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Happy birthday - year one is over!

hurray! i managed to keep alive 1 argyroderma, 3 lithops, 18 monilaria plants and a conophytum plant. one argyroderma perished after the repot and some monilaria feel still a bit loose like they haven't properly been rooted yet.

during september i water and fertilize regularly on the 2nd, the 8th, the 17th and on the 26th. at the same time i am reducing the daylight hours to 13 hours a day as i try to mimic the changing seasons outdoors.

at the end of the month i realize i have spider mites on another plant and i also decide to spray living stones both preventatively and because i find some living stones already damaged. the ones that show damage are the conophytum plant, the monilaria plants and one lithops plant. i spray my living stones with miss orchid girl's diy solution.

it feels like this summer wasn't the best for my living stones which is weird because all my other plants thrive during summer and look sad during winter. i just feel like i didn't do a proper job because of the pests and maybe because most of my living stones should be summer dormant and i repotted them at the end of spring. i tried to read again my sources on how to treat living stones to figure out what to do and i hope i will see a difference next year.
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