Planting Aloe Vera From Leaf Cuttings 

There are so many videos in RU-vid showing you how to plant Aloe Vera from a leaf cutting but never showed the results. The reason why they didn't show it because it didn't work. Aloe Vera do not grow from a leaf cutting unlike other succulents. You cannot plant Aloe Vera from a leaf cutting. There are so many other videos about Aloe Vera on RU-vid that is not true and I want to let people know that truth.

Well I just did exactly what you did with a leaf. The difference is that I allowed the cut portions to form a callous for a couple of days before planting. I also did not over water which it looks like you might have done in order for the leaves to rot. I am grateful to all the videos that taught me how to do this as I did not want to have to pay for a plant. My leaf cuttings rooted and grew.

I hate when people lie for attention online. You've just earned my respect for debunking this myth.

There are many people doing fake things to increase their views. I sincerely appreciate your work man.. 👏

So glad I found you on here, was just going to cut up a leaf to help root my sage cuttings. Thank you for showing us, your a very nice person. "Respect". Love from Alberta Canada.

Although I have quite enough time on my hands these days, I thank you for not letting me waste it on bs

Wow! I am growing my first aloe vera that I received as gift from someone. I am learning a lot. Thank you!

A lot of respect for this.. 🙌🏾 saved me doing an unsuccessful experiment 😌

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They’re suppose to be 2-3 inch whole leafs. Dried for 2-3 days after cutting then planted in the appropriate soil. You practically butchered the plant into small pieces and then threw them in a pot immediately after with no protection. Of course these failed. They were dead before they hit the soil.

This genuine video earned you a subscriber.

5 minute crafts fooled us

I appreciate Ur sincerity

Only u r showing the reality... thnxxx a lot....

I had also tried to grow Aloe Vera with this trick, but could not get it, even the leaf which was planted by demanding from someone got spoiled. I thought maybe I had made some mistake, But after watching your video came to know that it doesn't really grow like this. Thanku so much for clear my doubt 😘😘😘

Excellent video. One of the things you CAN do with those cuttings is use them as healthy fertilizer by putting them in the potting soil, just below the roots, of newly potted/planted aloes (or even other plants). Those cuttings will work their healing/growing magic.✌

I appreciate your honesty and sincerity 😘😘😘

Well I'm glad I watch you first before getting it in my head that this works!

When people say to plant leaf cuttings, they don't mean cut the leaf in chunks though, they mean take a leaf off, dry the end that you broke off & plant the one end with the leaf still whole

Omg You have a whole nursery of Aloe Vera. Wow! Just Wow!

When I was in 6th standard I did it .. My friend. Told me this but aloe vera didn't grew up ☺️ .ur vedio is v good ...u never gives the fake news 😁

My theory is that the both ends should not be exposed because that will increase the bacteria but if the other thing is done it might be possible,because I saw one video that actually showed the end result.

In any good succulent propagation video, they'll tell you to let the cutting wound callous over before planting to prevent the cuttings from rotting. Or leave the cutting laying on the dry dirt and let it throw roots down when it gets to that point.

Thanks for making this video! Why do people make up lies about cuttings in the first place? I’m not an aloe expert at all but I’ve found growing pups the EASIEST thing ever, even a noob like me could make a pup video, they could just make a video on that instead of lying to people.

LOL and I thought my mom was crazy thinking small cuttings would grow. She was right 🌱🌱

You shouldn't directly put the freshly cut plant in soil, you should let the cut form a callus for a week, then u put it in the soil (of course an appropriate soil mixture) But thanks for the video, I know what not to do now👍

The leaf propagation is not done like this, atleast in many videos that I have watched. Cacti can be leaf propagated, but aloe with its high moisture can lead to rotting. So one long leaf is trimmed at one end only and it is dried well before planting to prevent rotting. I guess I'll have to try myself for once to know the truth. It takes a month. Pup propagation is definitely faster. Btw How much time does it take for a pup to appear?

Just got an aloe plant yesterday! 🥺💚 I’m so excited to be a plant mom now

I have tried at home 1 year back. I planted the entire leaf. It really worked.

