Congratulations! Great job...keep us updated with pictures.

You should keep it out side, 'Jades' don't like house temperatures, and really can take quite chilly conditions, and it actually helps them come to flower. You did an excellent job of pruning, just keep the plant on a covered patio until spring, this will protect the new leaves, let us know if it sets flowers. Thanks Norma

Thanks a lot pepperomia and Norma. I will keep you posted with updated pictures when the leaves start coming in...or if by some miracle it flowers.

Puglvr1,
So this is your jade too, I am really checking ours out and thinking about cutting my big jade back all the way like yours. I did when it was young but now I want to split them up and make a tree and I think I am going to deleaf it too and see what happens. Thanks for posting your photos. Keep us updated at the new leaves start coming in.

I hacked my jade down just like yours, but I went a bit further down the trunk. Granted I had more than one main stem.

I did it in early spring, and now I've gotten about 3 to 4 pairs of leaves growing on most of the limbs.

As for the tiny shoots growing at the base, they don't do much to the aesthetics of the jade presentation after it leafs out.

Might I suggest you remove those for a cleaner presentation?

Just a note: Not all pruned branches will leaf out the way you want them too. Some will have multiple new buds, while others won't have any.

Hi Max,

Mind if you send me a picture of your pruned Jade? You can send it to my email address. I would love to see it. Thanks for the suggestion on removing the small shoots at the base, I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep those or not. Maybe I kept them because I had something to remind me of what the leaves used to look like, I'm actually just starting to see very tiny new leaves starting to emerge. Maybe when the leaves get a little bigger I might go ahead and cut the base shoots off. Appreciate you letting me know about the branches, this is all new to me.

Randy is truly the expert on Jades. I've corresponded with him over the years on GW and he was the first to suggest hacking off all the leaves and letting it regrow.

I might do that with my Hummels Sunset jade next spring.

I will see if I can get pics for you. I had an accident with my digital camera, so it is not working properly now.