Re:aloe plant

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Ed, if you put the plant in a pot with

a hole in it, and put it in a saucer, the water

won't run out, but it will drain into the saucer.

Your aloe plant is getting root rot, and the

wetter it stays, the more the roots rot. If it has

its feet, so to speak, in the rocks where the

water pools, it is too much. Aloe is a desert

plant and needs very little water or attention

to thrive. Re-pot it in a sandy soil mixture - primarily sand - with a

little bit of

humus, in a pot that drains, and put it in the

sun. Then forget about it.

 

Lil

 

 

Re: question for ya'll

 

I can't have a hole letting the water run out, it would run out all

over everything. The plant has done well by watering every couple of

weeks. Soaking it. It sometimes does lose " turgidity " but never has

actually been floppy. It looks weak in its coloring though. Bottom of

pot has rocks in it. It is a fairly large pot. When I've watered it

more often it does worse. It is a plant with many shoots but nothing

every gets large.

 

Ed