I was given two aloe vera cuttings (rooted) and have inserted them in pots
but I don't know the watering requirements. One appears to be failing and
the other is surviving. Can someone give me some advice please?

"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:52:24 +0100, "Nomad"
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I was given two aloe vera cuttings (rooted) and have inserted them in pots
but I don't know the watering requirements. One appears to be failing and
the other is surviving. Can someone give me some advice please?

Aloes are succulents and are adapted to hot dry climates with low
rainfall, a bit like cacti. They like a gritty, well drained compost
and plenty of sunshine. With one possible exception (Aloe Striatula),
they won't take frost. Over-watering can easily rot the roots. I would
water them say once per fortnight in the summer months, hardly at all
from October to March. Feed with a cactus fertiliser occasionally.

Many Thanks.

We have quite a few in our house, and found out that they don't do well with too much direct sunlight, but do need a light environment. And Chris is right, they don't like to be over-watered. Once a week is plenty.

I have done some research as I bought one a couple of weeks ago and agree with the previous responses.

I've heard that they're difficult to kill. I read somewhere that someone left theirs for a month and it was healthy again when they started looking after it. If they're not getting enough water, they will begin to shrivel. Let the soil dry out, then wait a couple of days before watering. Water a little once a week in spring-summer. Water once a fortnight in winter.

Don't keep them in strong sunlight. If you want to repot, use a sandy soil or cactus soil. I think you only need to repot when it becomes top-heavy, or move it up a size once a year.

Mine is growing a new leaf, and it seems to be growing just over an inch a week. I notice it getting longer slightly every day.

I was wrong about moving it up a size every year.

This site is helpful:

The Herb Gardener: Propagate Aloe Vera

"BlackThumb" wrote in message
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Hello,

I bought some pumpkin seeds, forgetting that my mum is already going to
grow vegetables in the garden.

I was wondering if they could be grown in pots? It seems that you can,
going by websites, but not much information is given, so I was hoping
for a better opinion.

Thank you!


Can be done in a big pot but may not be particularly successful - we grew
one plant last year but only got very small pumpkins.
Probably lack of proper feeding but they do require a lot of food.

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On Apr 4, 11:50*am, BlackThumb wrote:
Hello,

I bought some pumpkin seeds, forgetting that my mum is already going to
grow vegetables in the garden.

I was wondering if they could be grown in pots? It seems that you can,
going by websites, but not much information is given, so I was hoping
for a better opinion.

Thank you!

--
BlackThumb


Yes you can, a biggish one though. Bucket size minimum.
Hardly worth the trouble.They take up a lot of space and have no taste
at all which is why people turn them into Halloween heads.

Big ones are mostly hollow anyway.

Thankyou. I'm not sure how my thread got merged with this one though

How big were your containers/pots and how many seeds did you put in each?

I was thinking of trying with an organic fertiliser (maybe chicken manure). Do you think that would work?

On 2012-04-04, David WE Roberts wrote:


"BlackThumb" wrote in message
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Hello,

I bought some pumpkin seeds, forgetting that my mum is already going to
grow vegetables in the garden.

I was wondering if they could be grown in pots? It seems that you can,
going by websites, but not much information is given, so I was hoping
for a better opinion.

Can be done in a big pot but may not be particularly successful - we grew
one plant last year but only got very small pumpkins.
Probably lack of proper feeding but they do require a lot of food.

We grew some pumpkin plants in a container last year. The first batch
of seedlings got slugged, so the second batch started a bit late in
the season. We ended up with one pumpkin which looked like a marrow
on the outside (although it was orange inside). I'm planning to try
again though.

That's a shame they didn't work out. I guess I won't be able to grow them. I'll see if a friend has space to plant them.

Aloe Vera have a great plant. It have many hidden benefits. It use it on face before go to sleep then it protect skin from many germs and diseases. It help to reduce or remove pimple, dumps, eyes darkness and improve skin shinning.

On 2012-04-05, BlackThumb wrote:

'Adam Funk[_3_ Wrote:
;955109']On 2012-04-04, David WE Roberts wrote:
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"BlackThumb" wrote in message
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Hello,

I bought some pumpkin seeds, forgetting that my mum is already going
to
grow vegetables in the garden.

I was wondering if they could be grown in pots? It seems that you can,
going by websites, but not much information is given, so I was hoping
for a better opinion.--
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Can be done in a big pot but may not be particularly successful - we
grew
one plant last year but only got very small pumpkins.
Probably lack of proper feeding but they do require a lot of food.-

We grew some pumpkin plants in a container last year. The first batch
of seedlings got slugged, so the second batch started a bit late in
the season. We ended up with one pumpkin which looked like a marrow
on the outside (although it was orange inside). I'm planning to try
again though.

That's a shame they didn't work out. I guess I won't be able to grow
them. I'll see if a friend has space to plant them.

Well, I think they would've worked better if we had taken better
anti-slug precautions. (I'm planning to use Growing Success pellets
more diligently this year before the first Nemaslug delivery.)

However, I have seen warnings in gardening books that pumpkins are
picky about containers (ISTR they need larger ones than you would
expect), although we have more success for vegetables generally in
containers than in the ground.

Thank you for your replies regarding the pumpkin seeds. I'll have to find someone to give them to. Maybe next year!

Regarding the thread topic (I'm not sure how it got merged lol). Does anyone know how long it takes for an aloe vera plant to start growing a pup? I got one a week or two ago and transplanted it to a slightly larger pot. it's still growing. It's about 1 foot high, with the bottom leaf being a bit over 1 foot.

It'll take a year or two for the aloe to start producing pups, though yours sound large enough.

Gardenbanter is a website which posts to a newsgroup and copies posts from the newsgroup. Because it isn't a newsgroup reader as such, it finds it difficult to keep to the threading and often gets its threads mixed up. If you read the newgroups direct you shouldn't have the problem.

Thank you for your reply!

Sorry, I didn't write my question well. The plant which I have is what I bought. I meant transplanted as in that's all I've done to it. (It hasn't produced pups, and I bought it at the size it is). Should I expect to see pups growing this spring/summer then? I would love to grow more!