I always struggle with moving the pot as I fear it will fall. I have repoted several times thinking it was a problem of not big enough pot and lack of soil, and have tried with sticks and strings to make it more stable but I have not been able to stabilize it. I am considering just trimming but I have no idea how to do it properly. Any tips? Ideas? Thanks 🙂
Watering habits: once a week
Light: enough as it can get on winter sitting on a windowsill opposite to the sun
by pristinepound_
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It’s growing awry with small leaves because of lack of light.
Each time you put it into a bigger pot you give it more soil that takes longer to dry out. If the plant isn’t getting adequate light it takes even longer for the plant to process water.
I would keep it in a small pot, these guys don’t make deep roots so they can end up quite top heavy. The solution is to put the small pot inside of a deeper heavy pot.
They like a LOT of light
It needs more light, to go longer between waterings, and a pruning
When you water you should soak the soil, let it dry out completely and then stay dry for at least a week before you water again. You can wait longer
Prune it to promote strong growth. Remove some of the thin twigs so that the plant can concentrate on a few good branches. You can remove about 1/3 of the plant and it will grow much better
Keep it right by a window, preferably one with no screens, blinds or shading trees outside
this youtube channel Everything Plants has some good videos on jade pruning, etc. i linked one below.
https://youtu.be/Xve6zbM4cyQ?si=rssu5nm8OT2EwCqp
It needs a lot more light. And I don’t mean adding a plant light. I’ve seen one that was very happy growing where it got a morning of direct desert sun.* When a plant doesn’t get enough light, it will put its energy into growing stems, trying to position its leaves to reach and find more light. Your plant has inches of stem between each set of leaves, and is doing exactly that. In a plant that’s getting proper light, these sets of leaves would have an inch or less of stem between them. Yours has several inches.
*No, you can’t suddenly put your plant in desert sun. You need to slowly move it so that it gradually gets acclimated. A fast blast of desert sun will give it the equivalent of a major sunburn, because it’s not used to the sun.
As others said, definitely lack of light. Also watering too often, especially if the root system is potentially lacking
It would be helpful to prune the branches that are growing downward to maintain a neat upward growth.
I cannot edit the original post so I will just add that there is not much I can do about sunlight other than wait until summer or move countries, even I desperately need sunlight xd