I think that's just how they get when they're severely etiolated. There's one in my chemistry lab here at school that's about two feet long because it's nearly one hundred feet from any windows. I always feel bad for it haha.

Definitely A. vera in my opinion, and I think you have to be doing something right, as I see babies popping up through the soil.

Christopher

Thank you both :) I love how the little babies just suddenly pop up- they are darling!

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This post was edited by LatinLady on Thu, Aug 15, 13 at 0:19

Not Aloe vera, which isn't so speckled (if at all when young) - it's Aloe vera 'chinensis', which will have orange flowers. Aloe vera (the natural habitat for which has not been found - somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula / Horn of Africa area it's thought) has yellow flowers. Yours will have orange flowers.

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This post was edited by LatinLady on Thu, Aug 15, 13 at 0:22

Yeah, like Jeff said... not Aloe vera. -straight from the halls of Internet forum scholarship.

Latin Lady, it would be wise to read a post carefully before you spend so much time correcting. He did not say it wasn't an aloe. He said it was not an aloe VERA, rather aloe CHINENSIS. Note the word "aloe" in both plant names.

But thank you for supplying so much helpful information ... on an internet forum.

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This post was edited by LatinLady on Thu, Aug 15, 13 at 0:25

If the message was edited, it would have said "edited" at the bottom. So, no, I didn't think that was at all a possibility.

:)

To say it nicely back, I didn't edit my message, and as Danielle kindly points out, you can confirm that. There was no need for editing, no? No need to be so snarkily erudite here, latinlady - please spare me your negative-energy suggestions and we'll all get along fine.

And this is what an edited message looks like, with a picture of !!!!!!!!!!!!!Aloe!!!!!!!!!!! vera thrown in for you.

{{gwi:494028}}

Cheers,

Jeff

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