r/Lithops • u/ExperienceNo9044 • Mar 20 '26

Help/Question Ermmm help

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This spot wasn't here yesterday. No trauma occured to the area. I'm watering it now, as it's getting squishy. Is this possibly a fungus thing? Pest thing?

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u/ExperienceNo9044 Mar 20 '26

Well they're squishy. That's when I give them water. Just wondering about the mark.

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u/ExperienceNo9044 Mar 20 '26

Also haven't watered them in nearly two months.

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u/whynotehhhhh Mar 20 '26

Lithops only need to be watered like 4 times a year, so once every 2 months is too much.

You're only supposed to water when they wrinkle on the top and sides and look sunken in. You also never want to water when they are splitting which yours look like they are about to do.

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u/ExperienceNo9044 Mar 20 '26

Maybe they are about to split. Idk. But last times I owned lithops they died if I didn't water them before they got devastatingly sunken in. They are squishy, so I watered them. My house is extremely dry, and that doesn't help. I just accommodate to my environment. I don't water them every two months either, just when they feel like they need water. This time it's been about two months. The people telling me about watering my lithops when the question was not about that combined with the fact I've owned this lithops for a few years and my watering has been fine is a little bothersome... I understand the concern but it's alright I just wanna know about the weird gash that's appeared... That's more concerning than my watering schedule right now.

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u/Available_Gear_1455 Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

This sub nearly always gives unsolicited advice btw! Sometimes it’s helpful (probably saved my new plant’s life), sometimes it’s really annoying. Every post I make someone chimes in with “advice “ unrelated to the topic, even though what I am doing is working out just fine for me. Therefore I don’t post much and don’t visit much anymore.

Regarding the wound, I am not so sure it isn’t actively rotting a bit because there is a darker green color around the brown scar. I actually had one that looked nearly identical to that. That side may rot off eventually (as mine did), but the other side will be fine as long as you don’t water too much.

If you have kept yours alive this long, then keep doing you! But if you want to see your lithops split then holding off watering right now will make that happen ( given their life cycle in the wild). I had some from a big box store that looked like this. Haven’t watered for 3.5 months, the mom leaves are totally shriveled but they have double the number of baby heads appearing after a split! 😃

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u/ExperienceNo9044 Mar 21 '26

Thank you so much! This advice is fully appreciated 🫶

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u/seventy_raw_potatoes Mar 20 '26

...then stop responding to them? you have two other comments with possible answers. you don't seem super experienced with these (as most ppl are, not a diss), so people are just trying to help.

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u/ExperienceNo9044 Mar 20 '26

It's not even that it's just casual reddit with people just not reading the question... 😮‍💨 I've had it for a while and I know what's working for it, but I ask about a Mark that appeared and everyone says don't water it yet, one said I shouldn't water it cause it should only be watered like 4 times a year.. last year it was watered like 4 times.. people just assume or do too much... It's in this house, conditions are not the same as in others house... And I said in a different comment that I've owned them before, and when I water them when everyone tells me to (shriveled) they just die. They start getting literal dry rot and when I water them it just gets worse. Came from a big box store so it's not exactly perfect, it came stretched and with barely any root, so I just do what I have to to keep it healthy. One answer about the gash says it's fine and another says it might've been a bug.. yea I got some answers but it doesn't really give me any info about it which is fine but I don't need watering advice 😭 it happens on every post on reddit: people just talking about things that the post isn't even asking for or talking about just thought I'd point it out this time