How To Grow a "Butt Plant"

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Have you ever been browsing in the succulent section of a garden center, and discovered a pot with nothing more than a pair of flat-topped rocks in it? If so, you may have discovered the lithops plant, an unusual African genus of succulent. Sometimes called split rocks or pebble plants, living stone plants are extremely drought-resistant and are widely popular in low-water gardens in desert regions. They can be grown both indoors and outdoors, but outdoor growers should be careful that they don’t get too much water. The term lithops is both singular and plural, so don’t go searching for a lithop… always look for lithops. But this living stone plant is easy and fun, and definitely something different to mix into your succulent garden! Learn More: Lithops: How To Grow And Care For Living Stone Plants Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, how's it going? I already know that you're probably curious what's going on with this
0:07.6	episode because of the title. So I was at the nursery a while ago with my mom.
0:13.9	So I finally convinced her to get into gardening, right?
0:16.4	You would think, you know, Kevin from Epic Gardening,
0:18.8	he should have the Epic mom who's gardening like crazy, right?
0:22.0	Well, I kind of came into gardening late in my life
0:24.2	and my mom even later in her life,
0:26.4	but we eventually got her to the nursery.
0:29.0	We started her off in the succulent world, right?
0:31.8	Some of the easier plans to care for,
0:34.2	especially in zone 10B, which is where I live, right?
0:38.2	And so, you know, we're out of the nursery,
0:40.1	we're trying to find something that is really looking cool for her and she turns to me and says,
0:46.2	look at this butt plant and I'm like, what? What did you say, Mom? She says, look at this little butt.
0:53.6	This looks like a little booty.
0:55.3	And so I start laughing, and then I walk over
0:58.4	and I saw the lithops, right?
1:01.3	The living stones, aka as Mother Epic Gardner, says it, the butt plant. It's pretty
1:09.9	funny and it is honestly one of the cooler succulents you can grow.
1:14.2	It's one of the more odd ones definitely looks a little bit like a little booty but also
1:18.5	kind of looks like a rock.
1:20.3	It's a camouflaged plant that is beautiful.
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