Prickly pear gives plenty of blooms, however once the blooms are spent they don’t produce any fruit.

Plants are three years old

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#1 Comment By BushDoctor On 07/02/2018 @ 5:19 pm

This is usually due to a lack of fertilization, but I am also in zone 7 and it took mine 6 years to send the first fruit out! It is likely that the cultivar is only barely hardy in our area, and will take a lot longer to bear a fruit.

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