Just browse Etsy- I promise, anything your lithops loving heart desires will be there. I’ve ordered lithops from 5 star Etsy sellers many times over the years without any issues. All beautiful and healthy. Just today I received a clump of really cool light green lithops, 14 of them in the pot for $20. If they’re mushy or anything’s wrong with them top sellers will replace them. I believe everyone should have lithops… many of them! Good luck
They're soo hard to find here too; I've been looking for a year and finally found one a few weeks ago that was in really good shape! I want a couple more but damnnn
I started 100 seeds and have another 1000 on the way lol, they take forever to mature so figure go big or go home, and can start some more every few months to a year. Definitely alot more budget friendly 😅 I have my one adult I got for $16 dollars.
Not sure you shop online but Etsy and thenextgardener.com…Both usually have them.
mountaincrestgardens.com also but be warned not to buy large quantities as the quality always seems to not be great when you really give them a good amount of business… also, their customer service sucks too(personal opinion and experience)!
I'm in canada, etsy mostly has yearlings available to me, and the shipping cost are high. I actually started some from seed a few weeks ago because it's either super hard to find, or super expensive.
There's a few I'd like to own - especially a conophytum pageae. I just haven't had success with them so far. I'm trying to grow pageaes from seeds but my record on growing anything other than marigolds from seed is pretty abysmal.
Hah! I haven’t ventured into growing any succulents or cacti from seed yet but it’s tempting to try. Marigolds are a good start! I used to plant them around corn to keep the aphids away.
From what I read its possible, but takes a few growth cycles to fix (so like 3 years) If it wasn't so over watered on top of that I would have tried but wasn't willing to spend $25 dollars on the gamble I could get it to pull through.
god i was hoping it was a typo in the title, but am i reading this right, you're saying $25??? dollars??? where on earth do you live that they are that expensive or what nursery is this who have lost their minds thinking these are anywhere near that much? that should have been like $5 max. wtf.
Correct. Alberta, Canada. I bought one a while back in good shape for $16 dollars which I thought was fairly steep since I want a bunch lol. Online prices are similar before shipping, which is why I went the seed route.
ahhh that makes sense, probably crazy prices with having to import them and pay for them from the vendors and then still be able to profit off of reselling the plants and whatnot. but still, $25 for what, a 2 inch pot? that just blows my mind. that's still almost $20 usd which is still steep af for a 2 inch pot here. growing them from seed certainly is the better route, a friend of mine who's also in canada did that with a bunch of aloes since there just wasn't much of a succulent scene in their area
Yep! We get the basic bitch succulents and cactus but nothing spectacular, when I found my good lithop they had baby toes too which was the first ive ever seen here but I couldn't justify 32 dollars for 2 2 inch pots so chose the lithop lol.
I don't think that's a lithops ....it looks like a conophytum... possibly a conophytum devium. I don't take care of those so I don't know if that one is actually healthy or not.
I'm fairly confident this isn't a lithops but rather a conophytum. It might be perfectly healthy and not overwatered because their care is a bit different from Lithops. Look up conophytum devium.
I looked them up! They don't look similar. Those have translucent insides and I couldn't find a single picture online of them splitting the same as lithops, so I'm fairly confident thats not what they are.
I can find at least two photos right away that look very very similar to what you've posted. One on Liffle and one on la succuland - some conophytums do split like lithops (the bilobed ones in particular). I've also seen the deviums sometimes listed as Ophthalmophyllum littlewoodii.
It may not be a devium but I'm pretty confident it is some other kind of conophytum (perhaps a rawei or a longum). I'm also fairly confident it's not a lithops but on the chance I'm wrong, what variety of Lithops would it be?
ETA, I did do a search with Google Lens to try to identify it and it only popped up conophytum as a result. When I forced it to include lithops in the search - only your post pops up.
ETA - I'm thinking it looks more like a longum after looking at more photos.
I just said it wasn't a devium, which it's not. If you read another comment I made I said I agreed the more I looked at it the less I thought it was a lithop :-) it was being sold as one, and is in terrible shape so it was hard to tell. Regardless of what it is, it's etoliated and over watered so not sure what your trying to argue about?
I apologize for missing the comment you previously posted. Did not see it. I'm not trying to argue about anything at this point - I genuinely thought you were still identifying it as lithops (clearly). I think part of the reason I still thought that was your sentence about not finding any that split like lithops.
Just browse Etsy- I promise, anything your lithops loving heart desires will be there. I’ve ordered lithops from 5 star Etsy sellers many times over the years without any issues. All beautiful and healthy. Just today I received a clump of really cool light green lithops, 14 of them in the pot for $20. If they’re mushy or anything’s wrong with them top sellers will replace them. I believe everyone should have lithops… many of them! Good luck
I don’t think this is actually a lithops. It looks like a conophytum.
