HOW TO SOW SUCCULENT SEEDS 🌱

[@stevevaughn2040]

I am your humble servant. Mick, I failed at propagation. Then I found your video and now I have beautiful baby echeveria all over, cactus from seed, using your advice. I am thrilled, seriously. My cactus are actually flowering for first time

[@mickssucculents]

Wow that's awesome Steve! So glad to hear you are now having lots of success 😁👍

[@Evelynmay88]

Awesome video, Thankyou for sharing this! Loved it.

[@mickssucculents]

Your welcome 😀👍

[@ellenb7229]

love this!

[@mickssucculents]

Thank you 🙂🙏

[@julieneilson7302]

Great info! You make it seem so much easier than I had imagined! I might just give this a go! ( I successfully germinated lithops in Autumn)

[@mickssucculents]

Wow nice job! Lithops are fun to grow from seed.

[@Ninasucculents]

Hello Mick, im about to do seed grow. Wonderful to see you vdo. May i ask where you get the granite from. I live in Melbourne it is hard to find. I saw crush Granite but it has a lot of muddy in it. It is not like yours. Thank you so much.

[@mickssucculents]

Hi, thank you. Yes the one I buy has mud in it too. I wash my granite to get all the mud out of it. If you leave the mud in it, it will make your mix very hard and compact. I also screen the granite into 3 to 5mm pieces and remove the larger bits. Good luck 🙂👍

[@Ninasucculents]

Thank you so much 💓 I very much respect 🙏 you, it is hard work to wash them. Atlases you have a machine to work for you. I have tried a bag last year. I gave up 😆😆 so I'm using scoria at the moment.

[@Jacob-un6qf]

Gday, I love the video. I was just wondering where you get your single cell trays from?

[@mickssucculents]

Hi Jacob, I get them from Garden City Plastics 🙂👍

[@psycheready6958]

Thank you! When do you introduce the to sun/growlight?

[@mickssucculents]

Growlights can pretty much be introduced at the start. Sunlight, I would wait until the plants start germinating and then only give them around 1 to 2 hours of sunlight per day and gradually increase that as the plants develop.

[@1985karley]

Hey Mick, can you sow seeds anytime of year? Or does it need to be the growing season? I have some rainbow west seeds I want to have a go at sowing.

[@mickssucculents]

Generally I find Autumn and Spring are the best times to sow. You want temperatures low to mid 20 degrees celsius 🙂👍

[@marie-claudelong9418]

Awesome video, thanks! I was wondering at what point I stop leaving water at the bottom of the big bin? How big must the succulents be?…

[@mickssucculents]

Hi, I wait until all the water has been absorbed by the soil and the mix has almost all dried up to put in more water. You don't want the little root systems to be sitting in water 24/7, as that can cause them to rot. You want the mix to get dry enough and allow oxygen to be available for the roots. I hope that helps 🙂👍

[@robynd7129]

When they start coming up will you show us there progress .

[@mickssucculents]

Yeah sure :)

[@charlenecruz9816]

Where do you buy your seeds from? Thanks for the information in your video.

[@mickssucculents]

Hi Charlene, we don't buy our Echeveria seed. We pollinate our own parent plants and collect seed from them 🙂👍

[@pinklove7371]

Hello, I'm having a hard time finding red/brown zeolite, is white or green zeolite the same? What can be used instead of crushed granite. Thank you

[@mickssucculents]

Yeah you can use white or green. Are you in Australia? Garden City Plastics sell the red zeolite. If you can't find granite, you can use pumice or scoria 🙂👍

[@zoeydeu2261]

Where can I buy crushed granite? I'm in Sydney and struggling to find a supplier online and in store (all the local Bunnings & garden stores don't sell it)

[@mickssucculents]

Hi Zoey, try a local landscape supplier that sells material in bulk. That's where I get mine 👍

[@litalfrenkel1024]

Thank you for this video. I don't have zeolite and crushed granite, can I use quartz sand and crushed basalt (5mm) instead? does these substrates serves other purposes rather then drainage? currently for Echeveria seeds I'm using 1part potting mix, 2 part vermiculite and 1 part sand. I've noticed that when I bottom watering, it takes a lot of time for the soil to get wet (like hour or more), maybe you know if is it O.k? or maybe something wrong with the proportions if feel its not suppose to be that long? Thank you so much

[@mickssucculents]

Those materials instead should work 🙂👍 The soil taking awhile to absorb water, could mean that your soil is hydrophobic. Just don't let it dry out for too long before making it moist to use with your plants/seed.

