Prickly Pear Paint

How to make your own prickly pear paint. This cactus can help you save thousands of dollars by making your own paint. It also makes a excellent binder/sealer for papercrete.

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• prickly pear
• papercrete
• paint
• cactus
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• green acre
• mikey sklar
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[anadec4cactus]

Very usefull nice video ... it's called cactus pads ... may i know the quantity of different ingredient used ? my email is: clean_chat HotmailCOM

[sklarm]

For paint, just add lime until you like the color and thickness. This is my paper based stucco cactus recipe:

Half 5gal bucket shredded wet paper

4 cups lime

2 cups portland cement

2 cups micro silica (blast sand)

1 gal prickly juice

Mix with hand drill until smooth

[erictoddbrown1]

hey just a quick tip let the prickly pear ferment for about a week then it gets real think and it will work better it will not go through the sprayer good luck man i have been using his in mexico for years

[pirucreek]

Those pear fruits at the top are very good eating. you can also eat the ears.

[lycana911]

I wanna see the roof.

[rf4burns]

Any video of the finished paint after application? what does it weather like? was it ok to apply?

[atthebasspond]

I want you to say "paddles of prickly pear paint" real fast ten times.