Plenty of Opuntia polyacantha var. polyacantha
(Plains pricklypear) In Montana. (Yes, I took some cuttings)
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How were you able to take cuttings… those spines are like a giant bubble around it ! Hopefully they got great fruit tho !
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I cut the pads with a box cutter, then carefully picked them up with my hands. I should note that my skin is thicker than most people’s.
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What are the most robust gloves people are using to handle these? My hands are destroyed after trying with large rubber gloves. I have so much appreciation for the people that handled them to send me paddles!
I got cow hide gloves and they still got full of glochids and I tossed them. You probably need like blacksmithing gloves to be honest. Those things are no joke. I followed someone’s advice and used kitchen tongs to handle them and it helped a lot.
My 2 I got are starting to put out a lot of growth.
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I just use metal bbq tongsso i can use a torch to burn
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Where did you buy them?
I got them from cold hardy cactus
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What are you burning?
The glochids
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