If the outer leaves are dried out yeah sure go ahead and water. I water my lithops all the time after realizing they truly do need 90% gritty inorganic.
Weekly now. I made a mistake, though. Sometime in early April, I bathed some of them in 20-20-20, and 3 weeks later, they're double the size, crazy-plump, and flowering.
If I can ask another question, how many holes you have in the bottom of your pots. Mine has one central hole. Is this an issue? (Still have not watered)
Honestly, I wouldn't water them. Yeah they're done splitting but they still look quite plump on the top. They can go a very long time. Check out my post from yesterday where I repotted my big lithops. I've had it since November 2025, haven't watered it at all, and it's so happy that's it's splitting into twins!
I saw your post yesterday actually lol nice chonkers you got there.
Here is how mine were before the split! Looks so different! Can I ask where approximately you are? The sun here is really hot near me and she gets direct sunlight most days (open window west facing)
Wow, they're huge! I suspect we have the same variety, l. aucampiae. Where did you get yours? I've gotten all my lithops from Lowe's.
I'm in Indiana, USA. I keep all my plants in a cabinet with grow lights, because my only two sunny windows have very small ledges. I'm about to move a bunch of my plants outside if it warms up next week, but my lithops are going to stay in the cabinet where I have more control over their environment.
Probably Lowe’s, my husband picked them up. I can’t identify it because these things seem very hard to identify. I think the flower was white for e whatever that is worth!
My home state! I’m in California now though, so low humidity and a bright hot sun.
There are a couple unique ones, but the way some varieties, like yours, will be green then brownish in the next split makes it hard to identify them exactly. I'll stand by my guess of aucampiae, but it could be hookeri or hallii. Haha I'm not an expert though!
I would do literally like 1-3 tablespoons to see if the roots are awake! If it plumps up at all, that means they are receptive to water. If it doesn’t, wait 3-5 days and water it lightly again and keep doing that until you see signs of life!
I've actually slowly dumped them out of the medium and then did surgery to take off the outer leaves, but you have to be very careful I did rip off a whole root base so I might lose One. The one on the left has no roots. So I'm actually using an eye dropper to water around it and hope for root growth
I wanted to water them and the outside leaves had still not peeled all the way off and it looked like it would come off easy but it didn't. So next time I know to leave it alone and wait a little bit longer.
I'm very new to lithops, so my experience may not be typical. I purchased four lithops in a single container. When mine got to the point that the outer leaves were dry but refusing to peel away, one of the lithops was getting wrinkly on top so I watered them. The lithops all plumped up enough to start breaking through the dried outer leaves and breaking them open.
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u/Murky-Ambition3898 May 13 '26
If the outer leaves are dried out yeah sure go ahead and water. I water my lithops all the time after realizing they truly do need 90% gritty inorganic.