I need your help to improve this jade plant. (My first jade!)
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Comments (1)Hi I'm a rookie with jades, I live in minnesota so my jade is indoors all winter until free of frost, and then it goes outside and the first time I put it outside it got sun burned and it looked like yours, and the leaves all fell off, I put it under a bush for shade and forgot about it because I thought I killed it, was I surprized that fall I had the nices looking jade, it had grow tons of new branches and leaves. could yours have gotten to much sun? hope I helped, linda mn....See MoreHelp Needed: I think I killed my very first Jade Plant
Comments (38)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....See MoreNeed help for my Jade plant
Comments (2)Yes, a picture is necessary for proper diagnosis. These need very bright light indoors, or they will etiolate, and the branches will bend over from lack of sufficient light. Christopher...See MoreHelp needed for my jade plant!
Comments (4)Where do you live? Has it been abnormally humid there? The black spots and leaves dropping look like humidity damage, mine are going through the same thing right now. We had five straight days of 90 degrees or more and 95-100% humidity at the end of September and they are suffering. This is my first summer growing them outdoors, I probably won't do it again. Can I also say that I am very jealous of your plant? I hope mine are that big some day....See More41 North (Zone 7a/b, NE, coastal)
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