I need your help to improve this jade plant. (My first jade!)
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Comments (23)Cool your willing to use a make shift gritty mix. May want to sift some of the peat materail from the BBS bagged C&S soil as well. What remains after sifting is some darker bark pieces that looks like a finer mulch and some forest humus. Useable yield may vary, would think one bag of BBS unsifted bag O'crap should yield enough for all of them. You could also ( with some extra time on your hands) pick up a bag of orchid bark smaller size is better but any size will work from a BBS as well . After soaking them in warm water for a while the chunks will be eaiser to ( by hand) break it into smaller barkier pieces. Prior to sifting any especialy for Perlite I'd suggest to use some sort of mask for beathing protecing. Big drainage hole ? As in orchid pot drainage hole big ? The demo pic is a bit off. less humor or more fun ? Blue arrows. look sort of good as ASAP potting candidates for some practice for you but if me I'd cut them for newer cleaner root. Red lines suggest cutting them for re rooting and potted later Purple circle I'm Sort of mixed on this one. It can go either way. Bigger can survive longer but adapts more slowly....See MoreDesperately need help with my Jade plant!
Comments (6)I have a very robust jade plant, the only thing I consistently do is ignore it. Don't overwater it. It's sitting on south facing sunny window, I feed it my left over tea water(which has sugar and tea leaves in it). Pluck a leaf and leave it so the end dries a little, plug it back into the soil. It will grow from a leaf....See MoreHelp Needed: I think I killed my very first Jade Plant
Comments (38)Hi Bernard, I hope I don't repeat something because I only got about halfway through this thread before I got sick of reading and decided to go ahead and post. #1. I don't know where the idea come from that calloused roots are good. Callouses can't absorb water. It's dry scar tissue that keeps in/out moisture, thereby protecting broken stems and so on. When a plant's roots are partially exposed by wildlife digging, etc., the exposed portion callouses to keep the plant from dehydrating, but that calloused portion will never absorb water again. We don't want roots to callous (except maybe Bonsai growers who like to expose some roots over a rock or something). Putting a root system into dry mix is never good for it. I challenge anyone to prove how dehydrating or callousing a root system can possibly be good for it. The previous poster who said the dry mix will dehydrate the plant is correct. Always use damp mix for re-potting a healthy root system. If the roots are dead, it might be a different story. #2. As you've already learned, it's easy to under-water gritty mix. Since it's pretty close to impossible to over-water grit, I'm with the posters who say to soak it deeply and often. If you're paranoid, soak it daily, or even twice daily, but then give the pot a quick, little down-up motion to dislodge any perched water. That way it'll always be just barely moist. If it were mine, and planted in grit, I'd just water every day or two until the roots are well-established. As one who has killed off whole, healthy root systems by under-watering grit (once weekly), I feel confident in telling you that you're extremely unlikely to drown a plant in grit. I'm watering my succulents daily right now, and some are STILL too dry. BTW, Danny, I think mentioned he prefers soil for jades. I don't disagree with him. The one I have in soil has grown much better than the ones I have in grit. Furthermore, the Aeonium I had in a 1:1 soil:pumice mix has a huge, beautiful, healthy root system. The big one in grit has puny roots. These aren't experiments with standardized variables, so something else might be going on, but for now, I'm also not certain that grit is always a better medium....See MoreSOS my Jade plant NEEDS help
Comments (6)You can get your plant through the winter in the soil it's in by getting your watering under control. Use a wooden dowel rod sharpened in a pencil sharpener pushed deep into the soil (all the way to the bottom is best) as a 'tell'. Don't water until it comes out dry. Your planting won't actually BE dry at that point because there will still be some available water, but the planting will need watering at that point. When you water, water thoroughly, until the soil is fully saturated and at least 20% of the total volume of water applied exits the pot. After the pot has stopped draining (and don't let it drain into the cache pot) hold the pot in one hand and move it downward, then sharply upward. You'll see the excess water the soil holds exiting the drain hole at this point. Continue the up/down motion until no more water exits the drain. You will have removed all the excess water that causes to problem. Then, allow the pot to dry down to the point you can repeat the watering cycle. You can fertilize each time you water, or every other time with low doses. Josh knows a lot about jades, so he can cover that with you, or I can if Josh is busy elsewhere. The water that drains out of the drain hole should never have a pathway back into the soil in the pot. That would, to a large degree, make moot the practice of flushing salts from the soil. Al...See More41 North (Zone 7a/b, NE, coastal)
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