1, cold salad

Cactus is edible not only in spheres, but also in flowers. Flowers in bud are picked at flowering stage, cleaned and dried to make cold salad, or made into fruit salad with other vegetables. Cut the cactus flowers according to your own preferences, blanch them in water, and then add seasonings with different flavors to the cold salad.

2. Fried food

The cactus flower is radial, with a diameter of about 5 cm, the receptacle is obovate, and the petals are broadly obovate or narrowly obovate. Cactus flowers can also be fried and eaten together with other foods, such as scrambled eggs with cactus flowers and diced meat with cactus flowers, and can also be wrapped in flour and fried or fried.

Methods of promoting cactus flowering

The flowering time of cactus is from March to May every year, and it will only bloom if the cactus is properly maintained. Some species of cactus can bloom, such as cactus with crab claws, and some species of cactus cannot bloom, such as leaf-type forest cactus.

Cactus likes light and is resistant to heat. During cultivation, the temperature should be controlled above 20℃, and it should be shaded when the light is too strong in summer, and sufficient nutrients should be provided for the plants in winter. At the same time, the frequency of watering should be well grasped, and water should be poured every 10- 15 days to promote cactus flowering.

In order to maintain the vigorous growth of cactus, it is necessary to prune the old branches that rarely bloom, so as not to waste nutrients, and pay attention to not letting cactus get wet in the rainy season, and the plants that get wet will be rotted by the sun again, which will affect the growth.