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The listing, Small Peruvian Apple Cactus + 10 seeds has ended.
This is an auction for a small Peruvian Apple Cactus I started myself from seed. I will also include 10 seed in this auction for the same plant. Happy bidding and thanks for checking out my auction!
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Goggle this! Peruvian Apple Cactus bloom & Fruit - YouTube Fantastic time lapse showing the plant flowering with subtitles!
he Peruvian Apple Cactus, Cereus repandus, is a large, erect, thorny columnar cactus found in South America as well as the nearby ABC Islands of the Dutch Caribbean. It is also known as Giant Club Cactus, Hedge Cactus.
With an often tree-like appearance, the Peruvian Apple Cactus' cylindrical gray-green to blue stems can reach 10 metres (33 ft) in height and 10–20 cm in diameter. The nocturnal flowers remain open for only one night. The fruits, known locally as "pitaya" or Peruvian Apple, are thornless and vary in skin colour from violet-red to yellow. The edible flesh is white and contains small, edible, crunchy seeds. The flesh sweetens as the fruit opens out fully.
Cereus repandus is an unresearched, under-utilized cactus, grown mostly as an ornamental plant. It has some local culinary importance. The Wayuu from the La Guajira Peninsula of Colombia and Venezuela also use the inner cane-like wood of the plant in wattle and daub construction. These seeds are fresh and they do not remain viable for very long. *******Plants will stand very high temperatures but are not too frost hardy. Should survive to the mid to upper 20's (F).
fan & Watchin Nice looking cacti about how long if you recall did it take for the seed to emerge? I started several different seeds of cacti and 1st time and was just wondering. Mine are still not up and it`s been almost 3 weeks,
I tried 2 ways, I had germination both ways but I believe the best way was moist cotton ball. the other was in soil with sand to cover... I think that the cotton was more successful. It seemed I had at least 80% germination. I just wanted to observe what was going on with the seed so it was a nice thing to have that work.