This succulent project began last month when I received these most excellent cuttings.
I immediately set to work assembling a mix of screened Fir bark and assorted grit - Turface,
Pumice, Scoria, Perlite, and quartzite. Then I filled the long bonsai planter that I used to root
my last Jade Forest, arranged the cuttings, added a bit more mix to situate the cuttings.

After nearly a month of patience, I assumed the cuttings had sent out roots and were ready
for some moisture. So I gently lifted each cutting, then replaced in the container, and watered
to wet the roots and settle the mix. With a porous, loose mix one can check on cuttings without
worrying about damaging roots. Yet another advantage of a superior potting mix.

But enough talk! On with the pics, yes? ;-)

Here's the starting material. If I've mislabeled these, please let me know.
And if you're interested in the fine finger Jade 'Legolas,' talk to Gmaculata for details.

Contemplating the layout for the cuttings:

A close up shot of the motley mix:

Cuttings situated and ready to put down roots:

A couple weeks later, on a sunny window-sill:

And then the proof in the puddin' -
'Maruba Nishiki'

Lancaster variegated

'Legolas'

'Red Horn Tree' with lots of root activity!

Josh

Love the collection (especially 'Legolas').

Great roots, and in such a short time - for some reason I thought that variegates are little more difficult to root...
Your mix looks great too (besides being well-draining; are you mixing it in more or less equal parts?) - plants look so much better in 'nice-looking' mix.

Hope to see follow-up photos as they grow bigger.
Nice planter too.

Rina

Christopher

Nice looking Jades, I have many but none of the variegated type, It always seems like we have everything until someone posts their collection.

Well I see whats on my list for this year.

Greg

There's an old family nursery close by that has a boat load (okay, maybe, six - twelve) mature-ish common(?) var Jades. Guess I better to have another look.

If I remember correctly they could be "Lancaster". Are these easy to identify just by appearance?
Gail

T

I knew you could do it pal! The key was to get them to you as plump and at their peek growth.
I am sure they will be in good hands buddy!

I love how the 'Legolas' held on to it's white color without shriveling up. Oh, they look so full and healthy.

Pretty soon I will be cutting some more before I put them out for the spring.

Thank you for sharing with us. I am so excited to see they all made it for a great guy!

You know what I love about these? That all with retain their coloring right through the winter. All the main plants are as birght and vivid as the day I brought them in. Talk about bright plants at a most dismal time of the year. And, they will grow fast for you!

Mike

--Your Stalker

The mix was not measured, just eye-balled this time - I took some rain-soaked recycled mix
of Fir bark, perlite, and white pumice, and added some dry Scoria, Turface, and fresh bark until
I'd evened the moisture out and had a balance of large and small particles.

Christopher, thanks sir! I will surely update with the success or failure of this planting.

Happy New Year, Greg! It's good to see you :-)
Indeed, I've been lusting after the 'Red Horn Tree' and the 'Maruba Nishiki' for a couple years now,
but the specimen from Lancaster Gardens and the 'Legolas' I learned about within the last year or so.

Monet, if you can post a picture it would be great.
There are quite a few variegated Jades - beside the 'Tricolor' that is common -
and I find them difficult to distinguish sometimes. The Lancaster cutting may have a proper name
already, but I surely don't know it - so I'm simply calling it by the nursery whence it came.

Mister Tom Termine, thanks! I love a crunchy mix that snaps, crackles, pops, and smells
like volcanic dust when watered ;-) Glen's 'Legolas' is a beauty...I hope he's propagating more!

Colleen, I feel very, very lucky! I don't particularly fancy the typical variegated Jade,
but who can resist these uniquely variegated Jades?! ;-)

Irrelephant, get you some variegated Jades! :-D
When I saw the variegated Pink Eureka Lemon, I had to have one. Mike helped encourage me, too.

Hey, Nancy, thanks for stopping by! I think we ought to have an "underground root-road"
where folks in northern States root cuttings and then send them south to you ;-)

Mike, none of this would be possible without you, buddy.
The cuttings were plump, well-packaged, and great-sized for rooting. Thank you so much.
I didn't mist or water during the process, so they are somewhat dehydrated, but that's all
going to change now that the roots are biting into the mix and able to take up moisture again.
As always, it will be an exciting experiment to see how the colors hold up/intensify in my climate.

Laura, if you do go up to stalk Mike, a bottle of wine will loosen him up ;-)

Josh

Josh

Thanks for the detailed description of your process. I'll have to make use of it myself! :)

And lovely specimens - I love variegates on jades!

*CG*

Josh

Howard

Josh

Just one question about C.o.'Maruba Nishiki' : do you have a reliable source about the cross C. o. 'Obliqua' X C.o.'Hummel's Sunset' ?

Thank you very much.

Laurent

Thank you!

Josh

Laurent

Here is a pic of a cutting of a cutting of Mike's Jade, in a south facing window.

Christopher

I'll snap a pic of two other variegates from Mike tomorrow. I also have mine in a south window, and they sure do get thirsty with the sun light and the warmth. Nice to see the return of the red margins. This season, I'm going to fertilize more heavily...everyone's cuttings or plants from Mike seem to be growing faster than mine!!! Time to change things up ;-)

Josh

Josh

Great Job with them, thanks for the update!

You are doing a great job buddy!

Mike

I just took this yesterday of the most common variegated Jade alongside a cutting of a cutting of Mike's Jade for comparison...

Christopher

Josh

Josh

What is that tall one of the far right? I want it! :-)

I'd like to see a pic of your re-potted Jade.

Josh

So how is the weather your way? Looks nice and green, from the photo. Here we might have another snowstorm heading this way tomorrow, so tired of it.

Christopher

Here's my only variegated Jade.

In hindsight, the pot's entirely too big but it's what I had. I can't make up my mind with this one, whether to put it outside or inside so it's traveled back and forth, haha.

Do you have all of yours outside?
It's hitting 70 these days and lows of 50s overnight, give or take 2 degrees....and I can't make up my mind which situation is more ideal for the thing. I used to have a regular crassula in the light shade by the front door for several years that did really well, but I was always curious about having one indoors.

Love how that one has a nice trunk when it's still small. I wonder if I can train mine to trunk by pulling off leaves, haha.

I had a few out on the table yesterday...

G/l

Josh

And I sure that lost will grow such a beautiful specimen that I hope I can add to the collection one day any how great progress and g/l

Any chance we could see a picture of the mother plant?

Josh

Ya'll keep me amused you are so passionate about these little guys.
Tally HO!

Glad you're amused, though.

Josh

I`m easily amused what can I say.
Tally HO!

Josh

Nancy, what kind of jades do you have?

Josh

Josh

Josh

We are entering that time of year, however, when the 'Hummel's Sunset' and other pale-leafed Jades get browned margins. I'll be moving them into some partial shade.

Josh