You "may have rescued a leaf of each to grow from home." Really, hum.

Glad it wasn't from my yard.

Folks here don't really appreciate leaf pickin' like that. Many of us have found that all one needs do is ask & will likely be given a leaf or even a whole pup (not from stores of course).

1. Echeveria purpusorum

2. reminds me of E. chroma - not sure...

eta: agree with Karen re: ..."may have rescued leaf of each"...Would you want to buy plant someone picked leaves off?

Lisa

OP indicated she didn't buy the plants, just 'may have rescued' leaves of each...One just should not pick leaves off the plants for sale. If the plant looks abused/forgotten or abandoned - ask...there is very good chance store will say yes, maybe even give the plant away (or at least for greatly discounted price if in not-so-good shape...)

JMO - and others are allowed their own...

As I understand it, E. Purpusorum is hard to propagate. I hope you have luck with it because it is a beautiful plant. I think it is probably my favorite echeveria. (Definitely worth buying the whole plant! :)) With that said, in my experience it is pretty slow growing and the plant that you took the leaf from may have a noticeable "bald" spot for quite some time. I have only tried to propagate a few lower, older more hidden leaves of mine and was unsuccessful. I have not tried any others because removing a leaf would effect the beauty of the plant. I have mixed feelings about taking falling leaves from a store, but I lean towards not being in a favor of removing a leaf directly off a plant, especially when it may influence the look of the plant.

After rereading, I realize you did not say you just pulled the leaf off--my bad. I suppose I was guessing since leaves haven't really naturally fallen off of my purpusorum.

Like Lisa said, don't be discouraged from using this forum. You will find so much information looking through the posts and searching for relevant terms. I am grateful to have found this site and have learned an immense amount from reading on here in the past several months. Also, I'll be curious to find out if your leaf propogates.

and here I was feeling guilty about picking up three leaves I found in the middle of a parking lot. :)

Leslie...that is not the same! Picking leaves off the plants in store is not picking some fallen leaves in the parking lot.

Thank you all for your advice and thoughts on this.

I understand how this sounds I realise this now. Over the last week or so I've taken to look around the shop shelves and so on and have had some luck with finding the odd leaf that got left behind.

I've managed to start growing a few this way see pic.

I feel bad asking for the advice with naming these little beauties but when I look it up some of these look so similar for the untrained eye I get a bit confused.

Thank you all again, time to make some name tags and further googling ;)

I will keep you posted if anything grows :)

Rina, please re read my response/comment regarding "rescued" leaves. To be clear, I did not disagree with either person who reacted to the OP's "rescuing" of leaves, in fact I expressed that I agreed with the many who feel such rescuing is "not OK". My point was to add perspective to the conversation, and hopefully, make clear that the OP's questions were welcome! My reference to a "planting that looks abused, forgotten, abandoned" was about a planting, (like in the ground, planted, where there is clearly, literally, no one to ask), not a plant, as you wrote, a "plant looks abused/forgotten or abandoned", in a store....as you may have assumed, from your reply. (In a store it's shoplifting, that's simply the law, not perspective) Here in the SF Bay Area, such plantings of overgrown, abandoned succulents are actually common. In truth, it's been many years since I have even been tempted. Maturity as a person, and as a collector have changed my perspective on both what is tempting and what is, to me not OK, and it's not OK to take leaves or cuttings from someone's plant's, tempted or not:-)

Hoping I didn't leave any room for assumptions. This is a great forum, and as a relative newby, I have much respect for those of you who have made it that way.

That last pic looks super wet, such wetness is likely to rot the plant. They can grow fine w/out any water for some time (their fat, fleshy leaves ALREADY contain the water they need). Way too peaty a mix.

Addt'l to Lisa's comments abt not lifting to check the leaves to check, here's a key point. The best indicator of a succulent having rooted is the appearance of new growth, that's how you can know both when it has rooted & then when to water.

I don't see what perspective you added Lisa. I also felt I wouldn't make this so much easier by providing IDs. Perhaps having to search hard for IDs might remind the OP not to help herself to leaves in the future.

I don't believe the poster ever said if the 'rescued' leaves were from a store or someone's yard.

Yes, I too have plucked a leaf or 2 in the past, but learned better 20+ yrs. ago.

To be clear, in a store, I believe once on the floor it's deemed garbage, so I'll take from the floor w/ a clear conscience, but only from the floor, I never pluck off a plant.

Hi Louise

I think your second photo, the green one, is Sediveria Letizia. You'll know for sure if the leaf tips start turning red. The one pictured is a little bit red but would probably be more so if the plant got more light

Louise

I am glad too that you came back and posted.

Picking up leaves and/or pieces of plants is bit of touchy subject, and many have different opinions.

In stores, picking up anything without asking may be considered stealing. I know, there are many fallen leaves, many broken branches, even plants that are out of the pots - seedlings or more mature plants. I also agree that most (actually, all of it) will be eventually disposed off, in the garbage - not even a compost heap! That seems to be such waste! I have asked on few different occasions about getting some fallen leaves and broken parts, and practically every time was told 'go ahead'. In a small, private store, owner told me they do not want to give anything away since they root them themselves as long as they are viable; I guess that is understandable in many smaller places. You just don't want to be accused of stealing - and that's what it looks like when person picks up something and pockets it. This is what I learned from few store managers, in few different garden centers and greenhouses (not clerks/helpers) I talked to.

I even asked about purchasing a cutting from a big plant, but was told NO. Stores sell plants as they get them...even if selling small cuttings for a dollar or two would bring them likely more $$$ altogether, they will not do it (I asked at 2 different, large garden centers about this).

I definitely do not agree with plucking the leaves or breaking off branches. Someone will pay full price for a plant, that has 'parts missing' - I know, that person probably won't even see it. But it is like buying loaf of sliced bread: someone could p/u a slice or two, most ppl wouldn't even notice, and they buy the bag for full price - getting less than they paid for...I know, bread is not the same as plants...it is sold $/lb and plants aren't...

I am not saying you did that, but the way your post is written - that's what is sounded like. If I misunderstood and jumped on you, I apologise. (I was always told not to take anything that belongs to others unless I asked...so blame my parents, lol.)

I do not want to start-continue debate on the subject, so that's all I have to say.

Hope you will get some nice little plants from the cuttings you have. Don't feel bad about asking for ID, but most often, it is difficult to ID the leaf and/or plantlet that just started growing. Do not keep it too wet: soil in your photo seems to be very wet, and succulents need more drier environment.