r/succulents 5d ago

Meta Buy/Sell/Trade Thread: April 2025

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Weekly Questions Thread can be found here

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!

Please start your comment with your location as such: [UK and EU] or [USA, California] on a separate line.

Thank you!

Import regulations mean it is difficult to send plant material between certain countries.

Check for hard frosts overnight before posting your parcel!

Scammers will not be tolerated! If you have sent a plant and not heard from your sender, message the mods and we will take care of it. Anyone found to be scamming will be banned from the sub.

A few points:

  • Please add your location. Many countries will have import restrictions. As a simple guide, within EU, okay. Within US, okay. EU to US or vice versa, not okay. Australia: complicated.
  • Please try to keep the sales/trades to succulents. There is a list of sister subreddits in the sidebar should you want other plants.
  • Think about trading seeds and pollen too. Growing from seed can be very rewarding and be a good way to expand your collection.
  • Grow tips are highly encouraged when trading. Its nice to know what you're getting if you have never grown one before. Share your potting mediums and watering guides to help your receiver grow successfully!
  • Do show us some photos of what you got!
  • Have a quick check to see if there is a risk of frost overnight before sending the parcel.
  • There are some tips of packaging succulents for shipping below. I've had people send me plants in egg cartons before. They work really well.
  • If you have nothing to trade but would like some plants, people are often happy to send you plants for money or just the cost of postage and packaging.

Happy swapping!

You can find some tips for packaging succulents in the wiki

All Sales and Trades are to be done at your own risk. The moderators of the Succulent sub are not responsible for your transactions. This thread is only a means for discovery and contact.

But, please, if you get scammed or ripped off, report the offending user to the mods via modmail.

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Click here to fill out a short review.

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r/succulents 4h ago

Shelfie Just repotted this beast

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512 Upvotes

r/succulents 9h ago

Photo Found this wonderful surprise this morning while tending to the plants

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I've had this growing for a couple years now, first time I've seen it produce flowers. This is one of my favorite succulents that I have, I love the way it grows, and now I love it even more.

Have a great day!


r/succulents 5h ago

Photo Someone needed a new home

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Bought this from a nursery and look how thick those roots are


r/succulents 1h ago

Photo My happy place

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r/succulents 6h ago

Photo A pizza box is the perfect kitchen gardening tool

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I live in a small apartment and don’t have a ton of space or shopvacs for cleanup, which is how I came to realize an old pizza box is the perfect place to do re-potting and keep the soil contained


r/succulents 21h ago

Photo Post a plant you hate but keep alive out of obligation. (am I the only one who does this?)

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r/succulents 28m ago

Photo Post a plant that makes u look like ur not actually the neglectful trash u are

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So my Graptoveria 'Debbie' flew off my 4th floor balcony at the very start of March during some heavy winds. Pot broke, lost a BUNCH of leaves & her pup snapped its neck practically off. Since then she's been inside in crap light waiting over a month to be repotted and this bitch STILL BLUSHED & BLOOMED and the pup self healed and reattached?! (interestingly the current blooms in lower light are yellow vs. pic 2 from last year in outdoor light--her blooms were pink then).

The color change on the foliage is brag-worthy (not that I did anything to cause it). I thought it was a purple plant but she legit blushes teal during the bloom cycle. And she blooms every year for 3-4 MONTHS. Slay. Even when I maybe forget to water a little bit way too long & her soil is crusty dusty, she still looks plump and fine af (see pic 3. Deb is the center plant in the top 2 pics & top plant in the btm 2 pics...the others are Echeveria Blue Heron, Neon Breakers & Purple Pearl aka PVN. U see how by Jan they all got shrivelly bc uhh whoops?...but not my girl Deb!)

I'm all about a plant that gives me the credit. So tell me about yours so I can get them & take their credit, too.


r/succulents 8h ago

Help Jade plant (?) is super woody?

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Hi, got this succulent at a school fundraiser 5 years ago: it's always been woody (?) at the base but I never got it checked out. Is this normal, and if not how can I help it out? For context I live in a cold city but I keep room temp ~22C, water ~1 time per month in winter, and use a GE balanced spectrum grow light 12h per day (bc of winter) Any tips would be really appreciated, thanks so much!


r/succulents 1h ago

Photo My plant has a lot of love to give

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r/succulents 8h ago

Plant Progress/Props One month prop update. Morale is good.

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r/succulents 9h ago

Plant Progress/Props Help with aeonium arboreum! 3 years growth, super top heavy - do I prune?

