Cactus Feeder

[Len B]

What's his favorite way?

I've been waiting for someone to ask. His favorite way is to be hand fed. He's spoiled.

 

[wellington]

Planning on shipping on Monday, Just did a test pack and got these pads in the box with enough room to fit whats in the pots in also. There are 7 types of opuntia 6 spineless and the one with yellow and orange blooms. I will fill any leftover space with more pads.View attachment 213134

Wow, that's fantastic, thank you. Sure hope I have as good of luck growing them as you.
I was able to keep a non cold Hardy cactus alive over winter that I am growing in a pot. I just stuck it in the window of my shed. It lived, but is so very slow to grow anything. I had another cactus that didn't make it even though it was over wintered the same way.
I had to go with fake metal cactus for my desert flower bed in the front of my house. Very cool, but I had rather had the real thing

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

Yeah, scary long spines on the red pad. I do taste it off and on to see what may be an indicator of palatbility. I do that with mulberry leaves too.

This is an image of the few red pad pots and a few of the wavy pad type.

 

[Len B]

Yeah, scary long spines on the red pad. I do taste it off and on to see what may be an indicator of palatbility. I do that with mulberry leaves too.

This is an image of the few red pad pots and a few of the wavy pad type.

I like the looks of the wavy one, does it get tall or spread out ? I've never tasted mulberry either, never thought about tasting it.

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

I like the looks of the wavy one, does it get tall or spread out ? I've never tasted mulberry either, never thought about tasting it.

Aside from the wild stand of spineless opuntia near me, that is technically on a utility corridor, all the cactus a have is in pots. I don't know their longer term growth habits. @DeanS has many large plants, and is who sent me on the chase to find the wavy leaf type, I bought many pads of it at the Phoenix Reptile expo last year and just this spring they are pushing all that new growth. The vendor said it was a native Caribbean 'type' used much in cooking there.

I noticed the tortoises like the sweet tasting mulberry the best, I'm training my eye to match what I taste. The tortoises already seem to know.

 

[Oldbattleaxe]

I grew up eating cactus in the spring, diced mixed with eggs for breakfast, or diced and cooked down a bit and served like any other greens with dinner. Don't know how to cook it myself, but I always enjoyed eating it.

 

[Iochroma]

I do find it kind of funny that most everyone can not find nopales in their local Latin markets. They're so cheap here that I don't even harvest the ones on my plants growing on the hillside that I planted.

 

[Shaif]

I pay a good amount to have it shipped here. You are lucky!

 

[Len B]

I do find it kind of funny that most everyone can not find nopales in their local Latin markets. They're so cheap here that I don't even harvest the ones on my plants growing on the hillside that I planted.

The funny thing is, the County I live in doesn't even have a movie theater let alone a Latin market. And I can only think of 2 traffic lights in the whole county.

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

Mine bloomed, thanks @Yvonne G

 

[Len B]

@Yvonne G , I found this but don't know how to link it to the other thread.