Very NICE and HEALTHY...you're getting some nice pretty colors. Great growing and thanks for the pictures!

Nikki, they certainly are lovely!
Those red stems on your Sunset Jades are superb!

Really nice small-leaf Jade, too!
Thanks for sharing,

Josh

Hi again Nikki! So you also grow Jades....just like me! Yours are really nice. I have two big jades around 12 yrs old, a small Hummels Sunset and a small Gollum too. The HS has begun to colour up fantastically over the past week or so. I took a couple of lower leaves off when I repotted it after I bought it as it was in a very peaty mix and some were completely buried....they are now both rooted and one is sprouting baby plants. The HS and Gollum were from Homebase for 99p each...a bargain. Will post some pics in a separate thread so as not to hi-jack this from you in the next few days but rather busy at present preparing for daughters wedding in 2 wks time (have sons in Oct and elder daughter in March!!!) phew!!
You don't happen to grow palms, orchids, frangipanis, hoyas and strelitzias too do you? That would be a real coincidence!
Regards, Gill.

Thanks for your nice comments :)

My small leaf jade used to look like this before it got its lovely colours

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Hi Gill :)

Yes I love jades they are my favorite ( well them and my euphorbia trigona ) lol

Good luck with the weddings one after another wow!

I have 2 plumeria seedlings which were the only seeds to germinate out of the 8 I was sent so not very good .. Although I dont know anything about them but just thought I would order the seeds along with my adenium seeds on ebay.

I dont grow any of the others but will look on google for some info about them :))

I have never seen a gollum in my local homebase but if I so I will buy it.. they always have the "normal" jade in there... they treat the plants so bad! I did buy a small half dead HS from there for 99p I felt so sorry for it and now it seems to slowly be picking up

My adenium seedlings are getting a bit bigger *SLOWLY* lol but some of them seem really skinny and others more fatter for some reason

I look forward to seeing your pics :)

Nikki

Nikki!!

Beautiful!!! I love them all!

Did the little ones I sent you ever root> I didn't see them there..:-(

Mike

Hi Mike

Thank you :)

The Jade cutting you sent me still has no roots although I am still hopeful lol... but a small bit of it that fell off has got roots so im hoping I will get a nice plant out of that but I think it will take a while I will show you when it grows a bit :)

You sent me another plant this one here

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I decided to cut it back and put it in my plastic greenhouse thingy with my jades and put it into a smaller pot to prevent rot

Considering I did cut it quite a bit it is slowly coming along.. I still dont know what its called

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Nikki,

Good that you potted that last plant down. I believe it MAY be Anacampseros, don't know which. It needs more light, it's supposed to be more compact, less space btwn leaves.

VERY nice Jades ALL.

If they were mine, I might be a bit concerned about how deeply that Gollum is planted. I suspect there's a central stem buried under there.

Hey, Nikki!

The small-leaf Jade is one of my most colorful plants, as well!
Great growing!

Josh

Those are wonderful-I just started this site and see u are using terracotta pots--that was my question as I have some in plastic also and they do not dry out at the same rate as the terracotta -- I also wanted to know how a shallow pot would work--like 4.5" deep-- just because I have these pots w/o having to buy new ones.
I have pictures but have no clue how to post them here
Help appreciated
Mari

Hi Mari66, welcome to the forum! To answer your question 4.5" deep pots should be just fine for Jades/Succulents. Most of my Jades/succulents are planted in clay pots...only a few in plastic bonsai pots 2"-3" deep. I prefer using Clay pots because they do dry out faster than plastic, plus they are heavier which makes them sturdier. Basically, the most important thing about growing them is to make sure your potting mix is porous and free draining...preferably NO peat, so the soil doesn't stay wet for long periods that can cause root rot. Good luck!

Nikki, you did a great job, it just proved to me that they do like cooler temperatures and color up better because of it. Crassula ovata "Jade" grow in mostly in Eastern Africa in the rocky hill sides. Norma

Hi Mari welcome to the forum you will get lots of excellent info here about all your succulents :)

Norma thank you, I am totally shocked at the colours of my plants :)

Nikki