How to Grow Lithops from Seed - How and When to Plant Lithops seeds.(includes other Mesembs)

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This video is about how to grow Lithops from seed.

Lithops are easy to grow from from seed, can also be grown by division, however growing Lithops from seed produces more plants quickly and also is the way that growers hybridise these wonderful plants. The same techniques is used with other Mesembs.

Sometimes called the "Pebble Plant' or 'Living Stone Plant' they are from South Africa and make wonderful container or pot plants..

In this video we show how to pollinate the flowers, collect the seeds and grow the seeds on to produce new plants.

The best time to sow the seeds is in Fall (Autumn) although they can be sown at other times of the year.

Seeds take around 2 - 3 weeks to germinate with some species being faster than others.

The seeds come from small pods that appear in the middle of the plants after the flower are pollinated. The seed pods need to be left to develop, and they need to harvested before late summer rains.

James Lucus from Succulents Australia shows us his method of growing Lithops and other Mesembs from seed.

1:09 Collecting Lithops seeds
2:27 Lithops seed raising mix.
3:27 Preparing the soil for sowing the seed
4:00 Sowing the Lithops seeds
5:38 Seed germination method
7:07 Watering the young lithops plants.
8:35 Resources, Books on Lithops

Resources :

How to Grow Lithops and Other Living Stone Plants
Book by Piotr Dzieduszyński - https://lithops-book.com/en/

Cactus and Succulent Society Australia https://www.cssaustralia.org.au/

Succulents Australia https://www.succulents-australia-sale...

Succulents Australia / James Lucus Blog https://www.succulents-australia-sale...

Lithops: Flowering Stones
Book by Desmond T. Cole and Naureen A. Cole

Lithops: Treasures of the Veld (Observations on the genus Lithops N.E.Br.): Steven A. Hammer