Worried about your Aloe Vera Leaves?
Growing thin and leggy?
Well, In Today’s episode, let’s look into 3 useful tips on how to grow thick and fleshy
Aloe Vera leaves.
Coming up! Aloe vera
plant needs no introduction.
I am sure most of us have an aloe vera plant in their homes, either indoors or outdoors
in the garden.
Aloe vera is one of the NASA recommended air purifying plant, which has been proven to
remove the harmful benzene and formaldehyde from indoor spaces.
Now, let us look into 3 simple and useful tips on how to grow thick and fleshy Aloe
Vera leaves.
1.
SUNLIGHT: This is one of the most important factors that decides the thickness of your
aloe vera leaves.
The common reason for thin, long or leggy aloe vera leaves is keeping them indoors in
spaces with not enough light.
No doubt, it’s a hardy plant that survives low light conditions, but it won’t grow
to its full potential if you do not keep in in direct sunlight.
Remember to get a thick and fleshy aloe vera plant, you must provide direct sunlight of
at least 6 to 8 hours.
Like starting from early morning sun till noon sun.
Try to avoid the harsh noon sun, which can sometimes burn the leaf tips and edges, especially
in summer season.
If you prefer to keep it all day in direct sunlight, you can install a 50% green shade
net to protect it from harsh sun and let it enjoy the pleasant sun for the entire day.
If you are growing indoors, you need to keep it in full direct sun light at least 2 to
3 times in a week or you can grow it under a good quality LED grow light.
2.
ROTATION TECHNIQUE: This is another useful trick to keep your plant healthy and get those
thick and fleshy aloe vera leaves.
To keep your plant growing evenly, rotate the container at least a couple of times every
week so that all of its leaves get an equal amount of sun light for photosynthesis.
3.
WATERING: This watering trick for aloe vera is the most important tip to get thicker and
fleshy aloe vera plant.
You know, aloe vera is a drought-resistant succulent plant which stores most of its moisture
in its leaves in the form of gel.
We all know the medicinal and various other uses of this aloe vera gel.
We will not discuss about that in this video.
To understand this trick, you need to know what happens to aloe vera when you deprive
it of water.
If you let the soil go very much dry for too long, your plant will begin to use the water
reserves in its leaves, causing them to shrivel and shrink.
Of course, we do not want this to happen.
So, the right technique to water aloe vera plant is, Yes!
Deprive it of water, but not too long.
Make it a lot thirsty first and then provide it will lots of water to drink.
Practically, this is done by allowing the top 2 inches of soil to dry out completely.
You can check this using the finger dip method or a moisture meter if you have.
Water it only if the top soil is completely dry.
And Watering should be thorough and deep till the water flows out of the drainage holes.
This simple hack helps to grow aloe vera leaves thicker and fleshy.
If you want to know the complete care tips for aloe vera plant like fertilizer, pot selection
and other useful points, you can check my detailed video on aloe vera care tips, from
this end screen link or from a link in the description below.
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Happy Gardening!