Saturday, September 6, 2014

Lithops flowering season (4 pics)

Looks like my Lithops are heaving an early flowering season. I have 4 flowers at the moment and more coming soon. What a happy sight! :)

One of my own L. bromfieldii v. glaudinae seedlings has flowered for the first time and the flower is HUGE! In fact, this is one of these little kids. All grown up now.


Good thing they flower in the afternoon. This way I can catch them on camera even when I come home after six. And even though it is already getting dark the flowers are still brimming with sunlight they've soaked up during the day.

The L. fulviceps 'Aurea' flower looks very relaxed...


... and the one on L. fulviceps v. lactinea is already a week old. It has an interesting shape now but still such shiny petals!

The newcommer, L. verruculosa, decided to bloom, too. This is the first time I see a cream-colored flower on a lithops. It's so unusual. It looks more like red gold to me and fits the color of the plant leaves.

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  1. So pretty! I missed a couple of my Lithops flowers this year, as I was just too busy, then, when I went back with the camera, they were already scruffy. I need to do better next year!

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    1. Same here! I didn't miss them per se but seeing them for a minute after work felt like I didn't appreciate them enough. They need to be admired :)

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  2. Congratulations! And thanks for sharing!

    Art

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  3. Hi Rika, The flowers are a just reward for the wonderful care you give to your plants. Lithops flowers are not only something lovely to look at, they are also a good indication that the plant is healthy and growing as it was meant to grow. I've never grown a Lithops verruculosa and the orange/peach flower is quite nice. I'm glad you are having a nice flower display thus far and hope it continues through the sunny autumn in Germany. As always, thanks for sharing them with us. :)

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    1. Thank you Bob! The flowering this year is much better indeed. I think the hot summer and the fact that most of the lithops went dormant during the heat should be the reason. Also, following your advise I watered the plants more as soon as I saw flowers growing. As the result none of them has dropped (it was a real problwm before). Thank you for that!
      I bought 1 year old verruculosa seedlings several years ago but they all died. I hope I'm more skilled now... Hope to grow them from seed soon, too.

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  4. Hope you'll have good luck with the verruculosas furthermore. They seem to be a little difficult, but I love the orange color - or even pink in case of "Rose of Texas". Even so I've sowed some charges in late spring this year which germinated quite well.

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    1. Good luck with your seedlings, too! The flower color is surely something unusual for a lithops. And the leaf texture is beautiful as well.

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  5. I take plants to work so as not to miss the flowers. A really sunny day lead to the petals turning completely back on the Lithops in the office.

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