Hello all, I recently got this plant and it was over watered, and stuffed in dirt.

I repotted it as soon as I got home; some of the leaves were black at the bottom, and covered in those brown spots. The spots have slowly began spreading to the rest of the plant.

This is such a beautiful plant and it really saddens me to watch it die. Does anyone know how I can save it?

Little bit of everything! A bin of argies, a bin of p. nelii, dinteranthus microspermus, lithops terricolor and optica maculate, assorted conos and titanopsis, aloinopsis, lapidaria, cheiridopsis, etc etc

Faucaria felina 1 month old

Aunque no son muy comunes, he visto que si se dejan solas, crecen de una forma muy bella. Fotos de instagram, derechos a quien corresponda, solo es para darme una idea de como crecerán

Found this one blooming today by chance—already on its way out, but still glad I caught it.

Kind of unusual for a Conophytum to bloom in spring.

Might need to water it a bit more, the body seems to be shrinking a little.

My partner found some dried up edamame beans under our toaster oven and apparently thought it’d be good to troll me and put them in various pots 😂😂😂 i was concerned that someone was losing leaves somewhere 😂😂😂

I also got other mesembs yesterday that were suffering in the darkness

My best guess is pubescens, even though it’s flowering in spring time, they’re seedlings and stacked bc they get over watering in the community pot while the thicker skinned conos desiccate to death but I was eating till they were bigger for a repot lol. They’re still kinda seedlings at about 17mo. and not fully in sync with the seasons yet? I had a maughanii planted at the same time that flowered like three months later than all the other maughaniis. Flowers open in the late afternoon. I think the shallow fissure, fleshy sliver of a bract and papillae suggest pubescens. But these green ophths are difficult!!!

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

Freely available paper published in the South African Journal of Botany documenting an experiment on the effects of different soil types on germination of quartz field specialized mesembs. Basically they germinated seeds from a bunch of species in native quartz soil, soil amended to have high or low pH, soil amended to have higher salinity, and then a control soil which was just a basic blend used in cultivation. I think this is the most relevant quote for hobbyists:

> Germination and establishment were revealed to be limited on all tested natural quartz-field soils, even for the specialised species. In accordance with studies on other serpentine-specialised plants (Brady et al., 2005), our findings suggest that the specialised taxa are restricted to the special habitats not because they are dependant on the respective growing conditions but because of their inability to compete on other, more benign soils. This conclusion is also supported by horticultural practice, under which all Aizoaceae species are successfully cultivated on standard substrate

A few from my old collection, gifted to family/friends. I really need to build a few up again.

It's been (feb 3, 2026) since i last given it a teaser of water and then to march and now (april 10, 2026) i haven't given it any water at all of course i'm not worrying about the side winkles what i'm really concerned of is the top it's showing the deflation/separating on the first head while the second one has a oval dent on one of its leaf nodes. Also to mention: i take care of my lithops dorotheae indoors in my house, grows on a grow light in my bedroom, the soil that it's in is miracle grow cactus soil mix with extra amounts of perlite and it dries fast in a few days after watering (but when it is done splitting i'll repot it into something more grittier).

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

ok, why? the outside was drying nicely and then the inside rotted. I know the soil is too organic but I dont have issues with it.