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Taking Care of Ourselves - Aloe Vera Plant Care
A Practical Tip/Solution - When You Post Questions on My Site
I Recommend - Rescue Ignored Aloe Vera Plants
Contact & Policies

Vol. 6 #63 February 6, 2017

Taking Care of Ourselves - Aloe Vera Plant Care
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Aloe vera plant care questions come to me via my website. Questions like, "Can you freeze aloe vera?"or, "How to rescue a nearly dead aloe plant?"

Some people do freeze their aloe vera, but my first experiences were not so pleasant, so I've discouraged it. However, I decided to research this more carefully and make sure I have all the facts straight. Then I put a page on my website that explained my discoveries.

In fact, I've created a hub-page on which I place links to all the other pages that answer aloe vera plant care questions. It is;
Plant Care

However, I have several other pages on which I provide opportunity to ask questions. If I provide complete links here, this email will be filtered out as spam, so I will give you the page topics, and trust you to find them via the menu on the left, or the sitemap page. You can ask questions, or provide information, and photos also, on these pages.
Aloe Vera FAQ
Aloe Vera the Burn Plant
Identify Aloe Vera Types of Plants
Photos of Aloe Plants and Trees

Here are a few examples of questions asked me about aloe vera plant care - and my answers;

One visitor wrote about her aloe vera plant rescue.
"I rescued my aloe plant from one of my neighbors; it was half dead and nearly dried out! It's been close to a week and a half or so, and I managed to revive my plant %100.

I've been reading on your website, and I'm worried I might make a mistake? I've got my plant sitting in the bottom of a 2 liter soda bottle with a small amount of water and as I said above its doing wonderfully. Here I'm including a photo to assists you with my question. Thank you so for time."

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I answered - "Hey, Sally. You are doing great with this aloe vera houseplant rescue! Congratulations!

I think by now you could plant it in a pot with some soil and peat moss, and just carry on.

I've had aloe vera plants thrive before too, just in a room with good moisture and sunshine. Sometimes for 3 weeks or more while I look for new pots. But eventually they do better in a pot with soil from which they can draw nutrients up through the roots into their leaves.

You are doing well, Sally! Good for you!"

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"My scorched Aloe Vera Plant - Can It Be Saved?" asked Rhonda. "I thought my Aloe Vera plant might like being outside. I'm sure it Did for a minute. I didn't think to provide it with some shade. I scorched my poor plant. I found it turning a brownish color. I immediately brought it inside and gave it a cool shower. Can it be saved? If so How? Thank you!"

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My answer was, "Hi Rhonda, my sympathies on your poor scorched plant. I trust by now you have seen it recover, simply by letting it rest indoors away from the hot sun."

I went on, "I know that there are fields of aloe vera plants in Texas and the Dominican Republic, (to make commercial aloe vera products), but they must be started out there in the field, and watered often. Our houseplants are not used to such severe summer heat, so they will get scorched in the outdoor sun. I've had it happen too. But once they are inside for a while, and you pamper it with a few extra waterings, it will recover, and thrive again. Aloe vera plants are life-giving and healing, and they are able to heal themselves too, with a bit of time."

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"My Mother Aloe Vera Plant is Bare of Leaves," wrote Lisa (in the UK). "My Aloe was way past due to be repotted. I saved many of the pups but the central mother plant lost about 30cm (1 foot) of leaves on the bottom due to being broken or just not very pretty.so I gently pulled them off. The stem seems healthy and there is a healthy root on the end. I have it resting on paper until I get your advice as to what to do with it now."

"Would you say that I should cut most of the stem and root off and plant the top or should I bury the entire root and stem up to the bottom leaves in (cactus) soil? Looking forward to hearing your wisdom."

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My reply was, "Hi Lisa, thanks your your kind words. It is always sad to see a mother plant look like that."

"Aloe vera is not a plant that you can start new ones from a leaf alone. Like each of the pups or offsets, some root is needed. So in this case with the mother aloe vera plant, I'm glad to hear it still has a healthy root. I would repot that root and I think you'll be pleased to see that it starts over again."

"However, it may sprout new stems and leaves in different directions; not straight upright. So this plant may look a little odd. I've had some where most of the plant seemed to hang over and grow beside the pot."

"That may not be suitable for showing off in your company parlour. But if it thrives and grows, I'd keep it handy in the kitchen, and use the leaves as needed."

"You may have to patiently pamper the mother-root for a while, but it WANTS to grow, so sooner or later it is quite likely to shoot out stems and leaves. You will get a new plant out of it."

"I hope this helps you, Lisa, and perhaps some others too."

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Brenda ( from Olsburg, KS) described a dramatic tragedy; "I forgot my 2 big aloes were out on the patio. Before the weather got so nasty cold, I fell off my horse and severely injured my right hand, then I got hit by a flying deer (someone else hit it and it landed on my roof) totalling my truck, so I had to go car shopping...grrrr). Anyway, by the time I remembered my aloes and brought them in, we had some freezing weather. Now my aloes look like a dying heap of green limp leaves. Are they beyond saving?"

