Crassula Species, Friendship Tree, Jade Plant, Lucky Plant, Money Plant

I have had a Jade tree for two years now. I bought it at home depot and put it in a sunny window. Outside in the sun in summer.
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It kept tipping over in the pot and discovered that it is best to hold back on water in order to encourage root growth. Tried it and it works. Now I usually don't water it for three weeks at a time and it does great.

When a couple of branches fell off I put 'em in a pot of dirt and they rooted. I've also tried rooting every leaf that falls off, and while they don't always work, I have about a dozen baby jade plants in varous pots; the leaf born plants seem to be slower growing, however. One of my favorite plants.

I think this is one of the most grown plants in my town. Every 5th house has huge ones in their yards. They are gown in clusters usuall...Read Morey; I think because they break off and root on their own. It is such an easy plant. I remember when I was a child my mother had one in her dining room in NJ. It was a prize plant of hers. She was so proud of it. I bet it wasn't any bigger than 10 inches. She had it for years. I used to pick its leaves off and make her so mad. LOL.

When I first moved to California, I saw one in a yard that was about 5 feet tall. I took a picture and sent it to my Mom. I was speechless.

I have had a huge one myself for over 20 years here. It is in a pot on my front porch. I retrieved it from a road where it had been run over by a car and left for dead laying in the street severed. I potted it up and it immediately rooted even though it was a huge piece. So many years later I still have it though I so neglect it. It is lucky if it gets watered 3 times a year. Never fertilized. It hasn't grown much over the last 20 years but it sure still looks great! I feel so guilty now I think I will repot it!

I have two of these plants going right now. The larger of the two (about 15" tall) was a start from a bush/tree that stood about 5 feet ...Read Moretall and was about 8 feet across. This mother plant was growing on a college campus in Southern California where I worked. I walked past this tree everyday on my way to my office and finally decided to take a 3" cutting.

Now living in Oregon, I took a cutting of this original start a few months ago. It is small, but doing quite well. No blooms, but that's okay!

Crassula ovata has been a great slow growing succulent plant. I have found in my zone that high intensity light during summer can burn le...Read Moreaves especially new growth.

Crassula ovata has enjoyed the best growth in part sun to full sun for most of the day.

It gets too cold and freezes or frosts/snows in my area to keep it planted outside without dying.

Propagation worked best with taking stem cuttings from larger plants and suspending them in water to develop roots. After root growth had begun they were transplanted into a growing medium.

I had trouble with successful leaf rooting as well as stem cuttings that had dried and then putting them directly into soil. I had too much rot from these attempts. These attempts were not in greenhouse conditions and it may not have been warm enough.

In any case a wonderful plant with bonsai characteristics, ideal for long term indoor pots, and lush green foliage.

my jade plant is now about three inches high. Igot it at a plant hosted by the local library it is thiving and has 2 new leaves i put it ...Read Moreoutside for the summer and it is thiving

What a plant. Received a small plant with just a few leaves from a friend about 6 years ago. I left the plant in my unheated greenhouse...Read More. It did not seem to grow any so like many others I decided to repot it. In just 2 years in my unheated greenhouse, not paying much attention to it except a little water every few months through the winter, it now stands 3 feet tall, is very bushy with a single trunk of approx 5" in diameter. Very healthy. I would say it survived better by my neglect than it would have if I paid particular attention to it. This past winter it bloomed profusely and stayed in bloom for a very long time. My husband and I were in shock when we went to the greenhouse after a storm and found it in full bloom. I have just installed a larger greenhouse and we had to remove the plant from the greenhouse and put it on our deck for the time being. If we had waited any longer it would not have fit through the doorway of the greenhouse.

I can safely say that age has nothing to do with the Jade flowering. I have had my plant for two years and it just started to flower. I k...Read Moreeep it in the greenhouse though the spring, summer, and fall and when the temp dips outside, I bring it in to a sunny window. Flowering has to do with day length so make sure if it's inside, you keep it in a room that the lights are kept off at night and I think you will find your plant will flower.

My husband purchased our Jade from the green house at the hospital he works at,the elderly man that runs the green house said this Jade w...Read Moreas in the range of 60+ yrs,its alittle over 5 ft tall with a huge trunk,currently we have it outside in its original pot,its leaf tips are a very nice red shade,since it is the first jade I have ever owned,I must admitt I am a bit scared of killing it,my main fear is when it comes in this fall that it will go into shock or something,my neighbor said her "mothers" Jade would always drop all its leaves at first then regrow them towards sping,I have not read that anywhere,so am unsure if this is correct or not,hopefully mine will do fine,fingers and toes are crossed here.Hopefully I will be able to repost this spring with a positive and grateful response.Solardust

I think these might be the easiest plants to grow in the history of plants. Not only can I not kill it (not that I am trying to), but the...Read Morey seem to grow out of nothing from leaves which have either fallen off or have broken off! I have a small shelf full of leaves which I have pruned off of bigger plants, and they all have sent out roots and formed small leaves on them. I water mine very well about once a month, and then sporatically in between depending on the heat and humidity, or lack thereof. They are not in direct light, except for one, which is under a grow light.

