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LSoares
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Very nice, MH. By coincidence, one of my own plants opened its lonely bud today.
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Feroxx
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: LSoares] 5
#25354251 - 07/29/18 03:38 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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MeanGreen
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: Feroxx]
#25354256 - 07/29/18 03:42 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Very nice closeups man, good job on those pics
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lillFish
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: MeanGreen]
#25356346 - 07/30/18 05:06 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Woo-hoo, an Opunita thread! I'm a huge lover of cacti and the tuna fruit and am trying to get started growing. I had a purple prickly pear, but the fruits were not sweet and much smaller than the kind I loved from the grocery store. Waiting on my purple prickly pear seeds to germinate.
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Spacedout201
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: lillFish]
#25356478 - 07/30/18 06:09 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't know why I never posted in this thread. I'll see if I can get some pics of my different types of Opuntias sometime soon and get them uploaded within the 6 DAMN hours I'd imagine it would take to load them to the forum 
I hate living sooo far out in the damn country. The land is great and it great not to have close neighbors and acres of land to grow on but the internet and phone services absolutely blow out here.
BTW lillfish check your PMs I sent ya something interesting
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MoonFarmer
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I just moved in a new neighborhood and a neighbor has a neglected patch that I want paddles from.
It's about to bloom so is it able to root right now still?
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Spacedout201
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Yea and they root easily too.
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pinedownpioneer


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I need to post some Opuntia pictures from my Big Bend adventures in this thread. Can't wait to go back out there. The unmaintained 4x4 roads are awesome if you don't care about the paint job on your truck..I see the pinstripes as a good thing that means you've been way out yonder where few travel and the cacti are thick
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Stupendous-Yappi
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Anyone know the name of this infestation (fungus?) that only seems interested in attaching my prickle pear?

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Stupendous-Yappi
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Mostly_Harmless
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Quote:
Stupendous-Yappi said: Anyone know the name of this infestation (fungus?) that only seems interested in attaching my prickle pear?
 
Mealy bugs?
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Stupendous-Yappi
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I did some more searching and found what they are... Cochineal
I suppose I don't need to worry anymore about if they'll make me sick if I eat the tuna, since the bug juice is used for food dye. 
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Feroxx
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BattyKoda
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: Feroxx]
#25402263 - 08/21/18 05:58 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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BattyKoda
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: BattyKoda] 1
#25478584 - 09/21/18 05:29 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Today.
8/21
Proud.
And Omg... 30 Days Old! All the way on the fourth Page... Really? Poor lonely and left out Opuntias.
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RomeoPapa
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: BattyKoda] 1
#25481568 - 09/22/18 07:27 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've got a couple in my small collection. They are native to my area. Is there any trick to get them to pup like yours? They have only been potted for 2 months max. So I'm guessing they just need more time to develop a root system.
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BattyKoda
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: RomeoPapa]
#25482275 - 09/23/18 05:19 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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I got mine in a trade. It's the only one in my collection.
I started rooting it in February. Think it took like two months.
Repotted it in a 10".
I water once sometimes twice a week and it gets sun from 11àm till 7pm. Unless it's suppose to rain then it get about four hours of direct sunlight.
Other than that. I tell it that it's beautiful. And run out in the rain to save it.

I'd like to get some started in the ground.
Nice looking cacti!!! I can't wait to have a pad like that!
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Stupendous-Yappi
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: BattyKoda] 3
#25484221 - 09/23/18 11:27 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Got about 4L of juice from the fruits in the first two pics. Still have another bag full to process.
I'm going to try and make wine and/or jam.
 
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BattyKoda
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Awesome!!! 
Are the fruits any good?
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MeanGreen
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Re: The Opuntia thread! [Re: BattyKoda] 1
#25484416 - 09/24/18 04:15 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Some of the best fruits there are, I fucking love prickly pears. It's the season right now too, lots of them at the grocery market here.
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