You might be able to lean it on its side and chip away at the soil a bit with a chopstick or skewer to get below the root line. Ultimately, if you can, you might be able to loosen the soil to free the roots but more than likely would need to cut the roots off and reroot it.
Worst case, you may have to cut the trunk and reroot it, or as already suggested, sacrifice the pot.
dusti_dearian
It’s just a pot. Keep that beautiful plant.
enimaraC
You don’t need to wreak the whole planter, but aside from passwd’s suggestion, chipping off the cup holding the jade might be needed. But I don’t have the chisel I’m picturing that would require and I don’t know what tools you have 😉 Might need the trunk chop.
Material-Aardvark-49
For a jade as magnificent as that, sacrifice the pot. Dig out and report the other plants, carefully break the pot away, report the jade. Pot is far more easily replaced than a jade of that magnitude
Widespreaddd
Wow! Fucking gorgeous jade. Cut it, let it callus and clunk it in a nice clay pot.
SheReignsss
I am still in awe.
I was so ignorant to the idea of succulents being bigger than the little tiny things I’ve always seen. Can’t wait to start my own. This is gorgeous!
Dry_rye_
You have only three viable sensible options.
Smash the pot.
Slice the jade.
Leave the jade there forever they like to grow in cracks.
Trying to remove the jade without breaking the pot will likely end in damage to the crown of the plant.
BUT if that’s what you *really* want to try, you need to dig out all the soil from the top of the planter, and dig our as much loose earth as you can generally, then short of shake it a lot to loosen the jade roots, then wiggle it out of its hole. You’ll probably want the planter on its side for this. You may chip the planter and you will probably break some off the jade but it is theoretically possible for this madness to end in both being seperate without substantial damage to either.
Edit: the soil MUST be damp if you try this, so thorough water a couple of times in the days or hours preceeding the attempt. If it’s dry you’ll just snap the roots
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Think you might need to make a sacrifice
You might be able to lean it on its side and chip away at the soil a bit with a chopstick or skewer to get below the root line. Ultimately, if you can, you might be able to loosen the soil to free the roots but more than likely would need to cut the roots off and reroot it.
Worst case, you may have to cut the trunk and reroot it, or as already suggested, sacrifice the pot.
It’s just a pot. Keep that beautiful plant.
You don’t need to wreak the whole planter, but aside from passwd’s suggestion, chipping off the cup holding the jade might be needed. But I don’t have the chisel I’m picturing that would require and I don’t know what tools you have 😉 Might need the trunk chop.
For a jade as magnificent as that, sacrifice the pot. Dig out and report the other plants, carefully break the pot away, report the jade. Pot is far more easily replaced than a jade of that magnitude
Wow! Fucking gorgeous jade. Cut it, let it callus and clunk it in a nice clay pot.
I am still in awe.
I was so ignorant to the idea of succulents being bigger than the little tiny things I’ve always seen. Can’t wait to start my own. This is gorgeous!
You have only three viable sensible options.
Smash the pot.
Slice the jade.
Leave the jade there forever they like to grow in cracks.
Trying to remove the jade without breaking the pot will likely end in damage to the crown of the plant.
BUT if that’s what you *really* want to try, you need to dig out all the soil from the top of the planter, and dig our as much loose earth as you can generally, then short of shake it a lot to loosen the jade roots, then wiggle it out of its hole. You’ll probably want the planter on its side for this. You may chip the planter and you will probably break some off the jade but it is theoretically possible for this madness to end in both being seperate without substantial damage to either.
Edit: the soil MUST be damp if you try this, so thorough water a couple of times in the days or hours preceeding the attempt. If it’s dry you’ll just snap the roots
Smashy smashy
A little lube maybe? 🤷🏽♂️😂
Beautiful crassula ovata Gollum, prettiest bonsai ever
You’re going to need a hammer
I would leave it as it. It looks amazing. And when the time comes, break the pot. Use the broken pieces
as the drainage base in the new pots bottom
I’d take a hammer to that pot, for sure. (Carefully, lol.)