after what seems like a lifetime of sulking my aloe cv 'oik' is finally is getting to a nice place in terms of colour and form (in my view anyway )
Steve

My aloe rebmanii also came to me unrooted and the leaves were almost jet black. Interesting to see how the colour is changing as the plant roots and settles in, Now a lot more green

before


now


Steve

I apologize for the quality of this photo. My phone screen is cracked in a thousand places, I have tape over it, & sometimes I can't tell what's a good picture & what isn't. At some point I am going to have to get a new phone but I keep putting it off. Anyway, I am not sure what this one is. Or where I got it. I had taken all my plants outside & put them on the back patio when it started to rain & then left them outside for several days afterwards. A lot of stuff burned & I've been busy cleaning up. Do you think that white spot is sunburn? It will not scrape off with my fingernail.

Kathy,
If I kept my plants inside under good conditions they look great but once out side with rain, super sun and heat and drought they get a little beat up. That don't brother me none. Also moving them around sometimes injures them and it doesn't show up for days later.
Yours looks a little sun burn. Plant look healthy and strong.

Kathy547 said: Anyway, I am not sure what this one is. .

@Kathy547
The plant looks like haworthiopsis limifolia to me
Fairy Washboard (Haworthiopsis limifolia)
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclop...

never owned one but i hear they are pretty tough
Steve

ketsui73 said:
@Kathy547
The plant looks like haworthiopsis limifolia to me
Fairy Washboard (Haworthiopsis limifolia)
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclop...

never owned one but i hear they are pretty tough
Steve

Oh, wow! So not an aloe at all. Do I just leave that white part alone? Thanks for the information guys!

I agree. It would be similar to scar tissue. Probably from a sun burn. Although looking at it will irritate you, I would leave it alone.

Yes to the ID. One if my favorite Haworthias. It will develop many more plants freely.

loving these flowers on aloe cv 'Cleopatra' as they seem to fade slower than other aloes . Often its only two at time looking good, but these seem to hang around looking OK

Steve

Pretty

Just picked this plant up at Lowe's. It's labeled as star aloe coral fire. This is the website from the label but when you click the link from this link, a message pops up "oops, not found". It does say its a new introduction or something.

https://altmanplants.com/?s=Al...

I did find more information here after a Google search.
https://www.smgrowers.com/prod...

Kathy547 said:Just picked this plant up at Lowe's. It's labeled as star aloe coral fire. This is the website from the label but when you click the link from this link, a message pops up "oops, not found". It does say its a new introduction or something.

https://altmanplants.com/?s=Al...

I did find more information here after a Google search.
https://www.smgrowers.com/prod...

@kathy547
ID is pretty much correct it's cv 'coral fire' a kelly griffin hybrid . In time teeth will colour up a bit as per my pic below. Nice plant
Steve

3 different jucunda cuttings in different stages of rooting (same pot/exact same exposure), with 3 different color patterns.



Note how the degree of greenness correlates with the inflation of the succulent leaves.

Jucunda looks nice while in this rosette stage. I hate it when they mature into long bushes that fall over in the slightest breeze.

Stush2019 said:Jucunda looks nice while in this rosette stage. I hate it when they mature into long bushes that fall over in the slightest breeze.

@Stush2019
i know what you mean some aloes can get too many rosettes
i like this


ain't really feeling this


Steve

For what it's worth, jucunda never gets stemmy or unstable here. The stem is pretty wide for the size of the rosette and the leaves are pretty close together along it. When a plant gets big (I get rid of them at the 10 inch pot size) it's still a compact mound, with essentially zero flexibility in the stems.

time lapse time
got this hybrid in feb 2020. First pic after repot


same plant today


and its in bloom (pics taken this weekend)



not bad for 6-7 months growth
Steve

Steve, I feel your pain.

I recently picked up aloe albiflora which is a plant I have wanted for a while as it has beautiful bell shaped white flowers . The plant sent up two flower stems almost immediately after i repotted it
So now we are getting close

Steve, Looks like Haworthia so far.

first flower open on the albiflora





Steve