r/succulents • • 26d ago

Meta Buy/Sell/Trade Thread: October 2026

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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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r/succulents • • Sep 13 '26

Let’s not be jerky little immature folks, okay?

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We’ve had a few…incidents lately. So, let’s just cover something again: Rule 1: Be Nice. This is a plant sub, and I’m shocked at the amount of drama that occurs on a regular basis here. The attitudes get crazy. You should always be mindful to how you speak to people; you may have an answer to correct a potential issue, or help others, but there is always a right way and a wrong way to say things.

  • There is never any need for childish mocking, name calling, or harassment.
  • We don’t gatekeep, and we don’t shame. Let us not try not tell others that what they’re doing is wrong, and only what you do is right or better.
  • Only help if it’s asked for, or if the tone of the OP seems willing to listen. If you wish to gently suggest constructive criticism, but the OP rejects it, please accept and move on.

The sub is mostly made up of home hobbyists, of all levels. From absolute beginners, to experts, and everything in between. And, thus, we also have a huge variety care needs and habits, climates and environments. We love it when professionals, or growers with many many years of experience come on and share input, advice, and of course their plants! We do not love it when people take their experience too seriously, and bully others for doing things their own way.

We also have to remember, not every person may be as passionate about their plants as others are. “We listen, and don’t judge.” Someone has a terrarium doomed to fail, but they wanna do it anyways? Let them. Someone has a packed arrangement in sand, because that’s what they want? Cool, move on. That sun starved etiolated plant at OP’s desk makes them happy despite suggestions to make it healthier? Don’t harsh their buzz. Let’s all do better about being a welcoming subreddit for both beginners and veterans of the hobby.

Once again, I know many of us really want everyone to have the healthiest, “happiest” plant(s) around. And it’s fine to offer suggestions to better someone’s care. But if the OP ignores or passes on suggestions, please just accept and move on.

If you are ever harassed via chat, or in another sub by anyone, please don’t hesitate to report them to the admins, but also please send us a modmail regarding that user. This also applies if someone follows you to our sub from elsewhere, report the comment or send us a modmail. We may ask for screenshots to be sure of the situation. We don’t ban users willy-nilly, but harassment will never be accepted.

And for anyone who breaks these rules, and gets themselves a ban, when you rage at us in modmail it doesn’t hurt our feelings because we are adults. Sorry you’re unable to be an adult about things. But then again, people who bully others on the internet lack some maturity to really be classified as adults. ♥️


r/succulents • • 3h ago

Photo left my kalanchoes on a balcony in chicago all summer and fall …

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And they LOVED it! An incredibly rainy summer, tornados, and wildfire smoke and these guys are super happy. They look like actual bushes. First picture is from February 2026 and second is from October 2026.

Excited to see them bloom as days get shorter.


r/succulents • • 21h ago

Photo Little bug ball here

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Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus


r/succulents • • 7h ago

Photo Sunshine looks good on you. 💕

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r/succulents • • 12h ago

Shelfie Who’s cutting onions???

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I rescued these babies back in April from a garden center. They’ve just been chilling under my lights since, largely ignored except for glances to admire and ensure they’re still alive.

I’ve had a particularly busy few weeks and with the thrip issue with a few of my succulents I’ve dealt with (they’re gone, everyone survived, thanks to bonide granules), I feel like I haven’t seen much of my other succs. I’ve been in the iso ICU with the others.

Long story short, I just spotted the big middle guy had something poking out of him, and at first I thought it was mold and my heart was in my ass. UNTIL! I picked him up, and behold: it’s a flower!!!

I teared up a little, y’all. I’ve been going through it with the thrips and was so devastated. I felt real plant mom guilt (I have real skin children, so the mom guilt is innate lol). I don’t know what I did to deserve this lithops gift. Nothing, perhaps literally.

I just love my plants. No one else on earth would understand except this subreddit lol

Thanks for reading ❤️


r/succulents • • 4h ago

Help I don’t think these will survive long

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To preface this, I have tons of plants experience but I have never owned any succulents (besides one single cactus that I’ve had for 12 years).

I have never been very interested in succulents, although this display really caught my eye at a local nursery so I brought it home. My concern was that these plants are packed in here so tight that they will soon start killing each other off…. The nursery worker ensured me that they will be able to live like this for years but I’m having a hard time believing that.

Can these plants actually live tightly compacted like this for years, or will I need to separate them? If they are too tight, can I transfer them to a larger box as is?


r/succulents • • 3h ago

Photo Sansaveria La Rubia and Golden Hahnii

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r/succulents • • 10h ago

Photo Meine Crassula ❤️

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Ich kenne leider nicht die genaue Bezeichnung. Hab ich in ganz klein in einem Pflanzen-Center gekauft. ☺️


r/succulents • • 2h ago

Photo Floración de Drosanthemum floribundum

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r/succulents • • 4h ago

Photo Aloe coming out my ears

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I have an aloe problem. They just never die on their own. They just get bigger and have kids. I don't have the room for all of them. I know I could throw them in the compost, but I want to see if you all have a better idea. TIA


r/succulents • • 6h ago

Photo My lovely Flaming Katy!

