Picking - Learning To Cut - Tasting - First Prickly Pears 

I was yelling “nooooo” when you went to touch them with bare hands, not aware of the super annoying hairy prickles! I’m one of those people who grew up with prickly pears, and they’re one of my favourite fruit ever! You can use tongs to harvest them, or a tin can on a stick if they’re high up. To eat them we cut off around 1cm off the top and bottom end and make a horizontal slice along the “cylinder”. Then you can use a knife and fork to peel all the skin off. Enjoy!

Congratulations on your first harvest! 😊 I have eaten them before, they grow in my hole country. And it’s because of you that I could see for the first time the cactus! Thank you for that! 🙂 I’m impressed that it can grow in your climate!

I got some of those the other day from a friend in a bucket. I found if you run them through a gas flame it blunts/burns those little hairy prickles off and makes them alot easier to handle. I think they taste better than the flashier dragon fruits.

Lol I only ever picked the fruit with my hands once! Think they call the fruit tunas in Mexico

I live vicariously through you in your fruit paradise whilst I wait for mine to establish 😂

What u do is cut about quarter of an inch from the top and bottom and then run about 1/8 of an inch deep cut with a knife vertically and it should peel off easily

Hi George! Thanks for showing us very interesting fruit of the world! I had never known such a fruit existed. Looks very juicy. How long did it take for your cactus to fruit? BTW What is your cherimoya variety? Good luck with your choko.

Carrot, beetroot, pitaya, blueberry

Perhaps additionally blueberry flavour, I agree with your flavour profile

Damn those glochids bug the hell out of my skin, incredibly irritating. I use gloves to handle them and burn the hairs off with a lighter. You can normally get the glochids out of your skin with a strong sellotape

Those hairs are annoying. I've used a torch to burn them off before, or a leather glove to rub them around until they are worn off.