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Separating a jade

I have a jade that is growing good but has 4 stems making one plant. Can I separate them to make four plants or even just removing one so I can work on making it look more like a tree then a bush? This is a photo of it that I took over a year ago. I cut it back at that time to get it to thicken. So looking at the stems could I disect it? Without killing it?

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"Crassula Ovata" after


What it looks like now after I cut it back, leaving just a few leaves.

Comments (6)

  • 19 years ago

    Yes and its a good time to do so, but why do you want to? If you leave them you will be able to form a very large head of leaves, from now up to christmas they will be putting out new growth which should have flowers for Christmas. Feed them a product called bloom, look for the numbers 0-10-10 on the box or bottle. Any fertilizer with those numbers will do. Give them a diluted fertilizer 1/2 of what the directions advise, after every watering and just stand back and see what happens. Norma

  • 19 years ago

    So far I have never had a jade bloom for me. That would be great if it did. But with having to take it in the house in the next by the end of the month would it still bloom.

    I don't have to divide right away, I could wait till after it has had a chance to bloom. I was just wanting to make a tree out of it,now rush though.

  • 19 years ago

    Do know that crassula ovata's form blooms at the very ends of their stalks. So if you prune it at the end of the year, it will not bloom as you just lost the ends where the flowers appear.

    Also, this time of year you need to feed them, just like Norma suggested, to get them to bloom in the winter.

    Unfortunetly, many people prune back Jades at the end of the year. Typically people bring them inside for the winter, and when they get a good look at the plant they naturally start picking of the ends to shape it up. But in doing so, you loose the most important part for flower growth.

    ./mark

  • 19 years ago

    dufflebag2002 - do i need to give them this product 'bloom' every time i water the jade plant? I still have to find this product...

    I give it plant food called Phostrogen every 1 month. is it enough or do i need to give it more often?

    In the link there is a section of my jade plant... as it is today? Do you think i need to seperate it to have more jade plants ?

    Here is a link that might be useful: My Jade plant

  • 19 years ago

    Just in case you keep it like that always, the plant in your photos (on your "jade plant" page) looks extremely thirsty....The leaves look nearly completely shriveled, with visible wrinkles, in those photos....but then the lighting is not great in the picture either....if that is the way your plant looks right now, go and drench it with some water and let it get back some of it's turgor.
    Callous over just means that the cut end is dry and basically sealed, as in a scab on a cut, so that soil moisture is not free to be sucked through the cut end by osmosis and possibly cause rot.

  • 19 years ago

    thanks olelander . yes in fact it is exactly as it is in the picture. I will go and drench it tonight.

    I water it every 2 / 3 weeks. Do you think i need to use plant food?