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Quakers call Sunday first day, avoiding the Roman pantheon. Saturday is the seventh day, And on the seventh day God rested.

Whatever, we're making it all up.

@peter4jc said:
Here's a visual of the progression after blooming; the flowers drop off in a few days and leave a little green stub, which then grows in size, somewhere between a golf ball and a tennis ball. The spikes are soft until halfway through; after that, they'll hurt you. None of the seed pods has dried and opened up yet to drop their seeds. That'll be early-to-mid October. The seeds fall to the ground and lie there through the winter, and sprout in the spring, without any intervention from a lazy old man.

I do like it when it's nice and easy!