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title: "Hi y’all, I’m wanting to get more cacti/succulents and wanted to know…"
description: "Hi y’all, I’m wanting to get more cacti/succulents and wanted to know what y’all recommended for beginners! As well as potting mixes. Thanks bunches!"
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# Hi y’all, I’m wanting to get more cacti/succulents and wanted to know…

_Posted by Birb on 2025-06-06_

Hi y’all, I’m wanting to get more cacti/succulents and wanted to know what y’all recommended for beginners! As well as potting mixes. Thanks bunches!

## 5 comments

### Adrian commented on 2025-06-06

I swear by Espoma’s Organic Cactus and Succulent mix for all of mine. PLEASE avoid Miracle Grow’s cactus mix, or soil in general, especially if you live in a more humid climate in the warmer months. It just isn’t well-draining enough.

As for plants I’d recommend for beginners, I adore jades. Some others I’ve enjoyed from my collection are sedum morganianum, holiday cactus/schlumbergera truncata, kleinia petraea, bear paw cactus/cotyledon tomentosa, faucaria tigrina, haworthia, aloe ‘Minnie Belle’ and tiger tooth aloe/aloe zanzibarica, and I’ve noticed quite a rise in elephant bush as an alternative for those into bonsai that want a low-maintenance choice. I’d like to increase my echeveria collection one day, but my current favorites from my collection are echeveria parva and echeveria Lola.

And as for a succulent-adjacent option, peperomia obtusifolia and clusiifolia. Their leaves are succulent in nature, they do great in cactus and succulent mix, and I treat them like a jade, practically. There’s lots of different types of peperomias, even only out of the obtusifolia and clusiifolia varieties.

### Waspinator commented on 2025-06-06

I recommend doing a mixed species pack of cactus seeds. They're absolutely adorable as baby sprouts. They'll survive or not based on your natural care tendencies, so it's a good way to figure out which species will be a good match for you going forward

### Amy commented on 2025-06-06

I second that Miracle Gro soil comment. I live in zone 9 and I have to add perlite to all of my soil mixes and even that sometimes isn’t enough!

### Lover of Cacti commented on 2025-06-06

An easy plant would be pediocactus simpsonii! Really easy to take care of and very hardy!

### Horse Lover🐴🐈🏜🤠 commented on 2025-06-07

A fun easy plant are Hen and chick succlents! They reproduce pretty quickly in summer and mine live outside and I do absolutely nothing to then and they look great. My cats even mess with them and they still survive. I've learned there's not much they won't survive 😉

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