What is going on with my Aloe?
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No expert here but that looks like overwatering to me. Maybe you’re not watering it every day (doing that would make it worse), but the soil under those rocks looks wet, I figure it might be highly water retentive, so it keeps wet for a longer time and the plants keep sucking on all that unnecessary water; moreover I can’t see if your pot has draining holes, if it doesn’t then your plant might have a hard time not dieing.
Recommendation: get a substrate that’s 80% mineral, or use a universal substrate and add a lot of perlite or small granularity akadama, and reduce the organic part of the substrate as much as possible, prepare a pot with that new substrate (and with draining holes); get the plants out of where they are now, make sure they don’t have root rot (if so, remove the sick roots), leave them outside for a few days, then transplant, and don’t water, they should recover their color, and eventually they will actually ask for a drink.
Recommendation: get a substrate that’s 80% mineral, or use a universal substrate and add a lot of perlite or small granularity akadama, and reduce the organic part of the substrate as much as possible, prepare a pot with that new substrate (and with draining holes); get the plants out of where they are now, make sure they don’t have root rot (if so, remove the sick roots), leave them outside for a few days, then transplant, and don’t water, they should recover their color, and eventually they will actually ask for a drink.
@SwiftLambsear I just watered it today since it was completely dry. I will try using a pot with more drainage holes. Thanks
Looks like over watering. I water mine once every two weeks and only give her 3 cups of water she’s in a gallon container. They don’t need a lot of water even though you would think with those thick mushy stems, they would. They hold a lot of water in the stems. I would let it completely dry out. I check the bottom of the pot by using a chop stick. If soils sticks to it. It’s not ready for more yet.
