Comments on: Jade plant

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:05:30 +0000

Anna, I am not an expert, but I have never heard such a thing. If your friend can’t show you research to back up his claim, my guess is your friend was teasing you.

By: Anna Ong

Anna Ong — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:49:56 +0000

I have a jade plant in my house. My friends told me that jade plant in the house is not good for health. It can cause cancer. Is this true? Thank you.

By: Grania

Grania — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:44:31 +0000

hello,
Very interesting reading . . having now identified my plant as a jade plant !! I have had this plant for seven years, it was from a small cutting then but now a huge plant with many “babies” in other pots.
This month for the first time EVER it is flowering!!! I was totally amazed and delighted with these little star shaped flowers, hundreds and hundreds of little buds still to open still – but WHY has it never done so before ?? The position has never been changed, a west facing conservatory which gets fairly cold at night – i feel like bringing it inside now the flowers are coming, but dare not move it in case it becomes unhappy !!! Wot a delight it is, has made me smile and smile .. . . i feel like getting people in from the street to view it !!!
So, my question is, why has it never delighted me before like this ????? I did not even know it was capable of such beauty.
I live in lincolnshire UK

By: Swampduck

Swampduck — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:13:06 +0000

Hi, need a little help from you if poss.
My neighbour has just given me a jade tree, not many leaves on it though it is around 3ft tall, and has new growth on it. As I do not seem to be able to keep indoor plants, (bear in mind that I once killed a cactus!!!), any help you can give me as to how to look after it would be gratefully accepted and appreciated.

Would I be best off pruning the tree as I have read in another site? By the way when I move the tree leaves fall off all the time. It is watered and fed but do they loose leaves easily?

cheers
Swampduck

By: Louis Decocq,Bellingham,WA

Louis Decocq,Bellingham,WA — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:04:57 +0000

We have an indoor Jade plant, about 40 years old, 5 feet tall…..healthy. Except the movers broke off part of a major stem. Is it possible to make a successful graft of a branch to the remains of the large stem ?
Thank you in advance.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:55:09 +0000

Ten years ago, I devided up a huge but sadly abused jade that had been beside an indoor pool. It had four thick stems and some type of rot was starting to kill it. I gave the cuttings to friends and promptly forgot about them. I visited them after ten years and they gave me a beautiful two foot tall jade with a fat trunk and tons of leaves. Their house is also full of them. Gregg from Maryland.

By: Alice Nelson

Alice Nelson — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:51:10 +0000

Just be careful with insecticides and jade plants. They just don’t get along. My daughter, donce upon a time when I had several large jades, sprayed them all with a plant insecticide and they promptly all died! They seem to be able to take one that you put in the
soil. Perhaps other people have more info on this. They seem to get mealybug easily.