This Is The Easiest Plant To Grow & It Produces Copious Amounts Of Food! Prickly Pear AKA (Opuntia)

Never needs water, fertilizer or anything else. Just harvest and enjoy! Being that it's cold hardy down to USDA climate zone 4A, just about anyone can give it a grow!

[wade]

Grew up on them. Grandpa had a huge field of Cactus Pear. Best summer fruit after Watermelon. Chill in the fridge for an hour or so before eating.
Side effects: Constipation. 😳

[redherringbone]

My Gramm turned me on to these. She was visiting and we took the dog for a walk. She honed in on a neighbor that had them as a hedge. She asked them if she could have some. They nor I even knew they were edible. Extremely delicious! The seeds are a headache, but the taste is so worth it. We have the purple variety.

[charlesmoussaaaa]

very popular here in Lebanon called " sobair " in arabic, you can put them in water several hours to avoid thorns before peeling, it becomes expensive now..

[gm]

I tried my 1st yellow one it tasted different from the others best thing I've ever tasted, I also tried an orange one, I have one right now. Cheers to Prickly Pear fruits.

[vonries]

Since I live in Florida, I have sand as soil. It drains like a kitchen sink. Water will not sit on the surface. It's either racing downhill and won't take a drop or it flows straight through. It will vanish in an instant. I put all of my cactus in the house's drip line. You would be surprised how much they love water as long as it always drains away. They grow massive quick.

[TheBaroness]

WHAT A FANTASTIC VIDEO ABOUT MY MOST FAVORITE FRUIT ON THE PLANET!
I ACTUALLY FOUND SOME PADS OF VARIOUS SIZES ON A PATHWAY OVERGROWN WITH THESE CACTII...SO I CUT SEVERAL OF THEM TO PLANT.

[jamesballard]

Your plant could benefit from a bit of water. Those pads are rather thin. Just a small amount weekly will massively increase your yield - both in number and fruit size.

[bobbiduval]

Planted two in my yard. Love this fruit!!! Paddles are tasty sauteed with olive oil, butter and garlic, salt and pepper.

[stevencruz]

My grandpa grew this in his yard and it was huge. He would cut a few pads off anytime he wanted. Plan on doing the same now that I own my own house now.

[mindofmadness]

Texan. Grew up using them as Trail Snacks. Spent all my tiem outdoors hiking, hunting fossils and so on-diabetic and never carried water or snacks as I could always stumble upon [[or Thru]] Cactus. Out in NC now, not sure where I might even look for them-they also make a nice 'No Tresspass" Barrir.

[virginiainla]

Prickly pears grow wild here but omg the stickers...! Maybe our wild so cal ones are worse than yours. I pick them anyway but it's a ton of work. They are beet red inside and make fantastic punch. I freeze it in cubes for fun ice cubes

[gm]

What a beautiful plant/video.Thank You. Very impressive

[patriciapolizzi]

watching and laughing from the cactus capital Sanderson, Texas. I am surrounded and inundated with prickly pear while I struggle with a rookie garden. Last winter I harvested dark purple fruits but they were dried out by then. This fall I will have
tons and will get them early to make jelly and juice. Coincidently I have been trying to learn how to compost these nopales in this dry environment. They are so hardy they don't decompose. If you come up with a compost recipe for them I will be the compost queen. Thank you for the timely feature today.

[cyn]

My favorite! I love nopales and the fruit

[susankingblalock]

I found this a few years ago and got me some pads to start them growing for myself.. wicked thorns!! Privacy hedge as well as intruder deterrent!!

[TheTrock]

We get a lot of rain in Central PA, but I'm going to try growing these in raised beds w/ a lot of Perlite.

[ntokozobulunga]

Thanks so much man we enjoy this video

[devonkelly]

thank you for this video! inspired me to start my own plant here on my roof deck in philly!

[giovannipeponi]

Definitely another very common Mediterranean fruit as figs no one grows it because it's growing everywhere by itself it's delicious after leaving it in water for some hours and then freezing it.there is also another variety with blood red fruits which are smaller and much more spiny.

[chrisjanssens]

There are many Opuntia species which are very cold hardy, however the one you are showing would be killed 100 percent in anything less than USDA zone 7a!