Good Morning gang
Baja as always quite an enviable and impressive display of succulents. You have quite a touch for them.
Lithops
Yeah. Right. Tried them myself. What a PITA!
Looked on every plant website, Wikipedia, and growing instructions for them I could find. Talk about plant homicides. I felt so bad as the little things were darling and showed such promise and were (operative word) growing so nice. And then the inevitable.
My baby toes looked wonderful, got long, flowered I DID what they said about watering but they died. I had 3 split rocks. Looked gorgeous. Got bigger. Split multiple times. Were nice and green and then 2 of them literally keeled over. They were rotten and mushy at the base. I have one now that is still splitting but I can see it is getting 'darker' in color although I haven't given it water for months.
The only thing I have left is a small pot of stone faces which have gotten taller and are looking nice...I guess, think, hope
I watered them barely and forgot about them for months.
They're fine but looking a little shrivel so I may give them an eye dropper or two of water as I'm convinced that's all they can handle for a year!
They're so cute. They're so novel. They're so not for me. I resist the urge to buy them any time I see them as I feel just miserable killing things I really DO try to lavish T.L.C. on. Here's a picture of them when they were healthy. I did separate them and put each species in its own pot as I didn't think they're watering needs were compatible. They seemed to do better for awhile but now all that is left is the one split rock and the stone faces.
the two things I do know about them is they need and incredibly bright light and very, very, very, little water. The fact yours is in a pot with a succulent that requires water regularly may have something to do with its condition? Just a guess. I honestly can't say and don't know---especially since I have one left because the other two rotted. I saw both it and the succulent were purple/redish. It looks like they put a food coloring or dye in the water to turn them that color for aesthetic purposes. They are normally a really pale-light green with very little dark speckling on top.
If you'd like something cute, fun and petite (for a long time) I'd recommend a Fairytale Cactus (Acanthocereus tetragonus).
Mine is outdoors in the 'bubble bed' and has been thriving in only 1/2 a day sun and 1/2 a day shade. This seems to work fine in both Winter and Summer. I believe they do make fun indoor plants in a nice sunny window (not blazing hot.)
This little Fairtale cactus has been such a doll to me,
. It is virtually maintenance free, has taken our cold nights BEING COVERED and even tolerated our torrential downpours for 3 days on end and is thriving! I have good drainage.
Even when this plant is fully mature I don't think it gets above 2-3 feet tall although it will spread. The cool thing about that is you can separate it and start a whole bunch more.
Now you may want to check on indoor growing versus outdoors but mine is outdoors and has been there for about 7 months from May-present so it has experienced the extremes in AZ temps.
