How to Propagate Aloe Vera

good night welcome to I cultivate one I'm Steve and today we're going to be looking at how you can propagate a laverra this video is going to be mainly about propagating aloe vera but firstly a few things about the plant aloe vera there's about 300 different species of aloe type plants but this particular one aloe barbadensis is one which is commonly known to be very useful when it comes to a few health herbal type remedies let's have a quick look at this one so I'm going to remove this leaf of the aloe vera from here and you can see quite clearly the gel or the juice that is within this leaf now this gel is very very useful when it comes to dealing with things like burns and other health conditions like psoriasis what many people do is they'll take this gel and that will literally just wipe it on to the affected area and perhaps even take a piece with the gel face down and bandage it over the area and there are many benefits from this when it comes to the recovery of the injured area so before we look at potting our aloe vera plant a couple of other things to consider firstly Ella vera grows naturally in a tropical dry area so this means that if you live in an area that is not dry and tropical well then you need to be mindful of this for example if you have sub-zero or frost light conditions at certain times of the year well then you will need to move your aloe vera indoors if you do live somewhere that is quite warm and dry well then you can grow you aloe vera outside all year round so we're actually at my mum and dad's place where they've asked me to have a look at this elevator and see what we can do with it and you can see quite clearly it's been in this pot for an extended period of time and we have had multiple pups that have grown from the original aloe vera plant that have grown and have well and truly outgrown this pot so let's deal with this and see what we can do with this aloe vera clump because it's more than one plant now it's it's a clump of aloe vera so let's have a look at what we can do so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to literally tip this out empty it all out and see what we've got I guess the first point I would make is is that while there's some nice worms and and other organic matter in this it is very wet and aloe vera don't like wet feet so that's something that we will deal with when we repot this so I'm just going to break these all apart and look at all the individual plants you can see here that we've got little pups growing at the base of these other existing plants and if let go these would develop into new plants but because we need to break these up and have a better look at it first I'm just going to break them all up into individual plants this one will be quite a good one to get into a new pot you can see the younger ones so you can see from that original clump of aloe vera that we're now going to be able to get somewhere in the region of about fifteen or sixteen new plants now we only need a few ourselves so we'll be able to share these out a most dear friends let's get these into pots now with each of these you can see we've got a relatively young aloe plant versus one that's quite a bit older you can see if we zero in down on to the base of this younger one we've got the beginnings of some roots now I'll be able to just put these straight into some soil in a pot contrast this with our older one you can see that while there are quite a few beginnings of roots this is going to be way too long to physically just fit into a pot so I'm going to trim this and we will get new growth from the base of this older plant as well [Music] so you can see now that we've got quite a few new plants that we can now give to friends and to keep here at our own house all I now need to do is to water in with a bit of sea weed concentrate to help promote a bit of root root growth well I hope you've enjoyed this video can I ask you please to go down and a thumbs up and give us a thumbs up subscribe to this channel and if you have any ideas or thoughts or questions that you might have that you can add to this conversation around repotting aloe vera well then please add to the comments down below also and last but not least go to our website I cultivate dotnet and become a member of the community thanks for watching [Music]