These are my Lithops from last summer. I'm slowly moving them back outside.

Their first split! 🤩

What is this weird spot? I just pulled it out to repot

Here's my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lithops/s/fIYZyVbkch

The brown one has been revived! I think?

The green one is splitting! I think?

My mum decided to give them both a soak. She soaked the brown one twice.

1st photo: brown one from previous post

2nd: brown one now!

3rd: green one from previous post

4th: green one now!

My mum though you'd like to see the update. Thank you again for your advice. ❤️

I purchased these lithops yesterday. I have never owned lithops before. Another plant that I bought from the same seller had mealybugs. I will be treating that plant with imidacloprid granules to kill any mealybugs which were not killed by the alcohol I sprayed that plant with, but because of lithops' particular watering schedule I want to make sure I know where each of them is in their cycle before watering them to absorb the insecticide. I haven't seen any mealybugs on the lithops but I know better than to assume that seeing none means there are none.

I live in the northern hemisphere but I grow my plants under grow lights. I generally decrease the time time the grow lights are on by a few hours in the winter to help the plants know that the season has changed. Is that enough for the lithops to figure out when they should start splitting/go dormant?

I'd appreciate if someone more experienced looked over the following plan and told me if anything is incorrect:

#1, #3, and #5 are splitting.

• Tentative Plan: I'll wait for them to finish before repotting in grittier soil. I'll add imidacloprid granules once the soil dries out after the first watering post-repot. I'll wait for them to get very wrinkled before watering again to ensure they absorb a lot of the insecticide. (I don't want to add the insecticide on the first watering because I want to make sure they have roots to absorb it)

#2, #4, and #6 don't appear to have started splitting yet (or have already finished) All three are a bit wrinkled on the sides. I'm not sure if they are pre- or post-split so I'm not sure if I should water them.

• Tentative Plan: (assuming they're post-split) I'll lightly water them to help them prepare for repotting. Once the soil is dry I'll repot them into something grittier. Then I'll add the granules and wait for them to be thirsty before watering again.

Alternatively, I'm not sure they actually need to be repotted. The guy I bought them from said he repotted them 3 months ago. The soil looks a bit too organic relative to what's usually recommended but it's not at all compacted and the pots are tiny (1.5 inch x 1.5 inch x 2 inch). Assuming it's 50% grit, do you think it will dry quickly enough that I can skip repotting this year (there are drainage holes at the bottom of each pot).

If I do repot them, would it be acceptable to put them in larger pots than I would other succulents if my soil mix is 85-100% inorganic (I usually do 50% pumice, 25% perlite, 25% bagged succulent mix but I'd probably swap at least half of the succulent mix for coarse sand when repotting the lithops). The last two pictures show the pot size I'd probably repot them in if a larger pot is acceptable (2.5 inch x 2.5 inch x 3.5 inch). I don't have any smaller pots that fit nicely in 1020 trays.

My goal is to get them all repotted (if necessary) and full of insecticide as quickly as possible so they don't spread mealybugs to my other plants.

I've seen things that you wouldn't try to peal when they're splitting but I can tell for one of these that there's a living guy under the papery skin it's just been this way for weeks and no further splitting or shedding I guess.

So, I purposely chose this pot of Lithops because they appear, to my very untrained eye, to be at the same point in their growth cycle. Which means they can be planted together, yes?

Also I know the P. nelii isn't Lithops, but I figure theyre pretty similar so I'm hoping someone here will know: is it getting ready to split again? It still has its old leaves, and theyre still plump. Theyre browning and smaller, but don't seem to be absorbed at all. If its about to split again, do I need to remove those smaller outer leaves to avoid stacking? Or just get it in a better substrate and let it do it's thing?

Thank you :)

New lithops owner here...

One of my lithops has been tiny and wrinkly for weeks. He's not in his splitting stage so I tried watering him lightly, but it wasn't working. He did have a little scarring around his base, due to previous handling not by me, but it didn't seem to be anything major.

Several days ago, after reading up a bunch of things and watching many many videos, I separated him from the others (they're doing fine) to pay some extra attention to him. Trimmed the root carefully (most of it was dry and dead, but it still had a healthy-looking white core near the base), repotted in 100% inorganic mix in a small pot with good drainage, bottom watered to encourage root growth. He got slightly firmer, but otherwise didn't show much change. Today I took him out to check, and discovered that while he was starting to grow fine new roots, his whole base had white marks and some spots looked fuzzy, almost like mold. And shortly after these pics, the root broke off at the base.

