6 Tips To Growing Aloe Vera 

One tip you haven’t mentioned. Is placing the pot, so that it hovers over a container underneath it that has water in it. (Not in the water and a decent gap). It’s growth is massively accelerated because it senses and absorbs the moist air, as it would in the desert. Just see... This is because when they grow in the desert, they grow where there is moisture or water deep underground that the roots can sense and grow towards. There’s a trade off point! It’s also why they won’t grow in direct sunlight, as they bake dry... P.s. this method is more for large specimen plants, if that’s what you want. However, I find for harvesting, you are better with lots of smaller, healthier and more productive plants. They also like condensation and get water out of the air, in the same way grass specifically gets water out of the cold air in the morning.(called the morning due) As deserts have really high daytime temperatures and really cold mornings. The Aloe harvests water from above this way, even in a bone dry desert. I’ve got mine in a glazed window box, on a shady window. So gets highs and lows, but not too direct. I also have a trench of sand under the pots, that I water and let dry out periodically. This all gives me a grass like carpet of medium sided really healthy deep green plants...

For growing tips, start watching after 3 minutes😉

I live in Thailand and they grow so well and fast. My tips. They dont like to be moved from shade to bright in one go, do it gradually in stages, the shock will turn the stems brown. I spray mine with hosepipe every day. They only flower when the plant gets to 4yr old and the flower stem can be1m high. I have never 'fed' mine but i do make sure the pots have a handful of garden compost. Too much water causes stems to brown and go mushy but they will recover for sure.

I have always had an aloe plant in the house. I grew up with one that my parents had. Everything you said is spot on. as an addition when the soil dries out completely I find that it helps to completely submerge the pot in water for half an hour or so, this allow the soil and the roots to get thoroughly soaked.

I am so glad you have popped this here! I grow aloes. All over the house. I generally use normal potting soil with perlite over the top. All of them are from one mother, which I got about 12 years ago from a colleague, it was a baby. I still have the mother and for the past few years, my bit aloes have flowered. I have had a baby growing from the flower stem. I use them straight on my skin. I take a bit of the frond and slice it open along the side, open it and just rub it onto my skin. I'd suggest a patch test for anyone doing this, before you put it on your face. I use it on my eczema, scar tissue, sunburn etc. I will try popping some of the 5 year olds into some big tubs. I'm running out of space though! 🌱

I went to a garage sale about 4 years ago and while walking up the drive way to the home I noticed that the property owner pulled up her aloe vera plants and threw them out near the street. I felt sorry for the plants. After I checked out her garage sale I was walking to my car and looked at the poor aloe vera plants and decided to ask the lady if I could have the dead looking plants out near the street. She said "take what you want". So I took the best ones (the least dead looking plants) and planted them in a shady place that does get some sun surrounded by nice trees. I made sure to plant them and water them. Well today the near dead Aloe Vera plants are big and green and beautiful! So if you see some dead looking Aloe Vera plants thrown about save them by planting them. I love how the old near dead plants are now big and alive and very beautiful! By the way I live in Inland Empire California!

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People : Kindly convey positive energy. No one is giving you negative energy. Like the real world we live in we try to helpeachother. If your energy is misdirected please find another venue such as exercise to realease your tension. Thank you Tony for your efforts. Love those Golden rules. Certainly I too have made this mistake sonewhere aling the line. Lets not be hard on eachother and try too see the benefits. It only makes things better, right?

I recently got a baby aloe vera and I had a rough start, kinda overwatered it and had it in the sun. After watching this video I took it out of the sunlight and repotted it. Now it's back to its healthy green shade. Thanks a lot for the help💙

My first Vera was giving as a Mother’s Day gift and I feel in love. I now have 3. I love them

Years ago I bought 1 plant. I now have 6 enormous healthy plants and they are the pups of the first plant. I give many away. They certainly do thrive when root bound!

I have a very large aloe vera plant, plus 6 pups that I re-potted last summer. I spritz my plants once a week with Epsom salt dissolved in the water. The plants love it.

Hi Tony, I have Aloe growing in my kitchen window. I use it for burns I suffer while cooking, and it works like magic to ease the pain and blistering. I just squeeze the juice from a leaf on the burn as soon as it happens and it works instantly to sooth the pain! My Mom always had an Aloe plant growing in her kitchen.

Great video. I really appreciate that you moved around a bit instead of carrying the same shot throughout the video to make it more interesting. I'm a new aloe plant owner myself but my Grandmother had them when I was growing up which is what inspired me to have my own.Thank you for all of the information, I seriously need the help. Definitely subscribing!

