SOS my Jade plant NEEDS help
ktcheval
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Need help pruning and beautifying my Jade plant please
Comments (23)Cool your willing to use a make shift gritty mix. May want to sift some of the peat materail from the BBS bagged C&S soil as well. What remains after sifting is some darker bark pieces that looks like a finer mulch and some forest humus. Useable yield may vary, would think one bag of BBS unsifted bag O'crap should yield enough for all of them. You could also ( with some extra time on your hands) pick up a bag of orchid bark smaller size is better but any size will work from a BBS as well . After soaking them in warm water for a while the chunks will be eaiser to ( by hand) break it into smaller barkier pieces. Prior to sifting any especialy for Perlite I'd suggest to use some sort of mask for beathing protecing. Big drainage hole ? As in orchid pot drainage hole big ? The demo pic is a bit off. less humor or more fun ? Blue arrows. look sort of good as ASAP potting candidates for some practice for you but if me I'd cut them for newer cleaner root. Red lines suggest cutting them for re rooting and potted later Purple circle I'm Sort of mixed on this one. It can go either way. Bigger can survive longer but adapts more slowly....See MoreDesperately need help with my Jade plant!
Comments (6)I have a very robust jade plant, the only thing I consistently do is ignore it. Don't overwater it. It's sitting on south facing sunny window, I feed it my left over tea water(which has sugar and tea leaves in it). Pluck a leaf and leave it so the end dries a little, plug it back into the soil. It will grow from a leaf....See MoreMy Collection of Jades - Crassula Ovatas so far (Need ID Help too!!)
Comments (28)Thanks Erica!! Jades weren't always the top of my priority in my collection, but once they are established, they are very beautiful and faithful growers. Unyieldingly showing great colors and shapes. The variegated breeds are much more tender, I still keep them under lights. When they burn, they really sulk for months. All the photos were taken this past weekend, so to answer your question, these are all their current state now. I believe the 'Red Horn Tree' can get even redder with colder temps and higher light. I think mine has quite a while to go.. This is how mine looks during the winter when I first got it. What is your more moisture retentive mix? I have a similar issue with my 'Skinny Finger' jade and my 'Break Dancer' jade. Now I lose the bark, and I replace it with rich loam, pumice and growstones. So my mix comprises of Turface, Grit, Pumice, Growstones and Loam (I love the fox farm ones). If I want it to retain more moisture, I just add more loam and turface. Almost immediately I see the jades react faster and hold tighter in the new mix. In the winter, since most of my plants were under lights, I kept them in nursery trays, and I water the tray every few days when its bone dry - because we usually have the heater on. The bottom watering method works really well on cuttings as it encourages the roots to dig deeper, and at the same time it doesn't wet the surface soil causing rot at the stem. If you have some budget, try investing in a seedling mat and do the bottom watering method - give bright filtered light (aka behind a window is good enough). My cuttings grow relatively well when all these conditions are ideal. btw - I went to theBrooklyn Botanical Garden Sale, it was MAYHEM! Even on the members day. There weren't much C&S in general, but if you love plants, there were an array of collections. My highlight was seeing a couple drag home the massive $40 jade plant and a couple of giant cacti....See MoreHelp! I think I've destroyed my jade plants. Multiple problems.
Comments (7)I also agree with Gabby that your plants look good, at least from what I can see in photos. I can see couple of dry leaves in pic 1, which seems to me normal. Another leaf in same pic seems to be broken, with broken edge just dried up. If spraying with anything, it is best to do out of sunlight. Some ingredients may burn leaves in sunlight, even if not otherwise harmful to plant. Soil does look very 'dense', it could be too water retaining. If it contains too much peat, it may have become hydrophobic and it actually repels water. If to retaining, it may be staying too wet for too long, and roots may be suffering. Do as Gabby suggested - mix in lots of sifted perite. And do not worry about nutrients...succulents grow in very lean substartes in their habitat. Definitely do not use 'rich' soil thinking it may provide nutrients. If really concerned, it is much better to fertilize, lightly, with balanced fertilizer. I don't, and grow mine in gravely mix, made of grit, perlite and little turface. I have few small pots with bit of soil in the mix, but there is likely only about 10% of soil - added because I was running out of mix I usually use :) Whe repotting, get rid of old soil from the root ball. Trim off any damaged roots. The do not need to be drying if they have roots; if you have to do lots of root pruning, maybe an hour or two are enough to callus those cuts. If you need to wash off the old soil, letting plant air-dry for few hours should be enough (set it on something absorbent to help). If pruning off branches, the cuts should callus. Few hours or overnight is usually enough. But jade can live without water for a long time (weeks, even months) - they may shrivell, but still live. So do not worry much about how long. Cuttings, without roots, should be stuck into fast draining mix and do not water for a while. No roots - no water...they should start growing roots quite readily, and that is time to start watering....See Morektcheval
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