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January 10 to 28

i cannot quite recall what i thought after my long vacation. i suppose i just wanted to resume the watering. earlier i had tried to reduce the watering stepwise to adjust my living stones to the coming drought (my vacation). in the course of a 1,5 months i went from watering at 1 to 2 days intervals all the way to 6 days intervals. maybe i thought that it had been a bit of a speedy process. anyway afterwards i resumed watering at 4 to 5 days intervals.

the 10th of january:
- regular bottom watering

the 16th of january:
- bottom watering
- 1 lithops plant dead, 3 left
- 20 monilaria (1 really tiny)
- 2 argyroderma plants
- 2 conophytum plants

the 23rd of january:
- bottom watering and fertilizing
- increasing the light (how long the lamps are on) by 30 minutes

the 28th of january:
- bottom watering and fertilizing
- increasing the light (how long the lamps are on) by 30 minutes
- 1 monilaria plant dead, 19 left
- 3 lithops plants, 2 have changed their leaves
- 2 argyrodema plants
- 2 conophytum plants
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