Oh, Jalcon, it is just lovely. I wouldn't go at it yet if I were you. It seems perfect to me.

Nice, looks healthy! What kind of pot is it in?

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Thanks, it's just in the pot it was shipped in. I'm going to replant it in some better modified gritty mix here soon, and I have a nice pot for it, unfortunately they are calling for snow here in southeast PA on Sunday, so it may have to wait a bit..

Beautiful, please don't cut it

I'm guessing it was a very large cutting rooted in that pot

Right..Figured that was kind of a given haha. Either way it's got some great roots, albeit rootbound in this pot..Remember, 99% of jades technically come from "cuttings" whether it happens in the wild naturally or not.

I understand that's one of the things I like about succulents. Woody plants can be hard to root and slow. Most succulents you can chop off as big of a hunk as you want , keep it dry , and it will root.

I want my Jade to look tall and treelike, just like your beauty! How do I help encourage that trunky growth rather than bushy?

The new pot looks beautiful.

Well, the short answer is. Find a large, very old and established Jade plant in someone's yard in California or somewhere and hack off a nice branch like this one and let it root for a year....the growth will suffer during that time, so pinch off most of it, and let it come back healthy one the roots are established. That's pretty much what this is, haha. It's got a good root system now though.

That's not to say you couldn't get a jade plant to look like this, and train it to have an upright single trunk, and look like this...but in a pot..I imagine it would take like 20 years...maybe less under good conditions..