I cut this from a very large prickly pear cactus about a month ago in the hopes that I could get it to sprout. Since then it’s gone from slightly rooted to a lot more roots. The second to last image is from a week ago, the day I moved it outside to full sun. Should I repot this soon or…?
by sweetdeee33
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Certainly could stand for a bigger pot
There are plenty of roots on it, so yes you can repot it as soon as you like.
If you pot it in-ground it’ll should a ton of paddles within the next few months. Once they know that they’re tapped in they turn a switch and start pumping in every direction. Two years ago I had some opuntia in similar sized pots that barely did anything, grew tons of roots and each pushed a new pad every so often. Last fall I chucked them in ground and each one has added no joke at least 10 some of them close to 20+ paddles in just under a year.
Granted I don’t know the variety I have, they’re from Bethany Beach, DE, but I would think it would be a similar case for most.
If you want to keep it in a pot then the larger the better, now that it has roots you could go fairly big if you really wanted, up to around 3-5 gallons and it would stretch out its roots and grow faster.
If you dont, its going to grow legs and walk away
First off, prickly pear don’t care. It will survive in that and be fine in a huge pot.
YES! Best time to do it too since the seasons just changed.
Today.
this is a joke right??
Prickly pear, survives all sorts of drought situation and grows very well. I would throw that thing in a three or 5 gallon pot or in a garden bed and barely water it. I’m in West Texas and surrounded by it, does the best getting randomly watered barely once a week