[emma_mcraf]

Originally Posted by tortoiseuk

Hi Emma, long time, finally the forum is back hein?

They love all opuntias, ofcourse the spineless varieties are the preferred ones, BUT they eat well the spines ones
they cope really well, with the spines, usually we get worried, but they are used to it
in either case to younger torts you can easily lightly flame the cactus and all the glochides (spines) will be burnt off and then you chop everything up and mix with all the other weeds

Yes it's certainly good to be back.
I keep meaning to get some, hence wondering if there was a particular favourite. I think I'll go for the spineless varieties. I had a bad experience years and years ago when I knocked over a cactus and decided to catch it!! I was pregnant at the time, hence being so stupid (baby brain) and it took about an hour to pull out all the spines from my fingers. Ouch!

I'm off to the garden centre next month. I shall see what I can find.....