A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 aloe vera plant

Sandy, I don't think you can split an aloe. I believe you need to wait until it has babies.

myndful how can i tell when it has a baby

It will look like a smaller version of your aloe.

http://www.soulfly.dds.nl/pics/babies.jpg

thank u no mines do not have babies yet but thank u for showing me what to look for

i was walking through the wildy near my church and when i got to this shrine mabye.. 100 yards off. on two sides of the mound there is a incline and decline like a upside down V. I was walking on the side facing out, and i looked down and saw aRED ALOE VERA plant< it was exactly like a aloe vera plant, i know cause i have one. so i look to both sides and theres 15-25 of them. i researched them for an hour and a half and couldn't find it. is it a new species?
can you tee me what it is?

i won't be here after 6. im camping there. i'll take a pict of it.

Yes, we'll need a pic, or several pics! I look forward to seeing them.

kk im going to post by 7:00. they look soooo beutiful and there are so many baby ones

im gonna quickly ride home and post them when i get there.

i would love to see those pictures as well

I wonder what happened to TheSimpleGardener?

he/she is camping for the weekend. guess they ended up not having time to post a pic before going off for the weekend.

im back, posting them right now.

clicked it and it froze.

I too have an aloe Vera plant and mine had a baby as well. I love my plant and I know it is time yet again to transplant mine into even a bigger pot, however my window isn't big enough so it probally wouldn't get enough light. I need a solarium but their kind of expensive. My husband hates my aloe Vera plant and every chance he gets he complains about it, then before I know it a piece has been bent or broken off. My daughter when I first got my plant decided she would puncture it with her fingernails. Fortunately it healed itself well. Funny cause now she has the offshoot to the plant. From time to time my husband still says that it is one ugly plant. To bad for him. I told him its my baby and if he hurts it, I'll take it out on one of his plants. He didn't seem to like that. So now I think we've come to an understanding.

Try going to walmart are a lowes store u should find one there GL on finding one
Bettyboop1948

here they are
http://s159.photobucket.com/albums/t130/shinkinkoff/

the picts that i took while camping

Not aloe vera. There are over 450 species of aloe. I'll look more later. Here are some places for you to look:
http://www.aloestudies.org/
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/plants/Asphodelaceae/Aloe.html
http://translate.google.com/transla...%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG
Have fun and good luck!

Help me, Jiffy! How do I make nice links?

nothing wrong with your links margaret! they work just fine!! and some pretty darn informative links they are, too!!!

thanks for posting them!!

those are some nice pics and some good info links