Oh and can anyone ID the three in the last photo? Not that it's a good photo for ID but I can't find them anywhere and don't even know where to start.

The zebra looking one is Haworthia attenuatta Cv. 'wide zebra' Sometimes it's classified as an H. faciata

I like the pot but it's in but it might be to shallow for the long haul.

It looks great, just don't 'force' them growing 'cause you'll have to re-pot in no time :)

....but H. fasciata is an incorrect name for this one...

Harry

nice!

Thanks everyone!

Rina, how does one "force grow"? I just water them when I'm not feeling lazy and they get the most amount of sun I can give them, which is almost none.

Yeah I had mentioned I was worried I made them too small haha... hmmm I guess I'll have to make some more and get smaller plants to put in those... I don't necessarily see that as a problem hahaha

Also thanks for the ID but the ones I'm REALLY curious about are the three in the last photo. It's possible I just bought some extremely etiolated echeverias or something similar but they seem to keep growing taller even though the rosettes are compact now...

How will you prune the three finger jades into three different types? Gollum has short, stockier leaves, and Hobbit has open folded leaves. You need to start with a plant which has all three types of leaves. Maybe the others are not visible on your Corals, but I only see the finger type.

Force them to grow - by feeding them often mainly. Especially in winter, when there is less light and is of lesser intensity, feeding plants will cause them to grow more in not-so-favorable conditions; they usually etoliate a lot too. Can't remember where you are located (if mentioned previously), but if they go indoors for the winter, keeping them cooler and not fertilizing, and even watering less will help. You may have to re-pot in spring, but they are pretty cute and should be enjoyed until then...Rina

Oh got it. Yeah I'm in Baltimore (I can't change my username for some reason...) so they're coming inside. I don't use fertilizer so hopefully they won't outgrow their pots too soon.

Marguerite, I guess it's hard to see in the photo but they have a variety of leaves.

I think what Marguerite meant was that you can't force a plant to grow into something that it is not. 'Gollum' and 'Finger' ('Coral') jades are two different distinct plants, with two different genes. Sometimes you will get leaves that resemble another plant, some more than others, but you cannot force it to grow the leaf that you want.

-Erica

Since pots are discussed in this thread, here are some I found in GH, terracotta - not sure about the quality since they were just $1/each (stamped |made in Italy...). They are 5.5" on top, 4.25" on bottom and 4.5" tall - almost as good as bulb pots:

Erica, I think I got the idea from a different thread about Jades that Rina had started and someone was showing pictures of their jades they had pruned to have specific leaves. But maybe those started out with mostly one type... I'll look back at that thread I guess.

Rina, I was under the impression succulents liked shallow pots, which is why I made everything 3" or under. If I make more, what would be a good depth? I noticed the echeveria in particular needed a deeper pot, but the jades fit really well and the haworthia's roots were... well I'll post root pictures in a bit because I'm also kind of concerned about some of them and not sure what to think.

Yes, you don't need deep pots, that is the reason I mentioned 'bulb' pots (they are wide and shallow).

If you make more pots, I would think around 3" is fine - if the ones I bought were shallower (3-3.5"), I would have bought 50 of them!

Pots you made are cute, only thing to consider is that if plants grow vigorously, you'll need to re-pot. As long as you don't mind - there is no problem.

They don't need to be tapered much either, wider base is more stable. I think your 3-in-1 is nice even to use as a centerpiece - and practical too - if you don't have plant small enough, could be used as a candleholder :). All of them would. So be creative...

As what you mentioned about the leaves of Gollum, it was probably what Oksana mentioned - she said she picks off 'stray' leaves:

I have not recommend to do as me. I just want to own two different
cultivars: clear 'Gollum' and separately 'Coral'. For this reason I
remove inappropriate leaves.

More of Oksana's comments and photos on this subject are: -here - above quote from her post on August 3 @11:22pm

Rina

I know which thread you are thinking about. I think that discussion was mostly referring to pruning leaves off plants that were different. For example removing 'Coral' leaves from a 'Gollum' plant or vice versa.

I think pot size really depends a lot on medium and watering habits. I have all different sizes as far as depth and it doesn't seem to make much difference with gritty mix.

-Erica

Here are some photos of the roots as I was cleaning.

1. When I initially pulled this one out the roots looked like they were doing really well. Plus it had recently been doing a lot of growing and the leaves were stiffening up (I had asked for help about them in another post). The yellowing leaf started when I was cleaning... Anyway now I'm not so sure about the roots.

2. All three jades looked pretty much like this. I think it looks good. It appeared free of mealies (I have found mealies on my jades a couple of times) but I gave it a soap bath anyway and really tried to rinse the roots. Nuked the soil too. Evidently all of that makes mealies thrive and I've been qtipping them with alcohol and spraying 50/50 almost every day.

3. What is this plant?! It is so pretty. Very small root system though, a little concerning, but they all seem healthy so....

4. What is this plant?! Also really cute! Also not many roots...

5. What is this plant?! Roots are concerningly small, but all that new growth makes me think it's not a big deal?

Those leggy rosettes, I'm pretty sure you can propagate the leAves of all of them. If so, I'd remove the leaves where the stem is showing and la the stem sidesideways in the dirt so it will root all along the stem and put out many offshoots.

I'll consider that but I've never had luck with propagating. Currently I have three little dishes of leaves mostly just shriveling slowly. A couple have roots but they've been like that for months and it's going nowhere. I also have a couple haworthia that had root rot so I cut it all off and I've been waiting to see roots develop aaaaand nothing. I may post photos of those soon actually because I'm pretty confused as to what's going on with them...

Hey everyone, I may be a little early to have concern over these repotted plants, but they are showing signs of being underwatered. My jade in particular is getting soft and wrinkly the way it was a while ago. I was expecting some shock but I just can't seem to get it to retain water, and I am nervous about over watering, although I understand with gritty mix it's really difficult to over water...

It's also been extremely hot here lately, like over 100 a couple days last week, so that doesn't help. Any suggestions for watering succulents with gritty mix though? My non succulents that I switched to the same mix also don't look too happy, but I was told I need to continually water them since they like more moisture, and that I may not see a totally healthy plant for about a month.