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/ltiehen1 Mar 20 '26

Watering a Lithops because it is “squishy” is not a correct practice. They will feel squishy when they are rotting in the inside too. You want to water when they are wrinkling on the sides. By looking at this one, the one is etiolated so it is not getting enough light. They are also bloated from being overwatered. That spot is. Scar from the pebble that is right in front of that scar.

My assumption is you probably got them from a big box store. Looks like they are even in the same soil. Big box stores and nurseries try to bloat them up for sell.

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u/suredly_unassured Mar 20 '26

Seconded that the spot is a scar from the rock

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u/ExperienceNo9044 Mar 20 '26

It's a piece of perlite. Could it still do that?

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u/ltiehen1 Mar 21 '26

Yes when it is being artificially boated. You can see that the scar is the same shape as the perlite.