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These plants belong to my very first sowing attempt back in 2008 and, although they look healthy and adult-like, I keep wondering why they are still so small. Maybe it's because they haven't received any fertilizer for the whole year I was in Japan. After all, there's no food to find in pumice. I hope they'll finally get a growth spurt this year.

We've had several sunny days lately, and, as impatient as I am, I decided to sow some lithops. Well, it's snowing now, so it was probably too early for that. Anyway, it was the second time I tried sowing on the same pumice stones I use for grown-up plants and the result is very good again: L. steineckeana (C388) 23 out of 24 seeds, L. lesliei ssp. lesliei v. lesliei 'Fred's Redhead' 12 out of 16 seeds. I guess I'll stick to this method for the future. 

... Others are slowly getting there :)  The fulviceps from before are already showing their true colors!

The lesliei seem to be ahead of all the others. Most of them are almost done with their annual change.

Here are some pictures to illustrate the Green Horn success. :) I didn't want to cut off the seed capsules, so I used a needle stuck on a pencil to dig out the seeds. It was easier than I thought because the lesliei seeds are quite big. Anyway, don't forget to click on pics to enlarge~  

It's February and you already can see what's in the seed capsules. There were a whole lot of seeds from lesliei 'Green Horn', but I was especially surprised to find seeds in the 'Ventergreen' seed capsule. The only flower didn't have a partner (but stood apart from all the others), so that I'm very curious to see how the 'kids' will look like. As a big Ventergreen fan I sure hope they look like their parent. :) Make sure to click on the pic to see the seeds in XXL!