Just posted this plant a few days ago but I noticed today she’s splitting or something? I’m a new owner of this kind of plant so I’m assuming based off of this subreddit that I should hold off on watering, but for how long? Can I still change the substrate or will that stop whatever is going on right now?
Added a picture of the pot because I love it lol
by murphalurffffff
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Florindo
it’s a bud. 🙂
That pot is so great! Haha
New to lithops as well. But I stumbled over this chart in one of the Reddit threats. Maybe it’s helpful. From what I understand you won’t water it until it has absorbed all the moisture from the outside leaves.
https://preview.redd.it/5jhzgzseo1of1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=015e44b6f2699dbba8d75e117ce866de704cee93
It’s flowering, your lithops also don’t look thirsty so there’s no need to water anytime soon. You can still repot them they’ll continue to bloom regardless.
I remember seeing your previous post. Thought I was confident enough to answer question until zooming in on the photo and asked myself if that was flowering or splitting. Myself didn’t know either so I watched hoping someone would answer that. So, thanks I got it right!
Mine was just splitting when I got it so I haven’t watered yet. When the old leaves are absorbed by the new I’ll watch for signs it’s thirsty. However when I got the mostly inorganic planting material it was soaked for a while before repotting.