Another picture of the overall plant:
Very cool! I know many agaves bloom like this one time and then they die. I wonder if aloes also follow this approach.
My Aloe Vera is blooming!
Submitted 2 months ago by linuxguy@piefed.ca to houseplants@mander.xyz
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jayemar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
linuxguy@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Apparently they do not follow the same approach. They’ll live and can continue to bloom several times.
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I had one I’d been keeping for about 6 years, then suddenly, it bloomed! Now it blooms almost every year, twice sometimes, and it’s offspring have also started after a few years! I love them, all those pretty little bell-blossoms. Mine are more reddish I think, loving the green-yellow of yours, but maybe they’ll redden over time as well.
linuxguy@piefed.ca 2 months ago
This is awesome to hear. Fingers crossed that mine continues to bloom consistently. I’m pretty OK with the green-yellow color and if they start to redden more then, cool. Just being happy with what I’ve got because any bloom at all is apparently pretty rare 🥰
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
This gives me hope. My mother plant is huge and old now, probably 8 or so years, and I don’t take pups off it anymore. Can barely even move the thing outside in summer anymore. I’d love for it to bloom for me.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Very pretty. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an aloe plant bloom before.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social 2 months ago
Wow that is awesome, i can’t ever remember seeing one bloom before 🤔
linuxguy@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Me either!
recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 2 months ago TIL aloe vera’s can bloom
Thanks for sharing a pic of your lovely aloe vera! It looks quite healthy and happy in your care🤗🌻 +1
linuxguy@piefed.ca 2 months ago
I had no clue either, until the spike started forming! I refused to google it until after blooming so I wouldn’t ruin the surprise of what the flowers would look like :D
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Even more impressive, your cats are politely queueing up for the drinking fountain
linuxguy@piefed.ca 2 months ago
They’re rascals. Every once in a while all four will swarm it at the same time and there’s room for all of them. It wasn’t long ago that they were so tiny they had to get their paws up on the rim to drink from it as it was taller than them!