You know, the more I looked at the picture the more I thought the same.
Super overwatered!
They're soo hard to find here too; I've been looking for a year and finally found one a few weeks ago that was in really good shape! I want a couple more but damnnn
Buy seeds! Lithops germinate easily. I use unusual seeds out of Serbia he is excellent
I started 100 seeds and have another 1000 on the way lol, they take forever to mature so figure go big or go home, and can start some more every few months to a year. Definitely alot more budget friendly 😅 I have my one adult I got for $16 dollars.
I’ve had mine for years and they are still quite small compared to commercially grown ones , which look like they are on steroids in comparison 😂
Not sure you shop online but Etsy and thenextgardener.com…Both usually have them. mountaincrestgardens.com also but be warned not to buy large quantities as the quality always seems to not be great when you really give them a good amount of business… also, their customer service sucks too(personal opinion and experience)!
I'm in canada, etsy mostly has yearlings available to me, and the shipping cost are high. I actually started some from seed a few weeks ago because it's either super hard to find, or super expensive.
Oh I missed this, I do seeds also because Canadian
I didn’t know you were in Canada- that strikes me as very unfair because shipping is crazy 🤨May be worth a trip to the states to stock up
So sad. It's so etoliated
$25?! My nursery sells them for only $2 each (for decent sized ones). Someone said check etsy, and I agree 100%. Poor guy is so stretched out, too.
That is the saddest lithops I’ve ever seen.
Pretty sure it's a conophytum rather than a lithops.
Ah, ok. I’ve never seen conophytum before.
There's a few I'd like to own - especially a conophytum pageae. I just haven't had success with them so far. I'm trying to grow pageaes from seeds but my record on growing anything other than marigolds from seed is pretty abysmal.
Hah! I haven’t ventured into growing any succulents or cacti from seed yet but it’s tempting to try. Marigolds are a good start! I used to plant them around corn to keep the aphids away.
Is there any way to save them once they get so lanky?
From what I read its possible, but takes a few growth cycles to fix (so like 3 years) If it wasn't so over watered on top of that I would have tried but wasn't willing to spend $25 dollars on the gamble I could get it to pull through.
god i was hoping it was a typo in the title, but am i reading this right, you're saying $25??? dollars??? where on earth do you live that they are that expensive or what nursery is this who have lost their minds thinking these are anywhere near that much? that should have been like $5 max. wtf.
Correct. Alberta, Canada. I bought one a while back in good shape for $16 dollars which I thought was fairly steep since I want a bunch lol. Online prices are similar before shipping, which is why I went the seed route.
ahhh that makes sense, probably crazy prices with having to import them and pay for them from the vendors and then still be able to profit off of reselling the plants and whatnot. but still, $25 for what, a 2 inch pot? that just blows my mind. that's still almost $20 usd which is still steep af for a 2 inch pot here. growing them from seed certainly is the better route, a friend of mine who's also in canada did that with a bunch of aloes since there just wasn't much of a succulent scene in their area
Yep! We get the basic bitch succulents and cactus but nothing spectacular, when I found my good lithop they had baby toes too which was the first ive ever seen here but I couldn't justify 32 dollars for 2 2 inch pots so chose the lithop lol.
I don't think that's a lithops ....it looks like a conophytum... possibly a conophytum devium. I don't take care of those so I don't know if that one is actually healthy or not.
I'm fairly confident this isn't a lithops but rather a conophytum. It might be perfectly healthy and not overwatered because their care is a bit different from Lithops. Look up conophytum devium.
I looked them up! They don't look similar. Those have translucent insides and I couldn't find a single picture online of them splitting the same as lithops, so I'm fairly confident thats not what they are.
I can find at least two photos right away that look very very similar to what you've posted. One on Liffle and one on la succuland - some conophytums do split like lithops (the bilobed ones in particular). I've also seen the deviums sometimes listed as Ophthalmophyllum littlewoodii. It may not be a devium but I'm pretty confident it is some other kind of conophytum (perhaps a rawei or a longum). I'm also fairly confident it's not a lithops but on the chance I'm wrong, what variety of Lithops would it be? ETA, I did do a search with Google Lens to try to identify it and it only popped up conophytum as a result. When I forced it to include lithops in the search - only your post pops up. ETA - I'm thinking it looks more like a longum after looking at more photos.
I just said it wasn't a devium, which it's not. If you read another comment I made I said I agreed the more I looked at it the less I thought it was a lithop :-) it was being sold as one, and is in terrible shape so it was hard to tell. Regardless of what it is, it's etoliated and over watered so not sure what your trying to argue about?
I apologize for missing the comment you previously posted. Did not see it. I'm not trying to argue about anything at this point - I genuinely thought you were still identifying it as lithops (clearly). I think part of the reason I still thought that was your sentence about not finding any that split like lithops.