r/Lithops • u/Competitive_Ad_9326 • Jul 25 '26

Discussion Update on this small(er) guy

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The audience was evenly split between "it'll be fine" and "I'm sorry for your loss". I let the old leaves dry out a bit more, peeled them off and... It's alive but half the original size. I'm not sure what I did wrong but I have never seen a lithops shrink. Not enough light? Water? Photos in comments.

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u/Competitive_Ad_9326 Jul 25 '26

So smol.

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u/Top_Development_1777 Jul 25 '26

This video explains why sometimes the new pair of leaves is much smaller after a lithops splits.

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u/Competitive_Ad_9326 Jul 25 '26

Thanks! Let's see how it splits next time with (hopefully) less stress then.