I have gotten an over whelming interest in top tier Prickly Pear (Opuntia sp.) pads. Unfortunately, my plants are container bound at the moment and availability is limited to pads until summer. I have talked to many people some I have promised pads for sourcing, trading, or sale. For those that are interested in being added to the list please add a message below.
The pad cost is going to be $4 per pad + shipping, pads are medium to large in size. If I agreed to a trade, remind me what it was. I think this is fair price to help cover the fertilizer inputs, cost of driving (for selections), and keeping up the collection.
Here is the list of what I have available.
Opuntia sp.: Cerritos #2
Extra Large Red/Orange Fruit with a sweet taste, extremely productive medium hard seeds. Potentially good processing fruit (juice, wine, puree). Might be prone to rotting fruit if not harvested in timely manner.
Opuntia sp: Visalia Yellow
Large yellow fruit, with refreshing moderate sweet flavor. This is one of those prickly pears that makes you easy want to crave more. Moderate amount of hard smaller seeds. Upright growth habit, moderate production.
Opuntia sp: Torrance PCH#1
Large red fruit with red interior. Excellent sweet flavor with subtle watermelon taste. Soft small seeds that can be broken down by teeth. Low spreading growth habit. Fruit resistant to rotting due to moisture/humidity. Fruit holds on plant for months through the winter, while maintaining great eating qualities. Production moderate to low.
Opuntia sp. Jeronimo M.V.
Large orange fruit with orange interior. Excellent honeydew melon taste. Soft small seeds. Moderate production.
All PARL accessions were selected for high BRIX over 12.
Opuntia sp. PARL 244
Medium sized yellow with orange interior fruit. Excellent honeydew melon taste. Precocious and single fruit was seedless (this may be due to no cross pollination occurring, also pad was smaller) This year I can confirm if this happens again. Differs slightly from NALPGRU description. So I am not sure if this is due to different growing conditions or size of plant.
Opuntia sp. PARL 237
You can look up accession in the system. Will add more info while growing it.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?PARLOpuntia sp. PARL 246
You can look up accession in the system. Will add more info while growing it.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?PARLOpuntia sp. PARL 253
You can look up accession in the system. Will add more info while growing it.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?PARLOpuntia sp. PARL 254
You can look up accession in the system. Will add more info while growing it.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?PARLOpuntia sp. PARL 256
You can look up accession in the system. Will add more info while growing it.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?PARLOpuntia sp. PARL 262
You can look up accession in the system. Will add more info while growing it.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?PARLOpuntia sp. PARL 342
You can look up accession in the system. Will add more info while growing it.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/site.pl?PARLOpuntia sp. P.V. Spineless #1
Upright vigorous grower, growing near the ocean in SoCal. Fruit is Yellow/Red Medium/Large. Unfortunately, I was unable to taste any of the ripe fruit. The fruit is readily consumed by the local wild life, where as many other Opuntia sp. are left behind.
