hello :-)
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:42 am
Hello everybody
My name is Lucie and i have recently developed a passion for those lovely little lithops plants!
I have kept cacti before, and am also growing two aloe veras from a cutting off my auntie (she said "look at these!" and pulled them out by accident)
i also have a venus fly trap which is sitting in a little saucer of water because i read that's what they like
ooh, i have a guzmania, which is a bromeliad like a pineapple.
Right, these lithops. I bought what i think are lithops from my local garden centre recently. I think they are lithops because they have two big fat petals with new ones poking through the middle. I am not sure because they are so tall and pointy. My research on the internet makes me think that perhaps they have not been given enough light.
Here is a picture of them. I was wondering if someone here could diagnose their problems and give me some advice. I have grown very fond of these little things and am terrified of losing them!!
What are they?
Should they be buried deeper? (I am going to mix the soil with sand - it is cactus compost and not suitable i don't think)
When do i stop watering them? Is it October to May?
Last question: Of a winter are they ok left where they are or should i move them? It gets quite cols in my flat, and the windows get frost flowers on them because they are only single glazed. SHould i put them in the airing cupboard or just move them further inside the room? They are on a windowledge in the kitchen at the moment, overlooking the docks :-)
I am aware that i was perhaps only supposed to introduce myself here, and i apoligise for launching into so many questions, it's just that i'm really keen to purchase some 'proper' lithops (if indeed, they are not lithops in the photograph!) and want to make sure i know how to care for them. Thank you.
My name is Lucie and i have recently developed a passion for those lovely little lithops plants!
I have kept cacti before, and am also growing two aloe veras from a cutting off my auntie (she said "look at these!" and pulled them out by accident)
i also have a venus fly trap which is sitting in a little saucer of water because i read that's what they like
ooh, i have a guzmania, which is a bromeliad like a pineapple.
Right, these lithops. I bought what i think are lithops from my local garden centre recently. I think they are lithops because they have two big fat petals with new ones poking through the middle. I am not sure because they are so tall and pointy. My research on the internet makes me think that perhaps they have not been given enough light.
Here is a picture of them. I was wondering if someone here could diagnose their problems and give me some advice. I have grown very fond of these little things and am terrified of losing them!!
What are they?
Should they be buried deeper? (I am going to mix the soil with sand - it is cactus compost and not suitable i don't think)
When do i stop watering them? Is it October to May?
Last question: Of a winter are they ok left where they are or should i move them? It gets quite cols in my flat, and the windows get frost flowers on them because they are only single glazed. SHould i put them in the airing cupboard or just move them further inside the room? They are on a windowledge in the kitchen at the moment, overlooking the docks :-)
I am aware that i was perhaps only supposed to introduce myself here, and i apoligise for launching into so many questions, it's just that i'm really keen to purchase some 'proper' lithops (if indeed, they are not lithops in the photograph!) and want to make sure i know how to care for them. Thank you.