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title: "Will baby Jade plants successfully grow in Perlite for a while, or is…"
description: "Will baby Jade plants successfully grow in Perlite for a while, or is succulent soil right off better?"
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community: "Propagating & Sowing"
author: "JenThon🪴🪷"
published: "2024-12-31T21:59:12.599551Z"
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# Will baby Jade plants successfully grow in Perlite for a while, or is…

_Posted by JenThon🪴🪷 on 2024-12-31_

Will baby Jade plants successfully grow in Perlite for a while, or is succulent soil right off better?

## 8 comments

### Javonte commented on 2025-01-01

My jade plant is mixed with perlite and cactus palm soil and she’s thriving….

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### Javonte commented on 2025-01-01

She’s 6 months old:)

### JenThon🪴🪷 commented on 2025-01-01

Wow. Thats quite a lot if growth for 6 months. Good job. 😀

### Javonte commented on 2025-01-01

Well….. she has been under a grow light here and there so maybe that’s why she’s growing at a rapid rate. Lol

#### Tiff replied on 2025-01-01

Cute plant. Also diggin the planter. 😂

### Javonte commented on 2025-01-01

I bought it in Estes Colorado Tiff. Thank you

#### Tiff replied on 2025-01-01

Most welcome Friend.

### Wolfen 🐺 commented on 2025-01-01

They'd be fine in just perlite, of that's what you got

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