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Is my aloe supposed to look like this?

jude_hackettjude_hackett Posts: 2
edited March 2022 in Problem solving
I’ve had this Aloe in a deep clay pot with drainage for about two years. It’s growing…but too leggy? It’s a bit droopy. I might have overwatered in the past but it’s bone dry right now - even when I stick my finger up the drainage hole it’s dry. I water every three weeks or so. I can’t remember what soil I used but it seems to have grit in - but maybe that’s what it came with. It’s in just about the brightest place it can be - on a shelf right opposite an east facing window in a small bathroom. It gets direct light for a few hours a day. I don’t have a south facing window and the west facing windows ledges belong to the cats 😂. What do I do?!

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  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Hi Jude, welcome to the forum. Your Aloe is rather leggy (etiolated) because of the lack of sunlight. I don't know if it is abnormally droopy though. If you have somewhere outdoors to grow it in summer then it would get much more light.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Aloes also prefer dry environments so a bathroom with fluctuating humidity levels is not ideal.  Could the cats be purrsuaded to share one of those west facing window ledges😊 ?
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • jude_hackettjude_hackett Posts: 2
    Thanks to you both. I’ve removed Leggy Aloe from the bathroom - stupidly I hadn’t thought about the steam - which of course all the other plants in there love. 

    It’s now repotted and has a place on a side table - not used by the cats 😁 in front of a west facing bay. 

    My south facing patio is a total sun trap so I might put it out later in the year - or leave it if it seems happier. 



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