I have a varigated Crassula.... And I have been trying for months now to find info on a true white... This varigated plant sent out a p...Read Moreure white off-shoot... No, it is not green at the base, nor does it turn green when I remove a leaf and restart it. I mean not even a hint of color... I can send pics if you want. In the sun it turns rose on the edges, and the white turns a little cream, but even at the stem and at the newest growth, there is not a hint of green. The plant has been growing now for several months, and is about 4 inches long, growing on two stems, with about sixteen leaves. No green. Also all the leaves that I "plucked" and started are equally ivory. How rare is this? I have not been able to find any info on it... I do know for a fact that I have a Crassula Ovata.... But I have never seen one quite like the one I have flurishing in my kitchen window right now!!!
~Ellie.

This plant did not like living outdoors here - apparently it rains too much. Since then I've moved it to an enclosed porch, and it seems better.

One of my longest lasting houseplants. I have had my Jade fro 20+ years. I bought it as a 4" houseplant and I just repotted it last yea...Read Morer for the first time in 10 years. I kept it in the same pot that long to create a bonsi type plant. It can take neglect a great plant for the 'brown thumb'

My jade plant started as a 3 inch cutting in 1982. It has always been a house plant, living in a corner of the living room that has large...Read More north and east windows for the last 12 years. I let it get so pot bound that it was in danger of tipping over in a plastic pot so it was repotted it to a ceramic pot about 3 years ago. It got watered about every 2 or 3 weeks using a weak liquid fertilizer or sometimes plain water. After a few years I cut off some limbs and planted them in the same pot. This fall the older part started blooming, just a few but I am thrilled. Before Christmas we moved it out to the greenhouse and it continues to bloom even though it is in full sun, sunburned and obviously quite happy.

This plant is very easy to grow in Southern California where the climate is fairly mild all year. It can be planted directly out doors. ...Read More If you give it full sun, it looks yellowish green with red margin. If in the shade, it is dark green in color. Here in Las Vegas/Henderson area, it is mostly an indoor plant. If you leave it outside, it will freeze in the winter and will burn in the summer--even in the shade. It will be okay to leave it outside only in the spring and fall months. It needs more water than a cactus but less water than other common house plants.

In California, both South and North, it has done extremely well for me! In shade, sun, in the house, lovely when in bloom.

We lost our large jade plant which had been planted in the ground, but were able to salvage a small piece which we planted in a pot. It ...Read Moreresides on our lanai until it gets large enough to transplant back into the yard.

my parents had a large one in the ground, plus some in pots, and thats where I got mine. It's one of the few plants I keep in pots. Nev...Read Moreer knew they bloomed, 50 years of jade plants and I've never seen a flower. Do like them, but it's partly sentimental.

Interesting how almost everyone who's posted has owned their jade for years! So have I. I've had it for over ten years. It was potbound i...Read Moren the same pot for years, did fine. Finally repotted it, and has grown more since. I need to take more cuttings, it has branched all over the place, but in a compact sort of way. I tend to overwater it, which I know I shouldn't, and it is still doing great. It is a lovely plant. Everyone should have one.

The largest jade plant I ever saw was protectively planted in an outdoor concrete planter in the "indented" entrance to a small store in ...Read Morethe Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, about 20 blocks back from the Pacific Ocean. This area gets both sun and fog, but the climate is a cool Mediterranean one. The plant was about four feet tall and about three feet wide, and must have been there for many, many years to attain that size.

I personally do not do well with jade plants, as I tend to overwater all of my plants, so I generally avoid succulents and stick to the jungle types. I think the broad leaved houseplants are more healthy in the house anyway as they make good air filters. But I think most succulents are very attractive, and I wish I could be more successful with them.

My husband owned a jade plant before he met me, I am unsure of how long he owned it. As soon as we married I "inherited" the plant and ha...Read Moreve had it for over 5 years now. It has not bloomed yet but it is a beautiful plant regardless. It also is very easy to care for. It has even survived my forgetfulness of watering it for a few weeks. I highly reccomend this plant for beginners or for people who seem to forget (like me) to water their plants regulary :) Hopefully my Jade will last a long time to come!

