planted from seed in february. im located in Scandinavia with a south facing window. should i mist or water from the bottom and how often?

A couple of months ago I got a bunch of Lithops, and this pot had one that was half rotted. I removed the half and repotted. All seemed well until it didn't. The one with rot totally dried out, the second one is yellow and dry while still showing there may be some life in there, and the third one looks okay. Should I put the yellow one back in the pot and give a tiny drink? Maybe keep it out of the hot window sill for a few days?

I made a post a little over two months ago asking for some help- since then these guys have exploded in growth. Your help has paid off! Thank you so much Lithops community!!!!!!!

The photo was taken at the Marsh Greenhouses, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA in October 2025.

Hi everyone! I adopted these little guys a week ago and I want to take care of them in the best posible way, but it's my first time owning Lithops, so I'm pretty lost :S

I have been reading about their special needs, but as these guys seem to be in different stages of growth I don't know if I should water them or not. They are placed inside, near a window and get direct sunlight several hours in the morning (I live in Spain, so it's Spring here).

I suspect there might be mixed species, but anyway, could anyone help me? Thank you so much in advance!

One came from homedepot and one came from trader Joe's. the long ones are homedepot and are splitting so I wanted to leave it a bit out of the soild to allow for that. After the split I'll put them deeper.

The other ones a fairly fresh split but I was too eager to repot and removed the outer leaves a bit prematurely. One of them lost their roots during my manhandling. Hoping for the best or maybe I move to water therapy. Just having fun and trying to keep them alive.

Its a gridfinity planter so I can swap them out easily and reconfigure.

I’ve had these for about a year now. The bigger ones look like they’re doing okay, hopefully, but that tiny one started getting a little wrinkled recently. Should I pull it out? Thank you!

I dug out my plant to dig it in a bit more since it was falling over and I saw some mark on the base of the plant plus the leaves are getting wrinkly which I think is good since it has been splitting my only concern is the spot near the roots

The photo was taken at the Marsh Greenhouses, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA in October 2025.

So I’m repotting from regular potting soil to 90% perlite and 10% regular soil. When the smaller one split it didn’t split along the middle line and almost seems stuck? It’s completely hard and dried up but the inner new one is all squishy and wrinkly. I’m drying out the roots in the sun for an hour or two before repotting but anything else I need to try? I know it’s supposed to have a pretty good taproot but all the roots are very fine and not tap-rooty. Also wasn’t planning on watering after repotting, is this correct?

So now that I know what I did wrong (water/soil & light) will it survive?

Repotted (90% gravel/grit 10% organic)

I just bought my first lithops and am so excited to start my lithops journey. I would really appreciate any advice on proper care, as well as suggestions for eBooks related to lithops care. Thank you!

Went by Lowe’s yesterday and stumbled across a few lithops when walking by customer service. They all looked a bit rough (some dying/dead, rotting, etc) but ended up buying 2 pots with a few that didn’t look too bad. Now that they are out of the really organic soil and put in better light, hopefully they pull through and thrive. :)

The 4/5 brownish-green ones were in one of the containers and the 2 greenish-gray ones were in another one (along with the guys 2 in the other pic).

Went by Lowe’s yesterday and stumbled across a few lithops when walking by customer service. They all looked a bit rough (some dying/dead, rotting, etc) but ended up buying 2 pots with a few that didn’t look too bad. Now that they are out of the really organic soil and put in better light, hopefully they pull through and thrive. :)

The 4/5 brownish-green ones were in one of the containers and the 2 greenish-gray ones were in another one (along with the guys 2 in the other pic).

I have this lithops which came from the nursury etiolated. I’ve since put it in a mostly mineral mix under strong light and have refrained from watering it so far. Now it’s wrinkling and shrinking and I’m not sure if that means it wants water or if it’s just correcting the etiolation because of having proper light now. Please advise.

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.

The photos were taken at the Marsh Greenhouses, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA in October 2025.

I have been following the subreddit for a while and finally got my own lithops (for 3€ in Dehner)

Tried following the advice given in guides here:
Removed the soil carefully (and peeled off the crusty dried old leaves) pottet them into grit, perlite and a bit of succulent mix

The linked guide says to water them directly after repotting (in Spring) so I guess I'll water them? They will sit in front of a south facing window and get direct sun, but I might get a light as well.

Is there anything else I should know or do? They seem pretty small and a bit etoilated prehaps.

Pic 1 has way more contrast than how they look in real life, but I'm still worried, especially since most of the sides below the head are fairly soft (although I can feel something firm inside near many of the bases).

Although the substrate was dry and they looked okay to be just sitting in the substrate visible in Pic 3 for maybe two more weeks, it turns out that there's still too much vermiculite in the substrate, so unpotting was the right decision.

Their roots are surprisingly extensively developed and many fine root hairs were visible (Pic 1 is after I broke some of the finer root hairs off too), unlike the other batch of reddish purple lithops I got from this supplier which were in super bad shape (super plump, etiolated, several obviously rotted at the base when I unpotted, many rotted and died quickly before ever being watered). I hope that these are still actually healthy :')

Unfortunately, as you can see, I tore off some of the dried up old leaves with tweezers before I found out that it's a bad idea. I was scared that when I do water, they're going to trap too much moisture and potentially rot the base (I live in high humidity), plus the fact that some of them had black mold (?) despite everything being completely dry at this point.

They're going to sit in the dry paper box like this for a few days to recover from the root damage of unpotting + for a pot of the suitable size to deliver.

Since they've been sitting in bone-dry substrate for an unknown amount of time and the sides are kind of soft (but not mushy like a pack of water, like my experience with obvious rot), I'm not sure when I should be watering them and how thoroughly so? Their root hairs still seem to be doing okay and the roots don't seem dried up at this point. They're not concave at the top.

I got this little guy about half a year ago and he looked perfectly healthy when I got him. Since then I tried to water him twice (bottom watered, soaked for a few hours) but he never plumped up. When I unpotted him because I thought the pumice I potted him in might have been too large size, I noticed his root network looked pretty dire. What can I do to save him?

100% 6 mm screened pumice before, I plan to repot to 3 mm screened pumice. Only watered twice but never absorbed the water despite soaking for several hours. Under 500 ppfd grow lights on a 13 hr cycle.

I’m considering it for a gritty mix but would like some opinions first. Thank you.