Excellent as usual, Mike!

All truly beautiful. Thanks for the look.

Gorgeous!! that's all I can say :) What kind of jade do you have on the 3rd, 8th, 13th pics? Thanks for sharing the pictures :)

Natalia

Very awesome pictures! I'll try to remember to take some pictures of some of mine tomorro when the sun is out.

Hi Mike your jades are great looking aas always....good to see you, have missed you around here.....

Howdy, Mike!
I sure wish mine were looking this good!
My 'Hummel's Sunsets' all have burnt edges on the pale leaves... :-(

Josh

Looking good Mike! I hope your doing as good as your plants look!

Rob

Nice! These plants are amazing, really makes me want to do better for mine! Becoming increasingly tempted to put them outside this summer despite my worries about pests...

Wow Mike...they are ALL gorgeous!! but I have to say that 'red horn tree' is my most favorite!! Just lovely!! The colors on all your Jades are all coming in very nicely. Funny how different our Jades are looking this time of year, yours are SO colorful while mine are mostly green and slowly going to very slow growth in this heat.

Thanks for sharing!!

My two small hummel cuttings are coloring up nicely.

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Alright, Mike, here's your update! ;-)

A combination pot of 'Hummel's Sunset' and 'Crosby's Compact,' courtesy of Mike,
along with 'Gollum' and 'Hobbit' cuttings that I added to fill out the container.

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More cuttings from Mike's unusual variegated mother plant. I've grown these hard,
which has kept them quite small - a bigger pot would yield faster and larger growth.

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Here we have a 'Gollum' that I grew from leaf, along with a very nice variegated Jade (from Mike).
The third Jade, also from Mike, is Crassula ovata 'Gargoyle,' a mutation found on an ordinary
Jade in Glen's (gmaculata's) collection.

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Two more Jades from Garden Webbers :-)
The top Jade in the lotus-shaped pot is the only Jade that has bloomed for me. The blooms are pink....
as are the blooms that will hopefully appear on the Jade cuttings in the oval-shaped pot.

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Bad picture, my apologies. I crammed together three of my Finger Jades....slowing 'Gollum' bottom left,
fast-growing 'Gollum' in the middle, and my favorite, 'Skinny Fingers,' in the upper right.

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This is my tallest Jade currently, which is a 'Hobbit' that Mike rescued from a closed down nursery.
It was quite lop-sided, so I had to remove a lot of foliage at first. Now I'm refining the branches
on the opposite side and slowly bringing the height back down.

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Now the small-leafed Jades, the 'Crosby's Compact.' The larger of the two was also rescued by Mike,
and the smaller one was rescued by me from serious neglect at a local nursery. I hard pruned the smaller
plant and rooted the cuttings (see next pic).

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These are the cuttings I rooted after trimming the 'Crosby's Compact.'
When grown with little water and high light, 'Crosby's Compact' produces stunning color.

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No update would be complete without a shot of my Mother Jade, my first Jade...the plant that got
me started down this succulent path. After a near-death freeze, she's back and looking wonderful!

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And, of course, my Stump! This large cutting, from Josiah, suffered the same near-death freezing....
As a result, only the roots and a couple inches of trunk survived....but I'm building it back up ;-)

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Lastly, Crassula arborescens - the Silver Dollar Jade.
This stately, tree-like Crassula, indeed, is due for a topping to bring it back into balance.
I will cut it in half, chopping just above the second (middle) branch.

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That's certainly not all of the Jades in my collection, but a fair representation, I believe ;-)

Josh

Always wonderful pictures greenman28.

Here is another picture of a nice Jade plant starting to get some nice red edges.

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Wish the sun was out today for some better pictures.

greenman, those are beautiful jades. I was wondering if Silver Dollar Jade and 'Bluebird' are synonymous.

i just took a few photos. all my plants are in all day sun. today i have moved my Hummel's Sunsets to just an hour or two of direct afternoon sun with lots of indirect very bright light, just out of all day direct sun.

i think that my camera tries too hard to "fix" my pictures for me, it fixes most of the color out. or the mid day sun is too strong to see it well, they do have more color than i can seem to show you.

i will try again in a week or so. maybe less light will allow the green to darken a bit.

