My husband and I just discovered your videos and we're binging them. We love the Arizona landscape. Thank you for teaching us so much so effectively!!!
Wife and I went to Apache Junction for vacation earlier this year and experienced either a silver or teddy bear cholla. We were out for a morning walk and seen this cool looking cactus somewhat low to the ground with a few small buds laying around it. Not having a clue, I nudge a bud with my foot and it was like Velcro sticking to my shoe. Of course I attempt to pick it off my shoe and have this bud stuck to my finger. After a couple tugs and a choice word or two it was back on the ground. I had a couple sore red pokes on my finger and hand to say the least. Needless to say I didn’t mess with it as we came back by the Cholla on our way back to our rental. Did some searching on the internet to figure our what it was and seen some images of the barbed thorns. No wonder it’s like Velcro and hurts like 🤬 when pulling them out. Still not sure if it was a teddy Bear or silver cholla. Beautiful cactus though. We are from Michigan so we had no clue not to touch it but learn something new everyday. Enjoyed your video!
Great video, Kurt! The info presented is nicely portrayed through your photos. The charted summaries are wonderful. This would have been so useful yesterday during our hike at San Tan Regional Park...oh well, another day! I appreciate all your work putting these videos together.
Good video. From a survival point of view it would be good to point out the useful parts of all these cacti such as edibility of flower fruit plant body and roots along with the medicinal properties of them as well. Thank you!
Thanks for the specific feedback. I did provide as much of that info that I have, the edibility of the Xmas cactus fruit and the staghorn buds. To my knowledge, there isn’t much use for the rest of the plant.
I can grow some species of cylindropuntias in KY. I like them because they add some height to my cactus and succulent garden. Most of the species of cactus do not grow very tall for this climate (6b).
That’s very interesting Andrea. When I lived in Minnesota the Landscape Arboretum had a patch of prickly pears that they covered with straw every winter.
Thank you for your informative video! I came here, because I heard the cholla cactus cures diabetes.I believe that our Attraction to succulents and plants has practical usages that are extremely profound, yet overlooked, but our spirit knows. You too recognize native Americans used it! We, plant lovers and researchers, dedicate so much of our lives to what we deem a hobby, or past time or like their aesthetics, but that Attraction serves a purpose! We look at what is overlooked;plants, cacti, succulents, despite their seemingly useless medicinal properties to society, but nature doesn't create anything without a purpose, despite what the medical industry says. By thinking we know, we deny ourselves ever knowing. But our attraction serves a purpose much greater than we even know. Mother nature is giving us answers in the form of plant life. Everything is a certain shape for a certain reason, it's clues to their purpose to us. look at everything as if someone created it with intelligence, humor, creative design, and purpose. What would you design, and how would you leave clues in it's design? Nature is intelligent and humorous and medicinal and telling us things through life itself.
What a delightful comment! I have read that prickly pear cactus lowers blood sugar and is good for diabetics, but hadn’t heard that about cholla. Thank you for taking the time and energy to pen such a nice note!
@@KurtPapke ty for making that video! Very inspiring, thanks to yourself😁👏 really helped me identify it and learn. I kept going back and writing because I was inspired by what you were talking about. Like hearing a truth that rings completely true from someone completely different from somewhere else. 😅 Have a good day!
My husband and I just discovered your videos and we're binging them. We love the Arizona landscape. Thank you for teaching us so much so effectively!!!
I very much appreciate your kind words. You made my day!
To me Cholla are the most beautiful of all the desert plants ❤️❤️
They do have their own type of beauty!
Thanks for the video! Well put-together and will help me as a guide in the Sonoran Desert.
Thanks, I appreciate the comment!
Keep up the good work you’re helping a lot of people
Thanks Nogs, I appreciate your encouragement!
