CAN YOU ROOT JADE PLANT CUTTINGS IN WATER?

Can you root Jade plant cuttings in water?

The Jade plant - Crassula ovata, often also commonly known as the money tree or plant is a popular, easy to grow houseplant, and is found almost literally everywhere! However, over time, they can become quite large as a houseplant (the larger the better in my opinion as they often have the spirit of the bonsai about them), or they can become misshapen, affecting their ornamental value. At this point you may wish to bring out the secateurs and of course the question arises 'can I use this material for cuttings?' Which you can. So how do you achieve this? Can you root Jade plant cuttings in water, and is the water even necessary?

Can you root Jade plant cuttings in water?

You will be relieved to know that growing jade plants from cuttings is super-easy. In fact it is a simple as snapping off a stem section and leaving it on a windowsill. It will genuinely root by itself - no help required. See main image for confirmation. However, this will not work for all plants and for best practice one should always use a sharp sterilized blade to remove propagation material.

But the question is can you root Jade plant cuttings in water? This is another level of unnecessary complication but people are creatures of habit and some will literally try propagating everything in water. You will be please to know that yes you can and it will root perfectly well. However, once the root buds form it is best to pot them on straight away as longer roots are easily damaged when it comes to being potted on. Just refresh the water every few days and don't use cold water straight from the tap, use tepid water to avoid environmental shock and to maintain the plants metabolism in this area.

When ready to pot on use a good quality, seed and cutting compost, although you can pot directly on into a cactus and succulent compost. If you do not have any specialist compost available, you can make a 50:50 mix of multi-purpose compost/lime-free grit mix.

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