Lithops help me let go of impatience and haste, quietly waiting for tranquil times
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Author / "Bodhi" not "Bodhi"
Life should not be only the impatience and haste of chasing fame and fortune; it should also have the poetic charm of picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence and gazing at the southern mountains.
Have you ever had the experience of stopping your steps and quietly waiting for and admiring a single flower blooming? If not, then please come with me to feel the changes in this pot of lithops over more than half a year!
Before that, I want to briefly talk about my experience:Lithops can be kept indoors in a spot with light all year round. They are not suitable for long-term outdoor cultivation, nor for planting in the ground.In the spring and autumn growing seasons, they can be kept outdoors in half shade, but cannot be exposed to full sun. In high summer temperatures they grow slowly or go dormant, and should be kept indoors under well-ventilated conditions with sufficient light to prevent leggy growth.Watering basically follows the principle of giving a small amount of water after the soil has completely dried out. For soil, seedlings can use a mixed soil of peat moss, vermiculite, volcanic rock plus other granules; mature plants over one and a half years old can be grown in all-granule soil.Without further ado, here are the photos~
October 27, 2017, the one in the middle, a Lithops pseudotruncatella 'Karasu', was in bud, but unfortunately I did not record how it looked when the flower opened.January 28, 2018, a photo taken in the snow. Those two red-green fine-patterned ones had already begun to shed their skins.The next two photos were taken on March 3 and March 10. That green fine-patterned one had quickly completed the skin-shedding process, while that red fine-patterned one was still slowly struggling along.The 'Karasu' that had bloomed and the 'Lifuren' next to it, shedding skins and propagating, splitting one into two, were already very clear through the cracked skin.Lithops split to propagate, and they need to be three years old before they can do so, so seeing this kind of lithops, you can be sure it is an old plant.Below are the photos from March 23 and March 31. You can see that all the lithops had begun the skin-shedding process. That red fine-patterned one had basically completed shedding its skin too. April 9, the red 'Fuguii' next to the white Lithops verruculosa completed shedding its skin.The green Lithops salicola and the red 'Fugui' beside it completed shedding their skins. That red-windowed one looked like it was struggling so much; I was anxious for it~~I noticed that the green fine-patterned one that had finished shedding its skin earliest was getting shorter and shorter, as if it wanted to burrow into the soil. Could there be a problem with its roots?
Except for that red-windowed one and the net-patterned one, all the other lithops had completed the skin-shedding process!I am really anxious for those two. Could it be because of the variety? The difference between the earliest and the latest completion of skin shedding is actually so big!Below is a photo taken on June 24. Look at all the lithops that have finished shedding their skins. Aren't they very lively and well-behaved? Their colors seem to have become much brighter too. After all, they are wearing new clothes~Below is another pot of old lithops, already four or five years old, so I will let them show their faces too.How about it, after seeing these adorable little stones, are you tempted? If so, then take action quickly and start growing them! Perhaps in the near future, you too will be unable to put these little elves down!Click to read the original text and enter the Succulent Mall immediately