This year I feel like focusing more on lithops again. Needless to say, it means new acquisitions and more sowing later this year. Do I still have room for that? I do. How?! I am just as surprised as you are. Sometimes the windowsill feels like a plant-growing Tardis. The trick is to use small pots and plant as many plants as possible in each of them. If I only have one small plant of a certain species I would never give it a container all for itself. How wasteful is that! It can share it with at least one more plant. And they can be joined by others if necessary. I'm not a nursery and I have good records of what I grow so there's no need to separate everything.
I've bought some lithops and conophytums at the fair in Essen lately. The conophytums are still more or less in sheaths but the new lithops are ready for pictures. I think with the new purchases I have been favoring white-flowering species more than usual. Mainly because they are a challenge for me. Somehow I have difficulties growing them. By buying well-grown specimen the task becomes "keep them in good shape" rather than "get them into a good shape", which should be feasible.
For example, here are some L. karasmontana. I really like the yellow-orange kind and so I ended up with 4 of those. Neat shapes!
C227 Lithops karasmontana ssp. karasmontana v. karasmontana (syn. jacobseniana)
C327 Lithops karasmontana ssp. karasmontana v. karasmontana (syn. mickbergensis) MG1631.3
Lithops karasmontana ssp. karasmontana v. karasmontana (syn. mickbergensis)
Lithops karasmontana ssp. karasmontana v. karasmontana 'Top Red'
Lithops marmorata
C214 Lithops marmorata v. elisae
Some L. hallii and L. julii look so similar you can barely see the difference.
Lithops hallii MG1596.9
Lithops julii ssp. fulleri
Of course I could not walk past beautifully grown L. lesliei and L. aucampiae
C302 Lithops lesliei ssp. burchellii
Lithops lesliei
Lithops aucampiae 'red wine'
Lithops pseudotruncatella ssp. groendrayensis were so fine I got three.
C069 Lithops pseudotruncatella ssp. volkii
C071 Lithops pseudotruncatella ssp. dendritica (syn. pulmonuncula)
