It is broke, please fix it. This is a tolerant plant and you've been lucky or careful so far. If you take it out and the pot is full of roots then it doesn't need repotting, but I think you'll find it just has a few roots stretching out to the edge, or none at all. Shake off the outer soil so the ro...

For what its worth, these little white fuzzballs with the orange flowers can take at least ten degrees (fahrenheit) of frost while dry in a pot, and if they can do that in England they can do more elsewhere.

I grow mine in full sun, and if they can take full sun in England, that tells you nothing

Bill sent me over to have a read about Lithops. Which I can never resist :) Hard to imagine but everyone is right! Lithops become dormant in very hot weather and water usage is dramatically reduced. Watering a Lithops which is not using any water is obviously dangerous since it can stay wet at the r...