Dwarf Jade
This one is a rehab project. I inherited this plant and we thought it was on the way out. It lived part of its life in a dark bathroom and was slowly deterriorating, but I am determined to bring it back. After doing some research I never realized that these plants can calcify their stems and grow like a bonsai tree.
| Info | Details |
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| Common Name | Dwarf Jade |
| Scientific Name | Portulacaria afra |
| Sun Exposure | Full Sun to partial shade |
| Soil Type | potting soil |
| Bloom Time | Late spring to early summer |
| Care | Place in indirect sunlight at minimum 5-6 hours a day. Water deeply but infrequently. Water every ~3 weeks and even more sparingly during the winter. Use your finger to test dryness before watering. For more information, click here |
| Capitain's log | |
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Date | Note |
10/02/2020 | Watered the big pot and small new plant a few days later to give them some time to callus and settle after being beat up a little bit. I will wait another week before watering again. Having fun with this one. From what I've read online, less is more with this one. |
09/30/2020 | Big update. So I wanted to repot and clean up the plant since it had a lot of dead leaves and such. So I went through and took it out of the pot to replant and realized it was coming together a bunch. When I cleaned up the dead branches a bunch of singular branches also came off. I've decided to dry out the singular branches and let them callus over so that I can propagate them, and I have planted one of the small bunches that came off the main plant. |
09/27/2020 | I am going to trim and care for the plant today. I'll post updates |
09/14/2020 | I inherited the plant. |
