#lithops

[botanyshitposts]

omgg i love the lithops in your pic, here are mine!

dude im not even a huge cactus/succulent guy and ive never gotten over lithops. absolutely unfathomable that they grow by shirking off their old asscheeks like this. like yes hypothetically theyre supposed to look like rocks in the ground but god what a twist of fate. just look at them. the old asscheeks wither first and everything

[theweeowlart]

Lithops is a genus of succulent plants. They avoid being eaten by herbivores with their camouflage as small stones, and are often known as pebble plants or living stones.

[wishesofhappiness]

[helluvatimes]

Living With Pebbles And Stones

Lithops or Living Stones growing profusely in the Succulent Garden. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

These are succulent plants that look like pebbles and rocks. Starting with just a few cuttings, they are now almost filling up their display area behind a glass screen.

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[vernalloy]

It is so deeply frustrating how people will come onto a general positivity post (“your trauma is enough”) and say “the ENDOS are TRICKING REAL systems into THINKING they’re ENDO by MAKING PEOPLE THINK you can be a system WITHOUT TRAUMA” because. Purrsonally. My experience with endo and endo-friendly spaces actually gave me a community to process my dissociation.

If you hold off resources to people who have suffered badly enough in the right way at the right time and fit the mold of a “real” system… you’re going to turn away a lot of questioning systems. A major part of trauma is denial. Giving people a place to more healthily interact with their systems and accept them without needing to first consider themselves traumatized enough is essential to supporting new traumagenic systems in the first place.

[floridensis]

so i recently got a ton of rescued lithops. many of them were in bad condition and rotted very quickly especially after being exposed to way too much rain. these were, overall, in better condition with a few exceptions. i got these guys planted, they got exposed to a light amount of water before i rushed them to safety and theyve been completely dry for like a week now.

i see some of them are becoming wrinkly, and i dont know if the answer is to keep them bone dry and in the sun when weather permits or if i should water them.

does anyone know what i should do for them? thanks

its also maybe worth noting i got them all bare-root and i have no idea how long theyve been bare root before i got them in my sand-dirt

[akheronart]

[prince-liest]

SUCCULENT UPDATES!!

I got some new ones that I'm excited for, including these Echeveria 'Cris' (left) and Echeveria 'Seraphina' (right). They are both so fucking cute. And yes, that's right, the moment my Seraphina leaves showed signs of propping, I finally managed to find an actual full plant and immediately bought it, haha. I'm still going to try to prop the leaves and maybe hand out some fun little plant babies to friends, though. And the Cris just has a really cool stacked shape.

This is an Echeveria 'Perle von Nurnberg,' which is a fairly well-known cultivar that I potted into a larger pot and will be keeping outside, as they're light hogs. They can grow and propagate into some truly beautiful and colorful red/purple displays, so I really hope that I succeed with this one!

Finally found an actual lithops like I'd wanted to a while back, and a nice large specimen that is solo in its own cup, which should be good for my first attempt at keeping these, as it circumvents the issue of multiple plants at different stages of growth that might react poorly to conflicting watering needs. I really love how weird these guys look.

And two little dudes I owned already, the Graptoveria 'Bashful' (left) and split rock plant (right) that both ran into issues. The graptoveria lost its red-tipped stress coloration and the split rock actually aborted its bloom (NOOOOO), which are issues that in combination prompted me to double the number of lights I have on my succulent shelf. If that doesn't do it, I can still add even more lights very easily, so I'm keeping an eye on stress colors and etoliation pretty carefully now. Thankfully the graptoveria is quicker to react than my echeverias, which would mostly just etoliate irreversibly.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Lithops

By Michael Lewis

[daily-ynfg-worlds]

Farm World

[eunnuiphyte]

Tiny tiny Benz!

ID: Dinteranthus pole-evansii 'Golf Ball Plant' benz (triplet lithop) mutation (yeah i dunno what to call this lol)

[theweeowlart]

A little gift idea for a house plant person, Lithops plants, also known as stone plants. This small drawing is available now…

[wishesofhappiness]

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[vernalloy]

I think a lot of people conceive of introjects as having a deep, traumatic meaning— and while that certainly can be the case!— I think one should consider that introject status can come as… a wrapping rather than a core, if that makes sense.

Standard model: stress -> source -> split

Wrapping model: stress -> fuzzy split -> source applied for more clean divide of identity

I hope that explains to some people why some introjects will form so quickly or with so little attachment. The identity can be just a jumping-off point for the brain to get the states separated.