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A cutting from i got from Norma
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pest control on one of my small Hummel's Sunsets
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crassula ovata "Ruby" also from Norma
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Kalanchoe luciae
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a few haws
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this on may be small. but has been growing very well the last month or so.
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VERY Nice Jades Josh...looking nice and healthy and getting some pretty colors as well. Thanks for the update.

Americangolden, with your weather and some sun you should start to really see some nice red color on those tips, nice Jade.

Hey Josh! Absolutely astounding on yours. I love them all and the lighting that brings out even more color is beautiful. So bright, crisp and clean looking. They look like they light up. The golden color in the Crosby plant is to die for. All that golden color.
Thanks so much for the update as usual. You certainly have a gift with these plants.

Hello Pug:-) I have been looking at yours posted here and I am amazed at how they are growing and the flowering thing you have going on there. Are you sure those flowers weren't glued on? lol

Jademan. Those are beautiful! I love the colors in particular the red hue coming on your Ruby. Norma sent me a couple of Hummel sunsets and I too shall have to update on them. Very nice. How is your Red Horn doing?

Americangolden: I can see much color coming on yours. I'll bet you are thrilled to see the change. It is like waiting for the fall foliage to take on vibrant colors. Very nice pics and thank you.

Hey Rob, thanks! Good to see you.

Hex, thank you. Do you have any?

Thank you Marguerite and Natalia.

Chris! What's up? Good to see you. Thank you.
I have been so out of touch with many due to a lack of time and computer issues. The computer is up and the time, well, another story. We shall chat soon.

Mike

"Hello Pug:-) I have been looking at yours posted here and I am amazed at how they are growing and the flowering thing you have going on there. Are you sure those flowers weren't glued on? lol"

Ha, ha,Mike NO Comments>...not saying it is not saying its not,lol...guess you'll have to stay tuned :o)

Mike,

very well thx. the color has faded a bit, it has been very hot and humid with plenty of rain.

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Hey Mike,

Hope you are feeling better, let me hear from you when you have the chance...

Christopher

MIKE, et al.
WOW! Great colorful collection! Mike, I first saw your great collection on Apr 2011. Although mine does not have the wonderful colors that you all have, I am just thankful to have this much greenery in the desert called Las Vegas. :-) Here are my jades and their other succulent friends.

The oldest of my jades (crassula, gollum) are 12 years old. Lots of my little cutlings came from these two. They spend winters indoors. By spring, they are back outdoors. But with summer temps now reaching 105, they're under the front porch.

Height - 18" from soil, Canopy - 18" diameter, Pot - 14" diameter.

Height - 24" from soil, Canopy - 20" diameter, Pot - 14" diameter. Pruning this so canopy stays around 20" but not restricting it's height. This used to be wider than it's height.

Crassula terracotta basket, front-&-center.

Trying to train this one to sweep/curve like a bonsai.

My attempt to start from 1 leaf. Outside all winter, outside all summer, in full sun, even at 105 degrees. I am training it to be super-tough :-)

I do not know what these next 3 succulents are because I threw away their tags 3 years ago when I got them. Maybe you folks can i.d. them for me?

My indoor cutlings. Not this year little ones. Maybe next year you get to play outside. For now, a bright sunny window is all you get.

I thought about whacking this down so it is not too leggy, but I kinda like the leggy growth, and this is my only leggy one.

The family room quartet. Always indoors.

These 5 get to stay deckside because they've proven to be very hardy. That side of the house is unsheltered from strong winds, winter cold, and hot summer afternoon. But these 5 seem to be able to tough it out better than the others. Only goes inside when winter temps are below freezing. But I do have to water the little ones frequently in the summer.

I'll tell you what! Never mind having color on your jades, I love the color of that pool water and the water feature besides..

