I have been obsessed with jade plants (Crassula ovata) since 2012. In that time, I have made every pruning mistake possible. I have decapitated them too hard, pruned at the wrong season, and even caused…
Raise your hand if you’ve ever stared at a tall, naked jade stem and thought, “I’ve failed this plant.” Same. Mine looked like a green bean pole for two straight years. Then one desperate afternoon…
I walked into my living room and froze: dozens of perfect jade leaves were scattered across the floor like green confetti. My “unkillable” money tree looked half-dead overnight. I panicked, but after rescuing three jades…
I have murdered exactly three jade plants in my life. All three died the same slow, soggy death because I treated them like thirsty ferns instead of the desert geniuses they are. After that triple…
I have propagated more than five hundred jade plants in the past decade. What started as one tiny grocery-store jade in 2015 has become an entire windowsill jungle, plus dozens of gifted babies that now…
Eight years ago, every leaf on my 15-year-old jade plant (Crassula ovata) turned bright yellow in less than a week. I thought I’d killed it. I actually carried it to the trash, stopped, brought it…
