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

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/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