The damage looks odd. At first I was thinking sunburn, but
I'm not sure.

I grow mine in
gritty mix and it is fine in that. It does grow slower than my regular
jade, and it seems to like to get tall and lean, rather than bushy like my
regular jade. Only advice I can give is be patient, water and fertilize
appropriately, and get it good sun.

This is a picture I have of my plant from last year. I ended up doing a major chop on it...

Hi Deva33,

Thanks for your input, the growing cuttings are on a window sill facing east with 4-5 hrs. of morning sun and the bonsai wanabe is under grow lights which I'm guessing would rule out sunburn in both.

Love your tri color examples, inspirational ! Thanks for sharing.

Also, I'd be carfeul with prop sticks. My phone is dead right now so I can't post a pic, but i have scars on a jade that i used a prop stick with. Where it leaned on the stick it actually bit into the leaves.

Thanks for the link Crenda, an interesting and informative read.

Crenda, that is an interesting thread. I'm going to go home and inspect mine now! We actually get a lot of humidity here in Iowa (I'm in the SE corner of the state and very close to a river) BUT we also get a great breeze - sometimes too great!

Crenda, brilliant link! Mine gets these spots too - and one of the suggestions was also too much salt. Well, guess where I live? On da beach! :)

My variegated jades get these marks too. They live in the g/h and get watered with rain water, very occasionally with tap water as I get a lot of the natural type! I draw the shade cloths on extra sunny days to keep the temps down. Can't say that the climate is overly humid here as we don't often get the high temps, occasionally there are 'muggy' days as they're referred to over here where the atmosphere is laden with excess humidity, but nothing's lasts more than the odd day.

Gill

Hi Gill. Is it just your Tricolors get the marks, or all variegated jades? Did you get the email safely, by the way?

Margaret

I don't have any other variegated, so can't tell; hopefully Gill will see the post & answers.

There are marks on this plant too:

and this one doesn't have any:

Most of my variegated jades Tricolor have some marks.

That is perplexing, Rina. My Tricolor jade did have the marks when indoors, and after being outside in the sunshine (yes, we have that this year, alleleuia!) it dropped the marked leaves for the most part - this makes me suspicious of the cause as being cultivatory, I having also repotted the plant after moving it out. I also live near the sea, incidentally.

Margaret, just about same experience here - I did not repot, but there are definitely fewer marks on the leaves since they are outdoors. There is a lake about 30km away from where I live, I don't think there is any extra humidity - just as anywhere else. I believe sunshine has something to do with it...and maybe fresh air too :)