rosemariero, thanks! Hopefully you'll be able to easily find Aloe africana! If not then you're welcome to drive up and pull weeds for africana seeds... j/k (kinda). So you're a big fan of how I pronounce Kalanchoe? :P Well... I do have a ton of Kalanchoes... many of which are blooming right now. So maybe I'll make another video but this time featuring nothing but Kalanchoes. I might end up awesomely pronouncing "Kalanchoe" around 20 times! I think my favorite is Kalanchoe uniflora. hoovb! I planted it in 2010. It was in a 15 gallon pot from Rancho Soledad. In my blog entry for this video... I linked to my other blog entry about Hercules (with before and after photos). Towards the end of that blog entry I included this link to your blog. Your collection of tree Aloes is better than mine! Have you already made a tree Aloe video that I don't know about? If so, then please share the link! If not, then you should make one! The way I rationalized it was... that maybe even a bad video of my tree Aloes is better than no video. Just saw the photo of the mockingbird perched on your Hercules. Around three years ago some mockingbirds actually built a nest in my Hercules. Then they would dive bomb anybody who got even close to Hercules. Hercules grew so fast though that the nest fell out when the leaves it was built on fell off. Well... the baby birds had already flown the coop so I suppose Hercules didn't grow that fast. But then the next year the mockingbirds rebuilt the nest in Hercules. It's still there but empty now. I wish that I had pointed it out in the video.

I wanted to show the progress of my two A. polyphylla, but having issues adding the photos so bare with me a moment... I got them both in late March of this year. I had some better photos where my hand was beside them when I first potted them up, but I’m having trouble getting them from the cloud. Hopefully you can get the idea. Ok so the first two are the same plant end of March 2020 and then today. It’s grown quite a bit but no spiral yet. The ruler in the top pic shows that it was about 4 inches across in March. Edited to add: I finally got the March pictures from the cloud. WHEW! Here is the smaller one. It’s grown quite a few new leaves & has filled out. No spiral here yet, either. I’m happy they made it through the heat of the Summer. We’ve had some cold nights down in the 40’s F. I haven’t covered them so far. Do I need to? Thanks in advance for any advice you can share.

Well first of all, that's not Aloe Vera and second of all, I can't read most of his text. Terrible video production quality. It also looks like he's fudged it a bit and pulled out a pup at the end (with the biggest, outer most leaves ripped off to look like one leaf propagated it) and not a rooted leaf with a baby plant attached. It's a fake video.

I was thinking the same thing as Kara, but didn't know for sure. If you're hoping to propagate your aloe, they shoot out little "pups" very often -- entirely new independent aloe plants that you can simply remove and repot on their own!