Sie waren wie 8 Dollar und sie sind ziemlich groß! Die meisten Stacheln scheinen für den Konsum entfernt worden zu sein, aber einige scheinen zurückzuwachsen
Von: the_evil_pineapple
Sie waren wie 8 Dollar und sie sind ziemlich groß! Die meisten Stacheln scheinen für den Konsum entfernt worden zu sein, aber einige scheinen zurückzuwachsen
Von: the_evil_pineapple
23 Comments
yes
My local store sells nopales (opuntia pads) by the pound and come spring I plan to try to prop some. My understanding is you just fill a container with cheap, gritty soil (the poorer the better) and plop the pads on the surface. Some people poke the bottom in, some lay them flat, some on their sides. Roots come out of the spine holes, I guess. Stick in a sunny spot and wait a few months. I’m in the Pacific NW and I have a neighbor with an impressive prickly pear in their front yard so it appears they are fairly cold-hardy, within reason.
What do they taste like?
Yes. Personally I stick them in the soil standing up, they prop very easily.
I was just in Malta and these grew like weeds, I wish I could bring some back! My wife picked some free prickly pears roadside.
The auto shop I used to go to had propped one. It got massive and developed little ones
propably…
As someone who lives in the Sonoran desert, I have some expertise here haha. These can absolutely be propped. You just need to put the bottom scab end in soil and forget it exists. You could even lay one flat on soil and it’ll root. Flat pad cacti are awesome and driven to survive no matter what 😅
Love this!!!!
Nopalitoes toast like green beans just slimy
Honestly if you just lay them flat on the soil they’ll root
I’ve seen them on front lawns in WA state and Idaho. Even in winter, they just look a bit yellowish but when spring rolls around they start pushing babies!
Absolutely yes
They can become invasive, have seen them in bushland around lake Eildon
They are banned here in Australia, it’s an offence to sell or transport them here! Google Australia and prickly pear cactus. But to answer you question yes they are super easy to propagate and will grow roots in any dirt whether you want them to or not haha
Have seen some beautiful flowering specimens
If they’re anything like the prickly pear cactus I have, they’ll prop very easily and grow like weeds. My boyfriend pruned back our big momma plant last year and we ended up with 18 pots of wildly growing baby cacti. I’m pretty sure everyone in my apartment building has one at this point. lol.
Just let them callus for a few days, stick them in some cactus soil and ignore them.
100%
I have nipples Greg. Can you milk me? The answer is yes. Yes you can.
Proping one was the worst mistake of my life.
Take off the thrones , boil them with salt and garlic, wash them. Cut tomato, purple onion, salt pepper pico de gallo style on top of tostada chips with queso fresco 🧀
These are an invasive pest where I am because they prop so easily. Many a farmer has found one of these growing, chopped it up with a panga (machete), and come back a year or 2 later to find a thicket of the stuff instead of a single plant.
Yes you can!!