today I'm going to talk about how we take care of our aloe vera as I've said in the previous video we do a lot of aloe vera selling at the market so I have to work all the time every week to make it so that it we have plenty to sell and I've got this big pot here that I'm going to demonstrate on how I make aloe vera this thing has actually gone a little farther than it should see how this one's growing out the bottom and I'm not going to try to save it I think I'll just pull it out well we've got some roots so I might save it okay okay what I do here is just put my hand on the bottom to support the aloe plant and slide the pot off laying it down in the dirt there and then I start taking these little aloe vera plants off these are called pups pee ups I just pull that out they're trying to leave as many roots as I can something like this it has a long stem on it could be saved but it doesn't have any good roots on it so I toss that away I've got so much of this stuff that I don't need all of it so I go around and take the little little pups off lay them aside and pile over here and then I have at the end I have this larger plant it's got some ugly leaves down low in which I need to get off of there and I will most likely bury it into the ground up to here so we're only this part will stick out set this big one aside for now I'll put it in this pot this one is nice size it's nice shape it's got its roots down here so it'll go nicely into this six inch pot I'm going to set it down in there and hold it suspended and put dirt around it so that the roots are mingled in with the soil as it goes down fill it up pretty good press it down a bit set it aside now this one is kind of long and skinny it it grew up in a tight condition because if the pot was so crowded that I'm gonna bury it up to here because this is really where the growth starts down here it it it will make roots these lower leaves will come off as it develops so I'm going to try to hold it up straight with the stem sort of bent down there and fill it up with dirt the filter in the dirt a little bit around here around the center so that it will make roots in there and then as I water it it will also there's a little piece that needs to be poked down it'll also wash it the dirt down inside there this one's a little smaller but I'm gonna go ahead and put it in a six inch pot I usually put the smaller ones in four inch pots for a while but this one's a little kind of borderline just press it down in there securely don't want it that you don't want the dirt compacted you just want it press down firmly here's another crooked one which I will now I'll do the big ones in the bottom it doesn't reach all the way to the bottom so I'm putting a little bit of dirt down in the bottom on this one and then setting the root ball down on there maybe make sure first it's kind of the the roots were scattered out a little bit now I'll just put soil in around this and well I'll trim that up a little bit and we will let it grow up probably I'll just pinch that off right there once they band on one of their leaves they don't recover from that band break it off and start over again so I watered those down real good and I just wanted to tell you that these we grow are a lows in some shade I put them on the floor underneath the bench and they are shaded to a certain extent I think that most people aren't going to have their aloe vera in full Sun when they take them home so I don't want them to go into too much shock being used to full Sun here in our my greenhouse and then going to somebody's shaded house so I put it up under the bench so that they are used to a little bit of shade I tell people to put them in a sunny window and let them get used to wherever can you stop it now bears are are capable of adjusting to pretty much whatever environment you put them in but for the time that they are adjusting they can get pretty sad looking and so if they get purple that means they're not used to the Sun if they're good and they can take full Sun but they can't take a change of environment all at once if you want to put them in the full side I'm graduating and offer some shade for a while until they adjust to their new environment and then they can live in the full Sun and the same way with the shade if you go from where they've been in the Sun to the shade do it a little at a time and I'd also advise to just leave your aloe vera in one place don't move it around it doesn't like changes it goes through a sad stage and turns yellow if it's purple it means it's an had too much Sun if it turns yellow and means you're over watering it and that's his number-one rule of taking care of aloes don't overwater let it dry out well in between good watering and you'll have to learn what that means it doesn't mean water it on a regular schedule it means let it dry out watch it when your soils drive and give it a good watering got just a little tablespoon of something like that but water it well and then let it dry out again before you water it again if you take care of your alum areas you will have a laverra's all your life because they'll continue to make cups and you learned that they liked it pretty well in our greenhouse here and so I'm just gonna continue to grow aloe vera well that's my lesson today on how to take care of your a laverra's and save your aloe vera puffs thanks for watching and I'd like it if you'd subscribe to our Channel and comment I want to hear from you how your aloe vera growing is going and give us a thumbs up thank you you