Oh no! With the time line of pictures it is pretty horrible seeing it just keep getting smaller and smaller like that. But it is good to see that you were left with something and didn't lose the entire plant.

Josh!
So good to see this!

I told you she'd be fine.. now don't you have someone to forgive? ;)

JoJo

We have several Jades that have all been spawned from the same mother plant that I bought my wife for her birthday in 1991. Actually its more work trying to keep them from taking over the yard than it is to start a new plant.

Thanks!
Mother Jade...frost-pruned by Mother Nature...
Ah, I think it's a work of art, freed of all those distracting branches! *wink*

Okay, JoJo, I guess I've done enough penance, lost enough sleep, et cetera... ;)
Baby steps to forgiveness...

Josh

Josh,

Coincidentally, I just read an article in the New Yorker about a couple of folks and their cryogenics institute. While no mention was made of an operation in Northern California I'm assuming that that's because you're publicity-shy?

Congratulations - your efforts are paying off handsomely.

Good to hear Josh..:)

JoJo

Josh, I am so glad it is looking so much better and recovering. I'm so happy for you. It will look like it used to in no time you'll see!

Congrats, Josh. Like what Nancy has said, your plant will look fine in no time.
Bet you feel really good, don't you :-)

Xuan

Good morning!
Xuan, I sure do feel a lot better! Even if more segments of the trunk are discarded,
at least I know there are healthy roots that will sprout back and ultimately survive.
I'm very happy with the centralized trunk-column that I've been left. I'll certainly be
using this Thread for updates this Spring, Summer, and Fall!

Jeffrey, this cryo-experiment nearly had me in tears ;)
It is something I hope not to repeat...well, not under these extreme conditions.
I *might* subject plants to a light frost in the future, however...scare them straight....

Nancy and JoJo, thank you so much for encouraging me through this transitional period! ;)

Josh

Hi everyone!

Hey Josh! Yay! I know it would come back Josh! I know it seems silly now to have worried so much, but if I was in your shoes with a plant so dear to me, I'd have worried just the same. Glad to know the trunks are plumping up again and shes coming back to life! :)

Hey JoJo, Jeffrey, Xuan and Pug! :)

Ashley

Hello, all!
After three weeks' time and a bit of sun, the Jade's looking much better.
I *still* think it's going to discard more of the upper branch segments....but now I'm sure it will survive.
Not the best pic (had to use the flash).

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Looks great Josh!
So happy to see it's comming along!

Thanks for the updates, always love your pics.

JoJo

Its looking like its going to survive Josh! So happy to hear it. Thanks for the update. Its recovering very nicely.

Josh, Bravo!!!

Hello Jojo and Nancy!:-)

Josh, thank you for the updates. I really enjoy them without having to ask.
Wow, what a resilient plant..

Mike..:-)

Good evening, everyone!

An update on my Mother Jade....healthy, happy, and fat again.
The uppermost growth is doomed to die eventually; but that's a small price to pay to save the plant!

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Josh

Congrats Josh!! Nice save and well worth all the effort! Its looking great! Thanks for the update!

Nice job, Josh. Congrats.

Xuan

Hi Josh..

How does the Mother plant look now? I was wondering if you brought all your jades in yet and didn't make the same mistake...It must be frosty there now?

It certainly is here..20's tonight and a month early..:-((((

Please post some updates..Thanks..

Mike

Howdy, Mike!

Yes, my Jades are coming in for the night lately...it isn't too cold yet (only in the low 40°F's),
but there's a lot of dew in the early morning. I haul my plants back out when I leave for work.

Keep in mind, the top few inches of this Jade are going to fall off eventually. That's just the cost of survival.
In the last picture, you can see that the stems are deflated and that the nodes are separating right at the first fork in the trunk.
There's a green spot of growth at that node, which is where a new branch will be.

When all's said and done, this Jade will have been frozen back to a stump. A lesson hard-bought.

Here we go - my Mother Jade:

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Josh

Hi Josh, glad to see its still alive and doing well...just a little shorter than before that's all. No problem, it will make a NICE Bonsai Jade.

Josh,
It's great to see the mother jade doing so well! Thanks for posting an update!

Lugging them in..back out.. good exercise. ;)

JoJo

Josh, it's so interesting to follow the journey to recovery of the mother jade.
Thanks for sharing update photos. I always love to look at Before & After pictures :-)

Xuan

Nancy, JoJo, and Xuan, thank you all!
I appreciate that you've followed along with me during this journey....
I'm very glad that I haven't killed the plant completely! At least not yet...

Nancy, it will be very *bonsai* when the top finally drops off ;)
Hopefully that will happen some time this winter. Who knows, though? I might get impatient and just
chop the top off myself...to force new growth from the lower nodes.


Josh

Nearly a year later, and time for an update!

Well, the top of the Jade never dropped off....
but at the end of May, I couldn't wait any longer. I was tired of energy going to parts of the plant
that I didn't plan to keep. So I removed the upper section where I could see the nodes separating
(and a bit of green tissue beneath the callus).

End of May - looking healthy, but looks are deceiving.
See next image for the separation of the nodes.

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Collapsed side of the trunk, with nodes separating toward the edge.

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A blurry pic after I made the cut.

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And here's my Mother Jade today. I tried to take the photo at the same approximate angle.

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Close up of the new growth that I've been waiting for. Notice that the upper two nodes
show damage from the freeze, and those'll have to go eventually. The lowest point of
new growth will become the next main branch.

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And a top-view. Always nice color of this Jade.

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Josh

Such a good job Josh!

That is one good looking plant and I guess your work and smarts is paying off.

Thanks for teh update:-)

MIke

Thanks, Lynette! It was sad to lose that Jade, since it was the first cutting and first Jade I'd rooted and grown. Thankfully, I still have the other Jade that froze the same night...that one's trunk is much thicker, so it survived and has grown well.

Josh