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Would you separate these baby aloe plants?

Would you separate these baby aloe plants?

I bought a mid-size aloe plant a few months ago that had ELEVEN pups growing with it. These three were the smallest ones and had very few roots, so I put them together and abstained from watering them for a bit. Now they’re solidly growing and I wonder if now is a good time to put them in their own pots. (Summer, northern hemisphere, if that matters)

Some context is that I sell plants at markets, mostly because I am completely out of plant space in my house, so I’d want to separate so I can send them lovingly away, lol.

I’m fairly new to spider plants (though not plants in general), and I don’t seem to have the correct language to Google this!

I’m familiar with the floofy babies at the ends of runners. But what about new growth that develops in the elbows of runners and isn’t ‘terminal’ in the way babies are (that is, cutting them off would cut off the entire runner)?

Pic 1 is what I mean, and pic 2 has it highlighted. Pic 3 is the start of something similar - basically, what makes “point O” (the circled bit) different than the babies to the left? And what do I do when it gets really heavy?

u/Cool-Illustrator-539 — 4 months ago