Grow Prickly Pear Fruit from Seed! 🌵Cactus Pear/ Shirley Bovshow (#shorts)

Learn how to grow prickly pear fruit (cactus pear) from seed! Shirley Bovshow shows you how to harvest the seed from a prickly pear fruit from her garden in this video #short. The opuntia prickly pear fruit has a large center pouch filled with small hard seeds. Wash the seeds and remove the flesh clinging to them and dry the seeds for one week. Once the seeds are dried, you can store them or plant them in a small pot filled with succulent soil mix. This edible cactus fruit is very juicy, sweet and tart! It has a beautiful magenta color.

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Prickly pear is a delicious tart and sweet fruit! I've got this beautiful Opuntia or "prickly pear" plant growing in my backyard. I'm gonna go take up some of the fruit, peel it, eat it, and harvest the seed. Follow me!

Okay so here is a delicious garnet-colored piece of prickly pear that's been peeled and safe to eat. You can see that in the middle there's a pouch here filled with seeds. Take the seed, wash it, and then you're gonna allow it to dry on a piece of paper like this.

And when it gets nice and dry (probably in about a week) you can go ahead and store them or plant them!

Who loves prickly pear? Raise your hand! I do!

For tips like this, follow me Shirley Bovshow, known as the Eden Maker and the Foodie Gardener!

Prickly pear fruit is known as "tuna" in Mexico. Many people also harvest the edible cactus leaves (known as "nopal") and prepare them in salads and other Mexican cuisine. Be very careful handling the prickly pear fruit as it has very sharp hairs (glochids) that can be difficult to remove!