They are winter growers. So if you are in the northern hemisphere they just went dormant.
GoatLegRedux
Let them be until late July or early august depending on where you are. By that time they should be waking up. You’ll see them start to break through their sheaths. That’s when you soak the hell out of them. Soak, let dry, soak, let dry, and so on until they’re plump again. For me it’s usually a soak/dry cycle for the first couple months and then I taper off with the water when they seem to be holding more water and staying turgid. They’ll usually flower between October/November. After they have finished flowering I’ll stop watering and try to just feel it out (literally, touch them and feel for firm/limp leaves). Mine tend to start going dormant late February through March, and some stragglers can take until early May, but that’s pretty rare.
Mommychoochoo
Wow this is very different than lithops!! My lithops finished splitting and I’m watering them now!
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They are winter growers. So if you are in the northern hemisphere they just went dormant.
Let them be until late July or early august depending on where you are. By that time they should be waking up. You’ll see them start to break through their sheaths. That’s when you soak the hell out of them. Soak, let dry, soak, let dry, and so on until they’re plump again. For me it’s usually a soak/dry cycle for the first couple months and then I taper off with the water when they seem to be holding more water and staying turgid. They’ll usually flower between October/November. After they have finished flowering I’ll stop watering and try to just feel it out (literally, touch them and feel for firm/limp leaves). Mine tend to start going dormant late February through March, and some stragglers can take until early May, but that’s pretty rare.
Wow this is very different than lithops!! My lithops finished splitting and I’m watering them now!