May 9, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 17 segments
Today I am talking about one of the strongest cacti that I grow, Tree cholla or Cylindropuntia Imbricata subs Spinosior. It is a plant i have farmed for many years and been impressed by. It is an…
But they discovered that the Cylindropuntia genetically are much different in their DNA than Opuntia, right? So somewhere along the evolutionary chain, they probably had a common ancestor, but they separated, right? So humans have started to reclassify a lot of plants um, not based on how before it was their, you know, physical, uh, you know, traits, but based on their, uh, timeline of where they evolved into their own genus, right, so I could give you the example of Hespero Allo and Hespero Yucca, Which used to be part of Yucca, right? So think with Yucca, you know, Yucca Gloriosa, right? The giant Yucca mound that it's referred to.
um you have yucca elephant uh what is it elephant uh titus or something like that no is that the disease i forget it's something like elephant but it's the main one that you see in landscaping you know the one that really easily propagates kind of looks like cane sugar or some it's stock um these yuccas that produce edible flowers are commonly referred to as flor de isote in you know central american mexican culture they're all one genus but then hespero yucca and hespero aloe You know, Hespera aloe, for instance, red yucca.
See, like, even the name of it used to be yucca, right? They found out it's a whole different genus.
Then, I give the example here, Hespera yucca whipley, which we've discussed, you know, at length.
But as far as I understand, yuccas are polycarpic, which means that they flower and they don't die.
They flower every year or every few years.
Now, Hespero aloe, I'm not so sure exactly.
That's not my focus.
Aloe, although, you know, Like if I could grow aloes, like if I was in Santa Barbara or San Diego, bro, I'd be talking about aloe just as much as agave and cactus because of its grand potential to be a crop in California.
And I've discussed how, you know, I know people already distilling it from California grown aloe, you know, in, you know, the Camarillo area here in Southern California.
So aloe has a lot of potential.
Haspero aloe is something that I know I could dry farm on the farm.
uh so you know i just need to put some research into it it's definitely a crop that i could benefit from as well um you know so that that should be interesting and if i'm not mistaken hespero aloe and hespero yuca are still like yuca that they're in this greater family of uh uh, you know, the, uh, asparagus, right, so the, uh, what do they call it, well, I think that's how they call it in English, too, but, you know, the asparagus family, right, includes everything from agave to yuccas to asparaguccas to, uh, lots of different stuff, right, um, but yeah, yeah, getting, you know, back to the point that cilindro punta is much like this newer classification that they found out that, it's way different, right, so, and that kind of makes sense, right, because a lot of the cylindral puntia, right, they have cylindrical, uh, pads, right, and, um, that's a new mutation that, you know, nature made, and most of the cylindral puntias, which, you know, I commonly refer to them, many of them as cholas, uh, because many, the majority of the family, a lot of it is cholas, um you know which which could i guess be a subcategory there uh they're all very uh dry or uh drought tolerant and they have a high potential to be dry farmed right so tree chola silver chola teddy bear chola all of these cholas from the southwest including a lot of these other cilindro puntia that more look like opuntias um a lot of them have a lot of or a lot of them have significant dry farming potential but the ones that i have are you know silver chola which is native to my land which i've been propagating a lot and you know we've actually come across some good there because you know the the cactus that i'm talking about today cilindro puntia imbricata subspecies spinosaur which i'll refer to now as just spinosaur The spinosaur produces crazy fruit, grows like fucking crazy.
But they discovered that the Cylindropuntia genetically are much different in their DNA than Opuntia, right? So somewhere along the evolutionary chain, they probably had a common ancestor, but they separated, right? So humans have started to reclassify a lot of plants um, not based on how before it was their, you know, physical, uh, you know, traits, but based on their, uh, timeline of where they evolved into their own genus, right, so I could give you the example of Hespero Allo and Hespero Yucca, Which used to be part of Yucca, right? So think with Yucca, you know, Yucca Gloriosa, right? The giant Yucca mound that it's referred to.
um you have yucca elephant uh what is it elephant uh titus or something like that no is that the disease i forget it's something like elephant but it's the main one that you see in landscaping you know the one that really easily propagates kind of looks like cane sugar or some it's stock um these yuccas that produce edible flowers are commonly referred to as flor de isote in you know central american mexican culture they're all one genus but then hespero yucca and hespero aloe You know, Hespera aloe, for instance, red yucca.
See, like, even the name of it used to be yucca, right? They found out it's a whole different genus.
Then, I give the example here, Hespera yucca whipley, which we've discussed, you know, at length.
But as far as I understand, yuccas are polycarpic, which means that they flower and they don't die.
They flower every year or every few years.
Now, Hespero aloe, I'm not so sure exactly.
That's not my focus.
Aloe, although, you know, Like if I could grow aloes, like if I was in Santa Barbara or San Diego, bro, I'd be talking about aloe just as much as agave and cactus because of its grand potential to be a crop in California.
And I've discussed how, you know, I know people already distilling it from California grown aloe, you know, in, you know, the Camarillo area here in Southern California.
So aloe has a lot of potential.
Haspero aloe is something that I know I could dry farm on the farm.
uh so you know i just need to put some research into it it's definitely a crop that i could benefit from as well um you know so that that should be interesting and if i'm not mistaken hespero aloe and hespero yuca are still like yuca that they're in this greater family of uh uh, you know, the, uh, asparagus, right, so the, uh, what do they call it, well, I think that's how they call it in English, too, but, you know, the asparagus family, right, includes everything from agave to yuccas to asparaguccas to, uh, lots of different stuff, right, um, but yeah, yeah, getting, you know, back to the point that cilindro punta is much like this newer classification that they found out that, it's way different, right, so, and that kind of makes sense, right, because a lot of the cylindral puntia, right, they have cylindrical, uh, pads, right, and, um, that's a new mutation that, you know, nature made, and most of the cylindral puntias, which, you know, I commonly refer to them, many of them as cholas, uh, because many, the majority of the family, a lot of it is cholas, um you know which which could i guess be a subcategory there uh they're all very uh dry or uh drought tolerant and they have a high potential to be dry farmed right so tree chola silver chola teddy bear chola all of these cholas from the southwest including a lot of these other cilindro puntia that more look like opuntias um a lot of them have a lot of or a lot of them have significant dry farming potential but the ones that i have are you know silver chola which is native to my land which i've been propagating a lot and you know we've actually come across some good there because you know the the cactus that i'm talking about today cilindro puntia imbricata subspecies spinosaur which i'll refer to now as just spinosaur The spinosaur produces crazy fruit, grows like fucking crazy.
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