Walaikum assalam

Shukran Jazeelan

Have you been to Doha?

Thanks a lot Dear Laticauda, really appreciate it, have added some more soil, hope it will get better, Thanks, Take care, Keep in touch

How are the aloes today?

I have never been to Doha (or really anywhere the than the US, Korea and visited Japan.)

how is the weather out there? Hopefully tonight we see the moon :)

more water would be nice... but they don't look too bad to me... .just dehydrated

Thanks a lot Dear Laticauda for asking, so nice of you, yes after adding few more soil and watering a bit, they look better now, Thanks a lot, really appreciate it,

The Weather is constantly 44 C, its summer time now, Thanks, Take care, Have a great and Blessed year ahead

Dear Palmbob. Thanks a lot for your message, should I water it daily for Aloe Vera too, as the temperature now is constantly 44 c almost everyday, Previously I was watering twice a week, Thanks in advance,

I would water them when they look like they need it. With it being so hot, everyday may be good for them. It's hard to tell without being there.

If you were doing twice a week before, maybe try three times a week and see how that goes. When you water, do you saturate it or just give it a little bit to soak the top layer?

It has been one month. How are these aloes doing?

Here's a picture of one of my aloes.

Dear Laticauda Thanks a lot for asking they are doing good now, most of them have turned to at-least somewhat green, I have been watering them almost everyday. Thanks

I wish mine could turn fully green like yours, they are getting there, far better than before, as it is so hot now, sometimes around 49 degrees Celsius, thanks

Well, it had not too long ago turned purple because the potting medium was too heavy and it got stuck in the rain. It got edema in the two largest leaves. I guess it's grown a lot since I put it outside.

Is there anything you can add to your soil to help retain more water on top like pea gravel? I know that holds in water like crazy in my small potted plants.

Also, if you get a chance, I would like to see a picture :)

I wonder if in hot weather like that pea gravel on top would get too hot? - just wondering since I don't have that problem with our highs hardly reaching 30C, and if only for few days.

I think I would give them little shade 'canopy'?

I think a thin white cloth over the hottest ( between noon and Asr) angle of the sun would be a great idea. They are pretty tough, you can probably save a lot of water by giving them a little shade during that part of the day

Even piece of lattice may work...

Thanks a lot Dear Rina and Laticauda for your suggestions, I will try combinations of both of your suggestions, it is actually extremely hot now, I can't even stand for 1 minute, it is like burning hot, I will post few pictures in the morning, it is 23:00 hrs now here, Thanks

Wow I hear that region is having a heatwave, I definitely suggest shading your plants from 11 am- 4pm, the sun there is so unbelievably strong one can get a sunburn in a matter of minutes. The extreme temps might be even too much for most succulents, I'd suggest shading heavily and keeping an eye if the heat is pushing them into dormancy.

Yes you are right @ Dear Mintylemonade

As the temperature is burning hot usually above 49 degree Celsius everyday, thanks

maufie

There is much more green in some of them - mostly plants to the left in your photo - perhaps they get just a little shade from something (I see a shadow on the wall).

Dear Rina actually it is window air conditioning unit here in Qatar, they are getting 24/7 water dropping from 3 floors from all the 3 air conditioning units.

Thats the reason they are little green I guess, as it is extremely hot here, thanks

Either you guys have a different form of Aloe or my nursery sold me a different form of Aloe as the vera... Mine doesn't have prominent spikes on the "leaves".

Aloe Vera has many different forms depending on its care and maturity level.

His are very mature so the spikes are prominent and that is exacerbated by the dehydration they are facing.

So what's up with the two on the right of the picture? Are they dormant? Should they be removed from the ground? I've never had it get so hot that my aloes went dormant .

In z7 you hopefully don't get that kind of temps - if yes, we have a problem :)

Compare the first photo and the last one maufie posted: plants on left are greener now - it is just a little more shade and just a little more water what I think makes the difference; I don't know if that is actually dormancy since they do like hot and dry (comparing to humid) climate; from what I read, they flower much better in desert conditions. Winter is supposed to be the dormant season when very little water is required. According to University of Arizona, there are some 180 varieties available.

So basically, if those two red aloes get a bit of shade, they'll probably turn green again too.

Do they look in danger of --I don't wanna say it-- dying?

I would worry about them dying too, but look at the dates of the posts: first one is June 16th, so photo was taken no later than that date. Second post is today-August 4th. So I am thinking that if they didn't die in about 6 weeks or longer, and had been sitting in same location they must be acclimitized well...of course that is just the way I think :) and could be very wrong! And greening of the plants on left suggest to me that even little bit of shade and little more water (drops from window AC units) makes quite a difference

Dear laticauda the ones on the right side which looks red now one of them produced beautiful tall red flowers and another one produced yellow flowers, attracting loads of humming birds, they looked stunning just few months before this extreme hot summer

Wow, that must have been beautiful.

Alhamdulillah

Dear Rina yes you are right, aloe era are extremely hard plants and they love this hot weather and sun, But not extreme hot Like now.

I saw few pups growing around some of the slightly green aloes now.

I think they will be back to normal soon producing amazing tall beautiful flowers attracting loads of humming birds again, thanks

Yes Dear Laticauda they look really good with stunning beautiful flowers and also those flowers attract loads of humming birds too.

I will post them when they flower again very soon, this is one of the main reasons I love aloevera's as they usually don't require much care unlike now because of the extreme hot weather, Thanks

We're you able to shade them with cloth? This will also help you use less water for them or rather, they will be able to use more of the water that you give to it before the water evaporates away.

Dear Laticauda, for the ones on the right I will try to shade them with cloth and keep posted of any further improvements, thanks

Thanks a lot to everyone for all of your suggestions, really appreciate it, thanks

Thank you for updating photos and I hope you'll remember to take new photos when it blooms - looking forward to see them!

If I remember correctly, true Aloe vera blooms yellow. Red blooming are very close related species - but whatever the color, must be beautiful to see them and hummingbirds too.

Rina

Dear Rina yes definitely will post them with flowers soon.

I had both yellow flowers as well as light reddish ones on the right side Aloes all the aloes look the same for me

I couldn't recognise any real differences among these but the light reddish ones looked really awesome than the yellow flowers which looked like bananas. Thanks