Was going to do a few things as a round up today, but as its mothers day today, we went to a garden center for the first time in ages. More importantly, they had a selection of cacti and succulents for sale.
Don't know if this is available in every shop but we'll give props to Polhill for not being so bad and the fact that their farm shop is the absolute bomb, we came away with a Fentiman's Dandelion and Burdock and a half price pot of Lithops seedlings, seeing as most of them were dead.
Back home I did the usual transplant. Which is knock them out, weed out the dead one's and then repot into 2"/ 5cm pots.
I know I've done this before on this blog, but for those who've bought one of these, and feel like pricking out 100 seedlings into individual pots. Here is my list.
You'll want some:
Small pots
Soil based compost. Not peat or coir. We use John Innes 3 here in the UK. It's probably called something else, elsewhere in the world.
Small gravel. About 1mm in size. Fish tank grit is ideal.
Small pots. 2" / 5cm are ideal.
Labels. If you know what Lithops you have.
You'll need about a handful of compost and a handful of grit and mix together. You can add more grit if it doesn't seem open enough. Then fill all pots, make a small hole in the soil and put your Lithops in. Finally add more grit as top dressing and then you can if dry enough, water.
These instructions also work if you've grown your own mesemb seed either MSG or another society seed and are potting on from the initial pot.
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