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Thank you for your help, I've only started succeeding in keeping Aloe alive about2 years ago. I've been doing a couple things you advise not to, although they're doing fine and multiplying a lot. However I suspect they would do even better if I made these improvements. My tips: The gel isn't bitter, it's the aloin from the skin that tastes that way. The gel tastes faintly like greens and just a tiny hint of tartness. They seem to love flourescent light. Final tip: cut off the bottom leaf from time to time and they will grow & multiply faster.

I dropped my phone because of that sound effect for the subscribe.

JUST RECEIVED MY PLANT AS A GIFT 😍🤗 SO HAPPY.

Never had one but just picked up 2 that are grown with pups. So I'm a complete newbie. Thank you for this video 😊

I've grown lots of aloe. In the southwestern US, it spreads like crabgrass. A lot of these tips are misleading. Every thing said in the video will work if you're growing a couple in a flower pot in a window, but that's not enough to do much with. Do not grow it in a little pot. It's not a houseplant, even if that's how they're sold. It spreads through a massive rhizome system. You don't need a deep pot, but it should be wide. a 3x3' bed, 8" deep is perfect. They LOVE full sun. You cannot have too much sun. You can however shock them if they were grown indoors, so harden them off gradually as you would seedlings. Ideal potting mix is 50% vermiculite, 25% sand, 25% compost. Top dress with marble-sized river rock. The deters animals from digging in the loose soil, and helps retain heat near the roots at night, which aids in growth, Fertilizing is primarily minerals. If you have just a few plants , up to about 1000, just use liquid cal-mag with iron twice a year. They're not heavy feeders, and like most desert succulents, they get the majority of their nitrogen from the air. Watering: flood them once a week. Then let dry. You have a draining soil, these plants are adapted to flood/drought cycles. They do not tolerate a hard freeze. A light frost is fine, but if it freezes, it's dead. If you're using it medicinally (burn first aid for example), a dozen plants is fine. If you want it for cosmetic purposes, about 500 plants is the minimum, harvested in their second year. They spread fast under the correct conditions, so you only need to buy one of two plants and can scale up quickly. They are photosensitive in terms of their growth stages. a 12-12 light cycle will keep them spreading, but 18-6 is ideal. In northern latitudes where day length is reduced for much of the year, they will stop spreading until they get their minimum 12 hours of light. They still grow, but it will be top growth, not rhizome growth. Many of the health benefits are over-hyped. There's a lot of research, but health bloggers usually do a shit job at understanding research papers, lol. Almost every plant shows some anti-viral properties, but against which viruses (and do they even affect humans?), and to what extent are they effective. Anti-biotic, sure, as a topical treatment where it creates a physical barrier, but thymol (from thyme, bee balm etc) is a lot more effective... like 100 orders of magnitude more effective. People like to talk about the properties of plants in medicine, but they always neglect scales and measures, which is the most critical part. Pest repellent... No. They're immune to most beetle, slug and snail damage if the plant is healthy. Though agave beetle grubs (the worms in tequila bottles) will hollow them out. In a northern climate, this won't be much of a problem.Their defense is they're hard for an insect to bite into. My favorite use is to grow these like a lawn, and in the second year, till them into soil, incorporating the mucilage to improve water retention and remediate desiccated soil in large areas. In cold climates, obviously this won't work due to frost kill. The other use is as a carrier for IBA (rooting hormone). Mix the powder with the mucilage and rooting gel for a fraction of the price of commercial gels. You can get a product similar to CloneX for 1/10th the price. Mix a teaspoon of IBA into a quart of aloe gel. Fill shot glasses with the rooting gel and cover with plastic wrap.Then poke your cuttings through the plastic wrap and root them in the shot glass with the gel. Things which are notoriously difficult to start from cutting can be done this way.

Thank you sir, for this wonderful video, and the great advice that you've given; God bless you.

What a lovely video. I'm pleased to learn that my aloe is happy. It was a gift to me as a pup who had just been repotted at the beginning of April, and we are now at the beginning of July and I've just noticed another pup just about breaching the soil. This video was great at reassuring me that I'm doing well 😊

We have an aloe plant for a year or so now. It’s got 8-10 leaves and the tallest/longest are about 12+ inches. We have 100°+ days during the summer with relatively low humidity. I water approximately 1/2 cup about every other day to every five days and it seems to be very forgiving in its 8” terra-cotta pot. We will be transplanting it to a bigger pot with better drainage when it starts getting below 80° for the fall. Great video. Thank you!

