Succulent Sharing Saturday! This is P.C. my Pencil Cactus. (Or also known as Fire-stick Cactus if you can get the right combination of cooler fall weather and less sun. Hard to do in Philadelphia normally.) I got P.C. In 2001 from a small grocery store window. I thought āAwe how cute. A mini Cactus with its arms up like a big Arizona Cactus. Well I had no idea what this guy turns into. By 2022 Spring he was all over the place, huge and sprawling. I hated it. By Summer 2022 I gave him a severe haircut back to his slim shape. I also gave him a new pot at the time. 3 weeks later the Grimm Rooter came, the equivalent of the Grimm Reaper for humans but the Grimm Rooter comes for plants. P.C. was dying because he was drowning in his new pot. Not enough perlite. I changed out the dirt and he recovered. As for the Grimm Rooter I told him he could take the African Violets that had become a pain to maintain. Summer 2023 and P.C. got a new pot. He loves being outside May thru October, maybe even to November if itās nice out. I just need to find a stylist for the crazy growth and look. I canāt go through another trim with me feeling like Iām Joan Crawford cutting Christinaās hair because it has setting solution. Two original pics and two now pics.
