In large populations, the number of galls can appear to overlap each other. The bumpy growths they produce are the result of the saliva they inject into plant tissue during feeding.
They will root quickly and provide you with more of this amazing plant to populate your landscape or give away to an appreciative friend.The easiest way to propagate the plant is by growing tiger aloe from the babies at its edges.
When the aloe plant is watered, the soil should be thoroughly drenched, but the water should be allowed to drain freely from the soil. Like cacti, succulents do best in dry conditions.
They do need regular watering but are very tolerant of drought conditions for short periods.plant outside of its recommended zones except in a container in summer, then move the plant indoors to a sunny location for the winter.
Keep reading to learn more about how and when to transplant an aloe plant.One of the many things that make aloes such good houseplants is that they tend to like a little overcrowding.
Knowing how to harvest aloe vera will help preserve the health of the plant and allow you to experience the flesh at its peak.Juicers and smoothies are all the rage with suggestions of supplements and additives to enhance their healthful properties.
The parent plant needs to be removed from its pot, so this is a good time to replant it and fill the container with fresh soil. Lay the offset in a warm, dim room to callus on the end for two days before planting.The callus is simply to prevent the new...
The pup must be mature enough for rooting an aloe vera plant successfully.Once the aloe pup is the right size, remove the dirt from around the base of the pup. Let's take a look at rooting an aloe vera plant from a leaf cutting and separating aloe pups.Many...
In the growing season, generally spring and summer into early fall, these succulents need to be kept moderately moist. If your aloe seems peaky, use filtered or distilled water when irrigating.Add a diluted liquid fertilizer once per month to the water...
A simple watering strategy for aloe is to wait for the soil to dry out entirely and then wet it completely. This article has more information for an aloe plant flopping over.No one likes flopping aloe leaves.
A plant with puckered leaves that are discoloring may be too dry. Feed no more than once per month with a diluted plant food at half strength.Most varieties of aloe prefer warm temperatures.
And why is Aloe vera also on most toxic plant lists, if it is such a great healing plant? And what of the other species- do they have beneficial properties as well? Is this really a singularly amazing, healing species or is there a lot of overstated benefits...
For the purposes of this article, any aloe with a 'significant' solitary stem/trunk (over 3' tall) is considered a tree aloe.There are many skinny, tall aloes made up of a complex of branches and suckers, but these are shrubby or vining plants, and don't...
Tree aloes are some of the most magnificent of all the succulents and can be awesome and imposing landscape statements. Most of the branching tree aloes are exceptionally neat and tidy-looking plants and are some of the most useful and valuable plants...
This article is really just a contination of the last article and an introduction to some, but certainly not anywhere near all, of the aloes that one can see flowering in cultivation, at least here in the southwestern US.
There are hundreds of species of aloes in cultivation and many of them have magnificent and colorful flowers... This pictorial article is provided as an introduction to one of the most beautiful and available flowering succulents for landscaping and pot...
If they never flowered they would still be extremely popular plants for gardeners, collectors, landscapers and public gardens. And, as a group, they are relatively easy, carefree plants to grow.
They really are wonderful landscape aloes... Not a very organized or terribly informative article... But as most readers of these articles couldn't really care less about which spotted aloe is which, I have to admit writing this article is mostly a mentally...
I recommend becoming familiar with some of these terms if you want to be able to tell some similar aloes apart.The entire 'flower' is really called in inflorescence, which is the structure that grows above the leaves with all the colorful flowering parts...
Below are some shots of the commonly used parents in these smaller hybrids:Some of the more well-known collections of hybrids come from Rancho Soledad Nursery and their tissue culture company (Rancho Tissue Technologies) and was run at least in part by...
Growing aloes from seed can not only be fun, but a way of getting some rare species cheaply that might even not be available at all otherwise. This article will cover some of the ways to prepare and grow aloes from seed.
However, aloe vera is not covered in the sharp, needle-like thorns cacti are known for.Aloe vera, also known as a burn plant or medicine plant, is a succulent often grown as a houseplant.
This is one of the few tree aloes grown in cultivation NOT from South Africa (from Saudi Arabia and Yemen)Here is the plant in flower and how it looks basically all year roundAs the flowers get ready to open, they turn from pink-orange to white with green...
For some reason, the mites are attracted to rapidly growing tissues, so galls tend to form at growth centers (crowns of the rosettes and flowers), though they can form anywhere.Shots of aloe cancer between leaves, at tip of lower and below living leaf...
Agave, a perennial, also features green, spiky leaves. That means stapelia contains juices within its leaves. The flower is not a series of tubular petals. The aloe vera plant is a succulent that grows wild in arid climates and is often grown in gardens...
Place the bagged sheet of leaves on into the dehydrator.Check on the leaves in 48 hours. A small one is suitable for this project when turned on its highest setting. When you make your own skin lotions and astringents at home, drying the leaves of aloe...
When I used to peruse nurseries for whatever succulents I could find that I did not have yet, I was often presented with dizzying varieties on large flats of this and that- literally hundreds of inexpensive and fascinating little rubbery and succulent...
