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getting poked by cacti
#19166904 - 11/20/13 06:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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so for those of you that indulge in the cultivation of various cacti how often do you get poked and what are some tools/methods you use for handling them to avoid the poky poky?
for all y'all, what's the worst poking you've ever had by cacti? deepest poke? worst place you've been poked most needles you've been stuck with?
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Seems kinda relevant so I'll post it..
My brother when he was about 8 or 9 was climbing out the bed of a truck in New Mexico when he fell out backwards, he fell directly into a very large patch of cactus
Pretty much this: 
He made things far worse when he tried to immediately get out of it instead of waiting for my dad to pick him up. I think he ended up with about 100 spines in him although my memory of it is kind of fuzzy. Me and my other brother were laughing our assess of at him although looking back on it now I see it was a very dangerous situation and he could have easily ended up blinded or something and I feel bad for laughing at him.
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: Shroomslip]
#19167026 - 11/20/13 07:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh shit! man I bet it would be very difficult to hold still whilst being fucked by spines!! I can only cringe at the thought of that happening
what spawned this thread was a tricho var sedes damn near penetrating through my fore finger bout an hour ago. aahh it still burns! fucker went at least 1/4 inch in my dang finger:(
I'm sure by no means it was as painful as your Lil bros experience! I prolly woulda laughed a little too
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fee
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My ex got the ultimate cactus poke
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blankk said to fee: btw you're a total fucking psychedelic pimp Turtletotem said: I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off. Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man. And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion? Religion is fun.
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If I'm handling large specimens, I'll wrap a towel around the stems at a good balance point and twist the two ends around each other to get some tension on it. I think use one arm (or one person) do move the wrapped end, and one arm (or person) to move the root ball.
I get poked from time to time. Usually it's more when I'm just being careless around them more so than when I'm doing repotting and stuff. The worst I've had was a spine that was below the soil line on one that I was repotting and loosening the roots. Stuck me good right in the tip of my index finger. Finally came out the other day.
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I was de spineing a bridg with scissors and a fucking thorn flung 5 feet cross the room when I clipped it and hit my girl in the thigh drawing blood. I could have taken her eye out with my noobness. Ya live and ya learn
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: Magicman69]
#19167194 - 11/20/13 07:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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@nicechrisman- towel-great idea! thanks!!!
that's how I got stuck today, i was just being careless and giving them the normal visual attention and moved on little rock cause it was outa place and BAM! spine in the soil got me when I picked up the rock. lesson learned
@magicman- like I said, lesson learned
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: Magicman69]
#19167197 - 11/20/13 07:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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inb4 pic of girl getting reamed by cacti
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: thelanzii]
#19167221 - 11/20/13 07:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: thelanzii]
#19167232 - 11/20/13 07:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My brother got fucked up by one of these a few years back when we were mountain biking in Arizona.
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Doctor Sponge
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all the fucking time..i hate SP spines cuz those bitches are small but thet burrow in.i have one in the webbing of my finger ATM
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I was cutting through the dunes along the beach in Rehoboth Beach, Del in the middle of the night and tripped and face planted right into some prickly pear cactus. Fortunately, the east coast variety don't have very long needles.
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: koods]
#19167265 - 11/20/13 08:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was shooting my .50 cal at a Saguaro in Arizona, and the fucking thing fell on my foot.
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koods
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Shooting saguaro is worse than shooting people in Arizona.
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Doctor Sponge
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Quote:
Schmendrick said: I was shooting my .50 cal at a Saguaro in Arizona, and the fucking thing fell on my foot.
you son of a B!!i LOVE saguaros, shooting them is sacreligious!..bad karma bro and saguaros HAVE fell and KILLED folks in the past when being shot! saguaro hit by lightning(I took this pic)
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Edited by Doctor Sponge (11/20/13 08:31 PM)
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ya dude shooting a saguaro is like shooting a redwood. bad vibes man.
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: schwarg]
#19167411 - 11/20/13 08:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
schwarg said: ya dude shooting a saguaro is like shooting a redwood. bad vibes man.
Ya. How would you like to be violated with fee's monster cactus?
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Re: getting poked by cacti [Re: koods]
#19167443 - 11/20/13 08:41 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah man in my AZ gun laws book theres an actual story of some asswipe getting killed by a saguaro.he was on the outskirts of phoenix in 1981,shooting a saguaro with a .410 shotgun with slug loads and a limb fell and landed on him and killed him..serves him right.i wish I still had the book cuz they had an awesome cartoon illustration of the situation
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You guys are all missing one major fact here: I am a motherfucking liar. I said that shit to get all the cactophiles butthurt.
And it worked.
Edited by Schmendrick (11/20/13 08:54 PM)
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