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Caring for her brings me feelings of joy and fulfillment. I feel so at peace when I’m doing my little ritual of trimming, bottom watering, and fertilizing these ethereal beings. She demonstrates her gratitude by showing her bright coral florals and budding plenty of new blooms.


r/succulents • • 42m ago

🔔 SHAME 🔔 I am officially traumatized and retiring from succulents 😭

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This was my second attempt at keeping a succulent alive.

My first one was literally murdered in my hostel, someone uprooted it and I found its body three floors down on the pavement.

I bought this second one thinking it was supposed to be "low maintenance." I left for another city for 6 days, came back to my room, and found it looking like a biological horror movie set. It has this weird white alien fuzz all over the center and the leaves are completely mushy.

I watered it exactly once every 10 days, but I guess the soil completely betrayed me. Honestly, I'm too creeped out to even touch it or try to save the tiny shriveled baby on the side. I'm throwing the whole pot away, walking away, and buying a plastic fake plant.

Please tell me someone else has been completely grossed out by a rotting succulent before because I feel like this thing is going to jump and attack me 💀


r/succulents • • 14h ago

Plant Progress/Props Just repotted this beast

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r/succulents • • 17h ago

Photo Conophytum obcordellum Cop 305

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r/succulents • • 5h ago

Meme/Joke Mealybugs make my skin crawl!!

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They look like a bit of mould or cotton wool until you lean in and realise the mould has legs and is currently living in the armpit of your plant. Instant heebie-jeebies, nightmare fuel!!🙂‍↔️😷 The mealy texture, the way they cluster in dense white masses, the slow, deliberate movement when disturbed. They’re soft little sacks of sap that collapses like an overripe grape someone’s already stepped on, yet somehow fastened so firmly it feels like the plant is being parasitized by something that should at least have the decency to be hard and armoured like a scale insect which would already be disgusting enough as a parasite but the softness makes it so much worse because you know it’s made of goo, all while they’re permanently dusted in this mealy white wax that isn’t quite powder, isn’t quite fluff, and isn’t quite paste until the exact moment it touches anything, at which point it smears into a greasy film that gets on your gloves, your plant, your soul, and somehow you still feel the greasy smear along the underside of your fingers like it’s under your nails anyway.

https://www.reddit.com/r/succulents/s/5ov8GaDq02

Seeing this post just now brought back some memories and I had to get this out😭 Lovely plant though. The real ones just don’t have the same charm


r/succulents • • 14h ago

Photo My Jade & Joy

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Always a pleasure to observe


r/succulents • • 3h ago

Help Cold hardy Blue Agave newbie.

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Hey folks.
I purchased a cold hardy blue agave and have it in a pot.
I used a mix of Fox Farms Happy Frog and perlite as I had bags of it lying around.

The plant was shipped bare root and left it for a week and a half so far. We put some black pebbles on the soil so it looked nice but I checked today and the soil still seems damp and I’m not sure the e roots filled in with the soil all that well when I potted it.

Attaching pictures as the outer leaves that were yellowing a little have continued to yellow and turn grey and rolled.
Even the newer growth tips are turning grey.
I have not watered it yet and it’s been 1.5-2 weeks since potting

Any tips for helping this plant thrive would be very welcome.
Im thinking of removing the stones so the soil can properly dry

Oh and the plant is kept inside with plenty of light.


r/succulents • • 16h ago

Plant Progress/Props Pretty proud

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This is my first ever attempt to make babies and it worked 😍 tried both the string in the window and just placing some on top of soil. Both seems to work here


r/succulents • • 9h ago

Help Where would you cut this leggy succulent?

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r/succulents • • 7h ago

Plant Progress/Props Baby's necklace

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House needs more sun


r/succulents • • 1d ago

Photo Conophytum flavum waking up for the season

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249 Upvotes

Year 3 or 4


r/succulents • • 3h ago

Help Is this the right size pot for these guys?

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Aeonium Pink Witch and Aeonium Medusa. Just got them today. Are these pots ok, or should I plant them in something slightly larger?


r/succulents • • 19h ago

Plant Progress/Props My Aeonium explosion 😍

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Picture progress from June 2026 to October 2026. I was gifted this super root bounded aeonium & repotted to a bigger pot with chunky soil mix. I also cut a a few rosettes with an attempt to propagate (pic 4 are cuttings. Pic 3 includes the propagated babies next to big mama). She was my first ever repot & I definitely was a bit intimidated but clearly won in the end. I have been utilizing jacks all purpose fertilizer with every water which is usually once every 7-10 days. I am so happy with her & her baby’s progress 🥹 it makes me feel like a proud plant mommy.


r/succulents • • 6h ago

Help [NEWBIE HELP] Why are my Anacampseros’ flowers not blooming?

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I started the hobby mid June, and one of my 1st babies was this lil guy. So my anacampseros (would appreciate if someone could pinpoint the species) started sprouting flower buds about 1.5m ago, but not a single one has successfully bloomed :(

This arrangement is under a Spider Farmer SF100 (which I got about 1 month ago or so, and prior to that I had 2 40W 4-headed SANSI grow lights) at 80%, to which only 1 bud semi opened itself when I put the light at MAX (although, visually, I don’t see a difference in the brightness between 80% and MAX). Although the rest have just shriveled away, but I don’t wanna risk sun bleaching my other succulents.