My aloe vera is about 5 years old. It is in a rather large pot and our weather gets below zero in the winter time, I bring it in and set it back out in spring. It always turns a bit pink in the spring but by mid summer looks green and healthy again. Some of the bottom older leaves die so I trim them off. Last year when it was sitting outside, a squirrel decided to dig in the pot so I bought a new little aloe and potted them together so there was no available soil for the squirrel to dig in. Last winter I brought it in the house and there were three babies coming up. I dug them up and now I have five aloe, enough to share with friends. I have heard you can scrape the inside of the leafs and freeze them into ice cubes then if you get sunburned, you cant beat the relief they give. It is gross scraping the leaves so I have a frozen cube and will not harvest more unless I use up the available cube.
My aloe vera is about 5 years old. It is in a rather large pot and our weather gets below zero in the winter time, I bring it in and set it back out in spring. It always turns a bit pink in the spring but by mid summer looks green and healthy again. Some of the bottom older leaves die so I trim them off. Last year when it was sitting outside, a squirrel decided to dig in the pot so I bought a new little aloe and potted them together so there was no available soil for the squirrel to dig in. Last winter I brought it in the house and there were three babies coming up. I dug them up and now I have five aloe, enough to share with friends. I have heard you can scrape the inside of the leafs and freeze them into ice cubes then if you get sunburned, you cant beat the relief they give. It is gross scraping the leaves so I have a frozen cube and will not harvest more unless I use up the available cube.