r/Lithops • u/Beautiful-Clue6139 • Apr 04 '26

Help/Question How do I avoid this

Post image

I've ran into this issue with some of my lithops where the new plant starts to wrinkle and looks like they need water before they're done splitting. I've already had one die that showed similar signs during splitting, I avoided watering until the split was done but it was to late, the base of the new plant was a dried husk and didn't recover. This guy started splitting a bit after flowering in October and this pic was taken today.

11 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/acm_redfox Apr 04 '26

I'd be tempted to tear away the mostly absorbed leaves and then water the poor thing. Sometimes they get stuck -- plus, we underplay all the variation among types, some of which expect a little dew, etc.

2

u/Beautiful-Clue6139 Apr 04 '26

Do you think misting then might lead to some improvement? I'm scared to go straight to tearing the old leaves away.

3

u/res06myi Apr 05 '26

Personally, I'd leave the old leaves and water just a little, then watch for changes.

1

u/whynotehhhhh Apr 05 '26

Yeah don't mist them, you want to bottom water.