Hi I have been growing aloe for years. In fact I have over 100 plants. They grow directly into the ground. I never water them. They thrive except for a few whose leaves turn a bit orange near the tips. I use the gel and juice at least a few times a week. I have found that the gel is tasteless.However, you have to make sure that you do not get any green on the gel when you remove it. That is what causes the bitterness. I use the juice for any marks on the skin. Or rub it on any injury. Leaving it on overnight. I also rub it on my face to prevent wrinkles. The gel I place in a glass with a bit of juice and drink it for my health

I've just repotted an aloe that's been sat on a South facing window cill for the last 12 MTHS. Ive ended up repotting 10 plants now. I couldn't believe how many were crammed in the one pot. Two are baby aloes but the rest are between about 4 to 6/7 inches tall. Gave one to my neighbour but still have two many plants now!

My mum always put alao on me if I had a burn or scape, works wonders. I have 2 of my own now taken from my mums which is still going.

Aloe is a skin saver from burns. I've used it for years, but I usually buy a bottle and keep it in the refrigerator. This year I want to try and grow one so I can stop paying for it. Your tips are very helpful, thank you!

I appreciate this video... I have never been able to grow an aloe Vera plant.. I will try again, after watching this video... I subscribed to your channel today🇺🇸

Well said, I have been eating aloe every day for 4 years now, my joints, and hip pain are gone. My skin more moist and no more cracking heels in cold winter weather. It also help with my heart burn. I have 12 plants in my back yard, but they dont grow fast enough for me to consume.

Thank you ! I have my first aloe plant , and I didn't know why it was dying ... It was the soil . I had no clue I have to go change her out . Thank you 😊

Thanks for tips. Over twenty years ago a customer gave me two tiny aloe vera shoots off her plant. I have grown aloe vera ever since. Thanks for the tip about cactus compost I'll try that. I seem to have done most of the things you recommend just by accident! My plants grow in the South window but very high up on the wall near the top of the window - that's to stop my cats from getting at them. I imagine this is giving them semi shade from the lintel. When I was in hospital recently they nearly died. I guess someone, being helpful, over watered them. But I re-potted what was left in new dry soil and eventually they began to sprout again. They are now growing vigorously. Aloe juice is especially useful if you burn or scald yourself. Its affect is almost miraculous!

I love aloe vera as a house plant. This plant has taught me how to care for it after loosing so many. I am doing a lot better. I put a wooden skewer in my pots to use for moisture checks. The tips given are appreciated. Thanks.

For those who can't find catus/succulent compost, here's a few alternatives: Potting mix and perlite - perlite is used for drainage so water isn't kept for too long, it also helps with root stimulation. However, potting mix still is very fine and compact but my other aloe with this mix has done well. I personally use this compost mix I made after the discovery of one more ingredient: -perlite (drainage improvement) -coco coir (helps drainage and provides nutrients, organic most times depends on sources) -potting compost (has a bit of added vermiculite) I use these all together and my aloe has been flourishing. It can be seen as an expensive individual purchase but it should last at least 2yrs unless the aloe has rapid growth and needed more soil!

your passion is contagious

Thank you so much for including closed captioning!

Hi I grow aloe in So California. One tip I have learned over the years using aloe. Finely trim the spike edges and put leaf in a standing cup with a couple inches of water for 10 min. A brownish fluid will drain out, that is toxic. Rinse and use.

You’re so sweet and Informative!! New subby

Thank you great footage..I've been using Aloe vera for years amazing beauty product..new subscriber..stay safe everyone Blessings 🌻

I had one aloe plant and it keep making more and more no I have so many into pots there on my patio and doing really well my patio has direct sunlight for number of hours per day and you are right it does not take a lot of watering they're very green I'm huge thanks for your info have a blessed day

I started having aloe about 7yrs ago. 3 years later, all but one plant had made it. I had no idea how to care for them. mostly I would get a few and give them away as gifts. The ones I kept died. I figured it was from too much water, so I gave them much less water, but still every day! for a long time. the living ones stayed the same size. After repotting one of them, it suddenly got bigger and I still have that one, along with many more. The most important tip you mentioned I think, don't water them often! I love it!

Great video, extremely informative as usual - had to look up inorganic compounds just then. I love this plant and so I found this video very helpful. Also my bucket potatoes are doing great. Thank you :-)

Great channel bro. Just got my Aloe Vera plants today.

Thank you this is the best video I've ever Seen on aloe Vera so far , I look forward to more of your gardening tutorials

thank you very much for sharing your enthusiasm in planting aloe vera... it would be nice to see other variety..to tell us which are the true aloe vera plant...or the best alie to pkant... thank you cery much....

From my experiences growing allow: -Leave them alone -1/2 Dirt, 1/2 potting soil works great -Let them stay root bound -Don't water them. Just let them be outside. I'm in the central US and my just hangs out on my back deck. -If you think it's dead, it's not. You over watered it or aren't giving it proper drainage. Leave it alone. -It doesn't need sandy soil for pots. Just plenty of holes in the bottom.

