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Spectacular coloured Lithops

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It needs to go on eBay very quickly though, because unfortunately it is dead. Even since yesterday when I first noticed it, it has started to collapse.
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It is, or was, a L. gracilidelineata similar to these.
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Re: Spectacular coloured Lithops

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I seem to be able to produce similar looking Lithops with great ease.

They just seem to lose their colour and shrivel away. It is very frustrating, to say the least!

Anybody know why it happens and if it can be prevented?
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Here are a few lithops which do not have terminal colouring.

Lithops lesliei 'Redhorn' which was obtained by Steve Hammer through crossing L. 'Fred's Redhead' with hornii:
Lithops 'Fred's Redhorn'.jpg
Lithops lesliei 'Jambourree' was bred by Steve Hammer from a couple of plants found in a large batch at the C&J Nursery in Vista. The colouring is subtly different to the preceding one but it is more vigorous and the seed is more willing to germinate:
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Lithops karasmontana 'Axel's Rose' was developed by Axel Neumann in Germany from a few plants found at a Dutch wholesale nursery (now defunct). I am told that the latest incarnations have more vivid colouration:
Lithops 'Axel's Rose'.jpg
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Crickey - just like those Gymnocalycium 'Hibotan's - except they can be grow on their own roots!
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I managed to get a bunch of transplanted yearlings to look like your first one. Except they didn't rot, they cooked. It was earlier in the year when after consistently rubbish weather we had a suprise very hot day and I'd left them in full sun :oops: had I realised they'd have been in some shade. At least I didn't lose all of them though.
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daniel82 wrote:It was earlier in the year when after consistently rubbish weather we had a suprise very hot day and I'd left them in full sun
That is why I keep all my one year seedlings under a shading cloth all the time!
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Unfortunately, none of these three red cultivars is readily available at the moment. The MSG did offer seeds of 'Fred's Redhead' x hornii on just one occasion and then in fives. I have had several attempts at raising 'Fred's Redhead' itself and have found that it is not well stabilised and the seed germinates poorly and erratically. This may be because the cultivar strain was developed from a single-head sport on a normal plant followed by selective inbreeding. I suspect that most spare material of the reddies ends up in China or Korea. I rely on friends for most of my unusual plant material and a few spare conos are as good as Bitcoin.
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Aiko wrote:
daniel82 wrote:It was earlier in the year when after consistently rubbish weather we had a suprise very hot day and I'd left them in full sun
That is why I keep all my one year seedlings under a shading cloth all the time!
I had thought I'd take the chance with the overcast skies to try and acclimate them to full outdoor light. But I got caught out, oh well be a bit more careful next time :roll:
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Terry S. wrote:Unfortunately, none of these three red cultivars is readily available at the moment. The MSG did offer seeds of 'Fred's Redhead' x hornii on just one occasion and then in fives. I have had several attempts at raising 'Fred's Redhead' itself and have found that it is not well stabilised and the seed germinates poorly and erratically. This may be because the cultivar strain was developed from a single-head sport on a normal plant followed by selective inbreeding. I suspect that most spare material of the reddies ends up in China or Korea. I rely on friends for most of my unusual plant material and a few spare conos are as good as Bitcoin.
Same here. I've tried Fred's Redhead twice and not got a single good plant, actually got hardly any at all. I have one supposed regular Warrenton Form that is as red as any Fred's Redhead I've seen in person, although probably not as red as a real one ought to be.

The var hornii cross is much more robust and a better colour. Hammer strikes again.
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Are those Lithops? Or beetroot? :grin:
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