My first time trying to post. Sorry Oh! My bad. It should have been hoya hindu rope. I did this just before bed. It came to me in the middle of the night. I would like plants like sundew, pitcher plant, venus fly trap. Does this help? I did edit it the post the next morning.

Izzrd,m I'll keep my eye out for hercules. As you said though, I suppose for now if I want the quick trees I should just go with Goliath and any head that falls I can use for another tree. I'm going to be doing the landscaping at a lot of friends and family houses so the more cuttings and fast growing plants the better. I like my little Aeonium" factories". They just keep popping out heads and the more I just keep propagating into new plants ;-) Amazing garden Hoobv. Wow I'd love one like that some day. I had read that the plicatilis has lots of issues with growth, like they get a lot of black lower leaves and prone to rot. Has this been the case with yours? What area of SoCal are you in? Cactuscharris- for some reason I'm not able to purchase the plicatilis on that site, not sure if it's a gliche or if they're just out of that particular plant!!! Cool I was searching google and there are some variagated forms of the aloe trees!! Very cool.. ...so many succulents, so little time (and money!)

I cut too deeply that water a nutrients will no longer flow to the main head? Or did I cut to much bark off the circumference of the tree that it will kill it? A tree Aloe is not like a tree trunk that becomes wood and bark. A tree aloe is dried up stuff on the outside and then succulent stuff inside that. As the trunk gets bigger and bigger it has more dried up stuff on the outside and more succulent stuff on the inside, but no wood. So you didn't cut off bark, really. If I cut off the main head, will new growth appear out of the top of the trunk? Kind of like when people cut the heads off their ponytail palms? likely the other rosette will take over. Most of the stem you cut off will probably die, you might get another rosette lower down. Or you might not. I really don't want to do that, how long do you think it will take before I know if the main branch is going to die or not? Will the leaves just start to wilt and turn to mush? would more likely dry up than mush up. I have a thraskii that had a very bent stem at first. I thought the top would snap off. It did not. As it grew, it has become quite straight. The bend didn't straighten out, the trunk outgrew the bend. I have optimal growing conditions for Aloes. Your MMV depending on your climate. If you only cut off a quarter of an inch, the stem can thicken up as it continues to grow and you may see nothing more than a small scar. Try very hard to avoid any rot in the future.

Possibly 3 may be candidates. Aloe lineata will offset a lot and may make small trunk. Aloe ramosissima can be stunted. Aloe plicatilis might work but would be very slow. Never had good luck with A. dichotoma in small pots-rot. A. barberae is just too large unless you're talking a large bonsai pot. Don't think A. ferox, A. marlothii, A. khamiesensis, or A. vaombe would make trunks if stunted. A. arborescens might be too hard to stunt. A. rupestris offsets in small pots and has added benefit of red color in sun. Just not sure any aloes really like little root room. May be a self limiting project.