My fingers are full of prickles. / myLot

Chile

October 3, 2016 3:42pm CST

I was going to garden a bit and then come back to read and comment here at mylot. But that is not possible today. I started to clean up some of my cacti and even if I wore leather gloves, I managed to pinch ,y fingers with some pickles. And THEY HURT! It is next to imposible to write. I will see how I can get some of them out. Meanwhile, forget me if I cannot post or answer. I went to the cacti war and came back wounded.

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Jose Juan

@quantum2020 (12040)

• Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico

3 Oct 16

One day off from the computer and posting action won´t hurt you as much as those needles did.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215389)

• Chile

3 Oct 16

True. But I did want to clean up those cacti.

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Linda Cann Pearson

@LindaCPearson (2241)

• United States

3 Oct 16

Ouch! I hope you can get them all out without too much pain.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215389)

• Chile

3 Oct 16

I just discover how to take them out. Of course, I discovered how to do it after my hands were a mess.

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Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

3 Oct 16

Sorry you came back wounded, not pleasant for sure. WE will be here when recuperate from your hurt.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215389)

• Chile

4 Oct 16

I´m still likcing my fingers after a whole day.

Carol Brown

@blitzfrick (2890)

• United States

4 Oct 16

OWIE! I don't know what kind of cactus you're dealing with, but a few years back I lived in cactus country and had a big prickly pear cactus in my flower garden. My tools for handling and pruning it evolved over time, finally ending with leather gloves, pliers to hold the cactus pads, and a large serrated knife to saw them off the main plant. Good luck getting those little stickers out!

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marguicha

@marguicha (215389)

• Chile

4 Oct 16

I have leather gloves, but I still wasn´t careful enough.

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Carol Brown

@blitzfrick (2890)

• United States

4 Oct 16

@marguicha What kind of cactii are you dealing with? Leather gloves were inadequate for me too, which is why I added pliers to my "cactus tools" at the same time I added the long-bladed serrated knife. Right now I'm battling thistles, new to my garden this year, ugh.

James Higgins

@JamesHxstatic (29242)

• Eugene, Oregon

3 Oct 16

Those kinds of prickles are very painful.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215389)

• Chile

4 Oct 16

I know!

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Jim stewart

@saulgoodman (2643)

• Dundee, Scotland

3 Oct 16

Hello again. Sorry to hear about your woes with prickly Cacti. Wouldn't even be able to hazard a guess at how to remove them from fingers but I am thinking tweezers. Thistles are similar but are weeds so we dig them up by the roots and the sheep eat them. Wonder how the prickles don't hurt the sheep's tongues.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215389)

• Chile

4 Oct 16

Maybe their tongues are not as delicate as my fingers.

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Jim stewart

@saulgoodman (2643)

• Dundee, Scotland

4 Oct 16

@marguicha its amazing to see them munching away!!