Sharing… September 2022 I received 4 Purple Prickly Pads from Arizona that I had purchased through Etsy. By the Spring of 2023 I had accidentally drowned 2 of the 4 pads. By Fall of 2023 2 new pads had formed on top of the pads I did not kill. Now mid Summer 2024 and I have 8 Purple Prickly Pads. 2 turned into 4. 4 turned into 8. In Philadelphia!
And each pad is like 6” wide!
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Wow what a comeback! I love the shape and color of this variety!
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Pad City! Good work.
Look at you with the indirect light shade for your kids. Well done!
1 like It’s doing well during these 100(0) F days. I guess it’s doing GOOD.
0 likes Wow 4 weeks ago seems like such a long time right now. Today is cloudy and I’m just getting over a bad cold that has kept me in bed all week with a fever. (I’m probably pushing it right now.) Anyway, someone said it’s the end of August already. I think they are lying and told them to shut up. If it was the end of August what would you do with the upcoming fall and winter season for these guys who came from Arizona, lived inside for two years during the winter, and now it’s their third winter coming in Philadelphia. A If they can be carried and placed anywhere sunny then bring them in. Even if I have to sleep outside because they over run a bedroom. B. Bring them in whenever there is a really cold deep freeze for an extended period of time. Otherwise leave them in the sun outside. C. Say “See you in the Spring.”, walk away from the cactus outside, close and lock the back door, and wait for Spring.
This lives outside all year in Northern Utah. It gets covered in snow, and then heat blasted in the summer. BUT it's planted in the ground. I remind myself the latter when I get ideas of leaving many of the opuntia on the porch.
Hey Dave, Have you ever thought of, or needed to, sell some of your cacti pads at a local street fair? My community has a Fall Yard sale event where a spot can be purchased to setup a table to sell items. The spot is $25.00. I was thinking of getting at least 50 pots and creating all kinds of padded succulent or cactus pots. The bigger the pad then price goes up. I just thought of the following. Instead of bringing the pads potted I could bring the pots what I have pads in and allow the people to choose which pad they would like me to cut and sell to them. This way they see the healthy plant it comes from and I don’t have too many cuttings when it’s over. What do you think of that?
I love that. I had similar thoughts until I started fighting bugs. The “pick out your own” makes me really happy.
0 likes I plan on putting these gigantic ones on the kitchen bar under boring old LED lights, which is what they grew with when living at a supermarket.
That’s the funny thing about winter around here. This prickly pair cactus has been on my neighbors wall, & outside, for 15 years that I’ve been here. It’s the plants where I snipped a pad one year and then snipped another pad the next year as they hang over the wall in the alleyway. 15 years outside in the elements never cared for because it’s a renters home, the owners don’t actually live there, and it has fruit each year and just looks like it’s something that is more appropriate for Halloween like the zombie cactus. I left two fig trees outside all year this year in pots. Fig tree one is in a 2 inch thick terra-cotta pot . And it stayed in the backyard where it got sun, but not a lot of sun. Fig tree two is in a ceramic pot. That is about 1 inch thick and it’s sat outside all winter in the front of the house. Both fig trees survived the winter last winter, but then again it wasn’t cold and it didn’t snow. The fig tree in the back did not produce leaves or figs as quickly as the tree on the front. If anything I had to move the tree in the back to the front to help spur it along. I could leave all of the prickly pads outside in the front of my home, which gets sunlight for maybe four to five hours and that’s more than the back gets, which is like two hours. My street runs north south. So my front door faces West. a southerly facing sun is not in the cars. Unless I want people running over the cactus with their cars. I wish I had access to my roof because then I could just put them there and they would get some for as much as available during the winter time in Philadelphia . I’m so confused
