Cactus???

[Blgreek08]

This is all my choice if cactus in my area. Are any of these safe for redfoots?

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[ascott]

Are these going to be for an outdoor enclosure? Also, please allow some time after planted before allowing feeding on the plants....likely the original nursery that produced the plants for the store you are going to purchase them at have used pesticides/herbicides/fertilizers....I personally would wait and entire growing cycle (a year) before but others scoff that notion and do alot less....will be entirely up to you

 

[Blgreek08]

They will be for both indoor and outdoor but idk what kind is what and if it's safe in general

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[Yvonne G]

That's an awfully big job for us, and you're making us do all the work for you. I'm assuming these plants are still at the nursery? Write down all the names, then go to:

http://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk/site/plants_19.asp?mode=az

and use their database to look up whether the plants are edible or not.

I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't mind giving an answer for a picture or two, but you've given us many pictures, that we have to click to open, and then there are numerous plants in each picture. Too much work for me.

I'll give you one picture - most of the plants in the first picture are crassula - edible. I also see a echiveria in that grouping - edible.

 

[Blgreek08]

Sorry. The only reason I did that though was because they all say mixed or random or there was a label on the front but it was more then one kind so I wasn't sure what was what. None of them have an actual name on them so I thought id see if anyone noticed anything specific. :/

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[redbeef]

it looks like there's names on the labels on the side of the pots. use these names to research edibility/toxicity

 

[Len B]

The last pic, the row on the left is elephant bush, wish I could grow that on a larger scale than I am able to here, it's just not cold hardy enough.

 

[AnnV]

Wow, that is a huge choice!
Sorry I can't help. I have just a few succulents around the house and am having a hard time ID'ing my own small group.
I wish they would give names. I probably have to go to a nursery instead of Home Depot or Walmart to get the plants with proper names included.

Ann from CT

 

[Blgreek08]

Re: RE: Cactus???

Wow, that is a huge choice!
Sorry I can't help. I have just a few succulents around the house and am having a hard time ID'ing my own small group.
I wish they would give names. I probably have to go to a nursery instead of Home Depot or Walmart to get the plants with proper names included.

Ann from CT

Finally someone that understands lol. Those tags only say like random cactus or mixed or crap like that. No real names. I went to Lowes and homedepot. We don't have a nursery around here that does cactus sadly

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[redbeef]

Wow, that is a huge choice!
Sorry I can't help. I have just a few succulents around the house and am having a hard time ID'ing my own small group.
I wish they would give names. I probably have to go to a nursery instead of Home Depot or Walmart to get the plants with proper names included.

Ann from CT

Finally someone that understands lol. Those tags only say like random cactus or mixed or crap like that. No real names. I went to Lowes and homedepot. We don't have a nursery around here that does cactus sadly

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sorry to hear that: the lowes and homedepot here have the same range of material, more-or-less, but they actually have a name on the yellow and white labels on the side of each pot...I guess yours don't.
here's what I recommend as an alternative: google image search for some names from the tortoisetable and compare them to the material you are looking at. start w/echeveria, crassula, opuntia, aeonium, and sedum and see what you get. I'd avoid all of those cacti until you can get an ID: not an opuntia in the bunch

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

Instead of reinventing the wheel.

Often plant id questions come from folks who already have the plant in their yard, and they ask if it is ok.

As you are seeking a plant first. Go to the pages suggested, and then get the plants from the "approved" list.

If you have a smart phone, then on the spot, while you are at the store where the plants are, do a search, such as "plant name tortoise edible", and let the search tool do the work.

Then again, opuntia is universal in its application as tortoise food. It is avaible from several vendors here on TFO.

Will

 

[EKLC]

I wouldn't trust any of those. maybe not for a half a year or so. They surely wouldn't hold back on the pesticides on non-food plants like those

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

I wouldn't trust any of those. maybe not for a half a year or so. They surely wouldn't hold back on the pesticides on non-food plants like those

This too is a helluva good point!!

Will