Ox Tongue
4.7 out of 5 (66 experiences)
Survivor
Fast grower
About Ox Tongue
Ox Tongue is a super popular houseplant 🌿 that is isn’t challenging to grow and needs very little water to thrive. They do best in abundant sunlight ☀ and should be less than 3 feet from a window.
Plant parents describe this plant as being a survivor and a fast grower with a whopping 13103 being grown with Greg around the world. Check out the reviews below for more details!🌟
Ox Tongue likes soil that is extremely well-draining. Your plant shouldn't need added fertilizers if you repot each time it doubles in size.
Taxonomy
Gasteria obliqua
Gasteria
Asphodelaceae
Asparagales
Also known as
Lawyer's Tongue, Gasteria bicolor and Gasteria bicolour
How to care for Ox Tongue
How often to water your Ox Tongue
every 12
Ox Tongue needs 0.5 cups of water every 12 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.
Water 0.5 cups every
12
Finding light for Ox Tongue in your home
a window
Ox Tongue may have difficulty thriving, and will drop leaves 🍃, without ample sunlight.
Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Ox Tongue in your home 🏡.
How to fertilize Ox Tongue
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Ox Tongue after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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Lil guy is stuck! I was given this plant by a peer a while back along others, and all the other plants have grown and evolved but this one doesn’t develop anything! Qhat could be the cause? Is there still hope?
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Ehhh…it’s close enough. Happy March! #Flowers #FloweringPlants #SucculentSquad #SucculentLove #Succulents #Succulent #Gasteria #WinterBlooms
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What do I need to do? I don’t know how it happened, but one of the leaves snapped on my ox tongue plant 😭 is there anything I should do about it, or will the plant continue to survive like this? This is my first plant and I just want to keep it alive lol
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I’m brand new to owning a succulent. Is it time to repot this guy, and should I be concerned that the leaves are light green and kind of thin as they are growing out? Any advice is appreciated, I really don’t want to end up accidentally killing it #Gasteria
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Black Spots #Gasteria Hello - I noticed black spots on the side and underside of my ox tongue’s leaf. The plant looks healthy and no other leaves are affected. Any thoughts or suggestions? Your guidance is greatly appreciated.
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Dark wound on Gasteria I just saw this today on the tip of the longest leaf of my gasteria. Fungal? Or too much light maybe? It’s raised on the edges and sunken in the middle.
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My ox tongue has a lot of new growth. Some is very floppy and some very light in color. I’m going to repot but any other tips ? #Gasteria
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Hello, this ox tongue should be green I've been searching but I can't find help anywhere on how to recover it or even find out what's wrong, she's getting direct sunlight for the afternoon and it's not that hot here and I've been watering it normally so I don't understand the color change or what does it mean :/
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Hello everyone! Spikey the Ox Tongue has some yellow leafes. I'm new to this whole thing and assume that's regular aging, but just in case: Simply pruning them is enough, correct?
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Proud plant parent over here! Look at all these pups!! #gasteria #succulentlove #oxtongue #whatthesuccwednesday #happyplants #pupdates
Care Summary for Ox Tongue
Ox Tongue
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 12 days
Placement
< 3ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.
What other plant parents say
Survivor 52
Fast grower 29
Easy to propagate 12
Large, lush leaves 5
Blooms easily 5
Browns easily 4
Pest magnet 1
01/23/2022
Easy to look after; a slow grower. I water only after the soil has become dry. It’s growing season is winter so I shorten the interval between watering then, but still wait until the soil has become pretty dry. Pups will emerge at this time. During the summer months it becomes dormant, so I water less.
Survivor
Easy to propagate
01/11/2022
Really easy plant to take care of. Looks very pretty as well.
Survivor
12/04/2021
I absolutely love this this plant. I water it once a month and it has grown so much! Definitely thinking about adding more!
Fast grower
11/29/2021
cute plant
Fast grower
Survivor
11/08/2021
lovely little plant that i found at the farmers market!! easy to take care of once you know what to do, and stays very healthy.
Survivor
10/26/2021
Very cool looking succulent, and sprouts flowers.
Survivor
10/15/2021
This started as one of those fridge planters with a magnet on it. I planted it last year…😳
Fast grower
Survivor
10/06/2021
This plant has been through so much trauma and still yet stands tall.
Survivor
09/06/2021
I’ve had this plant for about a year now. I have constantly worried I haven’t looked after it as I didn’t do much research. However, despite my sporadic watering schedule and weeks with little attention it’s produced LOADS of little pups and is healthy :)
Survivor
08/19/2021
It’s really hard to kill him and I totally neglected him because his soil is weird and i never know if i should actually water him. He’s actually thriving
Survivor
Fast grower
08/19/2021
Gastritis Duval is a very cute and easy to care plant 🪴
Easy to propagate
08/11/2021
This plant was given to me as an “air plant” in a 1 inch container. I repotted it & it now lives in a 4 in pot.
Blooms easily
Fast grower
Survivor
07/27/2021
Love watching the new leaves pop out of the middle of this little guy. Such a fun plant!
Fast grower
Survivor
07/25/2021
Easy to look after and is very cute🥺
Survivor
Browns easily
Large, lush leaves
Fast grower
07/05/2021
Bought and repotted in new pot 3 days ago and already has 2 sprouts coming off!!
Fast grower
07/01/2021
Easy to care for
06/24/2021
Simple. My easiest plant.
06/19/2021
Wort likes to be ignored and blessed me with 3 wee babes. I haven’t tried to remove the wee babes to give them to friends because he is so fun to look at 👀
06/17/2021
He doesn’t need water that much and does not attract pests and he’s cute as a button!
06/05/2021
I like how it actually looks like a tongue. The markings are an added bonus!
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