Tyler Ludens wrote:I've not tried rooting the pads that you can sometimes find at the grocery, but you might try that.
Pads from the grocers are not likely to put out roots. The reason is that the grocer almost certainly uses nopalitos tiernos, tender young pads that have just grown out. These are the best to eat, but I have never gotten one to put out roots. By the following year, they will be full of stronger fibers and veins, and they have a very good chance. If you are in a place that gets cold in winter, you should plant them early in the warm season so that they have put out roots and sprouted a first few new pads by fall.
