I bought a small jade plant and put it in an eight inch pot that's about 10 inches high. It's sitting in the middle of my kitchen table. How much light does it need? Do I need to move it over by the window on the northeast side of the room. The sink is by the southwest so I can't put it there. Would the east window in my computer room be better? Thanks! dooley
I got a jade plant from my friend yesterday. She said it does fine in the shade, she said she grew them on the south side of our building, so they don't get much light, but i read they do need sunlight, but not suddenly because they can get "Sunburn".
My jade plants sit in the kitchen window. A south light made dapple by a multitude of large oaks provides them with the required essentials for photosynthesis . One plant a friend gave me and another is a branch from a very old, very large and very deceased jade. My wife kept bumping into one plant in its previous location so there are several arms and legs inhabiting whichever pot had the most space. A recent census has two maturing adults and 4 offspring. All are very happy. Jerry
Mine all sit in the greenhouse, but not in full sun...most of them. I do have a couple sitting on the bench in the big greenhouse that I just repotted and seem to be doing fine. Jade plants are very easy care or almost carefree plants. I haven't killed one yet and I neglect them greatly.
If acclimated, jade plants can take being out in the sun all day. That's where mine are now, but they do need to come inside for winter. The brightest spot you have would be good.
Thanks! I have it sitting next to a window now. After it's been planted a bit I might move it outside.
Dooley, It is also VERY easy to propagate. If a stem breaks off (which is normal as it gets bigger) just tuck it right into some potting mix and leave it alone. eventually it will grow some roots.
I traded a large aloe for three small 8 inch jade trees about five years ago. My friend has a 7 foot tall jade tree and he collects the baby offspring and sells them. We let the three jade trees go nuts for three years but they were all in one pot when we got them and they just got too big and were all falling over. I finally decide summer before last to trim the mess up and cut off two of the jade trees and left one main trunk and then trimmed enough of that off that I had a basic tree shape that would stand easily with some support from a stick. I planted all the cuttings in pots, of which there were a lot. I now have around 50 jade trees and growing by the month. The main tree is now about 3 1/2 feet tall and I have another five that are about 2 1/2 feet tall. Jade trees are easy to care for and amazingly easy to propagate. You can take cuttings of branches, you want to set them somewhere dry and in moderate light for about two weeks. The cut area will callous over and often start growing some fine roots while setting there. Then plant those in good potting soil and water moderately, they will soon start going nuts. The other way to propagate is to sprout the leafs that fall from the plant. Let them set in a dry area for a couple three weeks like the cuttings and many of them will sprout little roots from the base of the leaf. Plant those in potting soil and they will grow as well. Technically each leaf on the tree can grow another tree.... Here are some pics of starts from leafs that fell of the plants or broke off when I was working with them. I have many more leaf starts, but these are few for example... These are some amazing plants, you can turn a single plant into hundreds in no time at all. I was wanting to get a better pic of the leafs sprouting out, so I went searching the containers, I found these two that planted themselves in my main sprouting box in the dining room. They show the sprouting of the leaf very well beings they are not actually planted as yet.... well not planted as of taking the pic, they are planted now... If you have the jade tree in a big enough container fallen leafs will commonly sprout and plant themselves and you just go through and remove them from time to time and put them in their own pots. My problem is getting to be too many jade trees in the house.... These things are terribly prolific... As for light, I have not found a place where mine would "not" grow well as yet, as long as you get a few hours of direct light through a window each day you should do well. My sprouting box gets about 6 to 8 hours of direct light a day. Technically this box is the result of running out of planters when I was trimming my trees up and I needed it to plant all the rest of the cuttings that I did not have planters for. It does not get the greatest light but everything still grows quite well. Moderator's note: removed double posting by merging posts, see point 3.6 of usage rules
