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brittrb

What kind of jade plant is this?

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  1. Sylvia

    It’s very beautiful 😍

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  2. Adrian

    Looks to be a regular crassula ovata (classic jade) to me 😊 that’s the most common type. Here’s two examples of one from my collection. Are you looking for care tips for it? They’re one of my favorites đŸŒ±

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    • brittrb

      Do I need to prune it?

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    • Adrian

      Not if you don’t want to. Yours looks to have plenty of branches already, and pruning results in developing more branches from the stem you prune back, so unless you’re looking for an even bushier jade, I don’t think there’s much need to right now. The little jade in the photos I attached is actually a set of cuttings from my 30-year-old jade that rooted to become its own plant, so if you want to prune it to gift pieces to a friend, this is an easy one to propagate. My best tip if you want to prune and propagate the pieces would be to let the cuttings callous over for a few hours to a day, then dip the cut ends in Bonide’s Rooting Hormone Powder. It’ll help speed up the root development process and improve the chances of your cuttings successfully propagating. Then I’d stick the cuttings in a small pot with well-draining cactus mix (I swear by Espoma’s Organic Cactus and Succulent Mix for my jades, and I’d recommend avoiding Miracle Grow brand soil for your jade. It just isn’t well-draining enough). It helps to let them develop in soil in the first place so you don’t have to transfer propagations in water into soil and risk them going through shock and dying from the transfer from water to soil. Once they’re in soil, water it, then let the soil completely dry out between waterings, and water when the soil’s dry, just like the original plant. You can carefully take them out of the soil every 15-30 days to check for root development, then stick the pieces that form roots right back into the original jade’s pot if you want to. When you repot them once they’ve developed roots, cover the roots in the Rooting Hormone powder again to help with the transplant process. Hope this helps!

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    • Adrian

      If you really want to prune it back, the biggest thing is to cut between the nodes, or the spots where the leaves are. I tried to mark a general spot to prune back if you want to prune it back to closer match the height of your shorter branches. Each node is a spot where the roots can develop from, so the more roots, the better. To give it more of a stem and more nodes to work with, you’d cut between the nodes, then remove a few rows of the leaves by carefully twisting them off the stem. You can propagate the removed leaves with the stem cuttings as well. I’d twist off at least 2-3 sets of leaves to offer at least 4-6 nodes for the roots to develop from.

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