Rooting Aloe. The subtleties of the process

Very popular among gardeners plant aloe vera is often propagated by cuttings. However, to this breeding was successful, you need to know a few subtleties.

For rooting of leaf or stem cuttings aloe can use both water and a special substrate.

Rooting in water

Water for rooting boiled aloe need to use, and it must necessarily be at room temperature, the otherwise high likelihood that the graft will be lost.

Also, if you decide to take root to use this method, it should be borne in mind that in this case there is a high probability that the cuttings come rot, and roots will not grow on them.

The roots should appear within 15-20 days, and after them will be equal to the length of 40-50 mm and bushes should be planted in the substrate.

Rooting in zemlesmesi

The substrate cutting takes root much faster, and if done correctly, he will not die.

To begin, cut the stalk must be left in the open air, so that the cut has had time to dry well.

Then he planted in a small pot filled with a clean, damp sand or substrate, intended for succulent plants, bury them do not have more than 20-40 mm.

Then the seedlings around the substrate to be sealed. Watered after planting sapling can not be two or three days.

Then watering should be neat and modest. The temperature must be maintained in the range 18-26 degrees.

The roots appear after 15-30 days. When this happens, the transfer will require cutting in a sufficiently small container filled pochvosmesi consisting of a sheet and of humus and sand (2: 4: 1).

Do not forget to add to it a little brick crumbs and small pieces of charcoal.

Once the bush a little older, it must be transplanted by transshipment capacity slightly greater magnitude, thus using a substrate consisting of sheet and turf land and another sand (1:2:1).

Features care of handle:

· Watering must be lean and rare enough, since the substrate does not occur stagnation of the liquid;

· Recommended that cuttings in spring and summer;

· Before planting to drying stalks are left in the open air is not less than 1-2 days;

· Best roots in cuttings grow in warm (about 25 degrees);

· When watering we must remember that the fluid must not fall into the center of the socket, as because of it can be lost as the young and the adult plant;

· Top cover film container with cuttings can not, because of this, they may appear rot.

If done correctly, the cuttings take root their active growth fast enough to start.