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Jade growing shape tips

10 years ago

I propagated lots of what I think is jade and it is doing well but it's growing very tall. Is there a way to encourage it to grow wider or more bushy instead of thin and tall?

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  • 10 years ago

  • 10 years ago
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    Sorry but I don't think that's a Jade plant, the stem is not right for it.

    Perhaps a very stretched out cross of Echeveria/ Pachy /Grapto something.

    Sorry to say that plant is starved for light (why it's so tall,) its mix is too dense & water retentive. Pls. read up on mixes a bit, check out adding 50% perlite.

    Lena

  • 10 years ago

    It's in the sunniest spot in my house...if the mix improves can it combat the lack of light?

  • 10 years ago

    Alexis

    It won't. Succulents need both for best growth: free draining mix and lots of light.

    If no more light is available, maybe you could get some supplemental lights? I am assuming you don't have outdoor space?

  • 10 years ago

    I do have outdoor space but it gets about the same amount of sun

  • 10 years ago

    Outside there is much more ambient light than indoors even if your eyes can't easily tell, and windows also attenuate sun, so you may see a real difference if you can place it outside.

    I also am not sure it's a jade - it's etiolated whatever it is. The leaves don't look like jade (any crassula ovata/arborescens anyway) to me, especially the youngest ones at the center of the rosette.


  • 10 years ago

    Is the etiolation reversible or should I start over

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Was it grown from cuttings or from a leaf? Do you have 'mother' plant? Maybe we can see that one?

    Etiolation is not reversible.

  • 10 years ago

    Etiolation cannot be reversed.You can cut the plant back to encourage it to branch, but there's no such sibsitute for good light and fast draining soil.

  • 10 years ago

    It's from clippings

  • 10 years ago

    If that's all you can give it for sun, search online for fluorescent grow bulbs(6400K) and a cheap clamp fixture. Sixteen hours per day, just a few inches above the plant, should help considerably after you've pruned it back. And the better soil as mentioned above.

    ez

  • 10 years ago

    Haven't gotten to change the soil yet but this is the color change from being in full sun. Are the leaves being burned?

  • 10 years ago

    No that's just what it's supposed to look like

  • 10 years ago

    Even those 2 leaves under the new growth?

  • 10 years ago

    Wow! That is actually very beautiful! (I love it how they change in the sun). Those two leaves close under the new growth are sunburned. You should decrease the light levels (if you use a lamp), or keep it inside more (if you are simply putting it outside). You should have very gradually introduced the plant to high light levels. That is how you avoid sunburn. Those burned leaves will not heal.

    Good luck!

    ~palmsandsnow

  • 10 years ago

    It's looking more and more like an echeveria - a beautiful one, at that!

  • 10 years ago

    Thanks all for the help!

  • 10 years ago

    Amazing transformation

  • 10 years ago

    It may be E. chroma, I have one in full sun and the color of the leaves is almost chocolate brown. Acclimatizing plants to full sun is quite easy, one just needs to get used to it...