How To Prune And Straighten A Jade Plant (Crassula ovata) 

The great thing about this video is that you managed to show the plant before, during, and well after the pruning. I'm much more confident in pruning my jade plant now.

I have a 40 year old jade....and now I fee more confident to prune and straighten. Bless you

I really appreciate waiting to get footage from several months later!! So often I look for advice on succulents and the videos never show the outcome, just a description of what it “should” look like.

Nice tutorial, but you could mention that the stems you cut off can easily be repotted to grow additional plants.

When the trunk is relatively straight itself but growing out of the pot on an angle or bent near the bottom, I just re-pot the plant with the root ball tilted on an angle/off centre to compensate. So the trunk is now vertical but roots are tilted inside the pot. The plant just settles itself in over time and it ends up perfectly straight from my experience. Personally I find this easier than pulling it straight with a stake

I usually put the cuttings in soil so that they can root and give them to friends/family. This way there is no waste. 💚

Wow, I wouldn't have thought that was the same plant - it looks so different. Thanks for showing its progress after a few months.

Great info! I feels so much more confident now and less scared to prune! Extra tip I learned recently: Each pair of leaves that grows are opposite each other. And, you will notice that the direction of the leaf pairs as they go up the primary/secondary/tertiary stems all alternate in direction... as in one pair north/south, then next pair east/west, continuing along the branches. The tip is that you can control the direction of new stem growth by paying attention to where you prune. The new "v" shaped stem pair that shoots out will follow the direction of the pair of leaves directly below the node that you prune at!

I watched this after I had done a hard prune due to the same issues and then I panicked and thought maybe I had been too harsh 😂. Thanks for reassuring me!

Finally I know why my jade plants are not growing up. Thank you for the sharing. Very informative.

Praying for my plant. Have had it for years but because of depression i haven’t been able to water it for ~2 years. Genuinely suprised it's still alive... and yesterday, I ended up pruning it A LOT because i panicked about losing her. She had a lot of leaves falling off, and a bunch of dry ones. (Though a handful of healthy ones as well) This video helped me relax. Thought i might have been to harsh on her and that she wouldn’t survive now, but she's a fighter. Her death will correspond with the end of the universe

This is EXACTLY what I needed to bring back our poor Jade tree!!! Thank you !

I didn't even know a growth lamp was a thing! Definitely going to get one for my succulents. This is a VERY informative video. Thanks!

Thank you for the information. It's sort of intuitive but your drastic pruning and giving it extra light is excellent and productive

I stopped using sting and started using zip ties. This enabled me to tighten as the plant straightened and they are wider, preventing the string from cutting into the stem. Just a thought... keep or toss. :)

This is a magnificent transformation of the plant. Thx for sharing!

Thanks! I have a 6 year old jade I have trouble pruning due to thin branches. I’ve watched other vids but this info has helped me a lot! Ty!! Btw those are beautiful jade!!! Good job 👍🏻

Great advice 👍🏼 I've been trying for some time now, but have never looked for advice like this before 🤞🏼

Thank you so much for your jade pruning videos! I was able to brave my oldest & very warped jade, and discovered that some of it had rot! Now I feel very brave about messing with some more whacked jades. 😁

Jade plant is a cute name too. In my language they are called "money/penny trees"

Wow !!! I inherited 3 2.5 to 3 foot large jades that were very crooked but i didnt know it waa fixable. Uve totally changed my mind. Thank u

Thank you for the very helpful video. Awesome explanations!

Wow; only three months for rather substantial growth. Gives me more confidence in pruning my newly acquired jade. Propagating some leaves now and just repotted the jade. I’ll wait to prune since I did just repot it, tho! Thanks for the easy to understand tutorial.

Thank you so much for this video. I will follow your advice this weekend with my Jade plant.

Very helpful. Thank you! I have 2 of those at home. The one that is in a good spot is thriving. The other one I have to move seasonally because it is on a terrace and it is too cold for it outside during the winter, but then, inside it gets even less sunlight. So it has gotten quite leggy over the years. I now have a much sunnier spot available to overwinter it in, so I'll probably move it there, have it sit for a month and then prune it in November or something.

This was really a useful video, I'm going to try this on my very leggy crassula. Thank you so much for sharing

Thank you for the video. A clear and a very useful advise. Much appreciated.

That was amazingly helpful. Thank you!!

So glad I found this video. I’ve been having this problem and didn’t know how to fix it

I swear I really looked down and the little tree was sheared now I know how my relatives feel when my da and I show up at their houses. Lol. Great video. I had to rewind I was walking and watching and wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Transition with fast motion caught me off guard. Got an actual laugh watching a how to garden video! Love 💕 it.

That was really impressive. I got the "scraps" of my SIL´s pruning of his jade plant and managed to grow roots. Good to know how I can control their growth. Thanks for sharing!

I like how you showed the plant from the beginning to the end. Wow! Now I know what to do.

O wow , Thankyou so much , now I know how drastic I need to be with my Jade Plant , as the weight is pulling it over

Thank you so much for this video! It was just what I was looking for

Thankyou, excellent information and just what I was looking for on youtube. Great 👍🏻

My mother in law gave me a ten year old jade plant that hangs like a vine rather than stand up like a tree. Hopefully this will help me fix it. Great video, especially love the tip about where to prune between the nodes not on them.

