fuchsia
- Maria Rosa
- Makisupa
- Michelle
- Mr Woo
- Not S8
- Pink Jade
- Physical Graffiti
- PT7
- Purple 8
- Purple Haze
- Paisley
- Purple megalantus- I had always had fruit set with out hand pollenation but feedback received from customers is that this variety does best with x pollenation.
- Princess of the night
- Queen of the night
- Rainbow? This plant has set fruit multiple times without hand pollenation - this is untested.
- Rixford
- Red Jade
- Red Crystal
- Red Magenta
- Red ES1
- South Kolan
- San Ignacio
- Sin Espinas
- Sunshine White
- Supernova
- Selenicerus
- Selenicerus - Validus
- Tanby Purple Haze
- Taiwan Purple?
- Thai Vietnamese white king?
- Ucla
- White Jade
- Vietnamese white king?
- Vidid Purpurea
- Zamerano? self fertile but definitely does better x pollenated.
- Yandina Yellow
- Yellow 68
Don't forget you can put 4 Dragon fruit per post to improve pollenation rates of your dragon fruit plants.