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Wife and I went to Apache Junction for vacation earlier this year and experienced either a silver or teddy bear cholla. We were out for a morning walk and seen this cool looking cactus somewhat low to the ground with a few small buds laying around it. Not having a clue, I nudge a bud with my foot and it was like Velcro sticking to my shoe. Of course I attempt to pick it off my shoe and have this bud stuck to my finger. After a couple tugs and a choice word or two it was back on the ground. I had a couple sore red pokes on my finger and hand to say the least. Needless to say I didn’t mess with it as we came back by the Cholla on our way back to our rental. Did some searching on the internet to figure our what it was and seen some images of the barbed thorns. No wonder it’s like Velcro and hurts like 🤬 when pulling them out. Still not sure if it was a teddy Bear or silver cholla. Beautiful cactus though. We are from Michigan so we had no clue not to touch it but learn something new everyday.
Enjoyed your video!
Thank you for the great story!
Thank you for the information. I learned something new. 😊
That’s great to hear, thanks for letting me know!
Awesome! Thanks for a trip to the desert. Miss the southwest.
Glad you enjoyed it! Come back and visit during bloom season!
Great video, Kurt! The info presented is nicely portrayed through your photos. The charted summaries are wonderful. This would have been so useful yesterday during our hike at San Tan Regional Park...oh well, another day! I appreciate all your work putting these videos together.
Thanks James, for the specific feedback and kind words. It was a lot of work, so the comments mean a lot to me.
I've been watching this cholla cactus attacks for days before sleep 😂
LOL! I’m glad this video is useful for something :-)
Great video! Thanks!
Thanks for your kind words!
Good video. From a survival point of view it would be good to point out the useful parts of all these cacti such as edibility of flower fruit plant body and roots along with the medicinal properties of them as well. Thank you!
Thanks for the specific feedback. I did provide as much of that info that I have, the edibility of the Xmas cactus fruit and the staghorn buds. To my knowledge, there isn’t much use for the rest of the plant.
You the man!
LOL! Thanks!
This video is a hidden youtube gem
I've seen your work on the Tucson HIkes FB group and have a great respect for it, so your kind comment means a lot to me. 👍
❤👍
I can grow some species of cylindropuntias in KY. I like them because they add some height to my cactus and succulent garden. Most of the species of cactus do not grow very tall for this climate (6b).
That’s very interesting Andrea. When I lived in Minnesota the Landscape Arboretum had a patch of prickly pears that they covered with straw every winter.
Thank you for your informative video! I came here, because I heard the cholla cactus cures diabetes.I believe that our Attraction to succulents and plants has practical usages that are extremely profound, yet overlooked, but our spirit knows. You too recognize native Americans used it! We, plant lovers and researchers, dedicate so much of our lives to what we deem a hobby, or past time or like their aesthetics, but that Attraction serves a purpose! We look at what is overlooked;plants, cacti, succulents, despite their seemingly useless medicinal properties to society, but nature doesn't create anything without a purpose, despite what the medical industry says. By thinking we know, we deny ourselves ever knowing. But our attraction serves a purpose much greater than we even know. Mother nature is giving us answers in the form of plant life. Everything is a certain shape for a certain reason, it's clues to their purpose to us. look at everything as if someone created it with intelligence, humor, creative design, and purpose. What would you design, and how would you leave clues in it's design? Nature is intelligent and humorous and medicinal and telling us things through life itself.
What a delightful comment! I have read that prickly pear cactus lowers blood sugar and is good for diabetics, but hadn’t heard that about cholla. Thank you for taking the time and energy to pen such a nice note!
@@KurtPapke ty for making that video! Very inspiring, thanks to yourself😁👏 really helped me identify it and learn. I kept going back and writing because I was inspired by what you were talking about. Like hearing a truth that rings completely true from someone completely different from somewhere else. 😅 Have a good day!
Everything in Arizona has barbs! :)
It looks like cane cholla was cut out of the video.
OMG! Thanks so much for letting me know, now I have to go back in time and figure out what happened!
It's at 19:37, I updated the description to correct it. Thanks so much for pointing that out!!!