Why do my lithops always grow like this? The green one i have kept alive for eight or nine years, starting from a single stem. It has bloomed for me three or four times over the years. Last summer was very hard on it and i nearly lost it. I did lose one stem. The red one I have had for a shorter time, like four or five years. It has never bloomed nor has it divided.
They winter in a bright window and go outside in the spring and back into the house in the fall.
The green one has never been repotted. I repotted the red one as it came to me potted up in peat moss.
by fodderchris
3 Comments
more light!
They need much more light. It’ll take several splits for them to be less etiolated, but over time, it can be fixed given the right conditions.
Lithops need light and sun. So get used to it little by little, don’t put it in for good as it will burn it and melt it. Take it little by little, for a week, taking in the morning sun for about 40 minutes and gradually you will increase it. But with great care and attention. Good luck