I have just acquired a Jade plant that had two trunks one of them had a little rot but I decided to cut them in half anyway and planned to toss the rotted one, now I'm not so sure so I dug out the rot and am hoping for the best on that one. My question is about the other half, they actually broke apart (don't ask) now I am worried about keeping this one alive. The root system is more off white or yellowish then the fresh green you see from a cutting. I am worried that it is rotted. The rot was on the other one way, way up from the root system so I don't think it is that. I think that this plant was potted in some top soil of some sort not something for a jade plant anyhow. I have taken it out of it's pot and I am now drying out the root system and the old dirt so that I can eventually get all of the dirt out and re-pot it into a grittier mix but I'm worried that I may have to cut off all the large roots and treat it like a cutting because of the off white color. The question is what color are jade plant roots supposed to be? Another question, can a cutting of a jade plant grow larger or rather if you cut off a large trunk can that trunk grow larger or does it just sprout leaves and the trunk stays the same? I'm really worried about this thing but it has been living in these poor soil conditions for 20+ years so it can't be that unhappy though it did have some spindly hanging branches which I promptly cut off too. I also think it had scale or something so I cut off most of the leaves and severely pruned it so it is a shadow if it's former self at this point and I just want to save it and nurse it to the glory it deserves. Any advice???