AloeHoarder

Aloe x commutata plants available. Listing is for one, but I have several.

https://ko-fi.com/s/eab3f56d20

Aloe x commutata hybrid plant 5” pot - aloehoarder's Ko-fi Shop You will receive the plant shown in the photos in a 5” pot...will be shipped without the pot. commutata is thought to be a hybrid between maculata and...

What to do when your Aloe looks like this 👇

the frog fruit is finally taking over the lawn in the back, if we weren’t renting I’d put it out front too (may do it anyway 👀..)
the bees & butterflies are happy!

Aloe combo pot…vandermerwei, Swordfish & ciliaris

Your plant does not hate the sun, you just need to acclimate it properly 👍

Since it’s “I put my indoor Aloe out in the yard bc it’s warm now & I heard they like a lot of sun, but now I’m panicking that it looks awful all the sudden” season -

ACCLIMATE YOUR PLANTS PLEASE! Yes, they do actually like a lot of sun…but going from indoors straight to full sun outdoors is too much of a change. And the lack of acclimation is the problem, not the sun itself. Start off in the shade, work up to more & more real sun over at least a couple weeks. And even when you do acclimate slowly, they may still turn a little brown…but don’t let people that have floppy pale green Aloes (the ones that insist they hate direct sun & their indirect light plant is *thriving*) persuade you that they don’t like sun and that the brown means it’s “too much”. It doesn’t. Leave your plant alone, maybe give a good drench occasionally but that’s it..just let them adjust to the change in environment. They will be FINE. And eventually you’ll have a healthier Aloe because it’s getting adequate light, even if it’s only in the warmer months. Use grow lights if they have to be indoors in the winter and that will help.

Patchy bleached spots are sunburn or edema, brown that is spotty is fungal or from something like thrips. Solid brown like a tan is a temporary, nonharmful stress color. Clearish brown is rot. Not all “still green” Aloes are healthy.

sharing again ⬇️

If your answer to all those posts that ask what plant you have given up on, or just can’t grow even though everyone says they’re so easy is “Aloes”…it’s not your fault you can’t grow them, most of the common care advice for Aloes is just plain wrong and that’s what is killing your plant(s).

They do not hate direct sun, they are partial to full sun plants and tend to etiolate indoors without enough light. That makes them weaker and more susceptible to rot (and easier to burn if you don’t acclimate them properly to more light.) Brown is not sunburn…pale, droopy Aloe vera plants with long, top heavy stems are etiolated. Those lanky indoor Aloes are not thriving just because they are still green!

They don’t hate water, they hate poor draining soil that stays damp too long after they get watered. This doesn’t allow for healthy root growth, which also leads to rot (especially for weak, etiolated plants.) Don’t water on a schedule, and “water when the soil is dry” isn’t very good advise either.

More in the 🔗 below…

another NOID Aloe…I’m hoping this one is ‘Moonglow’