Congratulations on your business, and I wish you success this coming season.

Others here know more than I, but here's my 2 cents.

Your questions are difficult to answer because watering depends greatly on the plant, the potting medium, type of pot, the season, humidity, and the gardening zone.

General watering care of succulents and cactuses is that they like a fast draining potting medium free of peat. They do not like to be in pots too large; this will not make them grow bigger. The plants in the last two pictures look too wet.

People here are not saying they "hardly ever" water their plants. They water according to the plants' needs. Keep in mind that most of these plants prefer dry conditions. They store water in their stems, roots and leaves, so if they are overwatered, they rot. If using a mix with peat, your chance of rot or mix drying rock hard are greater.

If your small pots are plastic, you can tell if they need watering by lifting them. When they feel light, you can water, or do like I do and wait a couple days just to be sure. Also you can stick a wooden skewer into the soil a few minutes, when pulled out if it's dry, you can water or still wait a couple days to be safe.

If you are rooting cuttings, make your mix of commercial cactus/succulent mix combined 50/50 with perlite or pumice. Don't water the cuttings until they start to put out roots.

Relationships with mothers-in-law can be tricky, but maybe she could just water the other plants and skip the succulents/cactuses. If you are serious about a good season in your business, don't overwater.

Lastly, read here on this forum. Even if the plants being discussed aren't ones you have, you can learn so much.

Again, good luck.

Thank you for your words of wisdom and your advice! The pots we have them in are quote small pits, me and my fiance do wait until they are completely dry to water and actually have told my mother-in-law that she doesn't need to worry about the succulents at all. Sounds like we are on the right track. Minus the cuttings. When you do cuttings of annuals and perennials you are to water them right after planting and while you are waiting for them to root. If you didn't water them before they rooted they would actually die. So we have been basically treating the succulent cuttings the same way. Now with that being said we have been having great success with propagating the succulents! We assumed the succulents would also not root and would just dry up and die if we didn't water them until they started to root. But now that you have said to not water them until they form roots, I will take that advice and not do so moving forward.

I completely understand that it's not easy to answer the questions I asked. I actually meant to add that into my original post but forgot! I do know every plant is different and unique in how it grows and the care it requires! Silly me for not expressing that. What you did tell me was absolutely helpful though and I appreciate you advice! I am going to ask my fiance exactly what the mix we use is. We use the same mix with the succulents that we use for our perennials. It doesn't retain water to bad. I think part of the over-watering is that we all are so use to "soaking" all of the other plants we grow when we water and so that's what we are doing when we do water the succulents. I'm thinking that when we do water the succulents we need to change out our nozzle to one that gives more of a mist that way we can control the amount of water better.

Again, thank you for your advice !

Adding to what socks said - search this forum, and/or read various threads. There are many here about growing plants from cuttings. Most of info has been repeated, as new ppl come on and don't realize they can read past posts.

Good idea, Rina, I am going to do that for sure. I have been going through and reading other people's questions and the comments.

You may also wish to cross post in the greenhouse forum if you have not already done so.