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RE: The invasive plant saga: phase 2
These were everywhere in arizona where i grew up. We had all sorts of recipes for them. Wild pigs would always raid our cactus leaving cartoonish bite marks out of the pads.
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The wild pigs were ok with the spines? How did you deal with the glochid spines?
Yeah those javelina eat the spines, they even eat cholla cactus (aka jumping cactus) which are way more spiny. When i used to hunt quail i would see javelina in packs with many of them sporting thorns in their snout.
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Ouch!
The way we dealt with the spines was to burn them off the tiny spines burn up quickly. Usually a natural gas burner for a few seconds gets rid of the tiny fuzzy ones. The rest of the big ones are cutoff with a paring knife. A fancy kitchen blow torch would do the job perfectly but i used my range burners.
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Thanks for that, sounds exactly right. I'll also use the kitchen gas stove