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Partridge Breast Aloe Plant

gillyb99gillyb99 Posts: 3
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I have a Partridge Breast Aloe plant which is approximately 18” high.  If I cut off the top half will it grow as a cutting, and will the parent plant sprout new growth?

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Not as far as I know. Generally aloes are grown from offsets. You should be getting some around the base on a plant this size but if not take it out of the pot and check there's no stuck shoots under the soil.
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  • gillyb99gillyb99 Posts: 3
    Thanks Wild Edges, there was a offset that I have replanted.  It’s just that the parent plant is so heavy and whatever support I put in the pot that it keeps keeling over.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    A neighbor gave me some leggy overgrown aloe (normal variety).. I cut them off at soil level, peeled back a number of lower leaves, and let it dry out for a week.  I potted the stems up in some succulent potting soil, and they all survived.  This was back in November, and right now I have some pups shooting up out of the soil around the largest one.  Or maybe make a copper wire support that sort of wraps around it?  I saw a fun one shaped as the profile of a hand and wrist.   
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  • gillyb99gillyb99 Posts: 3
    Thanks Blue Onion - One of my friends suggested that I do the same as you have said, but I don’t think it will work with this Aloe type.  
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