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| Author: | chalky76 [ 05 Sep 2015, 02:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Jade tree questions |
I got myself this lovely little Jade tree a few weeks ago  I've researched that they should be kept relatively dry but jut how dry is that? I've watered a little here and there and then allowed it to dry out but the leaves don't look too good. Any way to tell if I'm over or under watering? |
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| Author: | keithmart [ 05 Sep 2015, 07:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
Hi Jade are succulents, and therefore need very little water. Water if the leaves go slightly crinkly, otherwise keep it dry. BTW you can grow another by removing a leaf an putting it into damp soil and allow it to get almost dry. should root in a couple of weeks. |
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| Author: | AlainK [ 05 Sep 2015, 08:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
What you have is Portulacaria afra, which is more difficult to keep healthy than Crassula ovata which needs almost no attention and is very hard to kill. I have both, and Portulacaria loses leaves in the winter which results in elongated branches although they are in the same conditions as my Crassula, that is indoors when the night temps approach 0° C. Perhaps they would fare better if I had a greenhouse... |
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| Author: | stymie [ 05 Sep 2015, 09:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
I keep one in the window of a North facing bathroom. The high humidity there, means that it seldom needs watering at all. |
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| Author: | John M [ 05 Sep 2015, 15:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
I put them out in the summer, water them all the time, they grow and thrive and get big fat shiny leaves, then I bring them in about now (middish September) and keep them not too near but near enough to a window, and ignore them completely until May (except a light watering once a month). But mine are Crassula ovata not Portulacaria. J. |
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| Author: | Sven [ 05 Sep 2015, 18:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
To me, Crassula ovata is a great indoor diversion, slow growing, thrives in windows, and fool-proof to propagate. Mine never go outdoors. And, too boot, make quite an interesting tree shape.  In terms of watering, I have been given different opinions, some say keep dry, another says keep just slightly slightly damp, or 'not quite dry'. Now I'm swinging between the two, in cycles.... |
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| Author: | AlainK [ 05 Sep 2015, 22:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
Hello Sven, Sven wrote: To me, Crassula ovata is a great indoor diversion, slow growing, thrives in windows, and fool-proof to propagate. (...) All in all, I agree with you, except that if given enough space (container) and good environment, they can grow a lot. If you let them grow freely, put them outside in summer and only take them indoors just before it freezes, then they'll flower.  The above picture is not from one of my plants, but I gave my parents a 10 cm cutting one day. After 10 years, it was 80 cm in all directions and flowered every winter (they flower around December). I didn't prune this one this year so that maybe it can flower, but I doubt it, it needs a bigger pot: 
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| Author: | bonsaibirdy [ 06 Sep 2015, 10:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
One I bonsaid earlier this year  Cheers Mo 
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| Author: | chalky76 [ 13 Sep 2015, 18:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
Is this little guy looking a little worse for wear?  I keep it the same as the other one (see origional post) but it doesn't seem to be doing so well. |
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| Author: | Brendan [ 13 Sep 2015, 20:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Jade tree questions |
I think you are overwatering it. No water for a week, somewhere hot and sunny. Then a little water. It is a desert plant, and it will rot if it is too wet. |
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