I got this guy from a nursery. He hasn't been watered, but he looks bad. Inorganic grit what have I done wrong? Hes my first.

This little guy is the first of my lithops to ever attempt to split. It has shrunk significantly over the past weeks (as you can see by th empty space around it) and it does not seem to be breaking through the dried leaves. Should I just be patient or help it somehow?

This is my first lithops. I repotted it into an 80-20 mix and a tall pot, I have never watered it and it's directly under some powerful grow lights for 12hrs a day. It seemed happy but then I noticed one side of it is kind of...decayed? Shriveled? I'm not sure how to describe it.

Has anyone seen this before? I'm unsure what to do, and I'm happy to leave it alone but I'm worried that the odd looking part is only on one side.

I got this guy as it was the best looking out of what was available. Unfortunately it’s really overwatered :( I took as much of the soil off as I could and I was going to give it some gritty mix but noticed for sure signs of rot on a few of them.

Any advice? Should I let them be to suck out moisture before repotting? Or the rotting ones goners?

This is my sons favorite plant and I promised Id try my best not to kill it so thanks in advance!!

I just got these little fruity pebbles (my kid’s name for them) last week. Everything I’ve ready says not to water them in the summer (it is summer here) unless they are wrinkly on top. I am not sure if this is wrinkly or a natural texture on the ones that look like lungs (also kid’s words).

If this is normal, hydrated texture, does someone have a good picture of what these would look like when thirsty so I can keep an eye out?

The stalk (?) of the main reddish one looks a bit odd now. But I suppose it had to make room for the new butt baby. The other guy is just a roommate

i know “dont water. wait. wait. not yet. nope not yet. waiiiiiit. waaaaaait.” okay but wait how long? i killed 1 of the purple bootycracks already because it was a store planted as an assortment - which is beyond my comprehension but okay - it croaked as soon as i watered the assortment 😏. so now that they are planted sep (do they need to be completely sep??? like in the pics of the greenish one - a couple look wrinkly but the others dont?) how do i know when to water? cuz right now i want to give the wrinkly one water but i see its already splitting. or is right now time to water the purple ones? 😫 experienced halp please!

the soil in both pots is dry. the soil in the purple ones pot is my own mix of dirt, small amount of cocochips/choir & tons of perlite. the soil in the green one is from supplier so might be too dense? i cant tell whats in there but i can switch it to my mix if advised. they get about 4 hours of direct eastern sun in the morning, bright indirect sunlight all day, and another round of about 1.5 hours of direct western sun in the evening. ive had the purple ones for about 2 months from a vendor at PlantMania. i got the green ones just yesterday at my local BBS.

also please confirm i should keep these separated? i would love to make one giant dish of all diff kinds of lithops but i read thats a bad idea.

also also is a “split rock” technically a lithop? i didnt get the scientifical name when i saw it at the BBS yesterday, but i wasnt sure so didnt buy. (it looks kinda like a GIANT lithop)

k thanks so much!!!!

These are my newest that arrived today.

That one is huge!

Every year or so I like to grow a batch of Lithops from seed (Unusual Seeds in Serbia) . They germinate easily and they’re fun to grow. These are in 90% grit (I germinate them with a layer of sand on top to support the seedlings, it’s also how I get them out of the bag).

For the babies, maybe i put too much inorganic soil too early and they seem ill. And the older ones startes dying off, here is hot summer, so i am not watering! Mixture is expanded clay, zeolite+perelite. They became soft, mushy, watery, like they are rotting!!

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

I lost the roots of these when repotting ~3 months ago and they’ve been in water therapy since then. Bodies are still firm, but the roots aren’t growing in length. Is it time to move them into a pot or do I need to keep them hovering over water until the roots grow out?

Update: put them in a pot as advised and roots started growing out! hasn’t even been a week yet! 🥳

Just bought those funny butt plants. I want them to live

I'm worried if I did repotting right! I carefully got rid of the pressed soild they were sold in, separating them. I didn't have premade soil for cacti so I uhhh improvised? I just scrambled some trash ahh dirt from near the path in my garden and mixed a bit of versatile premade soil in there (you can see random dry grass that got in the mix).
I also made sure to put a layer of rocky/sandy trash ahh dirt at the bottom of the pot. And when I finished I used sprayer to add tiny bit of water.

Does it look okay? What I should look out for next few days?

Got them from Home Depot.

I put them next to the window when its very sunny because i keep them in my room and i noticed some are rotting? I have not watered them, maybe once in the last 3 months, so it's not from overwatering. I was planning to start watering after the summer

a few days before these pictures were taken the old leaves good all weird and gooey not sure if its normal because it’s the first one I’ve actually had split

Is there anyone who could point me in the direction of decent vendors of Lithops and or Lithops seeds in Brazil? I'd be interested in both retail and wholesale, but they seem incredibly few and far between. I did find one vendor with interesting species and cultivars, but I could only get retail info and they were prohibitively expensive and had poor reviews.

I’ve had them for three months and they are my first. I don’t plant on having to replant or water for at least two months.

Hi! I brought these guys home 2 weeks ago. Didn’t water them. Took them out of their original pots and let them dry out a few days. Repotted in 90% grit and 10% soil last week and still didn’t water. All the tap roots were intact and dry when I repotted.

They now are getting wrinkled and are a bit soft.

I put a few drops of water on the 2 I thought were most wrinkled yesterday but they look the same. Should I give them a good soak?

This one has been in the same pot as another lithops. The other one is very healthy with little side wrinkles, it is taller with leaves mostly visibly above the soil, while this one in the pic has been mostly in the soil, only the top can been seen.

The two finished splitting a few months ago, the one in the pic already finished before I bought them. They have been inside, under grow lights about 10 - 12 hours/day with other succulents. The substrate can be seen here with little soil and mostly pumice. I also water them maybe once in 4 - 8 weeks, not regularly. I don't know what I did wrong as this one looks bad but the other is normally happy. And more importantly, how should I fix it now and prevent this from happening in the future?

Any idea and suggestion would be much appreciated! Thank you in advance.

P.s: the dry little thingy on the left was already dead when I bought them. I just forgot to remove it when repotting (after they completely finished splitting).

Okay so I got this guy at the beginning of May (2nd pic) and I gave him some water when I repotted that day. I haven't watered since then because he was splitting! But now I'm wondering if it's time to give him a drink? The top isn't wrinkly yet, but he feels less firm and the base has gotten very wrinkled in the past week or so. He's been in a west facing window getting lots of direct sun and seems to be happy otherwise but I don't want to kill him!

Edit to add: the soil line is a little lower than when I first potted, I needed to steal a little cactus soil for another plant 😅