Aloe Vera/CatNip questions

Hey people, I got an aloe Vera plant last year from Christmas. It's doing very well, but it looks like it needs transplanting. It's in a ceramic pot, few questions.

1. What's a good soil mix for Aloe Vera?
2. Seems like it's going to be trouble getting it out of the ceramic pot?
3. How do you clone the "pups?"

CatNip
1. I'm looking for any info regarding growing catnip!


**The picture is of my badass cat named Shadow. He absolutely loves riding in the car, 1.5 HR trip daily.

Any cactus mix I think should be fine for your aloe. What I do with the pups is just pluck'm out and replant them and leave'm. After awhile they'll reroot

No clue on catnip.. I grow it outdoors but I've never have indoors

catnip will survive in the kitchen under artificial lighting i grew that in my mothers house but then transplanted it outdoors when it came time. i planted it into a basic soil of compost, peat, and native sandy loam, plus lime, bone meal and bokashi. it survived and grew into an unidentifiable mess of mint and oregano poor choice of companion crops lol

hey hi
I just got an aloe myself, it was all squished with pups


The thing to do is take them apart carefully, the offshoots are attached to the mother plant, but removing the soil from around the roots makes it easy to find those spots and take them apart with a minimum of damage.

Leaving the roots exposed to the air allows any wounds to callous up a bit before going back into the soil. I just left mine for a day, as there wasn't much damage at all.

As regards the soil, I used a mix of recycled soil & compost 50:50 diverse aeration - sand, small hydroton, lava rock. And topped it all off with sand. The roots got some mycorrhizae sprinkled on before going back in. And I did end up watering it all in, though I had read not to haha

They seem quite happy, their roots took hold in the soil only a few hours after re-planting too

calliandra said:

hey hi
I just got an aloe myself, it was all squished with pups
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The thing to do is take them apart carefully, the offshoots are attached to the mother plant, but removing the soil from around the roots makes it easy to find those spots and take them apart with a minimum of damage.
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Leaving the roots exposed to the air allows any wounds to callous up a bit before going back into the soil. I just left mine for a day, as there wasn't much damage at all.

As regards the soil, I used a mix of recycled soil & compost 50:50 diverse aeration - sand, small hydroton, lava rock. And topped it all off with sand. The roots got some mycorrhizae sprinkled on before going back in. And I did end up watering it all in, though I had read not to haha
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They seem quite happy, their roots took hold in the soil only a few hours after re-planting too

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Come back and give me an update! Am interested in the progress.

They look beautiful

Kind Sir said:

Come back and give me an update! Am interested in the progress.

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Kind Sir said:

They look beautiful

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Will do and thanks!
Yeah they have it all airy now, looking forward to seeing how fast they start growing

Do you use yours for foliars and drenches?
I just started using aloe powder for both and really liked it.
So my hope is that the plants will be big enough for use by the time my powder is used up. It'll be a good few months before that happens, though, so no rush

calliandra said:

Will do and thanks!
Yeah they have it all airy now, looking forward to seeing how fast they start growing

Do you use yours for foliars and drenches?
I just started using aloe powder for both and really liked it.
So my hope is that the plants will be big enough for use by the time my powder is used up. It'll be a good few months before that happens, though, so no rush

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I use it for both, haven't got a good schedule when to use what though. I need to research more about using aloe Vera, I just fillet the aloe plant and put the contents in water.

What is your feed schedule? Say you mix your soil up, have a plant in there.. What and when do you feed?

Kind Sir said:

I use it for both, haven't got a good schedule when to use what though. I need to research more about using aloe Vera, I just fillet the aloe plant and put the contents in water.

What is your feed schedule? Say you mix your soil up, have a plant in there.. What and when do you feed?

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Ah I've just found my own grow style during my last grow, so I still need to replicate before I can start speaking of schedules haha

I'm growing in living soil and since my microherd wasn't so great and I didn't have any good wormcasts/compost at hand, I supplemented throughout the grow with fresh plant part smoothies - just plant material covered up with water in the mixer and blended - following the "like with like" principle.
So during veg, I collected young shoots from a tomato plant that was in a frenzy of growth (and a good old fresh SST), onset of flower: tomato flowers and young fruit, and in midflower the smoothie consisted of persimmon and ripe tomato.
The idea is to feed the plant living matter: hormones, enzymes, and other complex molecules (maybe even chloroplasts and other entire cell components), which the plant then can incorporate in its own growth directly.

The aloe got used as foliar and feed whenever I got the feeling the cannabis plant needed protection or sprucing up. Did a total of 5 foliars into midflower: when she dawdled as a babe for example, after LST, when I increased the light wattage.
So it was all on a "Look at the plant and intuit what she can use best now" basis.