Is your jade plant growing too haphazardly? Turns out a monthly trim can shape it into a "jade ball"

The jade plant (Crassula ovata) is a potted plant that gardening enthusiasts all love. Its leaves are thick, cute and fairly rounded. Most people like to keep one at home, and its care is simple and propagation is easy - just cut a random branch, stick it in a pot and it will live. It also grows fast, with emerald-green little leaves that look so endearing and have high ornamental value. However, if you want to grow the jade plant well, especially with a good plant shape, you need certain little tricks, and you need to understand the growth patterns of the jade plant. Only then can you grow it well and make it grow the way you want. This is the topic we are sharing today:

Is your jade plant growing too "haphazardly"? Give it a cut once a month, and it becomes a "jade ball" - finally you understand its "meaning"

I hope this helps you grow your jade plant well.

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Actually, the jade plant is a potted plant that grows especially fast. So for such a fast-growing jade plant, if you want a good shape, you must learn to prune it, and during the growing season it is best to prune once a month. Only this way can you encourage it to grow new leaves faster and become the jade plant you want. If you don't want to prune it, it will grow too loose and shapeless, feeling like it is growing too "willfully". If your jade plant is growing like this too, then you can prune it according to Xiaohua's method, and let your jade plant grow into a "jade ball" in 2 months. Only then will you truly understand why the jade plant carries the meaning of auspiciousness, wish-fulfillment and completeness - finally you understand its "meaning"!

At this point, if we want to grow the jade plant into an old stump, we need to cut off all the leaves at the bottom of the jade plant. When pruning once a month during the growing season, we need to pinch it every month. This way we can encourage the jade plant to produce more branches and more new leaves.

This is to let the jade plant produce new branches and new bud points, and also to prune and pinch it into the plant shape we want. After about 2 months of pinching and cutting the top, the new branches of the jade plant will become stronger and stronger, which in turn triggers new bud points and new leaves. And after reducing nutrient diversion, both new and old leaves will be more emerald green, rounder and thicker, and the ornamental value will only get higher and higher.

However, if you want the jade plant to grow fast and lignify fast, we need to prepare plenty of fertilizer for it. When potting it, we can add okara fertilizer. Making it is not hard either: we can take an appropriate amount of soybeans, then soak them in clean water. After they swell, put them in a pressure cooker and simmer for more than 30 minutes. Take them out, let them cool, then put them together with the water into a plastic bottle, seal the opening, and put it in a sunny place to ferment. At the current temperature, after about 20 days you can take the water to water the jade plant. You need to add clean water at a ratio of 1:10. The remaining okara can be mixed with the potting soil to grow the jade plant, and the effect is especially good.

Because after fermentation, soybeans become a compound flower fertilizer mainly containing nitrogen, especially suitable for leafy potted plants like the jade plant and the money tree (Pachira aquatica). With sufficient nutrition, plus our skillful pruning, the jade plant generally can become an "old stump" in a year without much effort.

Warm tip: apart from the high summer heat when it needs shading, the jade plant can be given plenty of light at other times. Only this way can it grow lush and leafy, and it will speed up the lignification process of its main trunk.

For daily watering, just keep it moist. There must be no standing water in the pot, as that will cause root rot. Generally water once every 5-10 days, and water thoroughly each time - do not water only halfway. However, if you want it to lignify a bit faster, you can control the water appropriately.

That is all for sharing about jade plant care. I hope you like it.