hello Dirtaddshp,
I believe it should bear edible fruit, taste might be another story.

Did you make the cuts on the mature part of the plant? Almost looks like the way people who farm tuna (cacti fruit) cut their plants. I believe if you like, you may also make nopales from it (nopales = cacti as a veg). Again some opuntia taste better than others.

A word of advice, if you do get fruit (tuna) use tongs to hold it over a flame to burn all the glochoids off. Pulling and invisible spine out of your tongue is difficult......uh, from what I hear.

-Ethan

yes they are cuttings, i probely took 10 cuttings from the mature plant.

all i got last spring were these bumbs at the end, and then flowers on top. are the bulbs edible?

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a complete guess, you have opuntia ficus indica???? The second picture looks much better. The bumps are the fruits, though most will change color when ripe. Perhaps your cacti is not old enough to hold fruit to maturity? Some plants the fruit will remain green or turn a slight orange, others will get DARK puple, and all sorts of variation in between. Usually late summer early fall (about now) you will see the ripe fruit appearing in stores, esp. ethnic ones.

The pads are edible too, they are called nopales. If in doubt, pick one of the fruits, flame off the spines, cut in half and try. The section with the hard seeds to me tastes the best, the closer to the skin, the more "cacti" you taste. The best "tuna" I've had tasted like an extremely rich watermelon with mullberry undertones. Others were very insipid.

-Ethan

no the secound pic is just one i found off the internet. i just wanted you to know what the Pods look like.

if you need better pics i can get some. but they all did flower this spring.. dosnt that mean they reached maturity.

the "pods" in the second photo are the fruit, if yours produced these, that would be the part that would ripen and change color. If they only bloomed but did not produce fruit, perhaps???? it could be pollenation, size, enviroment, age (based upon other experience, not opuntia)? Unfortunately I dont have a definitive answer for you. Most the ones I've seen with fruit are larger clumps, maybe it just needs more time.

good luck,
-Ethan