Aloe Vera plants

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What do you do with yours?

I killed it sadly.

be careful with these, they can cause horrendous allergies

Water them sparingly, break them up when they get big and give them away (tens of baby plants)

It sits in a largish pot. I neglect it and it grows larger by the year. A couple of years ago I reported it and divided it and DH gave a baby aloe vera plant to each of his sixth form tutees that year.

they don't like being on a bright windowsill. I had seen them growing wild in Tenerife and thought they'd like lots of sunshine but they don't. They prefer a spot on a shelf a few metres away from a window.

This is Allen the Aloe. He's about ten years old. He's just gone back out onto my second story deck for the summer, after spending the winter in the living room by the sliding glass doors. The second picture is from last summer.

In what way?

Wow! How do oriole use them medicinally? I had several a couple of years ago but ended up giving them away. I now have a few babies and want to use the juice .

There's some videos on you tube showing how to cut them up to use them medicinally. It is easier if you use big, fleshy leaves because you have to cut off the outer layer. It is a bit messy but the innards are good for sunburn.

DS has one and it is also called Alan, but looking a bit forlorn, just told him they don't like bright windowsills and he's argued with me

He has previously taken a baby off and looks like another one in there

Forgot the pic

If you move it away from the windowsill many of the leaves that are going orange/yellow will go back to green.

Inspired by this thread, I repotted some of Alan to create progeny for him. I've no idea who I'll give them to.

How do you report them? I was given some babies and out them in normal compost. They don’t seem very happy.

I don't know it there's any trick to it. I can say that when I repot mine, I put them in Miracle-Gro potting soil, and they thrive in it. I've never used compost.

Also, be careful not to over water. They don't need much,

Benign neglect would be the charitable way of putting it. It sits on a high shelf, or the windowsill if I think it looks particularly droopy, in a not dark but not all that bright room. I don't think it's happy.
Having said that, it's hung in there for several years, so maybe it's just got a resting dying face to match my resting bitch face?

Let it dry right out between waterings, and then give it a really good drink. My friend gave me one that was basically a dry brown stump after being utterly neglected on a high shelf for about four years and it's now absolutely thriving.

That's interesting! My youngest reacts to aloe vera in creams etc, I didn't realise it was a thing (beyond the fact that I guess you can be allergic to anything).

They're quite hard to kill completely, I've previously thrown what I thought was a deal one into a pot outside to rot and it started growing