Hi Rina,

Yes, this is the same one. It has been through a lot! I was hoping it was just because it was weak as you say. I am just a little concerned about rot or something some of of the cuts had some black spots in the center of the stem when I cut them I wonder if it was these two ..

Black in the center of the stem doesn't sound very good, that's probably those branches. It does sound like rot, & it will spread if you don't get rid of it I think.
I would cut them to healthy tissue, dust with cinnamon & hope for the best! Don't overwater (I am sure you know that!!!)
I had that happen when pruning not-so-healthy plant.
Here is one I pruned on Dec.12 (photo is Jan. 14-just about mo later, and there were no leaves left-sorry, didn't take photo of it pruned):

Here is same plant today:

I left branches longer since I am planning on pruning them all off in spring & few are nice & thick.

Here is a close-up of cut I did few days ago & dusted with cinnamon-looks like it is drying well:

Rina

You would be amazed at hot much rot a jade can take. Having a brach rot like that happens to me all the time. It almost always stops. The rot to really worry about is at the base. But then I have a lot of jade so I can be a bit cavalier about it.

Thank you both for your input. I think I will go ahead and cut the area back further just to be safe. I have enough jades but not enough to be cavalier about a little rot. :-)

Is this rot? It is still firm but what are those little dark spots?

It sort of looks like you cut it with a steel utility knife or something. There's something in the jade that reacts with the steel.

Thanks Nil. Should I do any thing about it? I cut it with a razor blade, and I'm not sure what it is made of...

I dust all my cuts with powdered sulfur, but I hear cinnamon works as well. Most people just let it dry and callous over.

Razor blades are steel so that is most likely a reaction with the steel.

Hi everyone,

I have pretty much decided that it was rot. I let it be, thinking it would eventually stop like Nil said. But it just didn't seem to. So, I decided to cut again. But I was still seeing those black spots, so I kept cutting. Then I gave up. Dusted with Cinnamon, came back a bit later to see this....

Where those dark spots were, it seemed to be pulled out and hard, from the cinnamon. I figured I should show you guys for better advise and decided to cut back another node.

This is how it looks inside.

This is the smaller of the two. I have it cut back as far as possible without up rooting it and cutting it completely off of the main trunk. Which I am considering doing. I DO NOT want this crap to spread! Also, this plant also had some nasty soft brown scale when I obtained it. Any chance this crap is from the scale? I have not seen any live bugs on it since I brought it home though.

Here are some photos of the whole plant. What do you all think I should do? Do I need to keep cutting. Stop watering for a few weeks and wait for it to stop? I should mention that this area of the trunk is FIRM. Very firm. But I noticed that I did not have any new growth from where it was previously pruned so I felt like it must not be healthy and maybe I should cut. Interestingly, farther up the larger branch I got some nice healthy cuttings so I am going to see if it'll root for me.

Angle 1, you can see where I cut both branches. All other stems appear healthy and previous cuts have new growth.

Angle 2, opposite side. Just so you can see the rest of the plant.

and angle 3, I wanted to show where the large branch was cut. This actually takes care of a crazy lean situation that was happening with this guy. See below for previous pic.

This post isn't returning to the front of the feed! I really hope it does soon because I would really like y'alls advise on what I should do. Leave it alone? Keep cutting? I feel like I prune, it heals, then I prune again. Maybe 3 or 4 times now. I just want it to heal and be healthy!!!

If me I'd of taken it out of the pot to see what I have for roots a few days after the second cut with no progress

I'm a little confused about your comment nomen. Are you saying to wait a few days, then - if there is no progress, take it out of the pot to inspect the roots for rot? Or I should've done that already?

Last pic it seems to be looking better at the distance.

As far as root inspecting I would have checked them after no improvment a few days after the second cut, adding a geneous soil airation, modified the mix if needed while out of the pot.

Try to get past the rot concerns first, let the bending be a different story as well as the droppy leaves more brightness will help with it but it'll take a while to get them from current viewto that wonderful full sun out side location.

Thanks for the clarification. I wont have time until this weekend, but I will pull it out then. I'm thinking I will likely remove that smaller area of the plant. My biggest thing is that I am not 100% certain that it is rot. Like I mentioned, it is firm, and doesn't smell funny. I am keeping it in a sunny window for now. It'll get filtered sun. I'm not going to water it for at least a few weeks and see if it bounces back.

Dont rush it if it looses a season to recover it back from rot ( if it is rot) then accept it. I've a different crassulecea that took two seasons and a few out of the pot inspections before the Wahhh lahh.

it's that time of year when they also start pushing new growth and are activly growing I will often open the top half of a window ( singular) during the sunny time of the day. In short inside they are sometimes an easy victum to trapped heat or forced air dry heat. Dry heat and trapped heat are often a misconception to watering, after watering even if needed it's a time bomb contributer when it comes to rot.