Can tolerate a very light frost, and intense blazing full sun heat. Needs little moisture, but excellent drainage in order not to get root rot.
These estimates for how long Barrel cactus takes to sprout, grow and harvest are from real observations from real gardeners, right around the world.
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Native peoples frequently boiled the young flowers to eat like cabbage, and prepared the older flowers into a drink.
The pulp of the cactus was at one point widely used to make cactus candy, but due to this overuse of the plant it became endangered, and is now a protected genus in many states.
Ferocactus
Ferocactus Britton & Rose
1 inaturalist.org/taxa/54454-Ferocactus