Thanks for all of your responses! The containers have bottoms with lots of holes drilled in the bottom and the whole thing raised off the ground by bricks. My compost bin is new and the compost is not ready yet. I'm wondering if I am not testing the Ph of the soil and providing appropriate remediation or if I'm using all the same kind of soil i.e. nothing is 'sandier,' or 'richer,' than the other, will my veggies still grow? The more I read, the more I realize what I neglected to do and its overwhelming me. How precise do I need to be? Its my first time. THANK YOU! Here is a link that might be useful: Photos of the progress

What ever doubt means maybe it means less water twice is better than to much water once ? The argyroderma is a heat loving sun pig and yes a fair amount of drinking is allowed for it this time of the year. Yours is a tad thirsty I'd let water flush though on the edge of pot at night first. It'll be okay if it has to wait for more in the morning. Yours is inside it'll happily wait for more.. Argy is in it's growing season techincly you could drowned it if you wanted to as doubt can aslo mean better safe than sorry Indoors ? For yours it might be better to use less water twice than more once Hmmm guessing you have it setting there for full sun outside transitioning Lithops: You show the number one reason why each of them should be in there own pots as singles. How do you not water a lithops if you need to water a lithops ?

Depending on how hot it is right now for you they may sulk for a bit but will eventually decide to grow. Pruning often stimulates roses into putting out new growth. So unless they are grafted and you cut the grafts off, which it doesn't sound at all like you did, they should be just fine! Keep them watered and maybe a shot of fertilizer and you'll have new blooms in no time!

I don't want to discourage you from using NAPA if it is working well for you. My first bag was fine and lasted for years, but the second bag that I purchased broke down very quickly and coated the pot and my plant's root with a clay sludge. It very well may have been a problem with that particular bag of product, or perhaps the "recipe" had been changed. So I searched for Turface and finally found it at these 2 places - Ewing Irrigation https://www.ewingirrigation.com/locations Site One Landscape Supplies - this used to be a part of John Deere Landscaping division and it now a company on its own. Two ingredients that others use in their mix are bark fines and pumice. For me, the bark breaks down into compost within a year and I end up with a water retentive mix. And rot. So I leave that out. Pumice is not readily available in my area, but many folks sing its praises! Hope that helps!