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The month of November

i decided to start watering my living stones regularly twice a week. i spray them with water and every other time i bottom water and fertilize instead.

my watering schedule for the month of november:
on the 1st (sprayed), 4th (bottom watered), 9th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 21st and 26th.

on the 11th of nov. i noticed that both of my argyroderma plants are changing their first leaves. almost all of the monilaria have already their 3rd leaves. they are growing very fast. my 2 conphytum plants or my 4 lithops plants haven't done anything yet. all of the containers have a lot of algae.

on the 26th of nov. i noticed that the conophytum plants are also changing their leaves. my living stones are 3-month-old!

towards the end of the month i began to lengthen the time between waterings and to reduce the light from the plant lamps to 10 hours a day. in the end of the month the temperatures dropped to freezing temperatures outside and the indoor heating started. therefore the humidity indoors dropped.

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