[@judybrumby3237]

Thanks for this info!

[@judybrumby3237]

Also how old are the seeds?

[@mickssucculents]

Your welcome :)

[@mickssucculents]

Only like a week or so old. I like to sow them fresh :)

[@tancy057]

Hi what fungicide did u use? Can I get it from bunnings ?

[@mickssucculents]

Yes, we use Mancozeb and also Rose Shield 🙂👍

[@trinhquility]

Your soil mixture is granite , potting soil and zeolite? What is the purpose of zeolite?

[@mickssucculents]

The zeolite helps with drainage, but also traps the nutrients and stores it for the plants, rather than the nutrients just leeching out through the mix. You get a better nutrient uptake.

[@Meutiaks]

I got some rootless succulents and i wanna plant them, how do i make their roots grow faster please??? 😕

[@mickssucculents]

Put them in a mineral mix, consisting of either zeolite, perlite, pumice, scoria or granite. This can help speed things up and also if the plants are in their growing season :)

[@nothanks5394]

i live in the state whats a good alternative to zeolite?

[@mickssucculents]

Hi, you can use crushed granite, pumice or scoria 🙂👍

[@Creations_by_Ann]

Do you buy seeds and if so , where from? Thanks

[@sweettooth5737]

I just ordered from Vincent's on Etsy. Good deals, highly recommended! 💚

[@mickssucculents]

I don't sorry. I usually pollinate my own flowers and collect the seed from them 🙂

[@Creations_by_Ann]

@@mickssucculents how do you pollinate your own flowers?

[@MojoTheMystic]

Really like the video. Just wondering how long echeveria seeds stay viable?

[@mickssucculents]

Thanks mate 🙂🙏 I've been told a couple of years, but they are better when done fresh from my experience. I have had some other seed stored for 6 months, which I'll sow shortly and see how they go 🙂👍

[@MojoTheMystic]

@@mickssucculents Hey, just wanted to thank you! I'm having prolific success with echeveria pulidonis seed. You're a legend.

[@peterholslag630]

Do you recommend soaking the seeds before sowing.

[@mickssucculents]

I don't think it's necessary. I have sown them dried fresh and they have been fine 🙂👍

[@bettyjocohagen7955]

Do you have to chill your seed first??

[@mickssucculents]

Not normally. I usually sow straight after collecting the seed. If I'm not sowing straight away, then i will store seed in the fridge 🙂👍

[@kimipbnikhuma8000]

Love your video, may I suggest a weeny tiny tip - Lady needs to learn when to zoom and lower the camera to focus more on the table 🤭💖

[@mickssucculents]

Thank you for your feedback 😊

[@dledbetters9569]

Thanks for sharing!New subscriber here 🙂

[@mickssucculents]

No worries at all Nalyn! :D Thanks for following us :)

[@sabrinawarren7983]

Can i get succulent seeds sent to Tasmania?

[@mickssucculents]

Hmm that's a great question that I'm not sure about. If your after Lithops, you could try Nyssa at Oz Lithops. She would be more up to speed with whether she could send them to Tassie 🙂👍

[@sweettalk9200]

Where to order succulent seeds

[@mickssucculents]

We pollinate our own flowers for seed 🙂👍 not sure where you can purchase it.

[@Modegoyiya]

I wont seeds im sri lanka.

[@mickssucculents]

Sorry, unfortunately we can't send seed to outside of Australia 😔

[@vickiedeshazer2352]

to long and didnt show each step just talked

[@mickssucculents]

Thanks for your feedback 👍