Another great video Tony. Is it possible to take cuttings etc from the Aloe Vera plants? We have been searching the garden centers but everyone of them have sold out of Aloe Vera plants! My wife got one from one of her friends a few days ago, it's roughly the same size as the one you're holding when you explain about the advantage of the earthenware pots! I have the perfect pot in the greenhouse and it hasn't been used, a brilliant idea thanks. What about adding a pinch of epsom salts to the sandy mix? Would the plant gain anything from the epsom salts? Thanks again Tony👍😆👍BIG THUMBS UP 👍😎👍

Thanks to your tips I have rescued my aloe vera plant. I thought the plant likes sunlight thus had been putting it under the direct sunlight. I live on a tropical island so the sun is really strong and noticed the plant getting weaker each day. I find the information on the benefits of the plant at the beginning of the video useful.

Yes i have a row of Aloe Vera plants 🎉

Thanks for the information in growing Aloe Vera, very helpful. :-)

I currently have three planted in various parts of my garden. They are actually in ground and stay alive all year. Of course, where I am in San Diego, CA, I don’t get frosts so that makes it a little easier. I am looking forward to seeing your future videos on this multipurpose plant.

I love aloe but my last plant died.Beautiful flower garden but couldn' t grow aloe.I now have healthy plants purchased yesterday to start over.I really appreciate your tips! Thank you so much!

The gel from inside of it's leaves is the BEST thing to put on frostbite. Lotion made my frostbite itchy/worse,,, aloe quickly took away all the pain and healed it.

I have one and it's growing nicely. I'm interested in learning tips on how to take better care of it. I did notice that it doesn't like direct sunlight. Thank you for your video

I have half a dozen pots filled with aloe vera plants. My technique? Stick one plant in a pot with soil of any type. Place pot outdoors under a very shady tree. Water a couple of times a week if it's not raining frequently. Put it indoors in the winter to keep it from freezing. In one to two years you will have a pot overflowing with plants. Note the thick shade also has the advantage of keeping a lot of the rainfall off the aloe so it doesn't get too much water. Direct sun seems to be it's worst nightmare.

Hello Tony: Thank you so much for your wonderful video. I love how you speak clearly, not rushed and are very informative. I can follow everything you say and will be able to remember it. I look forward to getting more of your videos.

Grew almost 100 Aloe plants a few years ago. Whenever I'd pot the "pups" up, I'd usually do it in our Autumn in Australia and give the plants a good soak in liquid fertiliser before putting them in a new pot.

Thanks I certainly will be looking for it.

This is a great vid + you have a soothing voice + your grapes look amazing, thank you

Great video!

You are my aloevera savior thank you very very much for your videos... I really love planting and i only have one plant in a pot...i want to make it grow faster grow more...

Did you know the aloe plants only flower every seven years or so? A lovely sight to see.

I just started using it for my hair. I am looking for information to start growing my own aloe vera plant.

Nice! I have a little aloe farm as a result of one plant propagation over 2 years! Highly recommend Aloe gel with coconut water first thing in the morning, high energetic and cleansing :) GREAT video - thank you.

Thank you sooooo much for finally steering me right about Aloe Vera plants, i could never grow one and i love them so much now off to buy one,thank you!

I have Aloe vera plants in home thanks for the tips how to takecare of them

I've never grown Aloe myself but might start with a couple of plants next year.

Very useful, thanks.🙂

Aloha from Hawaii! I'm a new soap maker, and my grandma's garden (mostly flowers and ti leaf) has multiple Aloe overgrowing their pots and tipping over. She's in her late 90's and hasn't been able to keep up her garden (I've recently become her full-time caretaker). It didn't make a dent in her aloe collection, but I used a leaf to make soap, and plan to make more. I do not have a green thumb, but I'm working on it. I would really love to be able to give her garden a lot of TLC and get those Aloe plants sorted. Any tips on how to trim the plants down and if I can repot them safely?

Hi I’m Jimmy from Canada Thank you for your help This is my first Ahloa Vera plant

Aloe thrives on near neglect. You don't have to do much

I have never grown aloe vera before, this is the first time I have bought a plant. Good info!

Not sure if it was a different strain or if I was extremely lucky but we had about 40 square feet of aloe growing around the outside of the house in Florida’s direct sunlight and sandy coral soil. I’m about to try and do the same in Guam.

I use it on insect bites and it stops the itching immediately.

tips starts at 3:00 by the way focus on the tips in growing aloe as per video title. not everything about aloe.

