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  1. Edlou8181

    Edlou8181 Seedling

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    These are the pictures of my top heavy plant.
    Can anyone help me SAM_0798.JPG SAM_0799.JPG
     
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  3. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    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.
     
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    mart Strong Ash

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    I have yet to see one that was not top heavy including mine.
     
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    Jerry Sullivan Garden Experimenter Plants Contributor

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    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.:(

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    Edlou8181 Seedling

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    Can the long things be cut back and would it kill the plant?
    I also have 2 baby plants in same pot.
     
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    purpleinopp Young Pine Plants Contributor

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    Gorgeous Aloe! A clay pot can be much heavier, helping to alleviate the imbalance of weight.
     
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    zuzu's petals Silly Old Bat Plants Contributor

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    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. :)
     
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    Sherry8 I Love Birds!

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    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.
     

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