# Aloe Vera babies, repotting

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloe-vera-babies-repotting/850191 "2020-03-24T18:16:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloe-vera-babies-repotting/850191/1 "2020-03-24T18:16:23Z")

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Got a large wide leaf that needs repotting. It has shed bottom leaves many times creating a long “neck”, has leaned to around 45 deg.  
Need to know if I should bury the neck. I figger it’ll just re-incline if I don’t.  
Also need to know how to make it have "pups. YouTube videos titled how to are in foreign language.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloe-vera-babies-repotting/850191/2 "2020-03-24T18:24:46Z")

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Burying the neck may be what leads to pups. That isn’t a definitive answer, but I remember once long ago having an AV that produced a bunch of pups without my prompting, and IIRC it had a long prone stem touching the soil.