Remove the bottom few leaves of each cutting so that you can insert the stems without having any of the leaves touch the soil...or another plant. I've never waited for a succulent cutting to callus over...so get them into a coarse medium pronto. Water them well initially.

Thanks for your input Xerophyte. I really appreciate it. I do disagree about the watering though. Once a month is more than enough for a jade. Also, keep in mind that it has been inside....so it hasn't been in the hot summer sun. Also, it was extremely humid for several days, with some rainfall (ever since I put it outside 4 days ago), so it just can't be dehydrated. I do appreciate your advice...please don't get me wrong. It's just that I really really don't think it is being underwatered. Put it this way...it's actually possible (not recommended, but "possible") to wait until the leaves start shriveling up before watering. So by the looks of the leaves, I just don't see how the plant can be thirsty. Also, I could never water that plant as often as 3-4 days...that's just way too much for a crassula ovata (and many other succulents). Once it is in sunny weather, I plan to water it every 2 weeks...no more frequent than that. As for "strong and active growth"...believe me, it's been doing great ever since I pruned it in November. Before I pruned it, the weight of the leaves and stems on that one trunk was at least triple what it is now, and it was still holding the leaves up. So I don't know, I don't think the problem has to due with difficulty supporting the leaves. It didn't just "fall" from being top-heavy....it really is just completely limp and almost "moist-feeling" (if that makes any sense) I know I'm making it very difficult to pinpoint a reason for this problem! I WISH it were as easy as an underwatering issue! I really want to find the cause so that I can fix it and make sure it doesn't happen again. If it's a humidity issue, I think we are over the worst of it(it's been so humid here up until today that you could actually SEE moisture in the air!). I wonder if it could be another factor. I have never used Neem oil, but I just can't see why that would've caused just ONE limb to go down (or any limbs for that matter). Uggh...I just love this jade. I've made so many plants from cuttings I took after pruning, but those will take YEARS and YEARS to get as big as this jade.

Hi Bernard, I hope I don't repeat something because I only got about halfway through this thread before I got sick of reading and decided to go ahead and post. #1. I don't know where the idea come from that calloused roots are good. Callouses can't absorb water. It's dry scar tissue that keeps in/out moisture, thereby protecting broken stems and so on. When a plant's roots are partially exposed by wildlife digging, etc., the exposed portion callouses to keep the plant from dehydrating, but that calloused portion will never absorb water again. We don't want roots to callous (except maybe Bonsai growers who like to expose some roots over a rock or something). Putting a root system into dry mix is never good for it. I challenge anyone to prove how dehydrating or callousing a root system can possibly be good for it. The previous poster who said the dry mix will dehydrate the plant is correct. Always use damp mix for re-potting a healthy root system. If the roots are dead, it might be a different story. #2. As you've already learned, it's easy to under-water gritty mix. Since it's pretty close to impossible to over-water grit, I'm with the posters who say to soak it deeply and often. If you're paranoid, soak it daily, or even twice daily, but then give the pot a quick, little down-up motion to dislodge any perched water. That way it'll always be just barely moist. If it were mine, and planted in grit, I'd just water every day or two until the roots are well-established. As one who has killed off whole, healthy root systems by under-watering grit (once weekly), I feel confident in telling you that you're extremely unlikely to drown a plant in grit. I'm watering my succulents daily right now, and some are STILL too dry. BTW, Danny, I think mentioned he prefers soil for jades. I don't disagree with him. The one I have in soil has grown much better than the ones I have in grit. Furthermore, the Aeonium I had in a 1:1 soil:pumice mix has a huge, beautiful, healthy root system. The big one in grit has puny roots. These aren't experiments with standardized variables, so something else might be going on, but for now, I'm also not certain that grit is always a better medium.

Laurie You said the plant just started getting droopy this winter - was it in different location before? Another reason I could see is that it grew some over last summer, got longer, and during winter when there is much less strong light, it started to droop. Roots growing from the stems are air roots, and some plants have tendency to grow them. They are not a problem either way. If you trim your plant, you'll have pieces that could grow into new plants - do you want more jades? I see there are few young plants in the pot - probably from the fallen leaves? You'll save lots of space if you re-pot this plant into smaller pot. Is it possible for you to maybe move one of the spider plants on top of the shelve where there seems to be most light from the window available and put jade there? I also see another plant in the light green pot in front of window fan - that spot may be getting little more sunlight than where jade is now. If you could raise the pot higher to get it closer to the lowest light of your floor lamp, that would give it some extra light too. You should keep that light directed on the plant. Another thing you could do is to turn pot 1/4-turn every few weeks to get the light to the plant from all directions. As you can see, it is leaning one way and it is toward the most light. Over all I think your jade is healthy and the look of it can be improved MrBlubs in post above mentioned peace lily and sanseveria - they are also plants that would grow well in lower light conditions.