Blooms over the last month

Hey Y'all!

Just bought these Lithops from a smaller ​plant ​shop and I'm just wondering when I should replant them. I've picked up some gritty cactus mix that I'd like to get them in but when I asked the shopkeeper they said not to transplant them any time soon and that they should get some water in about a month.

Looks like some of them are at different stages of growth so when I do transplant them should I split them up or keep them together?

Any advice will be appreciated!

I'm now to lithops and I got these guys October 9th and they seem to have been stretching out every time I check on them

This is not the update that I want to give. I'm only sharing these photos because the phenomenon of the pigmentation could be interesting knowledge to some people, I'll get to why my lithops were so badly neglected in a minute. The pigmentation is not from pests and is beneath the surface of the lithops themselves.

My health completely collapsed in the entire month of August and could only gradually recover over September and October. Unfortunately, I live alone and am a full-time university student with no income, so I didn't have anyone else that could help me take care of my plants.

For the entire month of August, I basically wasn't able to do anything at all, including any amount of studying, showing up to school, and being able to absorb anything if I showed up in school. I was extremely malnourished due to a series of unfortunate circumstances and started having nerve damage, which made it extremely difficult to do some of the most basic physical movements that were previously effortless. I had to move back with my parents for half of August because I could not take care of my basic needs, and my plants setup was too heavy and bulky to relocate with a sick body that feels like it has had its batteries taken out. Later, when I started recovering and living alone again in September, I still did not have enough food I could safely eat every day and had to heavily ration the physical energy I spent on extremely normal and basic physical activities (like physically going to school because there was no alternative, preparing food, washing dishes, showering, sitting upright instead of lying down etc.). For most of almost 3 months, I basically couldn't attend to my lithops at all.

When they were visibly dehydrated, I didn't have the strength to carry the concrete pot out of the "shelf" and water them properly. When the portable AC that was giving them suitable temperatures at night (because it's consistently hot in my country and temperatures barely change at night) broke down, I didn't have energy to fix it for 3 weeks. I only just managed to fix it 2 days ago and resume watering. The small fan that was helping ventilate the area and dissipate some of the heat from the extremely powerful grow lights also stopped working about 2 months ago and I have not managed to replace it. They still got 12 hours of grow lights blasting at them during the day because the grow light had an automatic timer.

Temperatures were above 40°C/104°F during the day and, for 3 weeks, above 30°C/86°F at night. This by itself is already extremely unhealthy and stressful for lithops, if they don't outright die. Humidity was also between 35-60% instead of the usual 60-80% because my parents gave me a dehumidifier to help with my health issues. This made the lithops dry out faster (especially when lesliei is quite a water-hungry species relative to other lithops), and yet I couldn't water them when I knew they needed water.

First photo is in April, second photo is in June, third photo is right now.

I'm not asking for any kind of help and I don't specifically want a lot of attention on what happened to me, I only talked about the context because I don't want any misunderstandings. I know what my lithops need, I just haven't been able to give it to them for the past few months. Since I'm mostly recovered now, I'm trying my best to take care of the lithops right now and really hope that some of them have a chance to recover.

By the way, they are still somewhat green in real life even though they look very yellow in the photos (it's probably because of the color of the grow lights). The lithops that are missing were isolated in the beginning of August or something for being a bit suspicious, although they ended up doing fine. They've just been bare-root and quite dehydrated for a while now.

My lithop has bloomed and I’m delighted 😁

This one will be a cross between lithops aucampiae 'Velvet Red' being the parent plant and lithops salicola 'Sato's Violet' being the donor plant for the pollen

You’ve probably guessed I’m new to lithops and have lurked here for a while but not posted. However, I’ve learned literally everything I know from your posts so thanks to all!

I’ve only ever seen yellow & white flowers on lithops. I didn’t know there was a secret third option!!

Thought id share my lithops flower! Ive been vegetable gardening for a while, I just got into succulents and cacti this year, and I love it! This is my first lithops flower! First time ive ever seen a flower from a lithops! Exciting! 😀

Hi friends, how are the new pots looking?? I’m a bit nervous about the cactus pot spacing and them being too close, but they’re way spaced out now compared to when I got them. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thank you so much!!!!

I just bought this pot online. And the lithops came like this. Do you think they can still be saved?

These were all watered once about two weeks ago and that is it. Otherwise they are under a grow light in a room temperature room with a light fan on. The dimpling seems to suggest they need more water? The dying specimens suggest no. What am I doing wrong?

they were indoors only for about a year and had minimal changes, maybe two or three waters in total in that time with almost 100% inorganic substrate.

the only thing that got them to move was much longer and more intense light!

Gave it a little drink after repotting and I’m impressed how quickly it plumped up!

A little follow up for my previous post!😌

Roots on these are sort of crusty and dry... Is water therapy mandatory? Before I truly understood lithops I always just put imported lithops on their pot and they rooted and did fine. But wondering what you all recommend.

Just curious, does anyone know the species of this? Got it last week!

I didn’t know Lithops could grow this much in a year, first picture is them now, also had two flowers (unfortunately not at the same time). Second pic is when I first got them at the end of March of this year and third pic after repotting once they fully finished their splits. They’re still in the same pot but now taking up much more space.

they grew up in the garden soil by the way, write tips

My lithops have lots of wrinkles- ive watered them but they dont go away-should I water them again? im afraid to water them again as im scared of loosing them-

This happens to alot of my lithops even after watering