Aloe Vera Plants do need regular, bright sunlight to avoid drying out the leaves. Artificial light is sufficient as well, particularly in the winter. When you get an Aloe Vera Plant, either place it by a window where it will receive sunlight, or set up a lamp nearby. Aloe Vera Plants need to be kept at temperatures between 55 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit, so you should only place them outdoors when temperatures are in this range. For most areas of the U. If overnight temperatures drop below 55 degrees Fahrenheit, bring the Aloe Vera Plant inside to avoid frost, which can harm or kill the plant.
Like other succulents, Aloe Vera Plants tend to grow slowly, as a way to reserve water and nutrients. It usually takes a few years for an indoor Aloe Vera Plant to reach its full size, which is about 18 inches. With proper care, an Aloe Vera Plant can live up to 12 years.
However, by pruning and repotting offsets, you can ensure that you will always have an Aloe Vera Plant thriving in your home. If you have a pet, you will want to keep them away from your Aloe Vera Plant. While Aloe Vera juice has medicinal properties for humans, it has a mild to moderate level of toxicity for household pets like cats and dogs.
If these animals ingest Aloe Vera juice, it can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, lethargy, and a change in urine color. Previous Next. Ships in days. Pots or accessories are not included unless specified in the product options. Continue Shopping Proceed to Checkout.
Add to Wishlist. Planting and Care Planting instructions As a native of the semi-tropical Arabian peninsula, Aloe Vera Plants thrive in hot, dry conditions. Pollination Aloe Vera Plants do not self-pollinate. Pruning Aloe Vera leaves are green, thick and fleshy, with serrated margins. Pests and diseases The most common diseases that affect Aloe Vera Plants are ones related to overwatering, including root rot, soft rot, leaf rot, and fungal stem rot. Light Aloe Vera can adapt to low light, but to grow and to flower, it needs full sun.
Repotting Repotting always has the risk of damaging the plant. But you can do it. Tip the pot and wiggle the plant out. Potted Mature width ft. Sunlight requirement Indirect Light Growth rate Fast.
This aloe variety has a central stem that can grow up to 10 ft. The leaf edges have reddish-brown soft thorns. The Clanwilliam aloe blooms in the summertime. If you plant this aloe in your garden or a large container, you will get rewarded with beautiful clusters of pink-white or ivory white flowers in the shape of a thin cone. The Aloe cameronii , or Red aloe, is a spindly-looking aloe plant with coral-colored leaves. This is not a clumping type of aloe.
The long tooth-edged leaves are long and curving. The color of the leaves is determined by the amount of sun and water the succulent gets. The leaf color can range from bright green to rich copper colors in the winter. This type of aloe gives plenty of color to your garden in wintertime. Light watering will keep the leaves a copper color whereas over-watering will cause the leaves to be green.
Spiral aloe is a striking and unique type of aloe that grows well in cooler climates. The Spiral aloe Aloe polyphylla is a type of succulent that has thick triangular leaves that have tooth edging. If you want to have one of the best types of aloe for your garden, then the Spiral aloe is a striking plant. One of the unique features of this type of aloe is the way the fleshy green leaves form a spiral.
The white spines on the leaf edges and the dark brown leaf tips add to the uniqueness of this aloe plant. This makes the Spiral aloe look like a blue-green spiky ball.
The aloe also produces some striking blooms. In the summer, tubular red to pink flowers appear from a large fat stem in the middle of the plant. Being a type of mountain aloe plant, the Spiral aloe grows well in cooler climates. It thrives in cool summers and can survive frost and snow. The Aloe Pinrcipis also called Aloe caesia is a large type of aloe plant. If you are looking for a large stunning type of aloe, then the Aloe Principis is an excellent choice. This aloe variety is a cross between Aloe ferox also called bitter aloe and Aloe arborescens.
The Aloe Pinrcipis also called Aloe caesia has large light-blue colored thick gel-filled leaves. The aloe succulent leaves can grow between 6 and 9 ft. The spread of this aloe variety is between 3 and 6 ft. If you have space in your rock garden or succulent garden, then this kind of aloe can brighten up your garden in the winter.
Large colorful floral red spikes rise from the aloe plant. These fiery-looking blooms contrast well with the blueish-green jaggy leaves. To help your large aloe variety achieve its best growth, plant it in full sun and in sandy soil that drains well.
