Aloe ID Help (probably)

[EvaLynn]

I'm guessing these two are aloes, but I don't know which ones. They're both in 4-inch pots.

Thanks for your help.

Plant #1, from the side

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Plant #1, from above

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Plant #2, from the side

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Plant #2, from above

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[snarfie]

First one is aloe ferox

[KittieKAT]

Igot both, the 2nd one people tell me its a hybrid aloe i think it was called "lightning" or something....
Crap i gatta go look it up in an old post then get back to ya, it took a while to find the correct i.d for mine and i always forget to lable stuff andeven at a young age my mind is slipping away...lol

[EvaLynn]

Thanks for the help, KittieKAT. I did a little Googling, and I'm thinking it might be Aloe "White Stag" instead of "White Lightning" because it has more white. For all I know, they're the same thing but named differently by different growers. It's helpful just knowing it's an aloe hybrid.

[EvaLynn]

Also, I was looking at an aloe ID page, and I was wondering whether the first might be Aloe aculeata instead of Aloe ferox. How would one tell the difference? The flowers?

[KittieKAT]

Flowers would help most likely, I've had mine for 2/3 years no flowers
But you gatta be very careful with the spikes on these guys leaf tips cause sometimes they puncture thru the back of the leaves ontop of the lower ones and they start to shrivel up and don't look so pretty.. i shove a small piece of perlite or something in between the spike and the top leaves skin to make sure it doesn't happen but yours look like they have rotated their leaves a lot better then mine have, also be careful i knocked mine over they other day and it tore the skin on the side of the leaf that holds them to it's body and its kinda hanging off

[adetheproducer]

I would have said Aloe aculeata for the first one too.

[EvaLynn]

Thanks for the tips, KittieKAT and Ade. I'll give it a few years and post another photo when it's larger or, if I'm lucky, flowers. Maybe we'll have an easier time of figuring it out then.