All-year-round full sun, or at least 6 hours of direct sunlight most days, is preferred by living stones. Place these succulents by the brightest window if you're growing them indoors. Longer leaves and unattractive leaf coloration are two effects of inadequate lighting.
These plants prefer sandy, well-drained soil. Living stones work best in cactus-specific potting soil, and the container ought to have multiple drainage holes on the bottom. Like to cactus, lithops demand well-drained soil. To standard houseplant potting soil, add coarse sand, perlite, decomposed granite,
Living stone must be hydrated according to a seasonal cycle that simulates the amount of rainfall they would experience in their natural environment. Whenever the shrub is dormant in the summertime or over the winter, avoid watering it.
Living stones can survive in conditions as cold as Fifty degrees Fahrenheit and can endure heat well. In a typical room between 65 - 80 degrees, they thrive.
Lithops require less fertilising because their natural habitats are nutrient-poor, lean soils. Use a very weak solution of all-purpose houseplant fertiliser, diluted to 25% strength, to fertilise your plants once a year in the spring. Children, dogs, and living stones can all be present safely because they are non-toxic.
Although it is not required to trim the foliage of your live stones, doing so when necessary can be beneficial. Just after plant's flowering season, when new leaves start to sprout, the few lush, succulent leaves that are currently above the soil's surface will start to shrivel.
By spontaneously producing new plants in the same container, living stones naturally reproduce. This species can be manually multiplied via division once numerous plants have begun to grow together in order to keep them from engulfing the pot.
Give these plants a pot that is about six inches deep even if they barely protrude about an inches above the soil. This is as a result of their extensive, deep-rooted taproots. The pot should have plenty of drainage holes as well.
Living stones are plants that can grow outdoors year-round as well as be put straight in the ground in warmer climates because they can withstand some freezing temperatures. Plants should be planted in portable pots because it's ideal to bring them inside for the winter in colder parts of the country.
Pests of a few distinct kinds can harm living stones. The most frequent mites are spider mites, but mealybugs, scales, thrips, and aphid can also be an issue. Whether in pots on your balcony or as live stones placed in the ground outside,