How to transplant aloe right?

All kinds of aloe, grown at home, are typical succulents. This means that these plants prefer heat, bright lighting and do not tolerate excessive watering. Aloe, the transplantation and cultivation of which requires compliance with certain requirements, is not only a decorative, but also a curative plant, many people know about the medicinal properties firsthand.

To place the pots with aloe, it is best to choose sunny places, and in summer you can take the flower to fresh air. If during the winter the plant lacked lighting, then with the onset of spring to direct rays of sunlight, aloe is best taught gradually. Knowing how to transplant aloe and how to properly care for it, you can achieve very impressive results and grow at home a large plant with strong shoots and a beautiful root system.

In winter, do not create additional lighting for the plant with fluorescent lamps, as this can lead to deformation of the plant and rapid stretching of the stem. In winter it is better to keep it in a light cool place and water it no more often than once a month. If you overdo it with watering in winter, the plant can rot and die. In summer, the flower is watered as the upper layer of soil dries in the pot.

Aloe also does not need too frequent top dressing. From April to September, the plant needs to be fed only once a month, while it is best to give preference to liquid combination fertilizers. If the care and transplantation of aloe is carried out correctly, then the plant can not be fed at all.

Many plants reach fairly large sizes, and in a close pot they can be quite uncomfortable. Because the flower does not have enough space, it can stop growing and begin to lose the lower leaves. Therefore, many are interested in the question of how to transplant aloe. Transplantation is usually performed in summer and in spring. Specialists recommend choosing a pot of such volume that it was a fifth of the previous one.

Florists who know how to transplant aloe are recommended to use a fertile, loose substrate. It is best to prepare it from the forest land and large sand with a small addition of charcoal. Do not forget about the drainage, which can be used as claydite.

Sometimes aloe grows bush. In this case, shoots develop from the base of the plant or underground rhizomes, the so-called stolons. Such plants are propagated by apical cuttings or by radical shoots. Cuttings should be carried out in spring or summer, but in the cold season it should not be done.

Before planting the cuttings must be dried, so that the cut is completely dried, and only this field can be planted in the ground without the need for rooting in the water. Young cuttings do not need to be sprayed or put into water: they will rot.

Now in specialized stores you can buy seeds of aloe. The method of their sowing is analogous to sowing cactus seeds: sterilized soil and moist warm conditions. To know how to transplant aloe and how to grow it from seeds, any florist should know.