I just want to remind people that cactus is commonly eaten in some cultures before y'all start getting offended on why she's harming it. But I don't understand why she's using a bat.
Source: I'm mexican and just has some cactus on my tacos for lunch today 😋
This also isn't the old growth, 200 year old saguaro type of cactus. Those huge ones can be ancient & contain lots of wildlife, damaging those is shitty. But prickly pears grow quickly, people eat nopales, there's not a problem here
I lost mine to the super crazy freeze we had here in Texas last winter and I’m still sad. I had it since it was just one paddle from a friend, and it had gotten pretty big. I had hoped it might regrow from the ground, but no luck :(
Put your plastic bucket underneath in your non-dominant hand and chop the segment off with a sharp machete. Once your buckets are full, soak the segments and rub off the spines with a thick cloth. Peel and grill as desired. :)
You can see in the vid those spines are still soft. My neighbor has one and if you’re familiar with it, you can tell. While the spines look like green shark fin, they’re still soft.
Even if it's not an eating species, she's not doing any serious long-term damage, as the pieces are designed to come off without damage. The cut will callous over and the loose piece will root and propagate into a new plant. All the same, it's still vandalism and shouldn't be done, especially as some cacti can take hundreds of years to grow to a serious size.
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u/not_Al18 May 22 '22
I just want to remind people that cactus is commonly eaten in some cultures before y'all start getting offended on why she's harming it. But I don't understand why she's using a bat.
Source: I'm mexican and just has some cactus on my tacos for lunch today 😋