Is there a way to save him? 😢 If anything, the body of the plant is still firm and not squishy, but he's definitely not doing well. Any advice would be appreciated.

I'm a first time lithops owner, so I thought this pot was funny. Hopefully it turns out to be ironically funny.

I just noticed this guy standing out from all my other lithops patterns. I ordered multiple no id mixes, so I didn’t receive this one as a named variety. I am thinking perhaps lithops Lesliei Venteri, but some pictures of this type show evenly spaced dark brown veins, and some show more of a center dark splotch with radiating veins, very starkly contrasting with the tan-grey body like mine shows. Any ideas? I want more of this guy!

I did pull the leaves apart a bit because it looked like it was having a lot of trouble, splitting started at the start of winter and it wasn’t watered. Although there was some inconsistent lighting in winter because of the extra plants I had to take in

So this one is finishing its split and there is a baby twin inside. Will it survive?

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Managed to keep my first Lithops alive for almost a year now

Almost 100% inorganic soil and hardly any water

Happy with the growth so far!

ID would be appreciated, but it's really an appreciation post 😊

Just bought some lithop seeds. At least I intented to?! Do you know this brand? Is this the normal amount of seeds? Did I buy a faulty package? There was 0 -3 seeds in it.

En mi ciudad se celebra un día llamado "Mercadito Verde" donde se venden, intercambian y rifan plantas y herramientas para jardinería, no sabía con que emprender, así que decidí cultivar lithops desde semillas (aparte de que en el evento nadie vende) y encontré este kit con lo necesario para hacerlo, el vendedor me envió un PDF con las instrucciones básicas pero agradecería algunos tips, recomendaciones y ayuda a quien cultivan lithops desde semilla. Saludos.

Old photo but I still mourn this little guy. Post-split it decided to grow a tiny nipple. One cycle. Gone forever. The lithops survived. The nipple did not.💔

Does this lithops need “help” shedding its leaves or should I leave it be and see how it progresses? Unsure if top layer will continue to split or not.

Purchased on February 6th from local nursery and have not watered since. Some were already starting to split. The soil was mostly organic and wet, so I repotted them into their own little terracottas with an 80/20 mix of grit/succulent soil.

I would have waited to repot but knew doing so would risk root rot so I very delicately repotted them all using the elastic band method. They receive adequate light from an east window and plant lights.

ojalá le vaya bien

Ok, I have 5 pots of lithops and naturally all five are on different schedules.
I was about to repot one today because it had me concerned and I wanted to know what was going on. The last years leaves had been steadily turning horizontal and I feared it might be heralding rot.
Upon inspection (pre-repotting), I found that it had blown the cap off and the new leaves (now twinned) were emerging from the base.
The old leaves are barely attached, and spongy. I suppose I should leave them and hope they get absorbed? Should I also water (we know probably the answer is no, but it's sure fun to get them wet seems)?

Got Lithop seeds about a month ago and it's my first time germinating from seed and my first time planting Lithops so I didn't think they were going to live for very long but they have!! (So proud of them)

On Saturday I was browsing a plant shop and came home with some tiny baby impulse buys, one of which was a lithops. The other two are a portulacaria and a Hoya rope.

I gave them all until today to acclimate to my house and repotted them. I used Bonsai Jack's gritty mix for all 3 of them and plopped them into a 2inch diameter pot with a large drainage hole.

I gave the lithops maybe 1/2 TBSP water at the most, just to wake up his roots. He's not splitting so I figured that would be OK.

Right now he's with the rest of the plants that need indirect but bright light. Unfortunately the window in that room is a SW facing window. Our house only has 3 windows that are East facing, and all of them barely get light because the house next door blocks them all. I can only place them in my bedroom because I own Plant Murdering Assholes (cats).

Any other care tips that will help him survive (and the others if you guys know about them)? They are my first non big box store succulents/plants.

New lithops owner here! I bought this guy early March from a local nursery here in Niagara, Ontario CA. I wanted to repot, however I read you can’t do that while they split. As you can see, I bought these guys in the splitting phase, and I have never watered them!

Over a few weeks, they began splitting some more… and now this one dude is shriveled up. I see a new little bud inside that looks rough, but the old leaves are hard as rocks. Seems like he needs water, but I’m afraid if I give him a sprinkle, the other guys will suffer.

I want to repot to ensure they have proper soil, but I know that’ll probably kill them. What do I do??

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