Pruning Large Jade- advice needed
katedolly
8 years ago
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rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
8 years agoDanielle Rose
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Pruning a large jade in stages?
Comments (20)I have attached the pictures which I uploaded into my snapfish account. The page should take you to where you can see all four. Each one has a caption that kind of explains what they are. Two are if you are doing it in stages. It was kind of hard to see where all the branches orgiginated. I would take off any branches that cross over the main view of the main trunks. Root these in free draining soil after letting them callous for about a week. I don't know if you've researched soil or not, but you'll need to have a freedraining mix. Take out all of the cuttings that are in the bottom and repot in small pots. Take them home and care of them until they are bigger. They detract from the beauty of the main plant and compete for energy since they are under the canopy of the main plant. Now, on a personal note. I also included two pictures of how I would prune if I wasn't doing it in stages. You could buy another plant to replace this one while it is regrowing. You could take it home and put in full sun. This way it would grow a lot faster. I would do this because it would add ramification of branches and thus allow more bushiness. It would also give smaller leaf size at least for a little while. I would also take each main trunk and give it its own pot and line the alcove windows with them putting the tallest one in the middle and the others beside it, graduating out by size. Those are impressive trunks, but they are leaning for light way too badly. They need to be repotted and straightened so they grow upright. You might be able to find a piece of bamboo that you can place behind the trunk to keep it hidden. You could also use the stakes they use for tomatoes and peppers. You'll have to find something that you can cut to size so that it isn't seen. You could secure it with stretchy ties that you use for staking tomatoes or even with strips of pantyhose which would match the trunk better. In one of the pictures there is a blue line showing where I would sever a big branch from the trunk. You could root that big branch and have another big trunk by placing it in well draining soil after about two weeks. It must be calloused over before you put it in soil. You wouldn't water until you notice new growth. Doing this, the way it looks to me, you would have five trunks, the biggest in the middle and two on either side. You can keep them all in the same pot,but you're going to have to repot them. Get one of those rolly platforms to place it/them on so that you can rotate it once a week. This should keep it from leaning so badly in search of light. Make sure your soil is free draining and if you are going to put pot in pot, make sure the pot fits in the bigger one correctly. If you don't take it out to water, you could fill in the sides with sand and this will keep it from tipping over even if the branches start to lean again. The only thing that I don't like about the pot in pot thing is that once every three months or so, you really need to take it outside and really run water through the pot to take out any salts/minerals that are building up in the soil from your tap water/fertilizing. If you had it on a rolly platform, it would be easy enough to just roll it out once a month and really give it a good watering so that water runs through it and keeps the salt/mineral build up thing from happening in the first place. They have big pots that have holes already in the bottom for drainage, but then again, I don't know if you would have to pay for this out of pocket of if the library has a budget for such stuff. I know it is a lot, but these are just suggestions. You have to do what will work for you and what you can afford to do. Oh, if money were no object. Here is a link that might be useful: Pictures of Pruning Ideas...See MoreLarge hanging jade - need advice/tips
Comments (6)Nice deal but not typical in it's coolness as mentioned. General ideas in brief : A) All cuts can be rooted if you want more jades. B) No more than two steps should be conducted at any time. C) Any steps can be done at any time or in any order during your up righting goal 1)Thin them out, re pot the thicker base from the thinner or in a combination that fits your appeal. 1A)Upright them as much as possible when re-potting 2)Pruning back down by removing stringy thinner ends. 2B)Hard cuts all the way back to thickest parts of trunks 3) Wiring it upright with lighting to assist as well 3b) Just a thought but have you considered a crash course in succulents as a bonsai ? Mentioned 3b because there isn't any thing wrong with some leaning of branches and/ or the tree as a whole for jades but the pic honest It's just to much Suggest you not do anything to harsh like put it outside for a while. Would suggest prune hard, separate and cut all loose thin string ends from the thicker harder cuts. Root these separately for smaller new trunks Re pot the base plants more upright be done first. Your new jade tells a story even now. It says it's strong even when someone tried to drowned it, all it did was live. Succulents : Use to mean water loving but not that kind of love. They love to keep what little they get to "POW! " not love to hoard water such it has in the pic....See MoreLarge old Jade Plant. Need expert advice.
Comments (4)Yes, I'm sure we can supply help so please post a pic so that we can do this easier for you. In the meantime, please don't waste any money on buying any mix labelled as 'cactus & succulent mix'. You are correct, it does come by another name, but it's a name I prefer not too type if you get my drift! Do a search on here for 'jade soil' or similar, lots of info will come up...but we do need a pic of the whole plant plus it's 'soil'. Gill UK...See MorePruning Advice for my Jade plant/s
Comments (6)Soooo… I repotted one of the two Jades. Now, I'm a little worried if I'd done it right and if I got the right mix for it. Hoping to again tap into everyone's wisdom. I'd removed the Jade from the pot there was a lot of roots. Mostly thin ones webbed on the outside against the pot. It took a while to get the old soil off and some of the thinner roots came off in the process. I know as much that losing the thinner roots when repotting is okay but I still had heaps left - definitely more than the 1/2 of what I started with. Oh and I didn't know I needed to rinse the roots either. Then when I opened the bag of Succulent/Cactus mix from the nursery, it wasn't as loose or gritty as the mixes I've seen on the threads here. I didn't think I could leave the Jade out of the pot so I reluctantly repotted it with this mix. And now I don't know if I should go to the shops, grab something to mix in with the new mix it's in and in the process further trim the roots. Is that going to be too stressful for the plant to be repotted twice? It was cold and very windy last night so I've kept him in my kitchen in a well-lit corner for now so he doesn't topple over. If I do prune the roots, is it right that it's around 2/3 of it? I've put photos of the mix it's currently in, the plant in this new mix and also a Coarse Grit product I've seen and considering mixing to provide more aeration....See Morebreathnez
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