I've often encountered a delay in transplanted pears leafing out- they suffer from the stress of transplanting more than any other species I grow. I wouldn't count on similar behavior from an apple. I had a 4-year old pear that was bare root transplanted from light soil into a growbag this year that didn't leaf out as of 3 weeks ago (about mid-april would have been on schedule). I pulled it out of its bag to see if my helpers hadn't butchered the root system. They hadn't, so I drastically cut back branches and put back into moist soil and it leafed out a couple of days later. Contrary to Carl Whitcomb's research, I believe that pears transplant better with hard pruning. A nurseryman that sells tens of thousands of pear trees to commercial growers steered me to this belief. He said that he'd seen entire new commercial pear orchards fail (in the south) because the bare root trees weren't pruned at planting.

Congrats ... beautiful bloom! Now that Peaches mentions it, the foliage does look a bit like my African daisy foliage. If so, I'm jealous. I still don't even have buds on mine. Good going :)

Excellent! Thanks for helping, Pug! ;-) Mari, your Jades are nice and green, and they look pretty healthy. The only recommendation you might receive is that the pots are a bit on the large size for the type of soil that you're using. With a more porous, faster draining soil, you can use any size container. But with a water-retentive soil, you want a smaller volume that will dry sooner and prevent root-rot (which is the main concern with Jades). Josh

Thank you for posting these beauties!