Jade plant - green to woody stem?

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cruz4him Toronto, ON(Zone 6a) Jul 09, 2008

Hi! I have this beautiful jade plant that I got from Home Depot about 2 years ago in a 6-inch pot, and it's been recently repotted into an 8 inch one because it was starting to tip over. It's doing great in my south-facing window at the office. I water it well about every other week and fertilize once a month from March to November.

Right now it has nice green trunks. Will it eventually grow into those woody-trunked ones or did I let lucky and find a variety that stays green? I don't particularly like the woody-stemmed ones because they just don't seem as lush. Maybe it's because of the way they've been taken care of. I've never seen one outside, only as houseplants, probably because they'd never survive a Canadian winter.

Here's a pic of mine before I repotted it.

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cruz4him Toronto, ON(Zone 6a) Jul 09, 2008

oops, that's a pic taken after repotting, not before. My bad, didn't look at the pic before I wrote my blurb....

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Jul 10, 2008

Very pretty Jade! I don't know much about them but I thought most would get the wood trunks as they mature. Look at this photo that Happenstance has in Plant Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/25630/ A large jade and I don't see any of the brown wood trunk!

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lbrabec (Lynn) Omaha, NE(Zone 5a) Jul 12, 2008

I think it will eventually develop a brown woody trunk.It is a tree.If you want to prevent this keep taking cuttings and rooting new plants.As for the lush growth,it could be that one plant has been grown with more food and water,while the other has been grown hard(watered infrequently,outside in summer,semi-dormant in winter).Lynn

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monkapotamus Winston Salem, NC(Zone 7b) Aug 03, 2008

yes, as they get mature, the older, bigger parts of the trunk will be brown. My mother in law has some HUGE jade trees in giant pots in the yard- she must have had them for decades...I always think the new green growth on the thick trunk looks great. Sometimes people prune them back hard when they're young, so they only grow off of one main 'trunk'... it gives them a prettier tree shape down the line but I've never been able to bring myself to hack that much off of a plant.

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