Aloe Vera Flower

[Marijn]

My indoor plant Aloe Vera has flowered. The flower is on a long stalk and there are lots of indidvidual yellow flowers on the stalk. It has done this once before. I think I've had the plant for 18 months. I just wondered if it was rare for it to flower. My sister's one hasn't flowered, and mine was a baby from hers, she also gave my other sister one and that hasn't flowered. I keep mine on the lounge window sill looking out to the west.
Basically, I just wanted to know if this was unusual. Thanks

[gingejbee]

These are a type of cactus and usually flower only when they feel like it! The conditions have to be *just* right - so you must be doing something right.

[GrantA]

It is unable to blossom before it gets fully mature. It gets mature in around 4 years.

You should plant it in fast-draining soil. It is a desert plant, so over-watering would be harmful for it. To get the plant sun shine, put it in the window, where it will get ample of sunshine. When aloe plant gets grown up and matures enough to bear a stalk, it needs lots of light to bloom.

Check the soil that it should get completely dry before you water your plant again. Don't water more than a cup or two in winter season.

[heathfield]

Congratulations! They'll normally flower best when growing outdoors in a suitable climate, but getting them to flower indoors in the UK is quite rare.

[Marijn]

Ooh! Thank you very much for your answers. I'm so pleased. I thought I hadn't seen anybody else's bloom before. And I didn't actually know they could flower when it did it the first time. I'm usually so bad with plants and I only have four in the house, the other three are prickly cacti.
I've had to move the Aloe Vera today to a window looking south, because the stalk with the flowers on was touching the ceiling of the window sill and I thought it might bend and break as it was pushing into it. Will it be ok in it's new position? Thanks