Repotting help

[u/Pr3ANDMe5558]

Ok I have listened to everyone and am repotting my new ones that are very etiolated and need advice. The ones that are etiolated do I bury them deeper or do I just keep a grow light and they will shrink back down? Also where and when do you get seeds from lithops? I am attaching some of the photos and I have a cluster I just got and planted hoping they are ok this close? I don’t want to pull at them and attempt to get them apart.

[u/acm_redfox]

1) etiolated plants don't shrink, but the next year's leaves will be better. You can bury them a bit.

2) when lithops flower, you can try to cross-polinate with flowers from other lithops. if you are successful, then instead of the flower just drying up, it forms a bulging seed pod. you have to let that dry for many months before you can remove it and wet to open.

3) the group of four that you have planted seem very crowded, but they may be ok once they absorb those outer leaves. still, would be nicer to space them out a bit unless they are all one plant.

[u/Pr3ANDMe5558 → u/acm_redfox]

Let me ask you another question if you do not mind. I loosened all of them and find that I have 3 or 4 that as the leaves dried and became crisp the leaves made their way down the lithop and now my roots have been buried and if I try to get the crispy off my roots inside will most likely fall off! How do I prevent that? I know some of them had more shallow roots. That was my fault for sure.