A jade plant grown for 30 years blooms with a thousand flowers, and Grandma only used a cracked porcelain pot
When a jade plant blooms, it means good luck and everything goes your way!
The truly authentic jade plant below is at least "50 years old." With a tree age like that, it does not hold back at all when it blooms. Besides the astonishing number of flowers, the trunk is also frighteningly thick, thicker than an adult's arm!
It never rains but it pours; the jade plants that can bloom are not just one. No wonder the experts are among the common people! They say good things happen when a jade plant blooms, so let's look at more of them and soak up some of that good fortune~
Are you feeling envious just looking at them? Actually, jade plants are very easy to grow. An arm-thick jade plant can be grown from a single small leaf, 100% reliable! If you don't believe it, follow Huahua and learn~
Pull off a leaf and it will live; if you don't grow one, you're missing out for nothing
1. Pull off a few jade plant leaves and place them on the surface of moist potting soil. As long as they are not exposed to strong sun, small white roots will soon sprout.
2. After rooting, you can move the leaves into individual small flower pots and water once every 3-5 days. Pour the water directly into the soil, do not splash it on the leaves, and wait for it to take root and sprout on its own.
3. After sprouting, it can get some proper sun. Change watering to once every 7-10 days, or water a little less according to each household's actual conditions, to avoid leggy growth. After the old leaves wither normally, the new shoots will grow symmetrically.
4. Young jade plants that have successfully rooted from cuttings can be placed on a balcony or windowsill to get some sun, and watered once every ten days to half a month. Grown this way, the leaves are plump and chubby, they do not grow leggy, and the branches and trunk become thicker.
5. Growing a jade plant thick not only depends on time, but also on technique. Besides more sun and less water, you also need to prune regularly, keep the main trunk, and remove the extra thin branches around it. Those that have already grown leggy can also be pinched at the top.
6. Jade plants do not have high fertilizer requirements; watering with nutrient water once a month is enough. If you do not fertilize normally, it is also fine to keep repotting once a year. It is best to choose a short, squat flower pot, which is breathable and attractive.
7. Some jade plants can bloom in 5 years, while others take ten to twenty years. Besides environmental influences, nutrition is also one aspect: add some phosphorus fertilizer in early autumn, and spray monopotassium phosphate once every half month, and it can bloom in autumn and winter.
8. Jade plants either do not bloom, or they bloom all over the tree when they do, which is also a kind of consumption for them. Once the jade plant flowers fade, prune them off quickly, cutting 3-5 cm along the flower stalk. Then add some compound fertilizer, nutrient solution, or the like, and there is no problem enjoying flowers every year!