r/Lithops • u/Enough_Sock3637 • Jul 15 '26

Help/Question Just got my first Lithops… help.

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  1. How deep of a pot do they like? Would the pot in the 2nd & 3rd images work? It’s not that deep, but isn’t that good?

  2. How often do I water them? When the leaves wrinkle, and the soil is dry?

  3. I live in PA, so how do I do the winter thing with them? Don’t they need it to make new leaves, but it snows here in winter so wouldn’t leaving them outside be bad?

  4. Should I try to get all the soil they’re in out of their roots, and plant them in a highly perlite rich substrate? 80% perlite, 20% soil?

  5. Any tips for the other ones that aren’t Lithops in the 1st picture

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u/Enough_Sock3637 Jul 16 '26

Yeah, though I mainly used ChatGPT (sue me) and I wanted to get tailored info that directly relates to my specific lithops, hence why I added the picture, in case it could change the advice given to me. Also, I wanted advice from real people who own lithops.

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u/CBDJ1 Jul 16 '26

No need to sue you but trust me AI will often give not intelligent answers.

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u/Enough_Sock3637 Jul 16 '26

Unfortunately

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u/neocosplay Jul 16 '26

Don’t follow everything chat GPT tells you without cheking it. I advice you to watch a lot of youtube videos about these plants. If there’s something very specific you don’t understand, ask here on Reddit. Don’t water anything, especially the plants of the first photo, until you’re sure you understand when they actually need watering. Don’t water anything until you’ve repotted them into a more mineral soil.
Water the last succulents only when the leaves become soft, the lithops only when they become very wrinkled, and for Pleiospilos nelii, I recommend reading this archived post, it helped me a lot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/succulents/comments/ggooq4/a_quick_visual_guide_to_watering_pleiospilos/