Aloe vera has become one of the most popular medicinal plants . Its innate bloodline are unsealed . It is believed to be North African but is so wide cultivated that a accurate raw habitat is impossible to nail . Aloe vera now mature across the world and is train both as an ornamental succulent and a medicative plant . It see like a typical aloe industrial plant , with a russet scab of erect , heavy leaves up to 2 feet recollective that are green but become pink in substantial sunlight . The yellow flowers are borne on a marvellous spike up to 3 animal foot high . It will get outdoors in frost - free domain or as a gage works on a cheery windowsill . While hardy and tolerant to most pests , aloe vera plant life can hurt from a few unwashed job .

Overwatering

As succulent plants adapted to dry conditions , aloe vera flora are vulnerable to overwatering and moulder . Only irrigate your aloe when the soil is dry to a profundity of 2 inch . Do not keep potted plants on a dish antenna ; allow them to debilitate completely after lacrimation . A plant with soft leaves or soft , dark area around its base is digest from rot . Do not water the plant life ; place it in a sunny daub . If the rot spreads , take the plant wholly from its pot and commit it on a cheery windowsill with unornamented roots . Leave for two week or until the rots stops spreading , and then repot in soilless compost . H2O only once a calendar month until invigorated growth come along .

Aphids

aphid are petite unripened , yellow or black dirt ball only 1/8 in long . They are potential to infest only the new parting and flower spikes of aloe vera plant , as the matured leaves have too wooden-headed a skin for them to give on . Treat and aphid infestation on an aloe vera plant with a pyrethrin - based insecticide nebuliser formulated for houseplant .

Scale Insects

Scale insect look like small bump on the surface of leaves and can be brown or yellowish and up to 1/8 in across . They are immune to pesticide sprays because of their rainproof graduated table . Treat a scale insect infestation on your aloe vera industrial plant with a 70 percent solution of rubbing alcohol applied directly onto the scales with a paintbrush or gentle toothbrush . Monitor your plant cautiously , as a single surviving musical scale will reproduce and reinfest the plant .

Fungus Gnats

Fungus gnats look like tiny dark mosquito . They emerge at night from the soil around a plant . Their larvae feeling like tiny white maggot and live in the top inch of the soil . While they do not damage plants , their mien indicates that your aloe vera is being overwatered . Treat fungus gnats by keep the surface of the soil around your plant clean and by reducing watering . Soaking the soil in a pyrethrin solvent will drink down any remaining larvae .

Mealy Bugs

Mealy germ are interchangeable to scale insects but are hide in fine white frippery . They can be as longsighted as 1/4 column inch . Treat them with a pyrethrin - based insecticide spray or by painting them with itch alcohol . Check around your aloe vera , as adult mealy bugs can obscure off from the plant and even overrun the antecedent .

Aloe Mites

Aloe mites are microscopic , worm - similar mites that infect aloe plant and cause the leave to recrudesce irregular bumps under the cutis with digitate ejection . Treat aloe tinge with a commercial-grade miticide or acaricide ; they are resistant to most pesticide . The damage triggered by the mites is permanent , but new growth will not be affected after treatment . Aloe mites are rarefied on aloe vera industrial plant kept indoors .

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