Lots of people prune their jade plants myself included. Sometimes mine hits a growth spurt and the stem can't seem to keep up with all the new leaf growth. It leads to some long and weak branches.

I trim mine until it looks decent again and propagate all the cuttings. I give most away as gifts. I stuck a link in here that you might find useful for propagation. Good luck to you and your jade.

Here is a link that might be useful: Jade plant jade and propagation.

This question gets asked frequently so if you do a search (at the bottom of this page) you will get lot's of jade hints.

One thing that I always suggest is to pinch off downward growth. I have never found it helpful to stake branches up as they tend to break off anyway. But I have yet to have a giant jade in my house-just many many wonderful smaller specimens

tootswisc I don't have a search bar at the bottom of the page, am I missing something or is my browser showing the page differently than yours?

I do see one in the Garden Web menu bar near the top though, and a search there will offer many results. Just search jade pruning.

taccat my search bar is at the bottom of the subject page, i.e. House Plants Forum not this thread.

ohhh - thanks albert 135 :)

Thought I was missing a really cool feature somewhere.