Creating a Succulents collection

Now that we have moved into our new home in San Ramon, I finally am able to start indulging in one of my long dormant hobbies. Growing plants!

I have always been interested in growing plants since childhood. Back in India in our small flat I, along with my mother used to grow small plants on the window ledges. Space was always at a premium back then, but we had special window grills created which allowed you to place pots outside. We used that to the maximum extent by planting all types of plants. Roses, Shoeflower, Mint, Sontakka (a type of lily) etc. We even once tried to grow a lemon tree in the balcony but try as we might were never able to get it to flower or bear fruit.

Since moving out of India, I have had very little time or space to grow any plants. But now that we have moved to our own home and have some space available, I am going to try my hand at it again.

Due to the drought in California, succulents have become all the rage here. You see them in every garden section and other shops. Maintaining succulents is supposed to be one of the easiest things to do. Easier than letting paint dry they say!!!

I initially thought, I will buy a bunch of those and place them around the house and also in the backyard. However one day as I was browsing on the net, I came across some articles that mentioned that it was very easy to propagate succulents from existing plants. You could even take a leaf and convert it to a brand new plant with some TLC. That ignited a spark in me and started me on the path to not just buy a full grown plant but try and propagate as much as possible.
So I went ahead and started with a leaf from an existing succulent plant that I had got from Ikea the week earlier. I followed all the steps laid out in the guides on How to Propagate and am now waiting to see what comes out of that.

I also went ahead and order a bunch of succulents online from Amazon and have planted them in a small pot.

This is the pot with the main batch of succulents cuttings

Other cuttings have been placed in miscellaneous pots around the house. 

Now it's a case of wait and watch to see how many of these actually take root and start flourishing. Keeping my fingers crossed.