How To Propagate A Jade Plant

The stem should have a few healthy leaves and at least two nodes towards the bottom.

How to propagate a jade plant. Using the cuttings and using the leaves. Find a good branch on your Jade plant that you wish to use. The first step you can do is to take the healthy part of the stem by cutting and separating the broken part.

And perhaps even more importantly you get to see the roots growing in real time. With the water method once your stem cutting has healed just pop it into a glass or vase of water. As long as the rest of the stem is healthy and fresh it can grow into a new plant again.

After cutting the broken stem from the healthy part of the. A single jade plant can be used to cultivate many younger jade plants. The best thing with jade plant propagation is that its quite easy.

Jade plants are easy to grow from single leaves or cuttings because they are succulents. New leaves and roots will grow from these nodes. Once you have leaves you need to let them dry and callous over.

The larger the cutting the better the success rate. The trick to propagating jade plant is in understanding the right techniques to obtain jade cuttings and then providing them the right conditions to grow. Jade plants will send out roots when theyre not pot-bound and will just need water to grow well.

They make great houseplants. Any stem cutting size will do but people are usually more successful with larger cuts. If you have a large Jade plant or know someone who does you can grow more Jade plants by cutting off a stem from the larger.