I don’t know why I’m like this, but I love my opuntias. Glochids be damned.
MrClewesMan
Uufff i absolutely detest this plant !! Had a hugggee one in the garden planted into the ground. Shit spreads like nobodies business.
When trying to prune/destroy it, all then micro hairs went airborne and all over me. Ended up transporting them all the way to bed, loads of clothes, showered twice and still felt those little pricks from hell.
Tried to demolish it 2 months ago, and like a hydra, its already growing back waayyy more heads than before 🥲
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Best admired at s distance
fursnake7
I used to have a number of different Opuntia species from “bunny ears” to “pencil” to “pinecone” to the usual “beaver tail.” They were big and healthy and beautiful, but I got SO tired of the tiny, NASTY glochids in my hands and clothes. I ripped them all out. (The last straw was actually when I backed into a “jumping cholla,” and the big evil spines penetrated my jeans and went into my backside!😱 My husband, laughing hysterically, had to get a pair of kitchen tongs and yank them out! I was not laughing.😡
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Ah yes been there, know what it’s like.
Nope. Maybe YOU do!! 🙂↔️
I don’t know why I’m like this, but I love my opuntias. Glochids be damned.
Uufff i absolutely detest this plant !! Had a hugggee one in the garden planted into the ground. Shit spreads like nobodies business.
When trying to prune/destroy it, all then micro hairs went airborne and all over me. Ended up transporting them all the way to bed, loads of clothes, showered twice and still felt those little pricks from hell.
Tried to demolish it 2 months ago, and like a hydra, its already growing back waayyy more heads than before 🥲
Best admired at s distance
I used to have a number of different Opuntia species from “bunny ears” to “pencil” to “pinecone” to the usual “beaver tail.” They were big and healthy and beautiful, but I got SO tired of the tiny, NASTY glochids in my hands and clothes. I ripped them all out. (The last straw was actually when I backed into a “jumping cholla,” and the big evil spines penetrated my jeans and went into my backside!😱 My husband, laughing hysterically, had to get a pair of kitchen tongs and yank them out! I was not laughing.😡