A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2003 I'm a newbie

Hi all. Glad to be here. I never joined a forum, but this looks like a good place to start.

A little about myself. I'm the mother of two. Both are in college, one graduating this year, the other just beginning. So we're emtpy nesters for the first time.

I've lived on Long Island all my life and love it. We're busy on the East end as well as in the City, so we have the best of both worlds.

I keep busy gardening, working out, reading, loving my kitties and have great friends to hang out with.

Now I have a question. I have several glass jars that I rooted jade in. I wanted to plant them, but when I looked into growing jades, I only found informaiton for dry rooting, nothing about rooting in water. Did I make a mistake? Has anyone started a jade plant that way?

Any advise is appreciated. Thanks

Well Hello Joanne F.,
Welcome to The Garden Helpers Forum!!!
You have picked a very nice forum to join,
We are a bunch of very nice gardeners, and people and family members..... All with a passion for
growing things, whether it be plants, flowers, vegetables and or friendships!!!!
We hope you'll stick around and ask lots' of questions, that's what we're here for......
And for learning new things from other gardeners as well,

We have a few from N.Y.
Yep, me too!!
I'm on the other end though, Western New York!!
But we do have some from your side, luvgardening and Will Creed to name a few off the top of of my head.... But stick around, it takes the gardeners a bit to get around and on.
But glad to have you on board...................

As far as Jade's go, they're pretty easy to grow, just place the leaf on some dirt and just watch those roots grow.... You'll have a good size plant in no time....
I would think you'd be able to take the plant that you started and put it in some dirt, and it would survive, If it were my plant what I'd do is, after I find an approperate pot, with good drainage, I'd put the dirt in and the plant on top and put a saucer underneath it for a SHORT PERIOD OF TIME... and keep the soil alot moister than normal, if the plant rooted in water, as I understand it roots in water eventually can't take up nutrients from dirt, or have a hard time.
But if you kind of give it the same moist conditions for a small amount of time, backing off the water, and or letting it evaporate or such the plant in time will still have it's moist roots and eventually send in new ones that will like the dirt. And then will not have the original water only roots.
Does that make sense, I'm a reader and a doer, and sometimes in translation I get a bit winded!!!
(I told Bill he needs to find me a snoring gremlin to add to my long winded books)

I'm also pretty sure, if you wait a bit, Will Creed will also be through with some advice as well.

Also, If you go to FORUM SEARCH and type in jade
you'll get about 53 of posts that may give you some more info....

Also do a GARDEN SEARCH and type in jade and you'll get some of Bill's info on the site here about growing Hades...

Weezie

Welcome to the garden helper Joanne! We have a great bunch of friendly folks who all have different ideas, answers, and experiences. Even the most novice gardener can help us with new ideas and information.

To maximize the response to your question, I am going to copy your post to the houseplant section. We have several experts who drop buy there regularly, but will not look anywhere else in the forum.

Welcome Joanne,

I am an indoor urban gardener living in Manhattan and I am always happy to help with indoor plant questions.

Jade plants can be rooted in water, although it is more common to root them in moist, porous soil.
I assume that you already have roots on your jade cuttings. If so, you can move them to pots as long as some of the roots are at least an inch long.

Use a small clay pot and place a small amount of a porous mix of equal parts of perlite and peat moss in the bottom of the pot. Then put a couple of rooted cuttings on top of the potting mix and fill up the rest of the pot with the same mix. Tamp it in place so that the cuttings stand up straight. Water it thoroughly and wait until the top quarter of the mix feels dry before watering thoroughly once again. In a month or so, the "water" roots should have made the transition to "soil" roots.

Hi Will,

Thanks for your input. It was very clear and will try it out soon. I love having the Jades on my window sill, but realize they should be in pots, the bottom leaves are losing color. I'll let you know how I make out.

I'm off to Manhattan today with hubby and some cousins. Too bad the weather doesn't want to cooperate.