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« Thread Started on 10 May, 2007, 15:11 »This cutie pie succulents are more difficult to grow than any CP I ever had...except for the Cephalotus i guess.....

it was a mean trick to play but i used to show visitors to my house a pot of lithops, & asked them to guess which are the stones & which are the actual plants. More often than not, they`ll guess wrong.

A stall at sg buloh used to sell them ( an Indon kakak used to run the place ) but not anymore...anyone knows where to get some ? Used to buy them only at rm10 for 3.

They have the cutest flowers but mine never had any....keeping them alive was already a massive effort.





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« Reply #1 on 10 May, 2007, 15:24 »huhu! im looking for these...... Link to Post - Back to Top Logged[Naj Grow List] --- [Naj Wanted List]David
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« Reply #2 on 10 May, 2007, 16:58 »I've also been looking for these but when I find them I am afraid I can't buy them They will defitnally not survive in my apartment. Perhaps in the future if ever I have enough money to buy a landed property. Link to Post - Back to Top LoggedMy Wantlistbifurcatum
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« Reply #3 on 10 May, 2007, 17:10 »What is lithops? Mushroom?
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« Reply #4 on 10 May, 2007, 18:24 »Haha! Bifurcatum, its a succulent..
as far as i know, we just water it once a year, after it has transfered all the water from the old leaves to the new leaves... Link to Post - Back to Top Logged[Naj Grow List] --- [Naj Wanted List]tarence
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« Reply #5 on 10 May, 2007, 19:27 »There there now, mind your manners Bifurcatum.....needless to say, we reserved our comments on your antplant on the basic rule of thumb : if you ain`t got anything nice to say, say nothing at all.

My lithops lasted for 6 months at the most. It was full max sun, water once a month. Had to be outdoors but cannot kena rain. Very difficult to jaga.

Wilson`s actually flowered ! If you search the Net for the pics, you`ll be pleasantly surprised at how sweet the flower looks. At least it flowers......Mmmmm..... Link to Post - Back to Top Loggedartificialive
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« Reply #6 on 10 May, 2007, 19:44 »Yup, the flowers are like daisy.. very cute!
Tarence, Lithops, like Tillis have their own life cycle.. watering once a month is considered overwatered! I myself dont have any experience on growing lithops, but i had done some exhausive search of the information on lithops.. Link to Post - Back to Top Logged[Naj Grow List] --- [Naj Wanted List]tarence
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« Reply #7 on 10 May, 2007, 20:15 »wokie...thx....we just experimented only. didn`t know only once a year, coz when we tried drying it out more than a month, it began to look really dehydrated...i.e. very wrinkled, shrunken, mcm nak mati so we watered it.

We used sand for the roots only, then supported the litop itself with pebbles or fine stones. we figured that`s how it lived in the desert.

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« Reply #8 on 10 May, 2007, 22:37 »Sigh.... so cute, so unique, so weird... and yet I do not have the conditions to grow them. Excuse my language but I'm such a sucker for weird and unique plants. Hmm, in fact anything that is weird and out of the norm... haa, haa... Link to Post - Back to Top LoggedMy Wantlist

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I have around 15 lithops grown from seed.I mix sand with clay and peat moss.They are only around 1-2mm,hard to tell they will survive or not.

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how big are they ? post some pics if you can plse.....thx.

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They are very tiny 1-2mm.Some green colour and some turned brown.I took some pics but cant see them and the macro function on my hp camera so lousy,cant see anything.I will try again when go back hometown probably end of the month.Now in jb.

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Well,here are my seed grown lithops.They are so tiny.Hardly visible.Hope they can survive.

[Tarence]

Good ( un-intentional ) trick. heheh. i can`t tell which are the stone & lithops. but i suppose the stone-like pieces are lithops. thx.

ive ordered a few 3 yr old li thops from that german company.. and am now keeping fingers crossed on how to keep the alive! haha

how you people give it full sunlight and yet mamke it not kena rain?!

arggggh!

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Well,i sometimes confused which is sand and which i lihops myself.I can spot them when they shrink due to lack of water.I just spray very little water.Got them from ebay for 3 pounds.100 seeds but very few hatched.Hope can become big like urs Terrence.

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Well,i sometimes confused which is sand and which i lihops myself.I can spot them when they shrink due to lack of water.I just spray very little water.Got them from ebay for 3 pounds.100 seeds but very few hatched.Hope can become big like urs Terrence.

wow! 3 pounds? i didnt know that it can be purchased at ebay.

how long have u had them?