It looks like you might live at a 5 star resort like home. Oh, were we talking about jades? Those are beautiful Alex. I love them all. They add such character to your place for sure.

Training to curve seems to be working. Good job.

Hey Jade_man! Thanks a lot. It looks very healthy. You should see mine since I took the photo. It has fallen so many times, I marred the top leaves. It's very top heavy and I need to put in into a clay pot now. Thanks again.

Chris, hello and I will very soon. It's been crazy about here and the heel has been killing me these days. I hoe it gets better from here since it has been almost a year since I broke it:-(

Mike

Mike.

Thanks and Thanks. Didn't realize until reading your last post that you broke your heel. Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Back to your jades (and the other posters too) - I noticed the pots are small relative to the size of the jade. I always thought my pots are on the large end and have contemplated down-sizing (especially my 12-yr. olds). Should I downsize? They're all healthy, but I wonder if they are better off in smaller pots? Is there a formula/guide you use?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

Hi Mike,
What an amazing collection of jades you have.. absolutely gorgeous. Love the port afra a few pics down. I have a variegated one also but the cream colour is nothing like yours. Only pop on here from time to time, so don't always catch everybodys pages, but when i do, im blown away. Thanks for sharing.
PS, greenman and jade_mans pics, also amazing!!!
Don't know what it is about jades but I love them :)

alex_i: Taking a stab at IDing your three NOIDs (and I could be wrong on them), I'd say:

1. Graptoveria 'Opalina' (G. amethystinum x E. colorata); if not that, it's at least some sort of Graptoveria sp.

2. Aeonium sp., maybe 'Kiwi'...? But definitely an Aeonium.

3. Sedum treleasei.

Anyone else have any feedback on that?



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2. A regular ol' Aeonium haworthii, looks to me. 'Kiwi' is the variegated form.

My jades aren't doing so good...

I'd love some advice on whether (and if so, how) or not these can be salvaged. They were both outside, kept out of direct sunlight, but daytime temps where I live average between 100 and 110 F.

First is a C. obliqua 'Tricolor':
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You can see that not everything is dead; there are even little buds popping up along some of the stems. I'm just afraid that, if I don't do something, the whole plant will continue to deteriorate; then again, if I DO do something, and it's the wrong thing, I'll end up killing it myself.

The second is C. arborescens, Silver Dollar Jade. I was so proud of this plant when I first got it:
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But now look:
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It's sunburned in some places (and I don't know how that happened, because I was very diligent in making sure it never got direct sun), and it's all wilted. Will C. arborescens root from leaves? Should I try to grow new plants from cuttings? Can I save this one?

Any help or advice would be great.


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Jessica

Did you repot you suxs after you got them? the mix doesn't look like fast draining. you mentioned in other thread that you were afraid of them getting too dry so you watered them often. my guess is overwatering. I live in Brooklyn and we had the same high temps but my crassulas look OK. Mine are in gritty mix

Inna

Hi CG...sorry to see that you are loosing your plants...
those are 2 plants that I can't grow...I'm interested in seeing what other have to say...maybe I can learn what I did wrong with mine and maybe try again.....
I hope someone helps you save your plants, good luck..linda

Wow, what a treat this was. My Jade plant died from winter exposure last year. Now I have to go buy another one!

CG, I'd put the blame on that mix, which would make proper watering very difficult.
The trunks of both plants can be salvaged, but you'll need to bare-root and re-pot them
into an appropriate mix - something porous, fast-draining, and gritty.

Josh

Inna & Josh: I did not and have not repotted them. I was tempted to, but I found that when I watered them, the water seemed to flush right out almost as quickly as I was watering. Maybe it was just running along the sides of the pot...? I'll repot as soon as I can (right now, I have several assignments for school that I need to work on, and I'm already starting to fall asleep at the keyboard). I do have ingredients for a gritty mix - standard potting soil (not organic, and no chunks of peat, etc.), coarse sand (not fine beach sand or desert sand - the larger sand grains, more like pea gravel), and perlite. If I'm missing anything, please let me know. Thanks so much.


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