Aloe vera is a succulents family houseplant and it requires low maintenance, less attention, and most likely pest resistance plant. When your aloe vera turning yellow, you have to check your plant’s pot’s soil has a drain issue. After referring to this guide, you can easily identify these problems and you can fix them.
Due to improper maintenance, it can turn aloe plant leaves will fade in color. There can be several reasons. You have to identify deeply in order to correct this issue. The color of a well-cared aloe plant should be dark green or grey-green.
First, make sure that you have properly irrigated your pot. Your plant soil should be a good drain and it should have a 60% sand and 40% soil mixture field. Underwatering can be wilting plants and slow down the growth. If you overwatering the aloe plant it can rot the roots dies.
Why Is My Aloe Plant Turning Yellow?
There can be several reasons for the Aloe plant turning yellow-green. The main reason is your plant receives too much moisture. The plant may receive high moist because of,
- Poorly drained soil mixture.
- Overwatering.
- Poor drainage pot.
Check Aloe Vera Soil Mix Recipe Well-Drained.
Your aloe plant soil should well-drained. This plant is growing in an arid environment which means requires little water. So your indoor plant should give a similar environment to rapidly grow. Once you add water to the pot’s field, it should quickly drain.
You have to give more attention to the plant’s sold mixture. Aloe vera soil mix should consist of 60% sand, 20% compost, and 20% normal soil. If your pot’s field not well-drained, you have to immediately change it. If it has too much moisture, aloe roots rot and eventually the plant can die. Aloe perfectly grows in cactus potting soil.
How to check water requirements.
Watering is the most important thing. Before you water the aloe vera plant, you have to ensure that the pot’s soil dries out. Normally these succulent family plants require very little water requirement.
There is no exact watering schedule. When your plant’s surface soil dries out you can start the water, but never let the plant wilt. Apart from that, you can use a chopstick or similar stick to identify the aloe plant soil moisture level. Dig the dry chopstick on the field and wait for around 60 seconds. Then check stick has moisture. Once you add water should be allowed to dry out for a few days before you water it again.
If you need to maintain a high humidity level in the plants’ environment, you can use a pebble tray. This will increase the plant’s close environment humidity level and eventually it reduces the water requirement.
You can read more about how to care for indoor aloe vera plants.
Aloe Pot drainage.
Another main reason for aloe yellow leaves is the pot’s drainage issue. Always check the bottom of the pot has enough drainage holes and they are not blocked. Cover the pots’ drainage hole using a proper mesh that does not hold the excess water on the pot.
