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Apr 12, 2023 1:21 PM CST
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Name: Anne
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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. Smiling
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Apr 13, 2023 12:50 PM CST
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I am unable to share any seeds with you (international border between us) but in case you don't get any other responses on the forum, here are two recommended sources where you can buy them and get the product advertised (not random seeds from a random plant, as you often might receive from eBay or the like).

https://mesagarden.com/
https://www.rarepalmseeds.com/

If you need advice about what particular plants would be easiest, I can do my best to help. Smiling
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Apr 13, 2023 4:04 PM CST
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Name: Anne
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Aww, thanks so much! Are lithops easy to do?
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Apr 13, 2023 5:07 PM CST
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No, those are more difficult. They have an annual cycle requiring special care (when adult at least).

The easiest to start with usually are plants with bigger seeds (faster start, more independent sooner). I have had pretty reliable results with Mammillarias (small seeds and you have to protect the babies for a while, but steady growing and mostly a manageable size), aloes (a number of smaller plants exist, in addition to some trees), agaves (a few small ones do exist, these demand strong light), various other cacti. The process is made easier with good drainage (at least 50% rock in the substrate), strong light (right in front of your sunniest southerly facing window), and a fair amount of protection early on so the soil does not dry out completely until they are roughly 1cm in size. Hope this helps.
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Apr 13, 2023 7:01 PM CST
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Name: Anne
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Thank You!
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Apr 14, 2023 5:12 AM CST
Name: Stefan
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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. Smiling


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.....
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