TomatoNut95 said: Mothers Day is coming up in a month and I'd like to give my mom some succulent seeds as she's a fan. Doesn't have to be many seeds but they'll need to be for a beginner and fresh for this year. No large varieties, please; they'll be for small spaces indoors.
Kinda a tall order. Not a seller, cant really reccomend anybody. Had actually quite a hard time germinating stuff thats somewhat common to the states(echinocactus texensis, astrophytum asterias, echinocereus coccineus).
Small things...are notoriously difficult to germinate, and hard to grow. Big to medium, non indoor things, they did better.
Euphorbia ingens and adenium obesum germinate pretty well, and are easy to transit from seedling to sapling.
I had opuntias and ferocacti and echinopsis germinate, but never pass the seedling stage. I also successfully germinated a plumeria, pereskia and some dracaena. I had only 1 success with aloe(not great).
Maybe you ought to buy a live plant from a reputable seller(which to my limited understanding of store chains in the USA is NOT home depot )...
Lots of decent rookie plants. Parodia magnifica and leninghausii, gymnocalycium baldanium and mihanovichii, other astrophytums, echeverias(those are very hard from seeds), some mammillaria, euphorbia horrida and obesa, crassulas etc.....