Sometimes plants planted on a windowsill are used not for decorating a room, but for a therapeutic purpose. These include not too decorative, but very useful aloe . How to plant it properly at home, you will learn from this article.
How to plant aloe?
Most often planting stock is supplied by friends, friends or relatives, who have been growing at home for a long time. To do this, you just need to break off a twig or a separate leaf from a large healthy bush. The process, how to root and how to properly plant aloe in a pot, is different in both cases, so let's talk about them in more detail.
How to plant aloe from leaf?
First of all, if you brought a cut or broken off aloe leaf, sprinkle the cut with crushed activated carbon and allow it to dry thoroughly (3-5 days). Then we put it to a depth of 3-4 cm with the end down into a moist substrate with a predominance of sand and cover with a jar. The container should be placed in a well-lit place and very rarely watered (1 time in 2 weeks).
How to plant the aloe process?
For good rooting, it is required that there are at least 6-7 leaves on the cuttings. After cutting it must be dried (allowed even within a week). For planting aloe, we prepare the substrate from the soil for cacti and sand, taken in the same proportion, and at the bottom of the pot must lay drainage.
The dried out process of aloe is buried so that the top layer of the soil touches the lowest pair of its leaves. For stability, you can overlay it with stones. You can cover with a transparent jar and also put it in the sun. Watering often freshly planted aloe is not recommended. It will be enough for him if you do this after the top layer of the earth has dried well.
This regime should be followed for 2-4 weeks, until the stalk does not take root and releases a new leaf.