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Aloe Vera help

lizziec1988lizziec1988 Posts: 74
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my aloe Vera is looking quite pathetic. It is on a coffee table near to a south facing window. Any idea what I can do to get it looking a bit more sprightly? 

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  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    It looks a damn sight better than some specimens I've seen !! Keep giving maximum light , but don't water too much yet . Don't want weak and 'stretched' growth .
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    I agree with you Paul,I've seen much worse than this one.
    I keep mine in a very light bathroom,and very rarely water it.When I do,it's always from the bottom. I had huge ones in Spain,which needed regular watering,but they got little or no moisture from the air.
    I used to cut off the "leaves" that I didn't like!!
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Oddly, I find mine doesn't do well with too much light. He's shoved in between the microwave and the wall and loves it. I set him in a bucket of water every three to six months (really!!!!) and there he grows, happy as Larry.
    The ones I saw growing wild were on sand with the odd downpour and they grew feet high. 
  • lizziec1988lizziec1988 Posts: 74
    So the droopy stems- do I just leave them? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That's how they look ... Yours looks jolly fine as it is to me  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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