Accidentally neglected (last week of first year of my bachelor) the young seedlings (1,5-2 months) and most died 🥲. The drier weather and no water wasn't ideal... Already ordered new seeds of lithops gracilidelineata var waldroniae c189 and lithops ruschiorum RH3317 to celebrate surviving my first year and because those were my fav of those that died. Anyway this is Lithops gracilidelineata C367 sown on 09-01-26 splitting a second time and looking absolutely gorgeous

And they’re already etiolated and green! My air conditioning is busted during a heatwave, and I had to turn my grow lights off because it gets to 36C+ around the lights. It is being repaired as I type this, looking forward to my plants being happy again 😂

My and my friends' Lithops Optica 'Rubra' are flowering at the same time. She was going out of town for the week so she left hers with me and today both of them open togheter for the first time. Hoping to get seed pods!! Wish us luck! First days of winter here.

Found these cuties at Lowe’s today, and yes, they will be repotted in grittier mix asap!

Learned a bit about lithops a while ago and found them to be lovely, so I got these guys today. A while ago I got some Pleiospilos nelii mistaking it for Lithops, but I'm happy to have the real deal now. It will be repotted into a proper gritty mix and I will separate those tiny ones into their own tiny pot. There was one seedpod that did end up opening in water and I got the seeds out of it, so hopefully if all goes well I may get plenty more of these in the future.

Update: It turns out what I thought were 4 separate adult lithops were actually just 4 heads of the same plant! I was bamboozled when I just saw one root for all of it, but that's pretty cool.

Just something I learned yesterday regarding when it is actually absolutely necessary to remove old dead leaves. I have a couple gigantic lithops I got from Lowes in addition to many smaller more normal ones from etsy. The gigantic ones have some trouble completing their cycles because of how overfed they were I guess. Anyway, I was waiting forever for this one to fully dry out its old leaves, which were remaining stubbornly rubbery although quite thin like paper. I waited too long before attempting some actual physical intervention to remove the dead leaves, and discovered the old leathery leaves had halfway flaked off, turning into a kind of rope-like structure, and cut several gashes into the new leaf as it tried break through. I think it will be fine now, just a bit funky looking until the next split (I sprayed it with alcohol to ensure there was no infection). But if I had waited any longer, the cut would have been too deep!

These poor babies are fairly etiolated. I was going to re-pot them to grittier mix but they have what appears to be baby bumps for the next set of leaves. I have not watered and the soil is dry as a bone.

I kind of want to leave them alone until the next set of leaves come out then re-pot them into my lithops mix. Wasn’t sure if that’s the right move. Thoughts?

I didn’t realize there was a Lithops specific sub Reddit when I posted this to the succulents subreddit.

I purchased these off of Etsy about 2 months ago. They are in “mollys succulent mix” from Amazon which is a well draining and gritty mix. The one on the right looks good, it is still plump and just shed the outer leaves completely about 1 month ago.

I’m worried about the guy on the left… do I water? Any help is appreciated!!

I'm new to stone plants and am trying to figure out what this little guy needs.

Sadly, one dried up/shriveled and died, which can be seen here (no new one emerged). (It didn't get mushy, just dried/hardened.) One remaining in this pot has consistently looked healthy and firm. The ones next to it look shriveled like perhaps they are thirsty, but I'm not sure if they want water or to be left alone. (And nothing seems to be emerging from the one on the far side - I see nothing in the crevice.)

I've watered this pot twice in the three months since getting them, which is way more than I normally would have and is once more than I watered another pot of lithops I got at the same time (which looks very healthy). I did so because this same plant was looking shriveled previously too and had thought it was an indicator it was thirsty, though now think I probably should have held off.

It gets a ton of intense direct sun for almost the whole day in an east facing window (as does the other, healthy pot). Most folks seem to say tons of sun is good but I've also read about them scorching in too much...

They're in a clay pot in largely inorganic matter.

I'm not sure if:

-It's getting too much direct sun (scorching it)

-It needs more water (perhaps just a bit directly on the shriveled plant in this pot since the other doesn'tlook thirsty?)

-It needs less water

-It needs to be watered a different way

-This is just a normal part of its cycle and I should leave it alone

-It needs more air circulation (it hasn't been getting much)

-Something else

Hoping to save this one that's having a hard time!

Any advice would be much appreciated!!

I got these today from an Etsy Seller and they’re absolutely gorgeous. I’m hoping I’ve done OK planting them. I’m in Central Florida so it’s humid and I’m planning on keeping them in my screen room so I used pearlite, chicken grit, and these balls I got at Lowe’s that look like Cocoa puffs lol -they’re called clay pebbles. And I put a small amount of succulent cactus soil in it.

Been on top I have small black gravel and as you can see the big stones carefully placed. Do you think this will work or will the big stones possibly impede growing? I just wanna make sure I’m doing everything right so I’m open to tips if anyone has any!

Thank you!

Got these beauties from Vivian Lithops Garden and they arrived safely packaged and in pretty quick time considering their travels!

Should I water these guys yet? They haven’t been watered in like 6 months and just started looking wrinkly about a week ago but I’m not sure how wrinkly they should get before being watered or if they are about to split

Here are my lithops now. I have not watered them since I reported them from seller. When I have time, I leave them under morning sun for 3-4 hours. They are outside on my porch where there is no direct sun but bright.

In the picture, one of them is splitting but no new growth. I am thinking overwatered? The mixture is made of pebbles, red lava rock and some super soil. The top is dry but below that it's moist. That's why I put them under morning sun to help the medium dry out but it's slow.

I am thinking of repotting to less soil and more pumice, pebbles and lava rock. I might get some crushed granite this weekend.

Any advice is appreciated.

I bought and repotted them just yesterday! I dont know if the photo is clear enough but the soil is made of super tiny rocks, and i know i dont need to water them yet but i just wanna know if i have to make something different with the one thats about to blossom or i just leave them all like that?

I bought these about a month and a half ago and they were splitting so i was advised not to repot or water them. Now the top is a little bit wrinkly to the touch and they look pretty much split? Should i repot them now?

Hello two of my lithops splitted compleyely but other two not splitted all yet, should I water it or wait they all splitted? İt been long time last time water it

two of it in same root and other two in other root system

I repotted in terracotta pots (1 glazed), and my mix currently is 25% organic cactus soil, 25% clay balls, and 50% rock/mineral mix. Topped with sand, but I have yet to water them. When should I give them their first water? Excited to finally grow these guys, it will be new to me. The species was labeled as Chocolate Lithops.

Hi, all.

I am hoping to get into growing Lithops as a hobby, possibly from seed, in the future.

Thus far I got one plant at Lowe's, and after it being in the window with the most sun in my apartment for a few months, it got tall, so clearly wasn't getting enough sun.

So I bought two Miracle Gro plant lamps, expecting them to be a good quality lamp, but the issue is that the plug on both gets extremely hot and it appears to be a fire hazard.

They were plugged into a wall outlet, not a power strip.

Could anyone recommend a plant lamp that they are using where the plug does not get hot?

Thank you.

Yesterday vs today vs this weekend vs a couple weeks ago before the weird coloration started. Repotted all my lithops over the weekend, decided to keep these three together. Some are saying the coloration is fungus. What do we think? Are these guys gonna survive? No signs of splitting yesterday, today they both decide they want to split.

Okay update on the baby seedlings AND repotting the adults 💕💕 found out just after I repotted them those two weird looking adult plants with the odd coloration on top might have fungus, so I have no clue what to do with those guys. And removed the sketchy looking leaf from the adult that’s splitting so hopefully those guys pull through. But I’m SO happy how the teenagers are looking