Also a hello and Thank you from me :) Everyone that commented on my last post was so helpful and I only felt confident enough to grab another succulent because I knew if there were any issues I had ya'll so again thank you! I would also like to say that I haven't watered any of my plants since the over watering issue its been tough looking at mama thinking she might be so thirsty but I did add some soil that was a little damp when transplanting her. ALSO does anyone name their plants or would that be wierd? lol

UPDATE on the jade cutting, I see so much mixed instructions looking around the web so I hope someone will clarify for me before its too late, I took the cutting from the soil mix and now have it inside beside the window laying flat -until it callouses?- is this right? I'm not even sure if the cutting is healthy enough to survive even if I do it right so I'm pretty concerned with everyones different techniques as well as how funky it might look after 2 weeks on its side..

I have far less experience than rina, but I can tell you that I was once given the same advice: no top dressing since it keeps the soil moist, no layer of rocks at the bottom because it also causes more moisture to remain, and no sand as it can clog the air spaces you need in the mix. I have stopped all of these and now have rapidly recovering plants that were in conditions much like yours.

I found that using soil caused a problem for me. It stayed too wet and I got fungus gnats. It tends to contain materials meant to retain water which is the opposite of what we're looking for. Now I use 50/50 Turface/chicken grit (gravel). It has worked wonders! Many have suggested that if I used soil I should mix it 50/50 with perlite. 70% perlite would not be extreme. Succulents just don't require soil.

You've recieved a lot of terrific advice. You may want to read it through again as rina suggested. It's a lot to digest at once! I was pretty overwhelmed when I started not so very long ago.

I have to remind myselfsometimes that there is a learning curve with this. We will mess up in the beginning. We will kill some plants, but we WILL learn and it will get easier if we hang in there.

chef

just one comment - I don't discourage from using top dressing of pebbles or rocks, I use it myself. But some ppl do, and that's OK.

I believe that if the mix in the pot is well draining, top dressing will not cause any problem. But if there is too much water-retention in the potting mix, top dressing will not solve that problem, it actually may add to it by either not letting the top dry out if too dense (I am referring to dense top dressing) or by making one to believe that it is dry enough to water again - since pebbles on top will be dry..

But even without top dressing it is often difficult to judge how moist the soil is: top will be dry, yet center of it could be still very wet. That's why it is recommended to use finger or pencil or wooden skewer, insert at least half-way or more into the pot and check for any sign of moisture...

Rina

Lol right Rina! I love the top dressing and I believe I read somewhere about it causing water retention too but still decided to go with it because it makes it so much easier to get the plants how you want them. There was a lot of good advice given on my first post which I followed except for the potting mix which I know is one of the most important things but I did make very sure they drained well before planting them

I would like to clarify I got all but the first pictured of these plants the day before posting these and repotted from their damp 100% soil, after letting all but the jades roots dry out because I just cleaned their roots off today ( and learned I actually have 3 jade plants YAY )

Rina - Sounds like I'm going to be re-potting again, The layer of rocks is just to keep the soil and smaller rock layer from slipping out of the fairly large holes I drilled in myself and making messes, but like I said It almost drains too well for my liking I dumped 2 cups of water in the layered pot I put mama in to test it out and it was like I just dumped the cup out without anything to catch it.. I'll have to get a video next week if this humidity ever goes away. But I put <2 handfuls of soil in the entire mix for mama which really wasn't much I am most confident in her pot I may have to find and put a healthy semp in with her just to see. Most of the rocks are about half the size of a Canadian dime. They we're in full sun where I bought the new ones this time, but I do have them on the far side of my patio set which doesn't get dappled sun but is half shaded and I slowly moved the mama there and the baby hasn't quite made it outside yet. Thank you for the advice about the jade, I just took it out of the soil which was dry but I'd rather be able to see how its coming along anyway.

Chef - Glad to hear your plants are on their way to being happy and healthy :) I'm still pretty new to Germany and I'm not sure what turface might be called here I'll have to see if the PXtra sells it but I've been using "granulat" which translates to granules, they're about the size of Himalayan salt, Lava rocks which will fit into a bottle cap and small rocks like I said earlier are pretty small. The thought of not having soil just blows my mind lol, I understand very little mixed well into something but none at all... but you are the experts and it's been really wet the last few days which is fairly common here unfortunately, so as soon as I can I will be uprooting them again to sift though the soil and looking for some turface or another equivalent.

Do you guys think I need to cut off all the damaged leaves of the white powdered mildew semp or was the one with the brown spot enough? Whats the best process for dealing with this?

To prevent anything falling out thru drainage hole, you should cover
it with piece of window/mosquito screen; piece of mesh drywall tape
(this is lightly self-sticking) or you could buy plastic canvass - it is
available in craft stores like Michael's in US/Canada (and used for
needlepoint) - it is easy to cut to size. In 'old days' piece of broken
clay/terracotta pot was put over the hole for this purpose. I like using
window screen, have stacks of circles cut out to cover different sized
pots (plastic pots have many holes), or just cut a small square to fit
over the hole.

If there is mildew on the leaves, I would take them off, as I would anything (leaves or stems) that is moldy or rotting...Rina

Thats a GREAT idea with the screaning!! I actually think I have some drywall squares big enough to fit too :) The one is just completely covered in it though, I posted pictures above, It isn't really rotting just damaged mostly what seemed to me from being squished up against the pot it was in and the roots looked good, of coarse I can't find the article I read about the issue now but its a white powder mildew and it wipes off pretty easy.

I hope you don't mind
Rina - The blueish purple one in the left corner with a milky overlay, this is how mine looks but instead of purple it is green, maybe I mis-diagnosed it?

I LOVEEE all of your gorgeous jades too <3 <3 ohh the varieties :)