CAUTION: Smaller Species of Lithops
♥ Super Rare Live Exotic Lithops Olivacea C109 ♥
Lithops Olivacea is a tiny egg-shaped, geophyte succulent, usually forming clumps of 2 to 10 heads or sometime compact agglomerate with up to 30 or more usually less than 2 cm tall. Its window usually large, always shaped like a nail, olive-green to bluish green or grey pink, transparent, sometimes light-green with few (very) sparse white islands in it, rarely ridged or immaculate.
Specifications:
Live Lithops Olivacea C109
Qty: 1
Plant Size:
Diameter: Small - 0.3 Inch, Medium - 0.4-0.5 Inch, Large 0.5-0.7 Inch
Height: 1 Inch (From crown to the root)
Lithops plant will ship Bare Root (Unpotted)
Watering:
Keep plants barely moist! Overwatering is the most common problem people have with Living Stones. During the cold winter months, watering should be light and infrequent once again, until such as time as the days grow longer and the temperature begins to warm a bit. Generally, Lithops will do best being watered about once every 2-3 weeks (when not in active growth or flowering). Tap water or distilled water is fine. Treat it as a cactus. The plant can take a 'misting' every other day if desired, but this is not required. Be sure not to overwater!
Light:
Lithops requires full to very bright sun (either direct or indirect). It can take full strength sun, but be mindful of sun burning the leaves. After repotting the plant, please allow 5-7 days for plant acclimate to changes in light quality. A window facing West, South or East should do nicely. Too much light is not a problem for Living Stones. Too little light is! If the plant appears to be 'reaching' for the window or light source, it needs more light!
Soil:
Use a quick draining soil mix (a packaged soil mix for cactus and succulents should have sand added at the rate of about 60% soil mix to 40% sand by volume). Another good mix would be 50% peat moss, 30% perlite and 20% sand to allow even faster drainage.
Cautions:
Growing Lithops is harder and requires more attention than other succulent and cactus plants. Smaller Lithops are even more difficult to take care, they develop little or no taproot and a thinner fibrous net of roots. Depending on the Lithop growing season, sometimes lithops will begin to naturally split, crack etc. Lithops can have scars on their sides and on top, this is natural and doesn't mean your lithops is dying. Lithops split. Any scarring is not permanent and will be shedded when they split! This is a natural process with Lithops. Sometimes they just die. No reason, it just happens.
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