The easiest way to plant Aloe vera is through its pups. Aloe vera is a prolific propagator, so it's not really difficult to have pups for planting. But if you want to make Aloe vera propagate faster, you can do it through its leaves.
In this website, I have shown you how to:
This time, I will share to you that I planted Aloe vera leaves again, but I cut the leaves into halves. I planted both cuttings, the lower and upper part of the leaves.
I did this because I wanted to know the differences between the cut leaf and whole leaf of Aloe vera when propagating and planting.
I also wanted to show what will happen to the other half, the upper part of the leaves, when it is planted after the cut part has already dried or calloused.
This is to show to those who commented on my infamous leaf cutting video on YouTube, who told me that the leaves did not grow because I did it wrong, and that I need to callous the cut leaves before planting.
I already showed in my previous videos that in order for the aloe vera leaves to propagate, you have to leave part of the stem or stem tissue on the leaf.
I cut the Aloe vera leaves in this experiment and had them dried in a shaded but well lighted area, but without direct sunlight.
After more than a week, the leaves turned yellowish and thin because they lost a lot of gel when I cut them. The upper part of the leaves lost more gel because the gel flowed out on both ends, and it took a while before the cut got healed.
Unlike whole leaves, the cut leaves didn't show pups and roots after more than a week.
I planted the leaves and did not wait for the pups to show up because I didn't want the leaves to turn yellow or get totally dry before I could plant them.
I did the usual thing in planting leaves, I put stones to support the leaves while they are growing roots to support themselves.
Here are the results:
Some of the upper cut leaves have grown pups and roots after four days and after a week, all of them have pups and longer roots to support themselves, so I removed the stones.
The lower cut leaves didn't show any growth development at all - no pups and roots, and after some have shown signs of rotting. After more than a month, still no signs of growth happening, but most of them starts to rot.
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