Comments on: Aloe Vera Plant Growing & Usage Tips

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:01:11 +0000

my aloe vera has grown so tall (she is about ten years old) that she is listing go one side, what do I do, she is a member of our plant family

By: maki

maki — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:05:18 +0000

my aloe plant was doing average inside then i had this brillant idea to put it outside for a while and it rained a few days too… now my plant has really dark purple leaves that are no longer plump and about four or five green leaves and only like two of the green leaves are healthy b/c they’re new. i dont know wat to do should i take the purple leaves off or will they still live or is my plant in general basically dead? help…!
please and thank you!

By: Nicki

Nicki — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:36:09 +0000

My aloe vera was growing beautifully, and a few weeks ago it started looking wilted and turning slightly brown. The last couple of times I’ve watered it, I’ve seen some baby frogs run out of the plant. Are the frogs damaging my aloe vera by living in the pot?

By: George Michaels

George Michaels — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:13:46 +0000

I stumbled on this article looking for the botanical differences between soap aloe (saponaria) and aloe vera. Since I have a dozen aloes of one kind or another in my landscape, I would like to suggest some of this advice is not quite accurate. Aloe vera grows outside in the landscape in Tucson AZ. It does not need indirect light. It does great in blistering full day sun. We have 180+ days of 100 F or greater and 10-12″ of rain. While it does better with supplemental watering, it will sustain itself without it. Too much water is its nemesis. It will take a frost and even a hard freeze down to 20-22. Not sustained, but we will get several consecutive nights below 32 and it does fine. It may brown and curl at the tip, but that is about all. If And given lots of sun and regular watering, it grows like a weed.

By: Tsavah

Tsavah — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:46:37 +0000

I am not sure why you don’t want to repot a fair number of pups from your mother plant, but if you do it will be normally easy to find homes for the young sprouts. Have you tried advertising on a “Free-cycle” group in your town or city? I get “free” stuff and give away stuff through our “Free-cycle” group all the time. Just tell the folks to bring their own pot with cactus type soil for as many pups as they want. You may meet a lot of folks with your same interestes.

By: rmiisty

rmiisty — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:44:07 +0000

Can someone tell me what do you do if you have an enormous number of large “pups” (approx. 10-12) that are continuously growing horizontally? I bought the aloe vera 3 yrs. ago. I have replanted 1x)this plant & a few of it’s “pups” to a much larger pot, however they are now growing at a rapid speed & are about to burst out this large pot. I really don’t want to re-pot 10-12 new plants.

By: Stormi

Stormi — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:30:32 +0000

Thanks so much for this article. I just received an Aloe plant as a gift and did everything I shouldn’t have (overwatering, direct sunlight, cold). I feel much better about letting it be since it’s winter here in Ohio.

By: Jenners

Jenners — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:12:48 +0000

Ed, Just stick that sprout in a pot and it’ll grow. In fact, if you just stick a cut-off stem in dirt, it’ll grow. This plant is amazing!

By: Ed Colson

Ed Colson — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:37:50 +0000

Our Aloe plant tipped over and one side of the mother plan broke off. There are about 4 shoots connected to a white woody stem. Is there any way to make this sprout roots and grow?

Thanks!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:53:59 +0000

I found that if you put potatoes into the soil with the plants they grow much stronger,(note: the potatoes will sprout and grow, so just nip the sprouts off at ground level or you can even use the water from boiling potatoes, but do not use salted water and cool the water to room temperature.