Several skills you need to pay attention to if you want to raise potted aloe vera, the best secret of indoor maintenance.

It is good to keep two or three pots of aloe vera at home. Aloe vera can not only purify the harmful gas in the room, but also be used to treat burns, cuts and sunburns. Just cut off its leaves and apply it directly to the injured place, which can relieve pain and speed up the healing process.

The following is to introduce how to better raise aloe, it is actually a kind of desert plant originating in tropical and subtropical regions, it likes the warm and dry environment all the year round, and the conservation position needs more sufficient light. in fact, there are many varieties of aloe, and there are dichotomous aloe vera that can grow up to 4 or 5 meters high in South Africa.

Aloe vera has different varieties and forms, some things can be eaten, and some can only be watched as potted plants. Be sure to understand clearly before buying. The most common aloe vera, Aloe vera, Aloe vera and Aloe Zaojiao are edible.

1. The environment for conservation

Unless you live in a place where there is no frost all the year round, it needs to be moved indoors for maintenance in winter. It is a tropical plant, and it is most appropriate to keep the minimum maintenance temperature above 7 degrees.

Aloe is generally used as indoor potted plant maintenance, in winter, in addition to pay attention to cold, but also pay attention to control watering, water is also easy to aggravate frostbite.

No matter what kind of environmental conditions, aloe needs to keep more sunlight, avoid being kept in over-shaded places, let alone in a completely dark environment, pay attention to keep dry, aloe can grow well in a dry environment all the year round.

2. Flowerpot and soil selection

Aloe is a very common plant, the cultivation of aloe needs to use loose and well-drained soil, it is best to mix with appropriate river sand or perlite, and the cultivated flowerpots should also choose loose and breathable red pottery pots or tile pots. Cultivation with plastic pots with more drainage holes is also a good choice.

The cultivation of aloe needs to choose a container with wider and more drainage holes, rather than a deeper container.

3. Pay attention to watering

Aloe can endure very dry environment, very afraid of wet or unventilated environment, the soil can not be often wet, just transplanted aloe can not immediately watering, can after about 5 days to water again, put in ventilation and bright light place, just planted aloe can not be caught in the rain, otherwise the rhizome is very easy to rot.

Daily maintenance is the need to pay attention to control watering, be sure to wait until the soil is dry before teaching water, generally need to check that the soil 3 to 5 centimeters below the soil is dry before replenishing water.

After the temperature drops in winter, aloe needs to be watered even more, and the water is basically cut off when the temperature is between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius.

4. Introduction to the reproduction of aloe.

Aloe vera is generally propagated through lateral buds. In the process of growth, aloe will continue to grow new small buds next to it. These small buds can be broken off when they grow to about 5 cm high, cut off together with the root system, and then put in a ventilated and shaded place to dry the wound and re-cultivate with the new basin soil.

Other notes:

There are few diseases and insect pests in the maintenance of aloe vera. If the leaves show signs of decay, you must cut them in time, and carefully check whether the roots are rotten, and the rotten roots also need to be cut in time, then soak in potassium permanganate solution. put it in a ventilated place to dry the wound and then replant it.