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The listing, free 4 sections of prickly pear cactus has ended.

very easy to grow require little maintainence
first grab some pliers and pick them up stick in ground and enjoy if you want more than 4 cut in half and stick cut half in ground and you have 8 or if you waqnt a lot of them cut in 4 sections and you will have 16 growing zones 4 thru 9 thanks for looking

Questions & Comments

these look beautiful i hope i win! fanned you fan me back!!

Apr 16th, 2011 at 6:21:40 PM PDT by

the woods are full of them our gopher turtles eat the heck out of them and i keep planting them

Apr 16th, 2011 at 6:56:43 PM PDT by

what kind of soil do they grow in?

Apr 16th, 2011 at 11:15:18 PM PDT by

they prefer sandy type soil but are not picky at all these are the easiest cactus i have ever grown just stick them in ground water and forget about them and they florish

Apr 17th, 2011 at 6:35:58 AM PDT by

have you ever tried the pears yourself?? are these the kind that grow the really juicy, purple colored fruits?

Apr 17th, 2011 at 2:15:12 PM PDT by

no i havent tried them and yes when they flower they give the purple fruit

Apr 18th, 2011 at 2:00:51 AM PDT by

nice! yeah... you should try them!! If it's the same fruit, and I bet it is, they have a very, clean crisp, slightly sweet flavor that is very thirst quenching! ok..gotta bid on this!

Apr 18th, 2011 at 6:25:11 AM PDT by

i have lots of these growing on my property i have been spreading them around it for years because the endangered gopher turtle eats them he loves them and i have about 20 wild gophers living on my property and i enjoy watching them

Apr 18th, 2011 at 6:44:29 AM PDT by

oh how fun!!! I love gophers... have ever since I was a kid and watched caddyshack!! hahaha.. I love the pears myself, never thought about using them to feed the wildlife, nice idea! kuddos to you! but I will seek out people I know who have them and ask to pick their pears! would be nice to have my own!! they are super on a hot afternoon!

Apr 18th, 2011 at 6:58:48 AM PDT by

way easy to grow if i cant kill them no one can

Apr 18th, 2011 at 9:26:56 AM PDT by

I made awesome prickly pear / pomegranate jelly last fall. You can also eat the pads, although I haven't tried that yet.

Apr 18th, 2011 at 7:28:14 AM PDT by

i just plant them for the gophers

Apr 18th, 2011 at 9:26:11 AM PDT by

Yeah... I've read recipes that call for prickley pear cactus pads... I think in like stir fry type stuff! hadn't thought about making a jelly from the pears, although I bet they'd also make an awsome sweetner or syrup, like agave nectar..that's a cactus!

Apr 18th, 2011 at 9:35:36 AM PDT by

sounds good anybody got any more ideas

Apr 18th, 2011 at 10:17:16 AM PDT by

also if you plant them under your windows nobody will break in them as they will get covered in prickley pears once they get bigger of course

Apr 18th, 2011 at 10:18:42 AM PDT by

that's a nice idea!!! good idea to keep those teens INSIDE as well and not crawling out windows to sneak out! LOL

Apr 18th, 2011 at 11:05:19 AM PDT by

i ment to keep people out of you house you know breaking in but the teen thing would work real well because they sure would hollar about it

Apr 18th, 2011 at 1:09:01 PM PDT by

can we tell what I did as a teen??? LOL

Apr 18th, 2011 at 11:05:30 AM PDT by

go for it

Apr 18th, 2011 at 1:07:52 PM PDT by

hahahaha

Apr 18th, 2011 at 6:39:20 PM PDT by

its all good somewhere

Apr 18th, 2011 at 7:38:20 PM PDT by

yeah... fortunately, that was MY way of thinking back then, my daughter doesn't worry about sneaking out, if she has someplace she wants to be, she tells me, if I say no, she says .. it's cool!

Apr 18th, 2011 at 6:40:45 PM PDT by

not all kids are like that though my daughter knows better than argue with me and she is 30

Apr 18th, 2011 at 7:38:07 PM PDT by

warning these apparently do not keep snakes out of your nesting hens i had a bunch planted around a pen with a sitting hen in it and had to shoot the theiving snake at 2 am this morning i hate snakes

Apr 19th, 2011 at 1:13:48 PM PDT by

are they seeds or plants

Apr 19th, 2011 at 1:30:16 PM PDT by

a section of a plant that is real easy to root just stick in ground

Apr 19th, 2011 at 6:16:55 PM PDT by

omg I never thought of Listia as a way of cleaning out my cactus patch!!!! I must have the tallest stand of Choya in the county lol... now just how do you ship these prickly pair pads????

Apr 20th, 2011 at 12:11:20 AM PDT by

first you get a section without its firts spines sticking out then you break off a section set it on a plate in a dark place for 1 day to season it then get a zip lock bag put a damp paper towel in it and sdd your cactus make sure that you zip the bag properly so it soes not leak then put in bubble envelope and send it be sure to put do not crush on both sides of enmvelope as soon as it arrives they need to put it in dirt and water and then forget about it just enjoy

Apr 20th, 2011 at 6:28:32 AM PDT by

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