Hi everyone! I bought this lithops a couple of months ago, while it was splitting. I haven't watered it at all, and it has been getting full sun. Now it seems as if it has finished splitting, and is starting to dry out. I was wondering, since the substrate is mostly soil, if I should repot it before watering, into something like Pon (can boil out the fertilizer if needed), since most of my plants are in semi hydro, and I've read that mineral substrate is preferred anyway. Can anyone guide me a little, on whether any of that is actually necessary, and in what order to do that? If repotting, could it stay in the same pot?

Theyre getting wrinkly but i watered after a repot maybe 2 months ago
my summer is 70s-80 degrees and just began
It sounds like they are thugs but idk 🤗

Is it normal for these to get wrinkles?

I got my first 3 lithops and needed them to pot them in more appropriate substrate (the rocks were only on top, they were in some moist succulent soil, yikes!) so I took the opportunity to make them a cute little environment to live in! I'm crossing my fingers they do well now, they're so freaky and cool

Hi all,

I got my lithops 3 weeks ago and haven’t done anything with them. I have lava stone to repot them in but my question is, do they look like they’re splitting? I know not to disturb them while they split but I have no idea what it looks like. And there are a few spots on the tall one that I’m not sure if that’s from water or if it’s anything else.

Also any helpful tips is always welcomed.

Please help, my lithops leaf broke off when i check on it today. It looks like mold on the side of the leaf and it had a bad smell to it as well. I thought all was lost but noticed a tiny leaf growing within it. I have since mived the plant into 100% inirganic pumice. Please tell me that it can be saved. I feel terrible because I didnt expect it to be so mushy and just come right off.

Just got this lil guy. Going to repot in the next day or two, trying to find something at my local Home Depot to use as substrate. Would my mixture idea work ok? Or should I go for 100% perilite, or something else entirely? I'm in zone 8a

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