I have a three-year-old jade that i'm very attached to and would like to save if possible. several months back i noticed the soil in the jade pot wasn't drying out as well as it used to and was staying so wet i feared it would rot so i repotted in new soil, scraping as much of the old soil off the root ball as possible. there was some yellow fuzzy stuff in the old soil when i dug it up. the plant seemed fine for several months, then about a week ago two of its five big stems suddenly rotted through- they shriveled up and were hollow inside, so i took them out and still have the three larger stems. now i'm losing the lower, larger leaves- they're turning brown at the edges, then wrinkling and coming off. the new growth still looks fine.

soooo i panicked and took the plant out to look at the roots. they're mostly brown and stringy with just a few fat white roots. rotted? beyond repair? the root ball seems really tiny too, this plant is maybe 10 inches tall with some horizontal branches and the root ball doesn't extend more than two or three inches.

is it time to cut the remaining healthy stems and re-root? the stems that are left are really thick fat woody stems.