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Help please! Neighbour gave me a little cutting three years ago, I can't believe how tall it's gotten in that time! It's grown about a foot per year! The two stems are so skinny at the bottom that with the branching on the top the whole thing is so top-heavy, and looks generally leggy. I keep her as a houseplant, and live in the UK, so the days are just starting to get longer/warmer now. She sits on a south-facing windowsill. I guess my main quesions are, can I prune now (can't find much info for timing this when they're indoors), and if I prune off all the rosettes will that kill the mother plant? Or is there a chance it will shoot again?


r/succulents 14h ago

Photo Very common plant, Aloe Variegata. But stunning nonetheless. Love the markings and it’s radial symmetry from above.

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157 Upvotes

r/succulents 8h ago

Photo Baby flowers incoming!

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Sedeveria Sorrento Mother plant was dying, so I chopped everything and replanted in several pots. Currently in heaven with 6 bloom sites!


r/succulents 3h ago

Help What mind of succulent?

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I bought this last year at a market and it didn't have anything on it that said what it was. Any ideas? It has quadrupled in size since I bought it


r/succulents 2h ago

Photo I found one… and then I found hundreds.

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I’m fairly new to plant keeping, so when white fluff started appearing on some of my plants I didn’t notice anything else odd; I thought they were some kind of natural plant excretion.

But in total passing I saw what was clearly an insect butt in one of my plants and pulled it out. And then I looked under the leaves… Oof. OOF. I didn’t know what mealybugs looked like so I sent the picture to chatGPT and got the instant bad news. These were on several of my plants, this one and two others with really bad infestations, many more plants with just a few, and who knows how many more I DIDN’T see.

And so marks the beginning of the long war, I suppose. I thoroughly removed every bug I saw with 70% isopropyl alcohol and will keep my eyes out for more. Now I know!


r/succulents 2h ago

Photo I love my little weirdos😍

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These were two of only a handful of my props that survived the Great Mealybug Mayhem of 2024. Their trauma has caused them to be resiliently healthy but also pleasantly unique in their growth patterns. Just like us humans ❤️


r/succulents 15m ago

Photo Please help - how do I propagate the offshoots?

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r/succulents 6h ago

Photo Two new additions

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The 2 new babies are in El Pato cans for now because they are so cute! Are these even succulents?

Also, do I need to find a more permanent pot for them or does this seem ok?

I got them from Home Depot and they were dry as hell in small tight plastic containers so I figured anything was better than that.


r/succulents 2h ago

Photo Loving these colors

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r/succulents 1h ago

Photo First Time Blooming!!

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First time this Echeveria Setosa has bloomed! I love these colors! Reminds me of rainbow sherbet.


r/succulents 4h ago

Photo New to sub

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Hi all, I just realised I should join the sub because a big chunk of my plants are succulents. My problem is they are easy to propagate and I find droppings from balconies after every major storm or wind, so I just can't help myself and leave them to be stepped over by passerby and I try to get them propagate.

The Sedum was originally a small pot by my neighbour, plus a few dropping, and now it is every where in my balcony pots, even the one with something else on them. I love how it can survive without me actually doing anything but sometimes I think it is overtaking my balconies! I try to re-home the smaller pots, but I can't let a dropping dry and die no matter what. I love how you have lovely little pots, mine are mainly unruly combination of what needed a bit of soil.


r/succulents 3h ago

Photo Replanting my succs ☺️

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Replanted my succs and so far this basket is my favorite. I overfilled it a bit but that’s ok, I like it this way ☺️


r/succulents 3h ago

Help Was it a steal?

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Hello everyone! I got this Tephrocactus Alexanderi ( ID-ed thanks to someone in r/cactus ) from a local collage sale for $3 dollars, I’m in California and I wanna know if it was a steal or not, I googled it but couldn’t find much about its rarity or cost


r/succulents 1h ago

Help My Fenestraria doesn't look well

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I think this is a Fenestraria. I both bought it I think 4 months ago. I repotted it in more inorganic soil (tried to go for 1/3 succulent soil 2/3 pumice). The thing is I think it was overwatered at the store because most of the leaves have tears. I keep it under the grow light and overall it's doing well, but some of the leaves are really wrinkled while others seem just fine. Also some leaves are dying and I see small new ones as well but they grow very slowly.

There are 2 plants in this pot. One has the larger leaves and a smaller one with the redder leaves. I usually water every 2-3 weeks or so. Last time I watered 1 week ago. The wrinkly leaves remain wrinkly even after watering but they are not dying eather.

Will my plant be ok? Is there anything I can do to help it?


r/succulents 4h ago

Photo Can a jade sprout new branches from trunk?

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My Gollum jade got knocked over by a cat and the branches on one side broke off. Is there any way to encourage it to make replacement branches on that side? Or will it always be lopsided? It's been over a year since it happened and that side is still bald.