You did ok with pruning. I wouldn't remove any bottom leaves, since they provide 'food' and help trunk to thicken. Shaping plants takes some time, and requires some patience. Anything one doesn't like will be removed later, if in the meantime it has other benefits. Not a disaster thou...:)

After stems are cut, there is branching most often. Sometimes, only 1 branch will grow.

JMO, but I would have potted plants separately. At least, I would plant them further apart. I think that if they have lots of space, they will grow better. But, again, ir isn't a disaster if you are keeping few together.

It looks like you are using cocopeat? That is ok, but adding lots of sifted or rinsed perlite (or pumice if available) wil improve drainage considerably - and all succulents should have it (good drainage) .I would also fill the pots more, so plants are not sitting deep inside of pots.

Winter is coming, and plants usually slow down. They will keep growing indoors, but possibly slower. They should still receive good light, especially if kept warm.

During winter months, plants should be let to grow. Any further pruning is best done in late Spring - early Summer. If they do not get enough light, they will etiolate - all of that can be pruned off in Spring.

Why the sticks? In general, plants should be able to support themselves. I have few contorted mini jades, mostly because they were pruned and left laying around and unpotted for bit too long. But lots of that will straighten up as they grow, and if not - I'll prune them next year.

Here is a plant that was very etiolated, and I pruned it drastically. I left both cut trunks in same pot and the same mix (contrary to what I said about potting them separately :).

Here is the same pot 6mo later:

I'll take up-to-date photo tomorrow.

The jade in your last pic turned out to be very nice! That’s what I would want these mini jade stems to becomes- a nice sized jade with thick trunk. Cross my fingers. How long does it usually take to see branching after pruning as I did on the top of my stems? Btw took your advice and separated all stems .

As for the sticks, they do not support the stems.... I honestly just saw that online and figured I would do the same if it could help me get the results I want lol

I do not understand what are sticks supposed to help with?

New growth should appear in about 2-4 weeks I guess.

Here is photo of the same plant (in my previous post) today - so total of 13 months+2 weeks since day I cut it. At the tallest point it is 6.25" - I didn't measure it when cut, but I do not think it grew much taller. That's the way I like it - short, compact and colorful. And, hopefully trunk that is fat and tapering:

There were 2 fallen leaves in the original pot that I left in, and you can see they grew into nice little plants. I'll probably separate them all in Spring.

I have more than dozen different pots now, probably close to 20 - they all came from the original plant I grew from a small cutting. Here are just few samples (including of of the very contorted plants):

Plant with yellow star in above collage could be the original, grown from cutting. It is tallest one I have, approx. 14" from the soil line right now.

Here is one of my experiments: taller plant is approx. 3" tall, and short on the left is just a 2.25" piece of stem I laid on top of mix, and it started to grow new plants. They were cut and potted sometimes in early June, maybe end of May:

I do not know how thick trunks will grow. I have one Finger jade that has trunk I like; it is 8.25" diameter at the soil line, tapering to 6.5" diameter where branching starts at 2 7/8". Just MO, but I think this is best trunk I have :)

Jades root and grow very easy. You should have np to get nice growth, just make sure they are not overwatered and give them good light. Without it, they will be etiolated.

Those are all beautiful! Thanks for sharing

I posted all those pics to show you that they are quite easy to grow. I keep them all outside as long as possible, in plenty of sunlight. When indoors, they are under supplementary lights, since my basement (where most succulents spend winters.about 6mo) is very dark. You need to make sure they get lots of light. And water them when potting mix dries up.

I was wondering what are sticks supposed to help with? Were there any suggestions about that on the net?

Apparently to help them not tip over when they become top heavy.. I put them in way too early of course . I will remove them as they are not doing anything at this stage

So I’m just curious as I never prunned before . As you can see I cut off the top part of the stem that was only growing upwards. Were will the new branching start ? Will it start from the top where the cut is that has now dried up since last week? Thanks