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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 18:12:00 GMT
I keep an aloe plant for a quick fix for sunburn or minor burns. My dog knocked one of the long leaves off and I'd like to keep/preserve the gel out of it. So far I've scooped and scraped it into a half pint jar. There is a little bit of green in it and the liquidy part is resting around the thicker, more solid part. Where do I go from there? Do I need to strain it or refrigerate it? How long will it keep? Any other uses for it? So many questions!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 22:29:51 GMT
You know, tojo66 I've never thought about that before, but they sell aloe in bottles so there must be a way to save it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 22:52:31 GMT
Can't you propagate it by putting it cut side down in moist soil?
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Post by wolfmom on Apr 2, 2015 23:05:23 GMT
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Post by wolfmom on Apr 2, 2015 23:05:46 GMT
woops - double post.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 15:10:12 GMT
Sweet! That's exactly how I did it! Thanks for the link!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2015 15:13:05 GMT
Can't you propagate it by putting it cut side down in moist soil? Hmmm. Possibly. This one has been multiplying all by itself all winter. It's got so big and heavy and the pot is way overloaded so I'm going to try separating it as soon as I can get DH to carry it to the potting table.
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Post by Callie on Apr 4, 2015 0:00:10 GMT
I'd like to have an aloe vera plant. Where do you get them? I've never seen them for sale anywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 0:17:14 GMT
Can't you propagate it by putting it cut side down in moist soil? Yea, my wife has done that many times, it works great.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 0:18:54 GMT
I'd like to have an aloe vera plant. Where do you get them? I've never seen them for sale anywhere. Not sure about your area but Home Depot's garden dept. here has them.
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Post by Callie on Apr 4, 2015 13:23:42 GMT
Well, we just happen to have a Home Depot....I'll check and see what they have. I assume they don't have them out yet or are the in with the house plants?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 14:03:40 GMT
With the house plants.
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Post by Callie on Apr 4, 2015 18:49:24 GMT
I never look at house plants....I kill them too fast. My indoor plants are artificial. It's a secret....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 20:03:44 GMT
I'd like to have an aloe vera plant. Where do you get them? I've never seen them for sale anywhere. I got mine in the houseplant section at Lowe's last Spring. It was about 5 inches tall at the center. I had to re-pot it in the summer and fall. I put it in a corner over the winter and just left it alone, didn't even water it. That thing just won't die! Now it is about 2 feet long in the center and I've just re-potted 10 shoots off of it with 5 more to go. All of the shoots are bigger than the original plant. I hope all my relatives don't mind getting Aloe Vera plants for Christmas!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 20:50:52 GMT
A friend, whose husband has a greenhouse, gifted me with the most enormous aloe plant I've ever seen! It's a good 18" tall, and the pot/plant are HEAVY.
It's pupped a few times, and I keep doing my best to not kill it.
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Post by Rustaholic on Apr 6, 2015 20:53:46 GMT
I'd like to have an aloe vera plant. Where do you get them? I've never seen them for sale anywhere. I got mine in the houseplant section at Lowe's last Spring. It was about 5 inches tall at the center. I had to re-pot it in the summer and fall. I put it in a corner over the winter and just left it alone, didn't even water it. That thing just won't die! Now it is about 2 feet long in the center and I've just re-potted 10 shoots off of it with 5 more to go. All of the shoots are bigger than the original plant. I hope all my relatives don't mind getting Aloe Vera plants for Christmas! We used to kill any house plant that happened to land in our house. Aloe Vera is just so easy that is what got me started. I just ignored my first one until it started to get brown spots then dumped in a glass of water. Soon I got to where I would notice the ?leaves? getting thin and knew it was time for water. That letting it get dry then watering it is like what happens in nature so what did it do? It made babies like crazy. After that first winter we un-potted it and put 70 small ones in large Styrofoam cups and gave them to my sister who was part of the local rose group and they were having a plant sale. Now we have a very old plant that just has so much character I love it. Next after I mastered the Aloe my mother gave me a Philodendron in a self watering pot and it was hanging in a corner of our living room. She was having problems with it so she let me have it. It grew like crazy for me. She had been watering it too often and pouring it in the top like the rest of her plants. I was just putting the water in the hole on the side so all of the water the plant got was sucked up the wick. Next thing I knew I had hangers every where because it was trailing all around our living room. I gave it back to Mom but not until I cut it back. Just one part I cut off I had been looping around several hangers so I took it out to the driveway and it was 70 feet long. Now I am honored to be the keeper of my G.G. Grandmother's Coleus. It is not like any we can find. Mom used to always keep it going by starting a shoot in water until it formed roots. She lost hers so I had to make one for her so I have the longest line now.
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Post by Callie on Apr 6, 2015 21:15:43 GMT
Nice...I hope they have some there though I bet it's a bit too early for anything that needs heat.
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Post by TommyIce on Apr 7, 2015 14:13:40 GMT
I got mine at CVS. LOL It was the last one and looked so sad--kinda like a Charlie Brown Aloe plant. It has gotten bigger but no babies
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Post by Callie on Apr 7, 2015 16:10:46 GMT
I actually found some at our Meijer store! There were two of them in clay pots way down on the very bottom behind some flowering things. I had to buy both since they looked like they were such good friends. Now to figure out how to keep them alive. House plants are my greatest talent.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2015 17:46:27 GMT
I love Aloe. I got 2 shoots from the country club where my sister worked 4 yrs ago. The parent plant was huge and falling out of its pot. Everyone ignored it and it only got watered occasionally. Anyway I took those 2 shoots and they have multiplied many, many times over. More you ignore it, the better it does.
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