Learned about the watering cycle 1 day after leaving them in the rain while I cleaned thier normal spot with thier roof 2-3 weeks ago. I've kept them pretty happy in the almost 1 year I've had them since Nana downsized her succulent garden and knew about watering only when the plant wizened and not while the plant is dormant to prevent root rot but didn't know about not watering at all during dividing stages.
One has small splits occur in last 24 hours and I suspect at least the bright green one will definitely split but hopefully the other 2 are OK. Is there any rescue care to be done at all? Will the split callus over? My current plan is wait and see, excise/treat any infections or rot but otherwise just cross my fingers and hope for best.
by Freelance_Sockpuppet
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Haaaaa???? They are both doing really well, they are changing leaves. Just be patient and let nature do its work.
They’re gucci. let them be
They’re all doing great. The flowers have all bloomed and are dying back so wait for that to completely dry up and it will come out eventually. They’re nice and full so I’d hold off watering.
They look great.
I gave my whole collection a big fat soaking recently, since it is that time year here in the northern hemisphere. Many of mine are still too small to bloom, but I did have one to just recently finish and one more just about to bloom. Several of them were looking pretty thirsty, so they all got the hose.
They got watered, but not this heavily, in early June, early July, and early August. These were fairly light waterings.
I picked up a big mess of struggling, neglected plants from a Facebook seller, and got them potted up into pre-moistened media. I only lightly watered the ones in that bunch that looked like they were really struggling in mid-August and again late August. They have nearly all bounced back finally (lost one half of a big double header, another cluster kicked it, and one other cluster is still struggling).
So by mid-September, with it being time for the big drink, one having just flowered with one more one the way…I closed my eyes, prayed to the lithops gods, held my breath, and drowned them hoes.
Then I really screwed up. I moved them all out from under the protection of the patio to the front yard with wide open sky. It wasn’t supposed to rain. At all. That whole week. It started raining buckets while I was at work and didn’t even know until I saw the darkness looming in the distance as I drove home. I called hubby, but it was too late. They got rained on. He still got out and got himself soaked, bringing them all back under the porch before they could get any more rained on.
Thankfully (?) it was just two days after I’d watered them, rather than a week or two.
tl;dr – I’m currently with you in solidarity, holding my breath. It has not been quite a week since they got rained on, and they are back on the patio safe and sound. Also, it has been hot all week ever since, so the drying back out has been able to commence.
They look great to me and are doing what they should be doing.