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September 24

my vacation is over and it's time to check the results of the experience. the temperature is + 23 °C and the growlights are still on for 12 hours. i open the monilaria container and leave it so. i also open the lithops and the argyroderma containers and leave them open because most of the lithops seeds have germinated but some argyroderma have been decimated...

 all of the 22 of the monilaria are still alive and only one of them is still not splitting. 9 of the argyroderma are still alive, 1 is clearly dead and about 1/3 of them look like they've "burned". i water the argyroderma lightly. 15 of the lithops seeds have germinated and 4 of the conophytum seeds.

at one point during the autumn i adjusted my grow lights and moved them on a higher stand (cardboard box) because more and more of the plants were showing light stress (reddish tint). however i didn't write down when i decided to adjust the lights.
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