Hello,
I just bought an Aloe plant, it seems healthy but when I opened one of the leaves the gel was yellow and it stinks really really bad! Anyone know why or if I can change that? I thought most aloe vera had clear, odorless gel inside the leaves?
Thanks!
could be that the lower most leaves on the plant have somewhat rotted. I've seen that... a lot of aloes get planted deeper than they really should, once they are repotted, in order to get them to stand up straight. did you repot it? even if you didn't, seeing as how you just got the plant, there is a high likelihood that whomever you got the plant from had recently repotted it...
when this happens, the lowest leaves slowly lose vigor and turn any sort of different orange and brown colors, depending on soil chemistry, I suppose (just a guess there). when this happens, the leaves, though not completely dead, and still attached to the main plant, slowly lose their ability to heal. so, rot and funk set in on those leaves. and, because of all of this, they start to stink to high heaven.
I would not recommend removing the new growth leaves off of your plant, but, if the plant is still alive and thriving, I'd be willing to bet that the newest leaves do NOT stink...
if they do, the disease and rot may have gone systemic, and you may have a slowly dieing aloe on your hands...
remove any low leaves that are severely discolored or mushy, resume normal watering routine, and hope for the best...
when this happens, the lowest leaves slowly lose vigor and turn any sort of different orange and brown colors, depending on soil chemistry, I suppose (just a guess there). when this happens, the leaves, though not completely dead, and still attached to the main plant, slowly lose their ability to heal. so, rot and funk set in on those leaves. and, because of all of this, they start to stink to high heaven.
I would not recommend removing the new growth leaves off of your plant, but, if the plant is still alive and thriving, I'd be willing to bet that the newest leaves do NOT stink...
if they do, the disease and rot may have gone systemic, and you may have a slowly dieing aloe on your hands...
remove any low leaves that are severely discolored or mushy, resume normal watering routine, and hope for the best...
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Hey,
I work at a garden store and we have some aloes which were marked as aloe vera, but I don't think they are because they have a yellow gel and smell like burning flesh when they are broken open. I don't know much about the different varieties, but I know that there are tons of types of aloe, and it sounds like the one you have might be the same one as we have in the store.
I work at a garden store and we have some aloes which were marked as aloe vera, but I don't think they are because they have a yellow gel and smell like burning flesh when they are broken open. I don't know much about the different varieties, but I know that there are tons of types of aloe, and it sounds like the one you have might be the same one as we have in the store.
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