Harvesting and Processing a Prickly Pear Cactus - DIY

Prickly pear cactus offers a juicy fruit called a tuna. The juice can be made for jellies, candy, and drinks just to name a few. This video will show you how to harvest and process the prickly pear tuna to extract the juice.
There's a few ways to go about processing the prickly pear tuna. The method in the video is my preferred and cheaper method.
My camera view got wonky at times. I apologize!

[@LagerThanLife]

Wow, that plant produces a lot of fruits !

[@adrenaline328]

Thank you for this tutorial! So cool to see the fruits lose their color like that!

[@osama_sarhan]

Thank you for this wonderful video,keep good work. i inspired by your video.

[@nevereverforever0010-uf9su]

YUMMM LOVE THESE sooo soo lucky

[@rawsmj]

Thank you for sharing the process, but please keep the camera still (barf bag needed after). Can’t keep my eyes on the video and missed a-lot of helpful hints. Thank you again.

[@cassandrarousos3555]

Wait so you rinse them then dump them on the dirty ground?

[@Nicknightshade]

He rinsed them to blast off the thorns, the skin of the prickly pear fruit has a lot of tiny hairlike thorns that need to be removed. Blasting them with water, heating them up, skinning them, etc.

[@mickcharlesbeaver4331]

Any idea which variety you have?

[@mitchy02]

Sorry, no.

[@johnjslatteryherbalist]

Prickly pear are notoriously promiscuous. That is, they cross breed regularly. This appears to have the traits of Opuntia englemannii or perhaps a bit of Opuntia phaeacantha, both native to the Sonoran desert.

[@alexandermonzon8165]

​@@johnjslatteryherbalisthella knowledge I'm trynna learn tasted a Tuna today delicioso😊

[@pbxh6740]

There’s really no other way than to use a bunch of water in the desert?

[@jlonzgaming1761]

Fire or skinning the fruit

[@SICKFRESH619]

Nice try bro, but everything from harvesting, cleaning, and processing is subpar.

[@nevereverforever0010-uf9su]

hope u didnt harvest all...
fruit and food is getting hatfer and harder for animals to find food.\
keep some leave most

[@kmg7708]

Horrible camera work. Consider having someone hold camera or get a stand of some sort

[@Kahreeyo]

Lol it's just some dude

[@KhanhTheLearner]

Do you honestly expect a whole Hollywood crew for a self made youtube video?