My Reply went, "Dear Brenda, my sincere sympathies on your accidents with the horse and then with the flying deer, and your truck. Oh my, sometimes troubles just rain on us, don't they?! I offer my sympathies on your frozen aloe vera plants too. I'm afraid they are only compost now."

"That happened to me too, when I'd moved into this house. There wasn't the huge sunroom that I had been used to, so I had put up shelves in the front porch and put 45 pots and pails full of aloe vera plants there. I knew it wasn't heated and they would have to come in for the winter, but a cold snap hit one night before I expected it, and soon my aloe vera leaves were drooping limply over the rims of the containers! I waited a few days hoping they would revive but they only began to stink like something dead."

"All I had left were six small pots of aloe vera plans inside my house. For 10 years I've been trying to nurse them into larger plants and potting their babies. But I'm far from the 45 containers full I used to have. I still mourn when I think of that loss, so I understand how you feel."

"Hopefully you can get new plants to replace those frozen aloes, and start over too."

You can read many more of these dialogues if you know how to find those pages, as I said from those four named pages above.

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A Practical Tip/Solution - When You Post Questions on My Site
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Here are some recommendations, for when you post your questions on my site. Please feel free to give your submission a good title, (including such keywords as aloe vera, and the problem you are asking about), and to upload photos to illustrate your problem with your plants, That's if you have photos.

Next, don't hesitate to write in full, complete sentences, and paragraphs to describe the problem, or in the case of inquiring about different types of aloes, what you are looking at. The idea is that your submission, when accepted with my reply, is going to automatically form a new webpage on the site. A page that will be found by others with the same problem, and they can learn from your situation and my answer.

Don't worry about your spelling or grammar, if that is a problem, because if you have sufficient material there, I'll do the editorial work and make your writing look cleaned up and good. However, I do need enough information to make it worthwhile as a new page.

Please enter your name and location, and email too. Your email will NOT be revealed on the page. I just need it to notify you when the page goes up. (Or to answer your question privately).

You see, when you submit your question I am to moderate the submissions and decide which ones to answer and which ones to delete.

When your question is too short and incomplete, if you have given your email, I still try to answer you individually, even if I decide not to accept the submission and use it for a new page.

It always makes me sad when someone doesn't enter their name or email and their question is too weak to use. All I can do then is sigh, and hit the delete button.

Meanwhile, the one placing the question thinks I don't care - when I really do!


P.S. That just happened again this morning! Aida from Malaysia wrote: "In Malay we call it pokok setawar. Kids love to stick the leaf inside thick books like dictionary and leave it to propagate." I'm so eager to know more about this, but she didn't give her email address! I have no way to reach her; and I can't just put a provocative statement like that on the site.




I Recommend - Rescue Ignored Aloe Vera Plants
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Just last night I had an email from a man who rescued ignored aloe vera plants. . . (You'll want to see this!)

Hi Ruth,
It was only by accident that I found your web page but I'm glad I did because I was just about to do a makeover on my garden and "bin" 3 nice big aloe vera plants with numerous "babies."

Instead, I have potted the large plants and also potted 35 small ones.

I live in Australia so hopefully the weather here means it won't be too long until the small plants are big enough to harvest the leaves.

So thank you for all the info on your web page as I'm certainly going to be taking your advice on eating the aloe gel......Regards, Eric Thomson.

I was thrilled! Far too often, to my way of thinking, people are destroying or throwing out perfectly good aloe vera plants because they don't know what they have there! So my call to you is, don't throw them away! Please, rescue ignored aloe vera plants where ever you find them!

This morning I got another email from Eric with two photos of his plants. They are gorgeous! Beautiful!

Unfortunately, I can't attach images to this ezine, so I've whipped up a new webpage with the details and Eric's photos. You can see it all here: Rescue Ignored Aloe Vera Plants

Please let this message stick; If you find cast-aways, please rescue ignored aloe vera plants.




Contact & Policies - Constant
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CONTACT INFO: Ruth Marlene Friesen (306)856-7785
903 23rd Street West, Saskatoon, SK. S7L 0A5 Canada.
www.aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com/reachMe.html

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That is just the kind of security we enjoy at SBI)

POLICIES: I am definitely against S/p/a/m! I Will NOT share your
information with anyone. Integrity as a Christian, and as a
business woman is my personal standard.
Your email address WILL NOT be shared with anyone!

COPYRIGHT (c)2017 Ruth Marlene Friesen




Blessings & Thanks!

Ruth Marlene Friesen

Contact & Policies - Constant
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CONTACT INFO: Ruth Marlene Friesen (306)856-7785
903 23rd Street West, Saskatoon, SK. S7L 0A5 Canada.
www.aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com/reachMe.html

Ruth@aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com
(If it is your first contact with me, you will to be asked to confirm
by clicking a link in an email before you can get through.
That is just the kind of security we enjoy at SBI)

POLICIES: I am definitely against S/p/a/m! I Will NOT share your
information with anyone. Integrity as a Christian, and as a
business woman is my personal standard.
Your email address WILL NOT be shared with anyone!

COPYRIGHT (c)2017 Ruth Marlene Friesen

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