Repotted my tortured jade. How’d I do? (Before: 1-2 | After: 3-6)
Had this jade for a while in the same glazed pot with no drainage holes in the same soil it’s always been in. Got water logged for at least a few days when I was on vacation… let it dry out and decided to stop torturing it as much and repot into a larger terracotta with succulent/perlite soil.
Went up in pot size significantly (not recommended, I know). Gently removed soil with my fingers from the bottom to get to the root ball. Blasted the root ball and trunk bases with water from my hose. All of the roots where semi tangled together. Gently “sawed” the rootball apart with a butter knife and pulled them apart slowly. Then planted each of the individual pieces in the new pot and soil. Watered a bit, didn’t saturate the entire pot. Proped everything up with a bunch of wooden kabob skewers.