r/Jadeplant

Jades had a drink

Our front porch Jade that we were give as a housewarming gift with less than 10 leaves. Jade in the “small” pot is from some of the nodes which fell off in the last year.

I have chopped off the 3 branches from the top many months ago. You can see more leaves have grown out of them already. About 1 month ago the growth have completely stopped.

The new leaves are almost light green but eventually become darker. They have stayed small and light green like in the photo for at least a month. It has gone through many cycles of soft leaves and plump leaves between bottom watering so roots are fine.

Ever since they grew to 1" from the Barina T5 they stopped growing. Could it be the light being too strong for them?

In contrast, the 3 props from the same jade are growing (seen at the bottom of this photo) and they are obviously much farther from the light.

Can this jade be saved it has been living in a south facing window and obviously needs potting out any help and advice would be appreciated

I have these two cuttings that are more than a month old. They’re not from a very healthy mother (as you can see on the brown spots on the leaves). I dried them for a couple of weeks after cutting, then transferred to small plastic pots. I noticed the leaves didnt fatten and I suspected the soil mix was probably too hydrophobic.

So last week, I transferred them together to this clay pot and a better soil mix.

When do I expect the leaves to fatten/absorb water? The bigger one has a tiny root, but the smaller one still doesn’t have. They don’t seem to have root rot as the ends are fairly brown and dry.

I tried so hard to save the mother plant but it ended with death by root rot (didn’t realise the pot wasnt draining well) so desperate to save these babies!

I took this plant home from work because it was looking super sad. I’m pretty sure it’s a jade, but I’ve never had one before so any advice on what I can do for it would be appreciated :)

Hi all,
Could somebody let me know please if this plant needs watering or if it is potentially overwatered?

My concern re. overwatering is that I’ve previously had a small jade which I think I drowned, all the leaves fell off at once and the stem rotted away.

I’ve had this plant a month and have watered thoroughly once. It’s been kept away from the window until last week as I didn’t want to shock/burn it in the UK heatwave because the room was like an oven! The soil is dry and the leaves are very soft, squishy, can be bent, but still feel full. I’m not really sure how to tell if a leaf is soft due to underwatering or mushy due to overwatering?

When I removed it from the pot some of the roots had started to grow out of the drainage holes but only slightly, would this benefit from a re-pot?

My jade plant looks like it's quite top heavy, do I need to prune it or simply repot into something wider/heavier so it doesn't topple over? Am I right in thinking the roots are going to be quite tightly bound in that ball? Does anyone know if I can just place it into a slightly bigger pot like that and surrounded with fast draining potting mix, or do I need to try and loosen the soil and separate the roots? Thank you!

Have had the plant for about a week now. Kept her indoors in a low light area initially, but I noticed her leaves had started to fall.

Hence I moved her to a brighter spot. Still indoors but right next to this bright balcony window

Things seemed fine for a day or two but today, her stem's started to droop.

Do I need to keep her outside?

I propagated these jade plants from a cutting a family member gave me a few years ago. They've always seemed perfectly healthy but recently I've been having to leave town frequently to deal with something. The last 2 photos are what they looked like last week when I came back after being away for a few days. I grew very concerned, watered them, and moved them into less direct light as I thought it was sunburn from leaving my blinds open while I was away.

Now I'm back again today and they seem even worse. I'm now thinking maybe it might be root rot? The soil of one seems to have mold in it (see photos).

Can anyone help me diagnose and fix this issue? I'm honestly not very knowledgeable about jade plants or plants in general, part of why I've liked these so much is because they're low effort. But they're also sentimental, so I'm determined to save them. Any help is very welcome 🙏

I've had these three little clippings for more than a year and none of them are really doing much. The one on the right is getting a new pair of leaves in the middle but they're growing so slowly. The one in the middle stalled out at this little clump. The left one is the champion of the three, but still going very slowly.

I assume it's a lack of light. Those LEDs are on 12 hrs and then the plants are basically in darkness. On the other hand, the two on the right show signs of light stress so I just don't know.

The leaves are plump (other than the dying donor leaves) and I water rarely.

Am I just being impatient?

I received these cuttings from my dad, and have no idea how to pot them. He said I can just “throw them in dirt” but like… they're so curved I don't know which way is up, whether to cut smaller pieces off of it, or what… step by step instructions would be greatly appreciated!

P.S. Pardon my air conditioners on full blast in the background lol.

Around 5 years ago my friend moved to another country and gave me her plants. Many of them. In complete transparency, I should not have been the one to receive them, and I told her as much, but I was the last stop before her departure. I’m not worthy. At all. Several have not survived (I’m sorry 😬) but this Jade Plant has refused to die, despite my extreme inadequacy, and has flourished far beyond my aptitude. Apparently, they do pretty well with forgetfulness.

Due to some changes in my life, I’m taking more interest and effort into growing things… and that’s a story for a different sub. There are chopped pieces at the base of the plant, but not by me. One of the chopped stalks has regrown an 8” piece in a couple of years. It obviously needs to be repotted, but I don’t want a massive outward growing Jade Tree, or multiple… I’d prefer Jade Plants. More growth is coming. This plant is making a mockery of Brown-Thumb Betty, yet now I feel invested and fearful of making mistakes. Can I safely split this up? Should I just re-pot it and let it go to town? Can I cut parts and propagate?

I’m just going to leave it at that. I humbly request suggestions or lashings if so deserved. 😬

My dad inherited this from his uncle and he is not taking care of it at all so I decided I would open it up, but I’m not actually sure what to do. I removed as much leggy growth as I could without feeling like I was going to harm it it’s definitely wanting to fall over but I’m not even sure how to remove it from this pot. It has some really interesting shapes from all the neglect and I think it could turn into a really cool plant if shape in the right way not sure how to proceed or if what I did was the right move. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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.

will keep you posted; have 4-5 cuttings like this and 20 other small ones.

Hi everyone!
I was gifted this plant about a month ago. When I received it, it was unfortunately infested with small white bugs. I treated it by giving it a thorough shower and repotting it, and thankfully it recovered really well.
Since then, it’s been doing great and has actually given me enough new cuttings to propagate quite a few plants.
I’m trying to properly identify what I have. I originally assumed it was Crassula ovata, but the leaf size and growth pattern seem quite different from the classic form.
Could someone tell me whether this is regular/classic Crassula ovata, Crassula ovata ‘Minor’, or possibly something else?
I’d really appreciate any help identifying it!

I do rotate the pot but she’s still really leaning to one side. I’d love to prune to encourage her to fill out more on the other side (if possible!). Any tips would be appreciated!