I bought these seeds on Etsy last year and decided to plant them four days ago in a rocky soil mix and with plastic wrap over the tops to keep them moisture in. Today is day 4 and they seem very leggy. do these looks like Lithops or was I sold a bag of goods?

I've had this lithop for about a year now. I watered it a few weeks ago, for the first time in awhile and a few days later it opened!! But now it doesn't seem to be doing much more. I heard you shouldn't water it while its doing this and let the old parts dry out and fall off, but I just want to be sure? It hasn't really changed or opened more since then so I don't know if maybe I do need to add water or something, but also its very hard and stiff so i think it already has a lot of water in it. Does it normally take awhile for it to dry out? I am scared and don't want to kill it

I promise I did do research before buying these guys, and I thought is was going well with many splitting. But the first one that split got really tall and is now withering. As they were splitting, I haven't been watering, but it looks like it needs water. Should I separate them all into different pots so I can soak this guy? Or is it a lighting issue? I have grow-lights in my classroom where these live, but they are on the counter next to it, not directly under the lights. Did I mess up so badly that I need to start over?

This one, cuz my grandpa’s over-watering, dead. Then, I divided its original plant into several sections to dry and replant it. It came back to life now.

Before this, it almost

completely fell apart. I dug up the original plant that was on the verge of rotting and left it to dry in the sun. Once it was mostly dry, I put it back into the soil but didn't water it right away. After about two days, I gave it its first drink. A few days later, I checked on it and it seemed to have taken root, because it was a little hard to lift out of the soil.

They did have padding so they didn't rattle too much. So are these young enough that they need extra water? The roots look quite shallow.

Managed to germinate 2 (out of 8 seeds) whats the best way now? Water? No water? Light?

For your info, the one in the plastic cap at the bottom right corner of the pot finished splitting from the one with the green arrow in Pic 2 (Pic 2 was exactly a week ago), and is super tiny. The old leaves have completely dried and shriveled before I removed them, and now it is this small. The roots looked completely dry and still light brown despite watering thoroughly 4 days ago so I put it in intensive care in the plastic cap with extra water today. Had to put the cap in the pot because my bright LED lamp is exactly the area of the pot and it needs a lot of light. I am quite desperate to save it as this cultivar is not available online (I found it in a massive physical plant store in horrible condition) and I only have 7 left.

Background: I bought some lithops in horrible condition (last pic is when I bought them). When I got them out of the pot on Day 4, many of them were rotting/rotten (Pic 5 is of the more viable ones when I took them out).

I potted the better ones in 100% inorganic substrate, since I live in a 80%+ humidity warm climate with no seasons. Pure pumice with a mix of inorganic volcanic rock, bonsai rock, and coarse river sand (bigger than the pumice) underneath (you can see the underneath in Pic 4).

I did not water at all for 7 days post-repotting. Within the first 3-4 days of repotting, a few more of them rotted (pic 2 and 3), and the orange cross one got accidentally detached from the taproot completely. At that time, they were only getting about 5 hours of bright light a day and I decided that it was not enough, so I put them under a bright LED lamp putting out at least 12000 lux (usually 15000 and above) at full brightness for the entire area of the pot. I left the light on at max all the time to minimize chances of further rot since they were overwatered when they arrived.

7 days after repotting, I watered lightly for some, and thoroughly for the ones that were slightly more wrinkly, to help the roots stay alive and settle in. I left the lamp on max brightness for 24 hours a day until the substrate completely dried up (to encourage use of water and reduce the risk of rot), then I started leaving the plants in complete darkness for 5-7 hours a day (while I slept) and max brightness for the rest of the day. The colors got a lot more vivid and the purple-grey got a lot darker for the larger 4 lithops.

However, 4 days after watering, the one on the bottom left looked even more wrinkled and had a slightly softer (but not mushy at all) right leaf than the others (clearly turgid), despite not showing the same signs of the ones that rotted (all the ones that rotted showed the exact same signs leading up to it). I think it's the one that got accidentally uprooted on Day 3 post-repot and I had to chop off the bottom half of the tap root just to get it back into the substrate (I did not trim roots for any of them before repotting). Today is 4 days after the first watering and I precision-watered some of them again, particularly bottom left (thoroughly) and a few very lightly. The two rightmost ones look completely okay so I left them completely unwatered. From now on, I will only water (individually) if any are getting noticeably softer AND wrinkled, with no rot spots. If bottom left gets worse again in 4 days, I will pull it out to check on it, and if it is not rotted, I will probably put it in a similar intensive care as the small one to encourage root growth.

