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SattvaBodhi
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cactus id anyone?
#18856568 - 09/18/13 01:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just making sure this is a prickly pear
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gopener
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Yup thats definitely a prickly pear, and a healthy one too!
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Edited by gopener (09/18/13 02:39 AM)
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1234go
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SattvaBodhi said: Just making sure this is a prickly pear

You would be surely correct.
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Tangich


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Re: cactus id anyone? [Re: 1234go]
#18856934 - 09/18/13 07:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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All that grafting stock...
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gopener
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Re: cactus id anyone? [Re: Tangich]
#18857185 - 09/18/13 09:25 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Tangich said: All that grafting stock... 
Hey mate, come in my town, there is every where huge colonies of Opuntia s!
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the mad machinest
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Re: cactus id anyone? [Re: gopener]
#18857493 - 09/18/13 11:15 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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gopener said:
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Tangich said: All that grafting stock... 
Hey mate, come in my town, there is every where huge colonies of Opuntia s!
like wise!! north Texas these are every where!! I've even made some prickly pear moonshine!
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intelligentlife
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By the way..
I have growing Opuntia Robusta (pic attached)

This cactus doesn't probably do any fruits from flowers without any another opuntia pollen?
However, Can this cactus used by consuming for food or any kind of way more than just as a decoration?
The pads what comes at spring when they are very green, can they be used as food or does it need to be that "real prickly pear cactus"?
Only I know this looks very similar but can grow actually very big. I have took one pad from the middle and give to my friend and planted the top of the cactus near the original one.. Indoors it makes lots of pads but smaller ones.. In greenhouse it has made only one pad this summer but size of pad is way more bigger than pads growing at windowsill.
Do anyone know what I can possible do to get benefit from O. Robusta or is this just a nice decoration opuntia?
Would be fun to try sometimes taste a fruit of prickly pear but possibilities are small cause I have only one clone and it's not actually prickly pear opuntia afaik that species of cacti.
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gopener
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I dont know if its the same (the pads) as prickly pear, bat the pads they dont have good taste, though they have nice nutrition value (i dont remember now exactly, i had read that before).
The fruit is very nice and if you put it on the fridge for a while, its great for the hot summer. The only think that bothers me in that fruit is the seeds!They are like thousands tiny spores there and you have to swallow them, because they dont break
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intelligentlife
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Re: cactus id anyone? [Re: gopener]
#18858621 - 09/18/13 03:11 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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gopener said: I dont know if its the same (the pads) as prickly pear, bat the pads they dont have good taste, though they have nice nutrition value (i dont remember now exactly, i had read that before).
The fruit is very nice and if you put it on the fridge for a while, its great for the hot summer. The only think that bothers me in that fruit is the seeds!They are like thousands tiny spores there and you have to swallow them, because they dont break
Seeds doesn't harm at all.
..actually many cacti spread their seeds when animals consume their fruits, seeds survive and comes out with poop when they got good place to possible start germinating and grow to adult. It's most likely that where is adult cactus specimens it's the place where desert animals has poop and then successful seed germination has happened and in good luck cactus reach age of maturity.
I don't know exact species of cacti what produce that way but I recently saw document from nature and there was actually said how small chances of cacti has to grow from seed to adult but many species seeds will be in animal stomach before they are "planted" somewhere, depends where animals has make their needs at the desert. Documentary was about plants and the way how they produce and spread seeds, it shows the greatness how nature works and how tough some plants are, example cactus plants cause their seeds comes trough animal system and come out from their poop and only one from million has chance to grow to adult, actually this kind of way to start to grow from seed are good cause animal poop contains cactus seeds and nutrients and medium for cactus seedlings to grow and in good luck start to grow to mature plant. In that documentary was video about turtles eating saguaro fruits drop down and said they will come unharmed out of turtle and there where turtles poop, are possible a place where cacti starts to grow and try to survive the elements.
Why you fear of consuming seeds of cacti? They doesn't start to grow inside of you no matter what.. Also seeds contains good amount of proteins, the energy what seedlings use before they start to develop own root system and they start to take nutrients from soil.
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the mad machinest
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so next time you eat a bunch of prickly pear go take a shit outside and sow some seed!!!
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gopener
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I didnt say it correctly!I didnt mean bother, i just dont like it!
Can you post a link on that documentary?Sounds interesting!
lol, that would be some nice experiment to do it!
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intelligentlife
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the mad machinest said: so next time you eat a bunch of prickly pear go take a shit outside and sow some seed!!!
If they survive trough human system. Who knowns? 
Plant eating animals what consume cactus fruits poop in fact cactus seeds without any harm for seeds.. And cause they don't eat meat their system doesn't damage the seeds and when they poop, they leave good spot and growing medium in desert to give a try for cacti seedlings. 
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gopener said: I didnt say it correctly!I didnt mean bother, i just dont like it!
Can you post a link on that documentary?Sounds interesting!
lol, that would be some nice experiment to do it!
Can't find it anymore cause the TV-channel show documents and their contents are keep only one week some shows free possible to look from internet.
And also, you would not understand a thing about the language it has been turned.
To bad I don't remember the english name for the documentary, there was just a small section about deserts and the plants of there.. Also it involves plants from every corner of the world. As well as arctic tough survivors than rain forest trees what can grow in very poor light climb up using another plants and so on.. It was documentary video with topic of force of plants and their properties to produce and survive.. As a cacti collector I remember the part where was took video from turtles eating saguaro fruits drop to ground and then there was explained why fruit have thousands of tiny seeds and how they can survive trough animal system and later comes out with poop and there is actually good growing medium for seedlings of cacti.. It just matter where the animal makes it needs and also, seeds can stay there long time and start germinating after big thunderstorms when they got moisture.. But ofc there is another ways also how cacti survive and so on but that was one way it has been show how for example saguaro cactus can start it journey to adult cactus.. Also there was explained that they need shady place to prevent moisture fading away cause of sun and they grow like 10years under some bushes and later after tens of years they are massive big plants in the desert.
Still the amount of cacti and amount of seeds what are produced during cactus growing time, chances of seeds ever start to germinate or survive from elements are very small and it's only matter of when and where the seeds are finally end after animals has eat them or possible carry them.. Most of all the documentary short section about cacti was info about why there is so much seeds cause possibility that seeds will never grow to adult specimens are poor..
I would like to show what documentary it is but I really don't find it.. I am sure it's not made by europeans but explanation was not in english so the point of showing even it is not make sense.. Try to look somewhere around internet about documentary of plants and see are there anywhere things like producion of cacti and so on..
Edited by intelligentlife (09/18/13 04:08 PM)
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the mad machinest
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intelligentlife said:
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the mad machinest said: so next time you eat a bunch of prickly pear go take a shit outside and sow some seed!!!
If they survive trough human system. Who knowns? 
Plant eating animals what consume cactus fruits poop in fact cactus seeds without any harm for seeds.. And cause they don't eat meat their system doesn't damage the seeds and when they poop, they leave good spot and growing medium in desert to give a try for cacti seedlings. 
hopefully they survive through chickins! I had 'round 1000 prickly pear seeds on the counter in the shop and the chickins got to them! I know the soil 'round here is good sou hopefully I'll see some chickin shit pears over the next few years!
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gopener
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