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Prickly Pear Cactus Pads Easy Grow Edible Plant

• Freshly Cut
• Easy to Grow
• Edible
• Napalitas
• Food for pet lizards and tortoises
  
• Retail cost in grocery stores $3.97 a pound
• Grow in full sun or part shade

Prickly Pear Cactus Pads Freshly Cut Hardy Easy to Grow. The edible pads are also known as Napalitas and can be eaten raw in salads or cooked on an outdoor grill. I have been told that the larger of the pet lizards love the juicy pads and the fruit. If used for salads or cooking, the pads can be wrapped in paper towels, placed in a plastic bag in the refrigerator where they will stay fresh for up to one month.

There is a relatively new book on the healthy benefits of growing and adding Prickly Pear cactus to your diet. Here is a link to read more about it.

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This is a listing for two to three freshly cut Prickly Pear Cactus pads which will be taken from the mother plant on the day of shipment. Otherwise known as Opuntia Acicularis, this cactus is super easy to grow. Can be grown in areas of full or part sun and shade. Our Prickly Pear is on the east side of our home. See photo below which was taken on April 9, 2008. The plant to the left of the cactus is our banana plant. We are firm believers in having our yard work for us...we have peach, grapefruit, orange and fig trees, as well as blueberries, aloe vera plants and ferns. We live in northern Florida where we do have hard freezes in the winter, and in the summers the temperature can get up in the high 90's. Full planting instructions included. You will enjoy your plants for both their decorative and food value. The pads will be shipped by USPS Priority mail. I can ship to all US states, EXCEPT California, Texas and Hawaii.

The third picture is a Greek tortoise and one of my buyers owns a female who loves my Prickly pear cactus and Dandelions too! Her name is Tuttle.

Growing or propagating directions:

To start new prickly pear cactus plants from an existing one, cut off a few individual pads of the prickly pear with a long, sharp knife. Cut at the pad joint. Let each section or pad sit so that the cut section dries a little, perhaps for a day or two. Then place each pad cut side down in sandy potting soil. It's helpful to use tongs or several newspaper sheets folded to handle and move prickly pear pads. Water to wet potting mix, but avoid the temptation to water frequently or heavily. Each pad section should develop roots within several weeks to two months. After rooting, you can transplant to a sunny and dry, well-drained location or to individual pots of sandy, well-drained soil.