tylerthrasherart:This isn’t a handful of pebbles or tiny butts. It’s actually a whole
tylerthrasherart: This isn’t a handful of pebbles or tiny butts. It’s actually a whole lotta lithops. An African native succulent, also called “Living Rocks”. These curious plants are incredibly slow growing and difficult to maintain in cultivation. Anyone who collects succulents will have a hit list on the number of lithops they’ve killed. These succulents are not to be watered during summer as they go into a deep dormancy. After the heat breaks and autumn begins, lithops will begin to flower, during this phase you can water them, but do it sparingly and only when the plants looks like it’s wrinkling. During winter, this plant will begin to grow a new pair of leaves, which grow from within the parent plant. DO NOT water during this time, as the new leaves get ALL of the water they’ll need from absorbing the older pair of leaves. If you’re lucky, two new pairs will grow out, essentially doubling your plants! After the new leaves grow and it’s spring, you can resume careful watering until summer when we begin this slow and tedious process all over again. #tylerthrasher #thrasherplantcollection #lithops #succulents #mesembs #africa #africaplants #handfullofbutts -- source link
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