Jade Plant Care For Good Growing

How to Care Jade Plant - Jade Plant is a shady leaf plants like cypress, fleshy leaves that grow in opposite pairs along the branches. Jade plant has some unique varieties one of which is can develop a red tinge on the leaves when exposed to high levels of sunlight.  In certain circumstances can produce a beautiful color like plants during spring.

Many people know jade plant, as a lucky plant or friendship tree, these plants generally have small flowers pink or white flowers. These plants will thrive in the shade place with the sun light, but the plants should not be exposed to excessive solar heat as excessive heat or will damage the leaves of jade plant and will make it burn even can cause stem rot.

Pruning jade plant stems can give a nice effect to the growth of stems,roots and leaves of plant. Usually the stem pruning done during the spring, pruning has two main function of pruning rod will help the stem growth accordance with what we want and pruning will also accelerate the growth of roots. Pruning is usually done several weeks and involves cutting stems back to a lateral branch, for more clearly see the steps below.

Jade Plant Care Steps

• Place the jade plant at place that has pretty light, the light shade from the sun will accelerate growth and will produce good flowers. But do not be place in front of extreme sunlight because it will damage the leaves and stems.
• Put the jade plant in a clay pot, using clay pot is good for plants because it will absorb water so there is no pool of. Puddle in the park will cause root rot and the plant will die. Note your plants when the leaves become soft provide water but not too much so will not cause root rot.
• Put in a room with temperatures around 50-80 degrees F, jade plant is able to survive at temperatures that are quite hot but the jade plant will grow well with intermediate temperatures during the winter. Cold temperatures will also help the garden to flowering.
• If you mess jade tree growth, pinch the stem in order to grow into branches.
• Some pests are attacking jade plants especially mealybugs, mealybugs usually attacks the lower leaves and stems. You do not need to worry just spray water into the mealybugs and let them fall. If mealybugs are attacked try to use insecticidal soap.

Caring for jade plant is easy but you need patience to get good results. Do not forget to continue monitoring your plants so that plants are not damaged and die. We hope this information is useful to you.