Beginner Gardening: 5, 10, 20, 30? What's Your OLDEST potted plant?, 0 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
My jade plant was a 3 inch snip from a friend's plant 24 years ago. I pruned it a bit during the first 5 years or so and planted the pieces in the same pot. When it got top heavy it got a new pot, now in it's 4th or 5th pot. It lived in the house and moved with us a few times, bloomed on one branch about 3 years ago, the oldest branch I believe. We moved it out to my new greenhouse 2 or 3 years ago and it hasn't been back inside. It is so happy that now it blooms for several months all over the plant, then keeps giving me a few more bloom clusters for about half the year. I don't think we could get it out of the greenhouse now without breaking it. I water it once a month with a slightly diluted liquid fertilizer solution in the winter and usually twice a month in the summer but sometimes it just gets plain water or water from the fishtank in the greenhouse. The pot is starting to look a little bit small again, and when it needs a new one it is going to take two of us to do the repotting.