Apparently you have to dry the cuttings for a few days before putting them in the soil because the extreme amount of water in the leaves leads them to rot very easily. Testing this theory out myself, still waiting to see results but at least there's no rot yet!

I'm still thinking how to plant aloe vera perfectly with showing results 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Yeah thats what I thought. Because I grow aloe to eat and after a day in. The fridge it starts looking wilty

I haven't tried it myself yet, but another video said exactly what you showed here: the leaves will rott if you put them in soil directly after cutting. According to the other video, you should let the leave drie for 2-4 days, and they put it in soil.

The video is exactly as described, cannot argue that much. If any attention at all is given to this video I'd say people all around the world will not be standing aloe leaves in soil to watch wilt away and die as if they are clueless and hopefully tell others what they learned from this video. Saving a plant from a harsh ending is the goal to have

Amazing u have some many aloevera plants it's really looks beautiful garden of aloevera plants 😍😍and really thanks for ur honesty and work 👍👍👍

Try leave the cuts in a shady place with good light where they can callus that will stop them from rotting at the base two days in a dry cool place is good.try use less nutrient rich soil as there will be less bacterial activity I use river sand with a tiny bit of a clay rich soil if any as plants don't use nutrients from the soil to make their first roots .a pot of dark rich soil is basically a mini compost heap so it will generally do its job and make the planted side rot out .lower light for leaf cuts is best the redining of the aloes leaves is from intense sun they don't need very much energy to create roots so it puts more stress on the plant if they get too much sun.try minimise direct sun during the heat of the day.callussing is best with most succulents and cacti I know loads of species root without callusing first but with more difficult species it's the difference between success and failure often.I also use a extremely sharp thin blade if doing leaf cuts if it's not a perfect surgical cut they will generally rot out with more difficult leaf cuttings. That being said I find aloe vera to multiply so fast that leaf cuts aren't really worth it if you have a decent amount of space it's much faster to just remove babies and pot them out in good conditions. you should get a bunch of babies starting within the first season even on small aloes.hope this helps

Wow! You have so many aloe vera plants. Amazing.

Thank you for sharing cutting alovera plants

I also did this . I don't know why people have to lie. Thanks for debuking this .

Mi papa sembro una hoja igual pero después de varios meses realmente ya están saliendo unos hijuelos y eso que casi no lo riego. Están hermosos 💜

My aloe dies through the cold that went through Texas, I'm so sad 😭 Now I have to grow new ones!

This has been really helpful. As suspected you video shows what I have been experiencing. Thank you for honest report.

Wow 😰😰 your garden is so so nice.I like it.😍😍😘😘👍👌

Are you serious? I feel like you did everything in the experiment deliberately wrong for it to fail. Cutting aloe leaves to small pieces and then planting them in soil immediately will of course result in rot. You need to cut a long enough portion of the leaf and not cut it into multiple pieces, then you need to let it callus over for at least a week and a half, then plant them in soil and water after two weeks. I have had success multiple times propagating Aloe vera this way.

Wow so sweet garden

Thank you for it scratching that one BLOODY itching part I’ve had for years. Thank you.

Thanks for saving us the trouble

i like aloe vera so much it can help our hair to grow beautiful and shiny and also this is a lucky plant thanks for sharing see you god bless

I had many by root itself the spreading & I have separated .I just bought 1 Aloe vera plant now I have 5 Aloe vera plants. 😄🤭

I have seen it work. Soil needs to be sandier. Let the leaf scab over before planting. And it needs to be a complete leaf. Not cut into little sections. It however has a low success rate starting like this.

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I suspected they wouldn’t grow but not sure why. Thanks for the vid. Found a separate new growth from my plant in the soil , took it out fully (a very smol leaf including smol root), repotted it. It’s now a happy separate plant in my sister’s house. I haven’t seen one since. I’ve had to move and my plant is too big to take on public transport. So it lives at my parents. I’ve told them to watch out for a new growth. I had no clue what I was doing. I just saw it and because it had a root i knew it would survive and my sister likes to garden (I just prefer to read about gardening sometimes). Subbing anyway. :D

I gave up on a snake plant (planted by the same method). Then grew another from the same method. It went completely brown but it did grow out roots after MONTHS. It took like WAYYY LONGER than a regular planting would take & for a long time it looked dead too. So MAYBE it's possible that if u gave it more time, the planting MIGHT have turned out successful. I am not an expert lmao, but u get the point 😂😂 Fellow plant lovers don't give up on your plants untill the very end. You put in so much efforts, have patience & put some more :)))

Wow so beautiful aloe Vera plants i like it really so superb

I Like your Video on aloe vera plants! Can Aloe vera be propagate and How

Thank you sir! I will try this this weekend. Hoping for the same results.

