I have a group pot of small fingertip sized lithops. The smallest ones are pinky sized and the biggest one almost thumb sized. They were shrinking down into the soil, so I watered them yesterday morning. Today I noticed that the bigger ines had plumped up, but the little ones seemed shrunken still. Decided to pull them all out for inspection before replanting.
The most concerning one is the red one. Is this healed root rot? Active? Any hope for it? The other littles seem okay, if a bit thirsty. The bigger ones look pretty ideal to me. I would be worried about the big ones being overwatered if I try and get the small ones to drink.
How would you proceed?
by Griff223
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From the picture, the red one looks like it has rot at the base, which it cannot recover from, sadly. I *think* the purple (?) one immediately to the left of it has the beginnings of rot too. I am not sure, but perhaps the temperature didn’t get low enough at night for the roots to take in the water, so it was just sitting in water and eventually rotted. That’s just my guess. I keep reading here that temps need to get under 20°C for the roots to take in water.