I bought this as a gift for my 16 year old son who is obsessed with succulents! The product price & title was good enough for me to warrant a further glance at the details! When it came in I was shocked at how nice it is!! There are multiple seed packets in it with detailed instructions on what to do & how to do it. The wooden box is well crafted and beautiful. You can use it for anything you deem necessary! We are going to take time this week to set it up & hopefully grow our own succulent garden! I do not know if we will be successful but we will give it our very best try & I will take photos & document our progress. I hope that I can edit my review here to include some good news! If not, then I'll reference this review and post an update. Wish us luck on all our cacti endeavors & here's to you for starting your very on spiny plant flora farming!

While on quarantine, I wanted to do fun things with my 5 year old. I chose to buy this gardening kit as one project for her. It arrived very quickly and was way better than I expected! Great amazing quality!! Also, very user friendly! It came with detailed instructions and on line support. I love that its made in America and they send you enough seeds to plant twice, in case you are not successful with your first round of seed planting. And the seeds are guaranteed or they will send you replacement seeds. I am very pleased with this product and have ordered the herb kit also.

This would be a perfect purchase or gift for any age! Kids definitely need an adult, but its very fun for them.

Bought two, one for Mom and one for me, as a project we could do together. I have gotten into succulents and cacti during the "year at home", and she has followed along.

Short version: my opinion is that this is the best all-in-one grow kit available. I give 4 of 5 stars because it advertises too much ease and there is one significant design flaw.

Longer version: I'm learning to grow from seed in general, this kit was one of many experiments.

Unboxing was delightful, well-packed, beautiful, a great woody scent.... all very gif table.

As you can see in the photos I have germinated plump lil cactus seedlings. It works, and germination took about 8 days.

However, I have had this success with a heat mat and grow lights. Not nearly with the "set it and forget it" approach mentioned. My moms seedlings still have not germinated 15 days after planting without the mat.

Without light, all seedlings of all varieties will grow tall and spindly. So absolutely I believe the seeds are legitimate, and also believe the struggles described in other reviews.

Also, if you look carefully at the photos you can see a substantial amount of mold, along with a huge amount of cinnamon I'm hoping will work as an anti-fungal.

Mold means soil is too moist, so partly it's on me. When I visited the Garden Republic website, a suggestion for dealing with mold was to put the labeling stakes into the soil as little as possible. When I pulled the stakes out, they were COVERED in mold. I tossed and replaced with more-generic labels I have at home. I'm 90% sure the wood stakes were rotting below the surface, triggering some of the mold. The fact that this is listed in the website makes me think it's a widespread problem, and therefore a pretty substantial design flaw.

So overall, 4 of 5 stars. The best pre-created seed mix on the market and a great gift. But removing one star for the mold on the labels and the implication that growing seedlings is ever "easy," because you can't change biology.

So I planted only one succulent to start because this is the first time I tried to grow from seed used only what come with kit, followed directions and after 21 days nothing happened so I got some seedling pots with domes, and some miracle-gro indoor potting soil and planted the rest of open succulent seeds, and after only 5 days seeds sprouted and growing fast. Be sure to use a seedling heat pad and a grow light. I would buy again.

It's a fun gift for the planter in the fam. We got 3 to sprout. Hopefully they keep growing but we shall see. It says to not give up a lot in the book haha. Instructions are decent. Not the best.