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Comments (3)yours will eventually look like section 2 with some age. if you want it to come like picture 1 then you just pluck off the bottom leaves and let it grow up straight. once its to the height you want it you can start back budding it to make it more bushy. Jades are a pretty bushy plant so as long as you rotate it in a bright sunny window you should get a good bushy tree. Hope i helped!...See MorePruning jade plants
Comments (2)Hey Joe, It is pretty much up to you how you want your jade to look. Here are a couple photos of my jade. Some people do even more pruning than I did. I'm sure you will see that when they post their photos. Before: Here is the after photo. I would have cut it down a bit more but it is almost ready to flower so I wanted preserve some of the flowers and will even it out on top once it is through flowering. Good luck with pruning your jade....See Moredoes this Jade plant need pruning?
Comments (25)The only thing is to wait and see. It's getting lots of sun now. Just need a nice string of days like this and hopefully it will harden up. It would've been cool to not have had to cut the branch off at all of it could've hardened up from more sun. Encouraging to hear that ppls limpy plants hardened after getting more sun. Thanks much for everyone's help....See MoreNeed help pruning and repotting 10+ year old Jade Plant
Comments (16)They are, I think, called "bulb" pots - or somehing similar. I have some plastic ones too, I buy them if I see any as they are not sold as often as regular pots. There are many others made of resin, plasic and similar materials - I prefer those since they are not as heavy...that may not bother you :) I bought pot in the photo just week ago in Rona for just under $6 (in Canada). I have seen even nicer pots in Garden centre, but they are more expensive if that is important to you. They had many different types, just do not buy one with recurved top (like a fish bowl) - it is difficult to remove plants from those. If there are no drainage holes, I always drill some. I never used BJ mix, but some ppl mentioned that it was still bit water-retaining. Easy way to solve that is to add sifted perlite, or pumice if you have some. Old soil could be caked on, but you mentioned plant was in drainless pot and wet. Dry soil (or mostly dry) usually crumbles off; if it contains lots of peat it could be more hard. You may loose some roots when removing soil, but it shouldn't be much of problem. Better fewer healhy roots than many mushy. And jade will root very easy and fast, as long as they are not kept too wet....See MoreL Evve (Miami)
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