A gritty soil will be your best bet...your jade will enjoy being potted in a 50/25/25 perlite, cacti and succulent sand, and potting soil. The most important part, however you choose to proceed, is that the jade will not be sitting in puddles between once/week summer waterings due to a poor-draining soil.

Hope this helps.
-Nick

A gritty soil will be your best bet...your jade will enjoy being potted in a 50/25/25 perlite, cacti and succulent sand, and potting soil. The most important part, however you choose to proceed, is that the jade will not be sitting in puddles between once/week summer waterings due to a poor-draining soil.

Hope this helps.
-Nick

Nick

Question: what exactly is cacti and succulent sand?
Just wondering...Rina

Pls. no, no 'succulent sand' (whatever that might be) we generally advise against using sand at all, as it causes too many problems.

I wanted to differentiate between just going to the beach and getting a bucket of sand and getting a "cleaner" substrate.

Point taken, but, could you clarify how sand causes problems?

Thanks.

Sure, how we see it here is when folks come asking for assistance; that it's become compacted around the roots & be very difficult to take off. This can interfere w/ the roots getting air & can contribute to root rot (from my experience on here for 10+ Yrs).

Some folks who do use sand & like it, distinguish in ways like coarse sand or construction grit, as opposed to fine sand or beach sand.

I asked about succulent sand thinking that it may be a grit of some kind...perlite & grit are best to use in mix.
Rina

Thanks, pirate_girl! I'll keep that in mind about the sand. It's all a learning process for me.

Your welcome, am happy to explain & thank you for not minded being disagreed with.