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Blue light special on Aloe Veras, aisle three
Any Fairbanks-area people want an aloe vera plant? They're a cute little houseplant, fairly difficult to kill, and the cut leaves really do work to soothe burns and sunburns (just slice 'em open and stick 'em on the injured part ... they work!). I seem to have gotten my hands on an aloe that reproduces faster than a farm full of rabbits, which means that I have a million of them.
This is your aloe.
This is your aloe ... on steroids.
It's the momma plant, which was given to me two years ago as a tiny, sickly little thing that seemed unlikely to survive. Well, you can see what it's doing now. The pot is so packed with aloes that I can barely water it, and this is after one round of aloe-baby transplanting last winter and another culling tonight.
As you can clearly see, these are not some cheap Columbian knock-off aloes! These things are tough and hardy and fertile and grow like crazy.
This one was transplanted last Jan. or Feb., looking just like the little baby at the top, and see what it looks like now. (Actually, in the interests of full disclosure, there *were* two of them in the pot to begin with, not one like the ones I'm giving away. But STILL.)
The babies ready for adoption.
In all seriousness ... if you can pick it up in Fairbanks and you want one, comment or email me. Since they were just transplanted, I'm going to give these a few days to make sure that they don't drop dead because of having been given insufficient rootlets (the babies are packed in so tight that I had trouble getting enough roots for them), so I'll be giving them away later in the week.
This is your aloe.
This is your aloe ... on steroids.
It's the momma plant, which was given to me two years ago as a tiny, sickly little thing that seemed unlikely to survive. Well, you can see what it's doing now. The pot is so packed with aloes that I can barely water it, and this is after one round of aloe-baby transplanting last winter and another culling tonight.
As you can clearly see, these are not some cheap Columbian knock-off aloes! These things are tough and hardy and fertile and grow like crazy.
This one was transplanted last Jan. or Feb., looking just like the little baby at the top, and see what it looks like now. (Actually, in the interests of full disclosure, there *were* two of them in the pot to begin with, not one like the ones I'm giving away. But STILL.)
The babies ready for adoption.
In all seriousness ... if you can pick it up in Fairbanks and you want one, comment or email me. Since they were just transplanted, I'm going to give these a few days to make sure that they don't drop dead because of having been given insufficient rootlets (the babies are packed in so tight that I had trouble getting enough roots for them), so I'll be giving them away later in the week.