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kiseiakhun · 8 months ago

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I would've made more but I'm leaving for China in 3 days so I restrained myself to succulents. The moonstone might suffer a bit without being watered for a month (it'll probably lose its flowers u_u) but the lithops are fully plumped up and actually look a bit over watered to me and I probably won't need to water them again until autumn 👍 it's my first time keeping lithops so I'm a bit nervous but I'm going to stick to watering them only twice a year. Or even once a year. Also separating the lithops took me ✨2 hours✨ last night and this is why you don't keep your succulents in peat, kids.

Anyway. Made some impulsive purchases yesterday.

#separating them would've gone faster if i had wetted the soil but I'm SO scared of adding unnecessary moisture to lithops #i got cactus soil but i might go to a home/garden store and get some gravel and perlite and mix in even more into the soil #because there's still peat in the perlite and im Worried about compaction and also about too much organic matter #these grow in very sandy and nutrient poor environments in the wild so too much Nutrience is not good for them #also gravel is good because it releases little bits of minerals and lowers the ph each time you water #lithops are nicknamed living rocks because they live in very rocky areas in the shade of other plants so... they feel comfy with rocks #they are the true pet rock #unfortunately i would not recommend getting this for your kids because they are so (purportedly) finicky #but who knows! maybe this is another orchid situation #plant rambles

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