I acquired two hardy jade plants in 1992. They were both in the same pot and both had trunk circumferences of 7-8". I repotted them into ...Read Moreseparate pots and they have grown faster than any other plant i have (I have a LOT)and now are 3 and 4' tall, about as wide or a little wider than they are tall. the taller one started blooming last week, and the other one has just begun. These plants are approx. 15-18 years old. i've read on your site that they bloom at maturity,

Also,these particular jade plants have been the most prolific of anything i've ever grown. I've knocked off large branches during moving and i just stick them in a pot of soil and they take off! Sometimes I think they're trying to take over my whole plant collection; there's a little jadie growing with almost every other plant in my house! They do look interesting when potted with aloe and spider plants.

The Jade tree as a single trunk is my favorite. It has been in my family for four generations. Members of the family all have starts of...Read Moref my grandfather's plant. We have to treat it as a house plant in Washington in the winters, but it spends the Spring, Summer and early Fall on the deck in full sun.

It loves water, but too much will rot the plant. Better to keep it on the dry side. It has flowered each year around Christmas; needing the short days and long nights to set the blooms, similar to a Pointsettia or Mum.

In full sun the leaf edges turn a nice deep red, a nice contrast to the deep jade green leaves. I have some Jade plants with varigated green and white leaves and a Sunset Jade, with green leaves streaked with cream/white and pinkish red.

All Jades are easy to propagate by dropped leaves self rooting or by cuttings that are let calus before planting in loose soil. Will not tolerate a freeze, remember this plant is 90 percent water. Mine is now almost 4 foot tall after only 5 years.

My mother was given a small piece almost 40 years ago. She kept it in a pot for years, and finally decided to plant it in the ground outs...Read Moreide the house. She planted it on the north side of the house where there is no direct sunlight, but good healthy ground. It is also planted near the sewer line.
This plant is about 5 feet tall, forked at the base, almost 5 feet wide at it's largest point, and each side of the fork is at least 7 inches in diameter.
Very healthy and still going strong.

The plant have a mild toxic substance although in South Africa it is used by the natives as a vermifuge, for epileptic seizures, for cuts...Read More and sore, for warts and corns.

For cuts and sores the leaves have to be cut in half and put on the sore and put a plaster over it. Redress morning and afternoon. It help for the pain as well. Like a local anaesthetic. Sores heals more rapidly with a leave from the C. ovata.

I have a "mother plant" that is probably over 20 years old. It is 3 feet tall and getting quite leggy. It's got to be root-bound, but it ...Read Moreweighs too much and is too awkward to re-pot. The mother flowered for the very first time last fall. Some cuttings I took off of it are living in a south window and are much better looking than the original. The leaves are 4 times the size of the other plant.

This is one of my favorite plants. I got a 3' tall, 15 year-old plant in 1995. It flowered three times, and was quite an impressive plan...Read Moret. It had been a cutting from a tree that was 6 feet in diameter and at least 100 years old. In about the third or fourth year I had the plant, it contracted an aphid infection. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get rid of them. They got in the creases of the plant along the stem and branches. It took them about a year and half, but they eventually killed it. (This plant is HIGHLY susceptible to aphids.) I managed to save five cuttings (leaf only, “woody” stem and green stem types) before I decided to call it quits for that plant. The plant was a health risk to my other plants.

Many of the cuttings lasted for a while, just to contract aphids again. I made several cuttings of the cuttings of the cuttings, until I was down to one pair of leaves with a half inch of green stem. At about this time, I managed to banish the aphids to damnation (can you detect a little hostility?) Now I have a plant that is about 8 inches high and developing a healthy stem. Victory for the good guys!

I have had my jade plant since I took a cutting as a child about 20 years ago. This year I put it in the greenhouse after always having ...Read Morekept it indoors. The tips went red all over, there's lots of new growth and it's flowered for the first time ever. Brilliant.

Makes an excellent Bonsai !!

Typically, jade plants will bloom usually around Christmas (in the northern hemisphere.) Blooming is triggered by the natural shortening ...Read Moreof the days.

If your plant is in a room which usually has lights turned on at night, it may fail to bloom. Try to find a suitable, naturally lighted place for the Jade sometime in early October.

They grow like weeds in Southern California, so when trying to think of how to take care of these plants, think So Cal: little rain and l...Read Moreots of (preferably) ambiant light.

A satisfying lush succulent, the jade bears the resemblance of a small tree.

Like many succulents, they are slow growers. ...Read More It may take 20 years to reach 3 feet in height. In perfect conditions, the plant will reward you with white or purple tiny flowers.