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Plant name: Santa Rita Prickly Pear (Nopal)
Quantity - 8 pads
Note: This prickly pear is organically grown in Arizona.
If you plant oputia Santa Rita, prickly pear, cactus where it gets full sun and it gets stressed with cold then all the pads turns purple in winter.
How to handle a prickly pear pads -
Use tongs to hold them while cleaning and planting them. Wear gloves and long sleeves while handling the cacti, because while they don’t have sharp spines, they may still have small glochids that can be a nuisance. (Glochids are tiny hair-like bristles that grow on the plant.)
How to plant the pads and care:
The prickly pear pads should be dried and callused over a few days and then placed in the ground or a pot of soil. Please place the pot into indirect or filtered sunlight for 4-6 weeks. Then water sparingly. The cactus prefers evenly moist soil in summer, but it is drought tolerant.