r/Jadeplant

HOA lady wants the giant jade plant in front of my house removed even though HOA originally planted it there. I would guess it's over 30 years old, possibly closer to 40. I don't want her to have the landscapers kill and destroy such a beautiful established happy plant....because that's usually what they do when they remove plants. I've never posted on reddit before and found this group when I googled about the cost of a 30 year old jade plant. Hopefully I'm doing this correctly. Location is Southern California. Btw...no idea what flairs are and I was forced to select one.

Went on vacation and came back to a bad case of mealy bugs. This plant lives alone in my office, how the hell does it get bugs? Were they dormant in the soil? It’s super annoying that I’ll likely lose this plant because of this.

Emergency situation! My very large and formerly healthy jade had rapidly declined in health over the course of about a month. Does anyone recognize these symptoms in the photos? Tropical climate, full sun all day.

I started off with these tiny little cut offs for a succulent workshop to make a moss ball, but that didn't work out for me and the moss ball wrap became a mess. It was fun, but! I planted them in soil in a pot about a month later. This was about 5 years ago, and now look at these bad boys! Two massive pots, and I just trimmed the ever living snot out of both of them this spring after they acclimated to the outside world for the season (literally chopped about 35% off each plant). They have grown back with a vengeance!

I leave them outside all spring and winter into fall, bringing them in when it starts dropping into the 40s at night. They flower every year now right around this time, excited for that!

I got these two Drawf Jade trees in May and I’ve been having some problems. The first picture is the bigger one that is having more trouble. At first I was watering it a bit too much I think, and once I realized that I changed the watering schedule. It got a bit better but it never fully recovered and lately it’s been looking a bit worse again. The other picture is the smaller one and for awhile it has been thriving really well even with me over watering at first. Lately though it has been losing a lot of leaves and some of the leaves are turning brownish and are less glossy than they normally look. My mom thinks it may because we have the furnace running now that it’s getting colder out, but I’m not sure that would really affect them in this way. My question is what steps can I take to get both of these trees back up to health again? And what precautions can I take in the future to not let these things happen again?

I moved this jade to a brighter window a few months ago as it was getting quite leggy. It's then started to sprout some new growth from some of the thicker stems... but now this, it had been starting to lean a bit and leant it against the window in the hope it would help. Ive been conservative with watering and the main stem is firm. Any ideas on how to rescue it? Aside from turning it around and leaning it against the window.

My (very old) jade plant has started to lean, and on inspection, it looks like root rot, right in the main stem. What can I do to save it?

A previous branch off this trunk rotted and I thought id managed to cut it away before it got to the main trunk, but looks like I lost :(

Repotting without cutting seems pointless as its in the main trunk now, will it survive a chop there?

TIA 💖

Anyone had similar problems with a jade plant? The leaves have been dropping a crazy amount. Is it a fungal disease? I can’t see any pests..

The leaves looks dirty on the underside but fine on the other.

Picture 4 is before it developed the issue. I have cut it back but the new growths still seem to have poor health. Any advice appreciated!

I recently purchased a mixed pot, mostly jades, meant as a hanging pot - plastic, of course, and completely dripping wet peat under the dense mound of foliage without a square centimeter free for evaporation

Obviously it came from a big box store (Home Depot, but the collection was actually from Altman Plants, who absolutely know better than to abuse succulents this way)

It had some 3 Echeveria, 1 large (relatively) Sedum adolphi, 3 ripple jades, 4-5 common jades, 2 very small Crassula ovata minima, and 3 tiny (one 1.5” high, 2”x1.5” wide/deep, the other two only an inch or so in all axes) Crassula ovata v. Gollum

One Echeveria turned to brown mush as I was drying the mess

One Echeveria was severely etiolated and had all of 3 leaves remaining

The third Echeveria came apart when I tried to remove it from the peat - as in, it held so much water that each leaf I touched popped off - at pressure, some flying feet away from the slightest contact. I knew this was from water pressure and that those leaves were likely dead, but I saved all 11 anyway. Last week the 10th started showing a pink root. The rest all are rooted and planted except for one that rotted