I absolutely love jade plants because they are so easy to care for. Your jade is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this amazing video! My jade plants aren't quite large enough to prune yet, but I have some other (not succelent) plants I have been wanting to fix up but wasn't quite sure how. I think this was a great universal plant fixing guide ;)

Thank you for posting this! I "inherited" a jade plant from the previous homeowner (who did not take anything from the patio with her when she moved). It was obviously originally a bonsai, but it was tipped at an angle inside a plant hanger and is now all crooked (and more than a foot high and wide) in its little bonsai dish. What a mess! I am anxious to try this and see where things go from here!

it's great to see how the plant has progressed since your previous video!

Super tutorial! Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks on the behalf of my tree!,.. 🙏

Wow! I have a fairly old jade plant that I am going to do this to, including moving it to a south facing window. Mine is in a west facing window downstairs now with a deck above it, so it gets no sunlight! Your video is very concise and informative. Thank you very much!

What a magical result... Thank you for teaching us!

That is such a *GOOD IDEA* for the opening title (first 5 seconds) 👏👏

nice work, the jade turned out beautiful

Love your videos! They have helped me to take care of my Jade plants and give them the appearance I like.

Beautiful result. Thank you!

Great video. I love jade plants 🪴

Thank you for this great video. Now I feel confident trimming my Jade.

VERY INFORMATIVE AND HELPFUL!!! Thank you for your help!!!

so glad I came across this video. I have a jade that looks very similar to the before plant.

Thanks for the video. Very helpful.

Extremely helpful, thanks

A much needed video! Thank you

You explained that very well

This was nice to watch. I grew my current plant from only a single tiny stem but it's grown nice and healthy that I'm about to move it to a slightly bigger pot. I hope it grows to be nice a thick like yours. So thanks for sharing.

Thank you! I learned so much.

Wow it looks much happier! Amazing job. 🤩

Great video with very useful details. Thank you very much

Wow a very Thank you for helping me❤❤🍀🍀☘

Great job! 👍👍👍

Thanks. This was really helpful.

I woke up to notice my youngest jade plant was leaning, my first thoughts were “what on the bonsai is going on” .. followed these steps, fingers crossed she recovers xxx

Glad I found you.

Very helpful, thanks so much 🌷

I am always concerned about pruning my jade plant so thank you.

Thanks for this video. As others have stated, this gave me the courage to prune my jade. You mentioned feeding. What do you recommend and how often?

Beautiful. I am currently working with 2 jade plants. One it a cutting of a very, very old plant and that one is coming out just fine. But the other is a jade that I just tossed into a barrel 3 years ago in a spot that was not quite sunny enough. This year the frost got it badly and now I am greatly regretting my placement choice. It still has a lot of big beautiful stem left so wish me luck.

Thanks for the video!

Very helpful. Thank you😊

Love this informative video

That's wonderful...im trying to make my jade beautiful too

I really appreciated your video. Thank you for sharing. I have beautiful 3 feet Jade tree with that problem . I did put 3 bamboo sticks to helped the heavy branches. Also on its think stem because suddenly looks saggy. I started to move it to a sunny location slowly to avoid burn leaves. I am sure with your device it will be alright.

Such a great tutorial.

Amazing..... really lot to know

That intro was amazing!

I have a jade that grew well on a north facing sill for about 7 years, with nice structure, then it caught a mildewy type disease and I had to spray it and its not been the same since. I repotted it recently and realised almost all the roots had died. Trimmed all the recent leggy growth but getting a lot of dieback now. Thinking I may have to invest in a grow lamp for it to survive. Nice channel, came here from the basil video.

Ohhh..waaaw..thanx for very useful guidance.....I have 9years old same jade...but unable to stand proper because of its leaves weight....I will definately try this.. ..

Many thanks for the video; best one I have seen!

Beautiful plants

Outstanding! Thank you!

Perfect info! Thanks! I was ready to toss him, but my soft hearted husband wanted to save it! Thanks for the great video! Cheers!

Great video, thanks!

Great video!

Great video 👍🏼

Great work!

Great tips

so helpful, tysm!

Very helpful..Thankyou

Wow, incredible transformation! Mine is a big dilemma, would you apply the same concept if my stems are thick U shaped barks drooping over my pot?

Thanks for sharing.

Did it tonight. Was fun . plabts look funny now.

Beautiful!

Nice one. I've got just that problem. So here goes

Great content

XD i actually achieved this by complete accident, while trying to save my brother's jade, which had a pest so bad that, eventually, it lost every single leave and the upper half the main stem, but it regrowed after i got rid of the pest, all around the top of the chunky stem, looking like a tiny, straight and symetrical tree, which i love but it wasn't at all what i was focused on; just trying to save it from the pest with what was within my reach and some confussing google info xD This is a great video though i'll definitely keep it in mind if it starts bending when it branches farther out. (it breaks my heart to cut it, but sometimes it's for the greater good!)

Very informative thanks. I put this in the brightest spot in my (attic) flat and it drooped, so sounds like I need a growth lamp. I cut a lot off so it looks quite sad now, but hopefully it rebounds like yours did.

Great vid! Thank you. My jades are soooooo legggggyyyy.

I have a ton of jades and I've had a lot of success with them. I like to clone them with the cuttings and fallen leaves.

Thanks for this!