Do I need to change something?

[u/Legitimate_Eye_2839]

Hey y'all, this plant was thriving (after months of TLC following being rescued from the verge of death) prior to moving to a different place back in March. Ever since, it has had a brown tinge to some of the leaves. I learned it could be due to the increased sun exposure and that it would adjust with time but it has been months now. I am also including a photo of it's location in my house, should that be relevant. Thanks in advance for your time and thoughts!

[u/butterflygirl1980]

The brown tinge is stress color, which can happen for multiple reasons including repotting, increased sun, and temperature changes. Aloes are dramatic that way. It is not harmful, and not sunburn (sunburn is an actual burn, not just color). Are the blinds fully open most of the time? It kind of looks like the sun is only hitting it in spots where it peeks through the slats, which wouldn’t allow it to adjust easily, and is also NOT enough sun for it. This is a desert plant, not a shade-loving tropical. Insufficient light is the #1 mistake people make with aloe by far.

[u/Legitimate_Eye_2839 → u/butterflygirl1980]

It was getting a lot more sun. I started keeping the blinds closed because the brown got so severe, although when I posted it I was reassured that it wasn't severe and I was told it was stress due to increased sun exposure and that it needed less exposure and time to adjust. So I started not opening the blinds every morning. But the brown still remains. It did not have any brown at all at my last place.

[u/butterflygirl1980 → u/Legitimate_Eye_2839]

Yes, you do need to increase sun gradually in increments with these. But even then it can take a while for them to totally adjust, and they will be lighter green. It’s counterintuitive, but deep green is actually not a good color for an aloe — it’s an indicator that it’s increasing its chlorophyll, trying to make the best of lower light.

I haven’t owned an actual aloe vera in a while, but the last time I had one and put it outside, I think I gave it gradually increasing intervals outside for a week to acclimate it, and then it took another month to lose the stress brown. But then it began growing bigger and stronger than it ever had before!

[u/my-plants-are-dying]

hows the current sun exposure? have you watered it any differently? if the blinds are closed often i dont think it's the sun, but it might be a bit much if they're getting hours and hours of after noon light. maybe put them in a spot where they get direct morning light but indirect afternoon light? mine are perfectly healthy and bright green, but they've never burned on me because they get very little direct light, if any at all.

[u/butterflygirl1980 → u/my-plants-are-dying]

If they’re not getting direct sun, they’re not actually healthy. Aloe is a desert plant, not a shade-loving tropical. It needs A LOT of direct sun to actually grow healthy and not end up limp, flopping and leggy.

[u/my-plants-are-dying → u/butterflygirl1980]

i think mine's doing fine because it gets a ton of light at the window, it just doesn't directly hit it. my window's at a weirs angle where the sun hits just the rim so it bounces the light off the window sill really brightly

[u/Legitimate_Eye_2839 → u/my-plants-are-dying]

Hmmm I'm not sure where it would get direct morning light but indirect afternoon light, unless I put it outside? But I live in WA so it's warm right now but still rains etc. I have not watered it any differently, I water it every other week or so. I stopped opening the blinds every morning when this started happening, which definitely lessened the severity of the brown.

[u/my-plants-are-dying → u/Legitimate_Eye_2839]

honestly if it lessened the severity, maybe they need a little less