I just bought two last week and it's growing fast....l place them by ny bedroom window...now I gotta move them I think its hitting the glass...Thank you for your knowledge on theses plants helps indeed

When pruning use aloe vera on the cuts to protect the tree from infection. Also as a rooting hormone. I have used it for air layering too.

I have one in a large glass pot full of bark chips no soil or additives.gets watered when someone remembers & it grows like mad so much so I’m about to separate it into more pots

If you want to eventually ingest your aloe (aloe water), do I need to plant in organic soil, organic feed...? Can I use regular cactus soil, Thanks!

I have two now and I love them so much I want to gift 🎁😩 them to my loved ones 😍from now on especially if you don't have a green thumb this is a great way to finding your green thumb with this plant here🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🐛🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🦋🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🍃

I grow aloe in Albuquerque NM. I don't have a terracotta pot so I put a brick in the bottom of the planter to help stabilize it. Thanks

Thank you i for the info i just bought my first 2 aloe vera plants yesterday. subbed and liked your channel :)

Thank you for the tip My Aloe grew tall and drying a d sported I didn't know what to do PLEASE help Thank you

Im now growing aloe plant so the tips are doing wonders for me thanks alot.

I’ve one that was only watered about 4 times in 3 years as was in my old bedroom. Was still living!! Don’t get me wrong it looked sorry for itself but still alive. Took it to my own house took parts off it and made new plant now it’s thriving. Very easy to keep. Neglect is near ideal for it.

''aloe does not like direct sunlight'',mine is placed exactly where the sun is. lol

I recently put 3 plants in the ground but will have to move to pots. The rabbits have nearly eaten them all.

First time for growing aloe video was very helpful thank you

I recently got a medium sized aloe and that was also top heavy. I've put it in a reduced price pot that is frost proof. Really heavy and that's stopped it tipping over. Something I saw on other videos is that growers in warm countries recommend chopping banana skins into strips and putting layers of that in with the cactus potting mix. Apparently it makes the plants grow a lot. Have to wait and see...

Great video Tony :) I've heard that the older leaves tend to be less bitter if you wish to eat them. Virtually tasteless if you just scoop out the gel inside. I didn't realise before that they can actually turn in to some pretty impressive trees in the right conditions. I'm not sure if all varieties do, but if you've never seen them it's certainly worth a google! You mentioned insecticides in the video - this is a bit off topic, but something I've been curious about - Why is Spinosad not popular/available in the UK? From what I can tell it is legal (approved by the EU) but it just doesn't seem to be around. I've actually heard stories of it being confiscated at customs though, so I'm really not sure on its status. I ask as the Americans love it and with good reason, it's an organic bacteria that absolutely wipes out pests - stronger than anything else available to the public IMO. The major drawback to it (and I'm assuming maybe the reason it's not available in the UK???) is that it's pretty bad for bees, so can't be used at specific times of the year. Just wondering if you knew anything about it or its legal status? Here's a quick wiki quote for you if you're not familiar with it: "Spinosad has high efficacy, a broad insect pest spectrum, low mammalian toxicity, and a good environmental profile, a unique feature of the insecticide compared to others currently used for the protection of grain products.[5] It is regarded as natural product-based, and approved for use in organic agriculture by numerous national and international certifications."

I tried to grow it but once I harvested it, it just didn't look good anymore. How do you harvest it and can you root cuttings from it?

Beautiful grape vine. Very nice greenhouse.

I love my Barbadensis Aloe. Thanx for sharing your knowledge 👍

I just made soap got see how good it work.

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Hi , another tip I’ve learned is , if you rinse the gel, and get the yellow goop off of it , use the gel on your family s skin as a natural sun screen , That way you won’t put harmful chemicals on your children’s skin , also I blend it with alcohol and a nice essential oil, to make my own antibacterial hand cleaner , carry that in your purse or car , , love your videos! Take care

Been growing aloe for 10 years now. It's a wonderful plant. I got overrun by it at one point, had 3 10 litre pots chocked full!!! They really are rewarding for such undemanding plants. Every home needs a pot of it 😁

I've come to the conclusion that Aloe Vera are trying to take over the world. My workmate gave me some pups at the beginning of the year, some grew, some died. I put one large pup in a pot too big for it and a couple of other pups in reasonably sized pot. All of them are growing pups, all have roots growing out of the bottom of the pot. I'm running out of space and people to give them to. I think next year will be a "free to a good home" situation. They are taking over the world, tell every...*muffled screams of terror*

Thanks for all your info. Enjoyed it

Hallo I am from Canada and I do have a plant and it did have a popand it very nice to have in my home

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