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Our Aloe Vera plant

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:51am
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Can anyone tell us what is happening to our Aloe Vera Plant please 

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:46pm

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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:46pm

Pammy1953 wrote on Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:51am:

Can anyone tell us what is happening to our Aloe Vera Plant please 

Many Thanks , will put more photos once it has started blooming 

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:03am

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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:03am

Pammy1953 wrote on Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:51am:

Can anyone tell us what is happening to our Aloe Vera Plant please 

Hi pammy for a start your plant is not aloe Vera  aloe Vera's are a succulent with thick juicy leaves that when you snap them off ooze the aloe Vera liquid that is so benificial and usefull..

I can't see you doing that with the plant that you have shown in the photo you seem to have some sort of palm there it is just flowering.

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:53pm

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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:53pm

Hi Pammy

I would say looking at the photo you have a yucca plant and it dose look as though it is about to flower ( large white blooms)

As camermanjohn said Aloe Vera have succulent leaves and to be honest not a lot can go wrong with them, or Yuccas come to that.

Don't worry and see what happens

Ed

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 2:10pm

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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 2:10pm

Thanks Ed 

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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:27pm

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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:27pm

Pammy1953 wrote on Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:51am:

Can anyone tell us what is happening to our Aloe Vera Plant please 

Hi, I think what you have is a century plant. If it is it will look gorgeous when it flowers. You might want to keep the seeds and plant another one because they usually die after flowering.

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:17pm

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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:17pm

Hi , we think  you are right , we have looked it up online and the picture looks exactly like our plant , they grow between 10 to 25 ft tall which ours is about 9 ft at the moment and they says it flowers once in its lifetime its actually growing at a rate of about 2ft per week 

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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:38pm

Great, I have a tiny little garden but my friend had one that flowered last year. it grew very tall and yes you can almost watch it grow it is amazing. the tree like flower is so impressive in real life. Wonderful.... the spanish call it the 100 year plant because the myth is that they only flower every hundred years but I believe it is just a myth. Thanks for getting back to me, so considerate. Fran

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:03pm

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