The sedum is fine, added to a Sedum adolphi pot I already had

As for the jades…

I separated them and gave them 60% perlite and terracotta pots with drains, all in shallow and wide pots

The plan was to let them settle for the rest of summer and repot in spring

One of the tiny Gollum disintegrated into mush

But all of the jades are rooted and actively growing with the combination of west window proximity and a cheap grow light or two

The larger Gollum needed support at first, so it had a heavy rock over the roots and a thin one supporting it on the other side, so it didn’t lean on the rim

Yesterday I removed the no-longer-necessary supporting rocks, since all of the jades are showing new, healthy growth

But there was something odd on the larger Gollum

Every part was covered in 1/4” white roots hanging down

I assume that’s because the rocks blocked side light and the top has dense foliage, so the undersides rooted

So now, I need advice

Do I leave it alone, let these roots dry out, allow it to grow large enough to feel confident when I’m sure cuttings will grow well?

Or do I use these unexpected roots to cut off a branch or two and establish new, small plants?

My West light will weaken as autumn progresses into winter, especially here in New York

But as I said, I’ve got supplemental LEDs that may not be the best quality, but they certainly are enough that my plants aren’t etiolated, rooted firmly after enough abuse to kill most succulents (including its pot-mates, one of which was a rotted Gollum), and show active foliage growth in both expected places and at multiple forks and leaf axils

Some growth might be an attempt to get more photons but with so many, and not one stretched out or thin, with nice, fat leaves everywhere?

So here are the best images of the Gollum in question

As far as I can see my choices are:

(1) leave it alone, let it grow as the winter dormancy grows ever closer

(2) cut the branch to the right where the roots are most densely growing, let that callus, and plant the already rooted segment as a third Gollum plant - because I LOVE the Gollum look and am really hoping that they grow well enough over the next year to have an amazing mixed jade pot, with a shaped common jade linked by the best of the Gollum and minima selections

Or (3) build up a mound of my perlite/soil next to the trunk but with a spacer to maintain air circulation around the trunk, while the roots grow down into the built-up soil and that way, the roots essentially double nutrient flow while simultaneously preparing that branch to be separated cleanly in spring?

Any suggestions would be appreciated and any ideas other than the three I mentioned will be appreciated as well

Just please be kind. These jades aren’t my first - or only - succulents, but I’ve no experience with such tiny jades (other than common jades grown from leaf cuttings) and no experience whatsoever with the Gollums, which I understand that because of their leaf shape and the density of the foliage in plants like this are more likely to hold humidity in a microclimate (which is why I removed the stones as soon as new foliage convinced me the plant had rooted and was stable)

Thanks for any and all positive advice!

I bought this from the nursery a few weeks a go. I would like to move it to a slighty shallower, decorative pot. The container soul is about 4". Was thinking of planting it in a much wider 3" pot. Would this be healthy?

I put my jade plants outside for the summer months (South East Michigan) and their leaves looked like this by the end of July or so. Very textured, somewhat scaly, discolored with patches of brown and white.

I initially chalked it up to leaf burn and that the sun was too intense for them, especially considering that the newly sprouted leaves appeared healthy, green, and glossy.

However, some of jades that have not been outside or that I recently acquired are developing this same leaf composition (see last picture of the small plant). This leads me to suspect either a fungus or potential parasite. Indoors, I do have some grow lights to supplement poor window options. Could the grow lights be causing this?

Can anyone diagnose what’s going on with my plants?

Any tips welcome!

I have two jades whose roots are very tangled so they grow in one small pot (like 8 cm). The left one definitely started to take resource and water from the right one, the right one looks wrinkly when the left one is plump. Can I do anything about it to make the right one plumper? I'm afraid to cut the roots but maybe it is what needs to be done?

They are in a terracota pot in a mix with a lot of perlite, I water them once in a week or two-three weeks depending on how quickly the soil dries out. They are getting 14 hours of grow light daily. Recently I've started watering them more often when I noticed the wrinkles on the leaves.