You have two options for controlling a tall, top heavy Aloe. You can put it in a larger pot and gently tie it to a strong stick to keep it from leaning over too far. Or reach into the very center of the plant and find the very tiny, newest leaf beginning to grow and pinch it out. That will stop the upward growth and the plant will concentrate on putting out side shoots near the base and get wider but no taller.
Oh... an aloe plant. They are notorious for weighing a ton after a period of time. A friend gave me one many years ago and after a few years I had several. They would spend the summer in the garden fattening up and in the fall I would haul them into the winter nursery. One year as it was time to take them in(one weighed almost as much as my bowling ball) I said whoa!! Too many!! So I left some in the garden to enjoy their final fall and winter. I have been doing that every few years ever since. This year I kept a medium one and a small one. Three others have been left to the elements of fall and winter. Jerry
I agree - the weight of a terracotta pot would counterbalance the Aloe's weight - and I would specifically choose what is known as an "Azalea Pot" because it is squattier and wider at the bottom, which makes it more stable, by design (and the Aloe does not need the extra depth for roots, anyway). It is the nature of this plant to create a "colony", and with lots of them, clustering together, they all tend to hold each other up.
I keep killing them...I think I am over watering mine all of the time...do they like neglect? My husband just had a surgery and in the area that you set the procedure up the lady had an aloe plant and almost on top of that, off to the side, was another big aloe plant. I have never seen this before. It was almost piggy-backing the bottom plant.