Lithops hookeri cv' Hammeruby' Cole number C272A

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This is a red mutant form, found in habitat by Steven Hammer (hence the name). Only a single specimen was found among thousands of normally fairly plain grey-green plants. This plant has a very distictive opaque sherbet-carmin colour vaguely remembering of L. optica rubra, but in all other respects the same as the type. This plant is very rare because it appears to rarely come true from seed and also it is quite difficult to grow and to keep alive. Even from red parents there don't seem to be many red seedlings. Usually most of the seedlings appears normally grey-green coloured and only a few (about 5%) shows hints of pink and very rarely a proper bright red plant. Hammeruby has a long way to go, with successive line breeding, before it is stabilized to the level of optica rubra. The red ones are difficult to raise from seed as they are much smaller and slower than the normal shades and are best grown separately.

Cultivation: Need an open mineral, fast draining mix and the maximum amount of light you are able to give them. The basic cultivation routine is: Stop watering after flowering. Start watering after the old leaves completely dry. (Usually late March or Early April) Water freely during the growing season, soak the compost fully but allow it to dry out between waterings, no water when cold. Some growers fertilize frequently, some hardly ever. Keep them dry during the winter. Nearly all problems occur as a result of overwatering and poor ventilation especially when weather conditions are dull and cool or very humid. This plant is best for a well lit area (Bright shade to full sun).

Note: After flowering in the autumn and extending through winter season the plant doesn’t need watering, but they will still be growing, the new bodies will be increasing in size extracting water from the outer succulent leaves, allowing them to shrivel away.  In fact the plant in this time extracts water and nutrient stored in the outer succulent leaves, allowing them to dehydrate relocating the water  to the rest of the plant and to the new leaves that form during this period until the old leaves are reduced to nothing more than "thin papery shell".

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Lithops meyeri 'Hammeruby' | Plant Brothers (plant-brothers.jp)

Lithops meyeri 'Hammeruby' C272A. The other red Lithops. Slow but worth it. Location - 45 km North North East of Port Nolloth, South Africa.

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