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Re-potting the survivors:
After fighting spider mites with an out-of-soil quarantine I re-potted my plants.
These two were heavily injured by the spider mites.
During quarantine they lost a lot of water.
Lithops are extremely succulent plants originating from the semi-deserts of southern Africa. Their plant body rests under ground, while on top they have transparent windows to let sunlight in for photosynthesis. A camouflage pattern on the windows lets them appear more or less like a pair of pebblestones, so hungry animals may hardly find them. I like them because they look like ornamented knobs or gemstones.
DO NOT MISS:
Be aware that sites from the southern hemisphere
have a six-month-shift in the description of the
annual lithops growing cycle.
Take a flashlight / fiber light source and illuminate a small part of the lithops top window, and the entire transparent plant body lights up!
Note the differences in the daylight/glow appearance of the lithops windows!
My Lithops seedling actually started sprouting only 3 days after sowing, but I didn't take a photo of it until now. I counted 56 sprouting.
When I came back to work today, I found this on my desk. My boss' partner gave me it as a gift.
(Sidenote:) When someone asks me what I want for my birthday or Christmas... I tell them "you know those baby succulents in a 2 inch pot? That."... (I actually say Cactus, since a lot of my friends don't know what a "succulent" is)... then, they give me a funny look.... It's a cheap gift, but something I really really love!
...so thank you very much, Kevin :)
(Lithops sp.) Family: Aizoaceae
[Update] Identified by htdh3o as Lithops fulviceps f. aurea. Thank you, htdh3o!
Lithops (left) and Conophytum (right) are extremely succulent plants originating from the semi-deserts of southern Africa.
These two grew in the nursery of Uwe Beyer
and I ordered them by mail from his webshop
His full botanical descriptions:
Conophytum pageae "subrisum" SB1200, Kaalberg
Lithops pseudotruncatella ssp. pseudotruncatella v. pseudotruncatella "mundtii", 150km NE of Windhoek, Cole#99
Watering a lithops plant is very restricted
to certain period(s) in the annual life cycle!
DO NOT MISS:
Be aware that sites from the southern hemisphere
have a six-month-shift in the description of the
annual lithops growing cycle!
Re-potting the survivors:
After fighting spider mites with an out-of-soil quarantine I re-potted my plants.
The lower one was the "Trithops", a three-lobed Lithops. It was injured on the sidewalls by the spider mites and attacked by fungus later. I gave it all chances, but it did not survive.
Lithops are extremely succulent plants originating from the semi-deserts of southern Africa. Their plant body rests under ground, while on top they have transparent windows to let sunlight in for photosynthesis. A camouflage pattern on the windows lets them appear more or less like a pair of pebblestones, so hungry animals may hardly find them. I like them because they look like ornamented knobs or gemstones.
DO NOT MISS:
Be aware that sites from the southern hemisphere
have a six-month-shift in the description of the
annual lithops growing cycle.
Freshacres Nurseries Ltd, Walberton, West Sussex.
It is a wholesale growing nursery only.
The collection of cacti and succulents from Manor Nursery in Angmering (which shut down in July 2015) is being kept here until a new display area can be set up at the other Manor Nursery in Runcton, near Chichester.
This is also where the seedling cacti and the cuttings are grown.