Hello Grant!
Thank you verry nuch for the interesting pictures of your place. The Flying Dragon is a verry special hybrid with unknown parents. It needs a lot of water and fertilizer to grow fast. It can grow up to +30cm per year in Europe. So in your area it should grow even more because your growingtime is longer per year.
As I can see you have also experience with different graftingmethods sutch as seeblings, areols and orher ones.
It is great to see the hybrids in Australia!
I was born in Southafrica 1976 and I lived in AUSTRIA from 1984 to 2022. Since then I live in Germany.
Wellcome again to our small circle of hybridlovers!
Have a nice day!
Bye,
Walter