Climbing Aloe is a fast-growing type of aloe. This is a stemmed type of aloe plant that has long curling leaves growing up the stem. Due to these recurved leaves, the aloe can climb on trees or thick vegetation. If there is no support from the quickly-growing leaves, they grow in a haphazard way. Each light-green leaf has soft teeth running along the edges and down the stem.
Flowering time for this aloe plant is during the winter and early spring. You can expect large brightly-colored red flowers to brighten up your winter garden. This type of aloe plant is unique among the aloe varieties in that it climbs and is one of the fastest-growing aloe varieties. The mountain aloe is a very big type of aloe.
The Mountain aloe Aloe marlothii is an example of an enormous type of aloe plant. Some types of this aloe have been known to grow as high as 20 ft. The thick aloe leaves are very strong and curve upwards towards the sky.
Reddish-brown spines appear along the leaf edges in winter. This aloe is also called the flat-flowered aloe and it produces some of the most unique types of flowers of any aloe plant. Each plant can produce up to 50 clusters of flowers on stalks. During the winter months these fascinating flowers can be in any color ranging from yellow to bright red. My snake plant mother-in-law tongue flowered also. These plants have never been outdoors.
I recently segregated three pups from the Aloe. I am not a green thumb. I have pictures. Fantastic blog post, filled with useful information. I'm feeling much more confident about taking in my girlfriends aloe plant! Hi there, how long should the soil stay moist after watering? I watered my aloe plant about 3 days ago and the soil still feels moist. My other plants' soil Heartleaf Philodendron and Ghost plant typically dry out after a day or so.
I'm worried about the aloe plant getting root rot, and I read a lot of articles saying since aloe is a succulent it easily gets root rot if it sits in wet soil for too long. However, none of the articles say exactly how long is too long, not even a range.
Is there some sense of how long is too long for soil to dry out? I really appreciate it! During the winter months—assuming the plant is kept in a window indoors—it will be getting less light and will therefore not need as much water as it does in summer.
One rule of thumb is to wait roughly twice as long between waterings in the winter as you would between waterings in summer. In other words, if you water every two weeks in summer, plan to water your aloe every four weeks during the winter months. Of course, your watering schedule should ultimately depend on the wetness of the soil; always check that at least the top third of soil is dry before watering again.
This could ultimately mean that you actually need to water every three weeks or every five weeks—it all depends on the environment in your home! Would you suggest putting it in a container? I have an Aloa Vera plant that I repotted to a 14" X 12" deep pot. The plant has grown very Large and given many pups. Unfortunately the stem grew very thick and tall and has now fallen over. Any suggestion as to how I should now treat this plant.
I live in Hereford England and have an aloe Vera plant which has just started to grow a flower. The aloe is getting to big for its pot should I repot now or wait until the flower has gone. Wait until the plant finishes flowering and the flower fades. Otherwise, the plant will need to spend energy resettling its roots rather than producing the flower.
I live in Nevada. I wanted to know what zone is that and what succulents do best in this zone. Thank you Just starting out.
Aloe Vera juice is good to drink. I used to drink some daily, but it got too expensive. It's actually very good for you, and never made me sick. Yes, processed aloe vera juice is a common drink! My employer gave me an aloe plant at Christmastime - it was a pup off of a plant that was originally her late mother's. It looked really healthy until about 10 days ago when the outer leaves went from plump to thin and started drooping.
The inner leaves are still plump and healthy looking. It also has a pup in the pot now and it looks healthy so far. I admit that I had forgotten to water it for a while, but I did water it when I saw it was looking sad.
Is there something else I should be doing? I would hate to lose the plant! Watering is the right move. Leaves will get thin and droopy when not given enough water, so it sounds like yours just needed a drink!
I bough an aloe plant that has been planted in what seems to be pebbles and without a hole for drainage. I overwatered it in the beginning, but water it less now, however one of the base leaves is still a bit mucky - looks like it's gotten too much water. Is this due to the pebbles and drainage problem and should I transplant it into a new pot with potting mix instead of pebbles? Or should I just water it even less?
I hope you can help me! My aloe plant is fairly new and it has really taken off! But now I seem to be getting brown tips and spots on the leaves. What am I doing wrong?? What causes this? Also some of them have very short root base. Mainly both pots just have a lot of puppies in them.
Please help. They are indoor plants put in a southern exposure. They both have long thick stems and are growing out of the pot. Wish me luck. Aloe vera is considered to be mildly toxic to humans and pets, although the gel is edible in smaller amounts.
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