Good for you seeme! Did you know you can also let your jade cutting callous over and then place it directly in soil? Some choose to dip the cuttings in rooting hormone, but I just stick it right in the soil, keep an eye on it until it's established, and voila! I have another baby jade. In fact, I have a baby jade nursery going on!

Last summer I tried starting jades in water but they went all mushy and died. Same thing happened in soil. Is there a special trick?

I have 6 leeaves rooting now. its so amazing howuch a little leaf can grow into such a big plant

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The good thing about snow is that it makes your yard look just like your neighbors!

I have the subshrub variety of jade and it will root if I leave any dropped leaves lying on the soil during it's growing cycle when it gets water every few days. The propogation is about 25% because I literally don't even see them until they grow up and over the pot edge. (I have mine in a hanging pot) With the stem cuttings I don't even let them scar over I just stick them in the same pot with mama plant and they do great. I usually get 100% propogation with that method. I've never tried the water method.

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I had a similar question about Jades my this is my sisters plant (she is nightmare with plants) so I brought this one home with me in hopes of saving it. I repotted in new soil. It had leaves all down the stems but they were all droopy and dead, so I took them the leaves at the top are pretty healthy Will the leaves ever grow back on the rest of the stems or should cut this down and reroot the goodparts.

Like most plants, Jades rarely put out new growth except at the ends of stems. For that reason, I recommend that you cut back each of the two stems with leaves to a point about an inch above the Y. New growth will then come in at those points and grow upward from there. This will help get rid of some of the legginess.

Your Jade has suffered from lack of light. That is why the leaves are small and the stems are lanky. Place your Jade on your brightest windowsill. Allow the soil to dry out almost completely in between waterings. Do not fertilize it for at least a year.

I have had great luck with growing and rooting jade plants and the soil I use is 1/2 cactus/succulent soil to 1/2 good potting soil.

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kirksgirl

Why did you sister spray it with that?

Heard of shining the leaves, but not to spray..



dodge

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''''Those who live in the Lord Never See Each Other For The Last Time!''''

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Originally posted by Wrennie:
kirksgirl,
I think your sister needs an artificial plant.

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I agree with 100%, she had commited some serious crimes against plants...LOL. She read a tip in a magazine where they said you could boost plant growth by putting gelatin in the soil- and she did! I also brought that plant home with me and the soil was literally like concrete- I could not chop it with a trowel, I could not soak it, I could not get it out of the pot...I gave her some ivy- I have found that stuff impossible to kill and easy to reroot...We'll see how long that will live

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Originally posted by dodge:
SHE WONT MAKE A FARMER.........

YOU SO NICE TO ADOPT HER PLANTS....
DODGE

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Sadly It wasn't so much an adoption as a burial, she also killed a beauiful boston fern(That one made me want to cry)But I am trying to send her more towards succulants- something that can take some abuse and still survive. I told her to get an Aloe.