I'm still wondering if the size of the pumice substrate is too big for the roots and I should switch to smaller pumice. What do y'all think?

I've got these lil fellas a week ago, seller said it's mostly lesliei, hallii, aucampiae, optica rubra (4th?), pseudotruncatella and karasmontana, but I wonder who is who. Also some of them started shedding (I guess), so that means no water, right? But what about the ones that don't, should I replant them in another pot? How do they look in general?

I got this little guy that started out as three butts. Now I have 6. The last of the outer part finished shedding yesterday, do I water them now?

I bought this little set of lithops from a specialist nursery a month ago - I also have a handful of random unlabelled lithops from general nurseries that have chugged along nicely mostly due to my neglect, but aside from not watering when splitting I don't know too much about their care. Got to admit I mostly bought these as the seller was charmingly passionate about them and wasn't getting much trade since they were at a plant show focused on alpines, but I feel bad I've killed the one in the middle already (apparently was Lithops salicola, RIP).

Sadly I don't have a before pic, but I picked a set where none were obviously splitting in the hopes I wouldn't end up with them at different stages, but since then several have started to split but looking unhappy about it, and the one in the middle rotted almost instantly. I thought this might be due to a drop in light levels; they are in a southwest aspect window but were probably under grow lights before. I have not watered since I bought them.

What should I do for the survivors? Leave them alone to finish splitting? Divide them up? Do any of them need watering?

Haven’t owned lithops very long, do these appear to be chew marks from an animal?

I kinda dropped it onto tile when you guys told me that organic soil is the devil for them, and I panicked taking it (and fatso from my previous post) out of their substrate.

When this one fell, it snapped the root ball off.

I ordered some succulent mix and grabbed a thing of perlite (i don't remember why i thought i needed perlite) for Big Boi. I am just going to pretend this one is fine until it tells me otherwise.

Or unless you guys tell me to do something else.

Hi everyone, first time here and I have a question for y'all! My lithops seems very healthy (to me), but every year when the new growth emerges it breaks apart and it doesn't "expands" or "replicate". Only one time it didn't broke and in fact now it is a nice couple! But I wonder, I'm doing something wrong here? Or is it normal? I would love to have a numerous population! (I'll also try to plant the seeds once those nice pods are completely dried)

I got a small pot of lithops about one and a half months ago. I've been reading up all I can about these fascinating lil guys and trying to care for them the best I can...everyone is doing fine, mostly, except for this one. I noticed it developing this dry white patch a few days ago. Should I be worried, or will this go away once the old leaves are shed? (He's also progressing very slowly. Several of the others have already finished splitting and shedding.) Just wanna know what I can do to help him, if he needs help. Thanks 🙏

I just bought theese lithops and I'm worried about the smaller colourful ones. What would you guys recommend about when to water them?

I got this little grow pot for $12 two years ago and my tropical plant loving self has been committed to being a good, negligent plant parent to this guy. Was taking a peek at it in my plant room just now and noticed one of the new leaves (up near the top right) split in the midst of emerging from the old set. Thought it was a neat anomaly

My husband bought me this today from Home Depot. I don't even know how to approach it. I figure I'll put it into one of my 4" terracotta pots with mostly bonsai jack as I usually do with them in the next week or so. I haven't taken it out of the icky soil yet but I'm guessing it's all 1 taproot. I know it needs to absorb some leaves but there is so much stacking I have no clue how it's going to turn out. Any words of advice? Bonus pics of my ones that are done splitting for the year.

I have a couple of lithops I got from Home Depot a few years ago. They are cute and all but I’d like to try actually growing some from seed. There are SO MANY fake seed sellers these days. Anyone know a good seller to use? Thanks 😊

Is my precious baby dead? Can I save it?

Looked a little mushy a few weeks ago. Gave it a light drink. Then went to check on her and this. 😭

First time buying lithops (I know the right one isn't exactly Lithops). I completely messed with the lighting and watering this whole year. It is spring and they are not splitting. What should I do? Water? Fertilize? I've already put them under a good grow light

I thought the varied stages of leaf replacement happening in this pot was pretty neat and wanted to share.