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Agreed, it's going to take at least another year or more before i can harvest pads regularly.Phil_SK wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:17 pm If you've got O. humifusa/compressa then I'd say you've already got the best option. I have this same Monmouth Co, NJ form and, for the size of plant, I'd say it produces new pads at a pretty fast rate for an Opuntia. If you could accommodate a 3m x 2m O.ficus-indica then, yes, the mass of new pads would be more than enough but a single rooted pad might not even produce one each year for the first few years. Break up your O. humifusa, root all the bits in rich but well-drained compost, keep it in the garden and I'd say that by the third year there should be enough new growth to provide a dozen pads for eating each year. If the attention paid to my plant by the snails and slugs is anything to go by, you'd be as well to train him to eat molluscs.
Found this site earlier by chance, which could add to the variety on offer.... this tortoise, he's name is Zeus! is going to be spoilt for choice!
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