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title: "Philadelphia, PA. I think I bought this pencil cactus last November…"
description: "Philadelphia, PA. I think I bought this pencil cactus last November 2025. It came in a huge bucket, with other succulents and cactuses, from Home Depot.…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/OlSeW7UYSUWAjHlcxGdIQw/eYkWBY8lPzd1swrsYduPYj"
community: "Show your plants"
author: "John G Amero"
published: "2026-09-29T15:04:49.974703Z"
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# Philadelphia, PA. I think I bought this pencil cactus last November…

_Posted by John G Amero on 2026-09-29_

Philadelphia, PA.

I think I bought this pencil cactus last November 2025. It came in a huge bucket, with other succulents and cactuses, from Home Depot.

Sometime in February, maybe March, I accidentally almost killed everything in it, and I don’t know how. Because of that I busted up the entire bucket of plants and I put this guy, who I did not think would survive, into a concrete planter.

Even in Philadelphia, a pencil cactus will turn into a fire stick cactus when the temperature turns cooler in the fall. And considering we just had a nor’easter come through, and rain for three days, he’s doing pretty good.

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