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Where can I get lithops online? I have absolutely no idea haha, I was thinking Amazon but idk how much trust I should put into it, especially when it comes to live plants. Any good gardening sites or am I making a Home Depot run sometime soon?
Finally got my hands on some mature Lithops after being impatient with my tiny babe from seed. Now I need all the advice! Is there a better time than not to repot these guys? I know they want good space for roots. Do I wait and water until they start wrinkling? Iâve had them for about a month now, but scared to water. lol Dave, give me your 101 class!
Hello all I just got in my order of living rocks..was wondering do I have to plant them all together or can I plant them separately? New to this so would greatly appreciate any adviceâŠthank you đ
I got these lithops a few months ago and they just started to split! Itâs been really exciting to watch their evolution these past few days đœ
After collecting a few more species (one ordered online, the rest being luck at various Home Depot), decided that it was time again to attempt an ID on some of my Lithops. Before jumping to ask the kind man from Cape Town who I befriended online after wondering about wrinkling mimicry plants, I rediscovered this site. I have not found a more simple, user-friendly guide to Lithops than this. I mean, Iâm still guessing on most of mine because they wonât stop adapting. lithops-passion.com/living-stones/recognizing/
I am new to this speciesâŠbut I got my first one todayâŠI call her JLo đ I have ordered more because I am intrigued by themâŠbut what kind of soil is best for them? Please give me some infoâŠthank you đ
Brought home my first lithops today đ
Okay. Iâm still fighting mealie bugs, and the last straw was finding them on a couple Lithops. I had to toss out a really cool Mammillaria elongata monstrose something something because it sat too long in water (my bad). I saved a couple of pieces to propagate, didnât do it, and missed one little chunk that fell behind another plant. That little chunk was all the bugs needed, and then they moved on to consuming the discarded Lithops leaves. And I went almost feral over the idea of tossing out these particular Lithops, which have EVOLVED over a year. So I had to do a LOT of surgery and removal of old leaves on plants who still needed another few weeks or something. But that is speculation due to the insane splits of two faces becoming three, or maybe thatâs going to be six next year. Frustrating and amazing.
Iâve been head down on many things, one of which happened so intently when I found a couple different species at Home Depot. I ordered some seeds (not Lithops - itâs a surprise) and received seven bonus babies; the blue pot is plants from Mountain Crest Gardens. Note that a bunch have reproduced as they split. Or cloned themselves. Itâs Invasion of the Body Snatchers pod life, for sure, which makes me wonder the usual things humans do. Do these plants know something about the weather that I donât? Iâm assuming that most of this is adaptation to the conditions I provided. The Mars Hydro grow-tent-sized light over my âHot Boxersâ microsite is so flipping powerful, and I donât doubt that it did something. The whole jam with sucs is their rapid adaptation. So much to think about. ps I also met someone who has encouraged me to become the odd succulent/Lithops lover I should be lol. Thatâs funny, but true, and rules. Most of these are going to flower this year đł
hey!! i wanted to ask what you guys thought of how my lil butts are doing since winter is leaving and spring is coming! my big one split weird only half shriveled and there is a twin in the other half, iâve been wondering if i should leave it be to do its thing or try to preform mild surgery to get the twin out, she looks stuck to me, other than that i was sent the other big one(s) and they seem to have bruises, i just want to make sure its not scale or anything like that, several plants from that seller arrived with abrasions like that so just been wondering! ty in advance!
is it time to water?
I canât stop. I tried, but then I saw another color, and another. I am at the point of âOkay, thatâs enough for the year,â but I feel like I would regret not getting them. All Home Depot, $5 each.
Any tips on taking care of these lil guys? I got them back in August and have seen 1-2 new sprouts, but I feel like theyâre too tall and spread apart now. I saw other posts in here where there were new leaves coming up in the crack, but I donât see any sign of that happening here. Theyâre under a grow light as well and in a west window, so Iâm not sure why theyâre growing tall. Unless they do it for other reasons than to get sunlight. Thanks!
My lithop started splitting about a month ago. It was going well but now itâs melting. I didnât water it. This doesnât seem like the normal splitting process, but this is my first lithop so I could be wrong. Does anyone have any advice or thoughts?
Just got my first Lithops! Any tips on owning one?
See the yellow-white dot? I know what it is. I know because I watered my first Lithops and placed it in direct sun for an evening. Water drops act like magnifying glass, and you get a little burn. I lost my mind when it happened for the first time until remembering that these get a new, clean outfit every year. Itâs not an excuse and I wouldnât do it on purpose, but itâs only one strike so far đ By "until remembering" I mean I panicked and said yep, this is out of your league and waited for them to die; I stopped holding my breath over it four months later when they fully cast off and consume their old bodies. Weird to write that. I didn't have this specific species until now (I still have to look that up). It sits in a sharkâs mouth.
One month progress on these little babies!
One year (the splitting is the most current photo). These are around three years old and should flower this or next year. How is it that these little buttons are capable of a 40-year lifespan?!
The plumped up photo is the day I took them home (late 2022). Weâre in splitting season now, and all mine seem to be progressing.
Planta is advising me to water all of my lithops tomorrow (Iâve had them for about a month now) but I read a few comments on here saying not to water them if theyâre splitting - but I only have one pot where they look like theyâre thriving and not shriveled. Most of the pots have shriveled ones and maybe a few splitting - so Iâm unsure whether to water or not?
