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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • There’s a chance that you tricked it into thinking it’s spring, for lack of better terms.

    It’s something I recently learned about in reference to Jade plants that come inside for winter. If you allow them to get a certain small bit of cold before pulling inside, the temperature shifts will force blooms to occur.

    I don’t know much more about it, and I’m sure I’m botching the proper concepts here, but it sounds like what you’re experiencing.

    I have a couple larger jade (crassula ovata) plants that live outside in the summer and inside in the winter. This year they both started flowering right as I brought them inside. When I read a bit more about it, it seems like a normal technique/trick that folks use to push out flowers.

    I’ve never seen them flower before now! Not sure what else may have the same tendencies.




  • Thanks for the kind words!

    I mostly got lucky with the root placement in relation to it’s position on the rock, for what that’s worth. There are two pieces of wire that I used to strap the roots to the rock prior to it being planted. Those seemed to secure 3 (of the maybe 5) roots relatively solidly around the rock. After trimming off a few long roots, I tucked the rest down around and underneath the rock. Filling in the rest of the soil was straightforward.

    Prior to this planting I had it growing out in a kind of semi-cascade style. It was initially a small cutting propagated in water, transferred to a 4" nursery pot for about 8 months to establish initial structure, then transferred into a 2x deep 4" pot for the semi-cascade, and now the root over rock. Not a ton of root training on it besides making an initial root flare with the early repots. I definitely lucked out with how it joined up with that rock (that I found in the yard).

    Ask away if you have any questions! I could probably dig some pictures up, too if you really care.