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I'm finally home! :) It was a long long flight that left me badly jet-lagged. Good thing it's still summer break and plenty of time to adjust... and to take lithops pictures of course! Today's inspection ended in plenty of washing, transplanting and bug-spraying. But nevertheless there was almost no damage that can't be fixed, and all in all the plants look much better than I expected. And how they've grown! I was expecting them all to be cucumber-shaped but found mostly the opposite which was a huge relief. My mom took good (appropriate) care of them. Since the most of the older plants have a mealy bug problem I've decided to repot all of them in the next days and finally switch to square pots while I'm at it. Pictures and reports will be posted asap. ;) To start on a positive note, I'd like to show you my youngest gracilidelineata seedlings (around 16 months old). You can see last year's picture here . The half of them survived and have grown ni...

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I went to Japan. It was such an exciting year, I've learned a lot, met nice people I will stay in touch with, traveled to beautiful places. I worked hard for this and it was worth it. Next semester I will have ragular classes again - honestly looking forward to it. I can do without extra excitement for a couple of years now. :) Feels like things are going back to normal, and it's a good feeling! They're going to cut off my internet connection shortly. Next time I write it'll be from Germany. :) Signing off with pictures of a lithops dorotheae C300 : it is waiting to be sent home.

I got an impression that overprotective new lithops fans tend to panic over things they can easily figure out just watching their plants. :) Some happen to seriously freak out seeing a "dehydrated" lithops. It's important to know that in most cases wrinkles are not a bad thing! And it's surely much better than the opposite - cucumber shape, bursting open, 3 leaf changes a year. In my opinion, wrinkles also bring out colors nicely. If an adult plant is in an advanced "wrinkle" stage it will bounce back and get its normal shape within 3 or 4 days after watering. Usually you can see some progress even after a few hours! On the picture is another helmutii I bought under description "new locality" (新産地). Don't know about that but it does have quite curious yellow-orange window edges I find very appealing. Normally I wouldn't be so radical about re-hydrating it but I needed it to be tiptop for the trip. ;) The pic shows its progress within ca. 3...

One of my recent purchases. Such saturated colors - I simply fell in love with it. It says lesliei C344 on the label, but it can't be right, can it? Not that it matters much. :) Today was a very exciting day because the plants I've ordered from Mr. Shimada have arrived. Such beauty! I couldn't take my eyes off of them. Especially because I had to part from them right away... ps: just got told it looks like a watermelon, haha!