Best conditions for variegated Gollum Jade
Steven Claggett
7 years ago
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Comments (47)Thanks for inquiring Marguerite! Well, it's been a struggle... The large piece finally seems to have rooted and drank some water, it hasn't gown at all and it lost a couple bottom leaves. I added the fine sand as there were roots poking out. There was a tiny little variegated piece, it shriveled and died. A couple months ago there was a tiny solid green jade cutting that needed a home, so I stuck it in. I just started to use weak dosage of Foliage Pro, so hopefully it will put out new growth soon. Nancy...See MoreVariegated jade : Legolas
Comments (69)Jim, the variegated Gollum is a very rare and slow growing Japanese cultivar (and fragile), it's not from G. Lord. It's sometimes sold in Asia ( auctions most of the time) and very rarely on international ebay auctions (sold at high price). The demand is encreasing every year but not the production. That's why it gets more and more expensive. From what I know, G. Lord is a private collector who just gave a cutting of his Legolas to his very best friends and sold a few other cuttings on ebay auctions. I bought mine on ebay a few years ago. I think It hasn't been proposed for sale again. As new rare variegated jades cultivars have been identified recently, the private collectors prefer to exchange cuttings in order to expand their collection. They only sell one cutting on ebay when the exchange is not possible and they need cash to buy a new expensive plant....See Moreanother new jade cultivar ... Micro Gollum
Comments (40)Oksana Almost all my jades are in totally inorganic mix - only grit, perlite and turface, and I don't fertilize them. Some have huge leaves - see the photo of Hobbit in my post (few posts up). Regular jades (Crassula ovata) have many large leaves, anywhere between 2.5 - 3" (approx. 6-8cm). They overwinter indoors, under some supplementary lighting, and spend late spring-summer-fall outdoors, in full sun. I don't have 'fancy' jades, just many common C. ovata, 3 Hobbits (as in the photo), Gollum (or Finger jade?), couple of Wavy jades, C.o. variegata Tricolor. I did receive few cuttings this year of others, but they are very small yet. On one of the jades (C. ovata), I noticed that leaves growing first after extensive pruning were quite small (and dark in color - it was in full sun), and leaves growing after that are much bigger - see photo below (early leaves are small & dark red):From what I remember, cutting off many leaves would cause plant growing smaller leaves and shorten internodes - in the photo, I can see that the small leaves are very close together, even growing indoors under some CFL lightbulbs (plant was pruned around December 18, 2014; above photo is from Sept. 17, 2015). Rina...See MoreGollum jade something is wrong - need advice on care
Comments (3)Putting some mixed medium underneath will not help, it could make it worse since that part will dry up faster, making it look like it is time to water. Either repot into well mixed medium or leave it - as I said, I can't see the soil it is in. If it needs improvement, you shouldn't be afraid. It is much better to improve conditions (if they need to) than leaving plant in not-so-good conditions - be it soil or light or whatever. Keeping plant excessively dry is not going to help either: succulents need to be watered thoroughly when mix is almost completely dry. Water should drain freely from the bottom of the container. You can help yourself by using a bamboo skewer or chopstick: insert deep into mix (at least 3/4 deep). Leave for few minutes. Take it out - if dry and clean = time to water. If stick feels dam/cold and may have some particles sticking to it, there is still plenty of moisture. Succulents usually recover much better from underwatering than overwatering - but there is no point of stressing them excessively if at all possible. Moving plant into sun for 30 min/day is not going to help either: acclimatizing it slowly to hours a day is the way to go. Best way is to start setting plant in early morning sun for a while with dappled shade for rest of the day. Move it to more sunlight every few days. I take all succulents outside in Spring, and they stay in full sun, whole day. Our Summer temps are lower than San Diego, but it gets warm in Summer. Jades are South African plants and look best if grown in proper light....See Moregreenclaws UK, Zone 8a
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