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title: "Regarding Lithops, here is the way I calmed down on the overthinking.…"
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# Regarding Lithops, here is the way I calmed down on the overthinking.…

_Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2023-07-09에 게시함_

Regarding Lithops, here is the way I calmed down on the overthinking. However, I’m only one and a half years since I learned of the existence of Lithops. Mine look healthy, but it could be another 40 years of this.

Search “Great Karoo” or even “Lithops in the ground” and you can see how gnarly they can look in their desolate South African fields. You’ll also see how flat they sit; those who survive have 0 need to reach for the sun because it’s blasting all day. You can see I’ve tried to follow the “keep them flat” with mine (especially the five-pack), even occasionally adding a little more top layer.

The attached photos (no clue how to attribute those, but they are mostly from a Wisconsin edu excursion) show that rough “quartz field” terrain mentioned in advice on Lithops potting mix.

Side note that this area is home to a huge number of the odd Haworthia, Baby Toes and all those with windows/eyes on top of their various heads. It is a spot that is highly irradiated due to whatever makes the sun feel like there is a hole in the ozone; that analogy comes from living in a Caribbean country where one town’s concentrated heat made me feel like the Sun was aware of me and friends, and the sunburn pain and heat fever were the worst I’ve ever endured.

The illustration is from Wiki and visually answered, for me, what’s going on under these dudes. Here are the “long roots” etc.

After seeing them outside of the indoor beauty standards, you get a better idea of their resilience.

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gFKgBIDtQUSoNHyzAXA4pLM-wYI4yLGXFPAMGDtMt3o/195249faee96449a8688dabd05116475.webp?size=large)

## 6개의 댓글

### Cindy Asby님이 2023-07-09에 댓글을 남겼어요.

And I managed to una live mine😩

### Eliya님이 2023-07-09에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Bro, lithops terrify me 😂 maybe I might get some one day, but currently they just freak me out for some unknown reason 😅

#### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2023-07-09에 답변했습니다.

They freak you out because the entire planting world has freaked out - myself included. It’s such a gossip plant haha.

I’m posting this confidently only because I’ve made it a year, but we have plenty of time to see if they disagree with my methods.

### Eliya님이 2023-07-09에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Haha

### MeasomerPi님이 2023-07-09에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Thanks for posting this. They are endlessly fascinating, challenging, heartbreaking, and wonderful.

#### Dave\_opuntiaface님이 2023-07-10에 답변했습니다.

Of course! I love seeing everyone nervously post about them, too. I’m not including details of emergency repotting due to changing the top soil a few times, but that also helped my paranoia of them being so precious. The top soil change was first an attempt to try a recommendation, and then changed in a week when I could immediately see it wasn’t working. Trying to fix and then correct and correct ha.

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