Do you think if you left the cutting out for a few days to a week if the ends would callus off and prevent rotting? That’s what I do with my dragon fruit cuttings

OMG ijust trying this morning...when i wacthing this video The results make me want to cry & laugh in the same time .cos my mom already told me but i cant believed 😅

Ive never tried but i would take 1 cuting per sten and leave the top on. Keep them most and protected from full light

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Ohh😂😂I tried with whole leaves.. The leaves remained fresh for 2 months (winter) but nothing further happened 💔 so I discarded them and plant germanium in that pot😇

I have had people tell me this too and I always wondered why you would bother as they make babies so efficiently anyways.

Thank you. I get so sick of people posting how to videos that are incorrect. I have stopped watching a lot of RU-vid because I am sick of wasting my time going through video after video of bad information. Thanks for posting the truth.

I tried this method it works . You have to let it for 2to3 weeks

Yes sir the same thing happened to me also.... now its clear

Круто! Честное видео убережëт многих от ошибок. Спасибо!

Nice plant lagana ka tarika 👌👌

You need to wait for the cuttings to callous over first before you place them in soil. If you plant any succulent cutting in soil before drying out the ends they will rot. That is why this attempt at planting Aloe Vera cuttings did not work.

No, You can't. You need to take a while leaf, leave it out in the sun for the end to stay so it *doesn't* toy, then plant it in soil and water it for a month before seeing the roots grow

Thanks I saw a video like that and was a little skeptical, but because I’m so new plants I figured they knew something I didn’t.

Then can u tell how to grow them?

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You're supposed to let it callus for at least a week... Try it again.

Buen vídeo y bonito LIKE

Thanks sach bolne k liye bhot log jhoot bolte h ki grow hoga

Thank you for the honesty.

First, let the plant cuttings dry so they don't rot. Afterwards, you can add rooting powder to the soil to encourage growth and cover with plastic film to create a warm environment. Make sure to not make it too humid as Aloe Vera is a succulent and requires very little humidity.

Nice video Thanks for showing the reality

Thank you

Thanks ❤️😁😂 , I love such honesty.

Thank u for this because I was wondering if I did something wrong

Your Aloe vera it's so Nice Amazing Good

Very Nice vidéo thank you for sharing

hi! Dear friends! Thank you for the wonderful video from start to finish! 🤗💖👍 How to plant aloe should be easy to understand🌿

Exactly u r absolutely right

Wow this is one of the most wonderful videos

It definitely didn't work for me either when I did it😢 that's what I get for listening to people online!

This works but is a rare chance for them to make roots. You first need to let the cut area of the leaf to dry.

Thank you so much sir👍

I just planted 2 leafs in my patio , , I’ll let you know in a week or so

Thanks for saving my time and efforts

You can't cut them into lil pieces and just stick them in dirt they have to have the tips on them and you have to let them sit out and dry up a lil for a few days

That happened because the bottoms weren’t allowed to callus over like when propagating other succulents. Any root cutting will rot if potted up with the base of the plats still moist.

Such beautiful video

What a nice plants

Your plants are so beautiful!

When doing leaf cuttings, aren't we supposed to plant the entire leaf? I haven't seen anyone cut leaves like this.

In India you can easily grow Aloe Vera from leaf cuttings. I have grown it myself. just pushed it in the ground and it grew.

Yo compré una maceta de aloe vera, y de pronto, le crecieron muchos hijitos y realmente no me doy a basto para plantar los nuevos hijos en diferentes macetas. Son muchas plantas de aloe vera que se reprodujeron. Para que gastar energìa intentando hacer crecer aloes de hojas cortadas. Tan solamente invierte comprando una buena maceta de aloe vera de una vez por todas. 🌵🌵🌵