Before the butchering:

After:

Roots:

Repot it in porous soil (you can get a number of different mixes' recipes on the Crassula ovata / jade plant threads here).

Don't use sand if it can be avoided, and it can.

Don't water it at all - mist the branches every day / every other day until you see growth (which, in the season we're in, might be 2-4 weeks, if that), then you can begin watering it again. A sign of the roots regenerating will be that growth, indicating it's OK to water / fertilize it.

BTW, great job chopping it prettily.

I gently squeezed all the branches and they don't feel soft and there isn't an odor if that helps at all. Please please please...help. I love this plant!

You're doing fine - just more light - bright, indirect light all day would be a fine thing indeed, and bring to you more quickly the sheaves of leaves.

I see you're new & youngish at that. Pls. do not counsel folks to use sand, at all, EVER.

We get lots of problems w/ folks coming here to UNDO all the problems they've had w/ sandy mixes, so PLEASE do not come on here, sounding like you might have some experience w/ growing these & then give folks this bad advice (which we all work hard to undo). It only causes problems down the road. Otherwise your participation is most welcome.

I got a question for them too. How does a succulent plant take up water ? A) misting it's remaining part B) the plants roots. C) none of the above D) all of the above

Question for some others When you and others make statement to not use sand and support the idea that sand be avoided as part of a fast draining soil what other options can you provide a reader ? Aside from instructing them to read other comments of this forum. Where can often be read other people use sifted sands as part of there succulent growing medias.

Others here who advise use of gritty mix or 5:1:1 offer places where one can obtain those particular components.

"here can often be read other people use sifted sands as part of there succulent growing medias."

As to the quoted text, I have rarely seen that recommended here, so I don't know what is being referred to.

When sand approaches an appropriate size for use in a mix, it is more properly refered to as gravel.
I would not use any sand particle that was less than 1/8 of an inch, maybe 1/10 of an inch in a pinch.

I recommend Perlite, Pumice, Scoria, Quartzite, Granite, Turface, just as I always do.

Josh

Consider garden soil. It works fine in the garden, even pure clay soil, because the stuff around a plant's roots is connected to a huge drain-cum-reservoir. Dig up a chunk of soil and put it in a pot outside and suddenly it gets soupy too quickly and dries solid too quickly.

In practice, anyone who's asking for advice on succulents and soil should be discouraged from sand and other fine particles. It's too much of a balancing act -- just use a gritty mix so that you can water the plant as often as you like without worrying about drowning it.