INSANE JADE ROOTS and new soil 

I watch your videos to pick up the attitude more than the information ❤. Anxiety is the worst enemy of new plant owners. Or is it just me ?

🤯Holy Roots, that was a workout!!! It's only fitting that your first desk plant be a Jade.🥰🤩😍.

Can't wait for my jade plants to get as big and beautiful as yours. Getting into bonsai cultivation has helped in building courage in root pruning. Your video is further validation. Thanks Jeff!

The little tire swing 🥺

I love your plant tools! 😂

Love the tire swing😂

“l need an assistant now…” 😂😂😂 thank you for you informative videos! You’re so true to yourself and honestly funny.

Beautiful jade plants. Thanks for sharing your repotting Jeff!

Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge about jade plants. I’ve learned so much and now know that I can trim long roots when I repot my tallest jade

That Jade plant had amazing roots 😮😀🇨🇦

Your jade trees are so beautiful! I keep trying to grow one no success yet but not giving up..your information is so helpful thanks…your jades are simply amazing…have a Great day

That's amazing!....it's like the Incredible Hulk of Jade plants :)

It's amazing how little of a root system that particular plant has!

Your jade has always been an inspiration to me and mine! I know it's close to time to prune. I'm mentally preparing. Great tips on repotting and yes, I think "phone a friend" is in order. I sometimes use big rocks to hold it upright until it settles the root system into the new pot.

Beautiful Jades, thanks for sharing. I love the Jade Plant's

I love your videos! So informative. I lost my large jade over this last fall/winter, so I will be starting over with the babies I have. Thank you for all the specific information. I believe it will help me to be a better plant parent to the new crop!

Beautiful jade!! I had to buy a new one and start again, as I rotted my first one. So I appreciate your instruction!

I've got a number of largish jades that haven't been repotted in four or five years, and the soil is very compacted. They're presently in rather shallow 8" W x 4" D terra cotta pots. I pulled one plant out and kind of surprisingly it is not pot-bound. But, I do believe they would benefit from new soil. So I intend to proceed using your method in this video to return them to the same pots with fresh soil. I don't have a nifty root rake like yours, but I'll manage. Thanks.

Good morning to you vary nice plants thank for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely

Great video Jeff,congrats on your new job! Hi from Fl 🏝

Amazing Jeff!! ❤

What a gorgeous plant!! Now I need a Jade plant!

Love your tools! Great video ❤

Looks so good! A spoon, old butter knife, and a skewer are the best tools!

I recently repotted my Gollum as it lost a lot of leafs, it looks a bit rough now but the remaining leafs are plump again. Thanks for all the educational content Jeff.

Thanks Jeff! My big bowl o' Jade has some yellow leaves and not from overwaterinng. Time for a repot as it's been at least 2 years. Thanks for pointing that out!

Congrats on the new job Jeff!!! 🎉 Your jade looks amazing, as always! I've just repotted my biggest jade (nowhere near as big as yours though) and it was pretty much as root bound as yours. Took a serrated bread knife to cut off the outer and bottom fibrous crust, then used a chopsticks to do loosen the inside. I swear it gave a big sigh of relief once I was done! 😂 Next up is my Golem, it's pretty bad too! I'll let both get used to their new home for a month or so and then they'll both get a good prune.

Your jade plants are always beautiful, I really need to get one.

My gosh I gasped when I saw how small you made the root ball! I hope you know what you’re doing! 🤣 Congrats on the new job!

I like your confidence and knowledge

Thanks really helpful.

I just repotted my jade plant a couple days ago, of course before I saw this video, fingers crossed. Thanks for the great video

Water before never after with succulents! Been collecting Trichocereus cacti for 30 yrs or so and I was given a soon to b this fall a 51 yr old jade tree and she scares the hell out of me. Trunk as thick as a bic lighter.

Great video! I am struggling to find a good new pot for my jade which is very top heavy like yours. Hard to find one that will help prevent tipping, but is also not too large for the plant.

I love the tire swing! 😂

Excellent video as always, so enjoyable, entertaining, and informative. My usual go to tools are chopsticks, a root rake, and dedicated spoons, knives, and forks. Do I have special tools? Of course! Do I actually use them? Occasionally if I want to feel what I am doing is special and fancy, so once in a blue moon. I do keep forgetting to invest in a yellow pencil. Thank you for your videos and hope that your human, dog, and plant families are all happy and healthy.

i was about to say those roots remind me of a giant peat pot but it's more like a wicker basket. 🤣 good vid, scared to check the roots on my jades.. i know there's work to be done lol

Wow, it's huge! I have my two little ones, I think my original split into 2. I think I will check to see how they're looking. 😊

thankyou so much because you are the main person who has given me confidence and courage to do things with my Jade plants since I have been following you. How often do you fertilize with the new Molly's succulent mix?

I recently "bonsai(ed) two huge jade plants. All is going well, new leaves are popping out all over the trunks. Thanks for showing me the gravel type of soil you are using. I purchased a mix of pumis, charcoal, and bark chips. With this being said, I have never potted my jades in just "gravel". I believe you already answered my question regarding how often to water (since it's not in dirt) but watch the leaves for clues that it needs water? Historically when potted in dirt, I'd water about every 10-14 days. So water when leaves get pruney? BTW, what is shown is not my email address... I don't know where that came from.

Yeah ive had my jade tip over a few times because of moving so much and it isn't awesome Thnx for your tips

Using a less peety soil is great. Any idea if a hard pruning to no leaves on the stalk would survive? I've trimmed to almost no leaves but want to trim back further.

Such an inspiration! How old are those jade trees with the big trunks?! Thanks much -

Thanks for the video! Curious to see how the soiless mix works out long term. I've tried gritty mix (bonsai jack) before and found it dries too fast and can be quite expensive alone so I like to mix a traditional succulent soil with gritty mix, which I use for all my succulents or semi succulents, including my hoya plants.

Love your videos !! Always great info.....I have a variegated jade can you propagate stems in water for extended time

Wow! Amazing jade plant, so how do you overcome the top heavy problem often associated with the potted jade ? Thanks ☺️

I just bought a big bag of Molly’s aroid mix for my monstera. May I use the same for my jade plants when I repot them?

Congrats on the new job! QUESTION: how large of a cutting have you successfully rooted? I know a single leaf will root, but could you root a whole branch?

You think the jade would do just as well in a pons or leca substrate? Not sure if you mentioned it. Thanks for the video. I bought a jade last summer had it on my porch then when I brought it in for winter it didn’t do well.

I think your last video on that specific Jade being repotted was 3+years ago. I love that you're all "holy rootbound" followed by "these are shallow rooted" 🤣 tell that to the plant that ate the soil! Now, these big temp swings are affecting my inside air and my Maranta yesterday yellowed up a lot of leaves, my other Maranta went dormant a few months ago then started again then stopped so I have no clue if it will come back... It is wild to me that despite what feels like fairly even indoor temperatures is still having an effect on certain plants, I guess it's got to do with the pressure and stuff in the air?

Mollys is my fav for succulent mix. I just got a Philo Joepii, any tips for me? I’d be taking a serrated knife to that root ball, trim it like your cutting off the pineapple skin

If you used the soil less mix does that make a water meter useless for that plant? Blessings 💜💚

I would love some of your cast offs to grow as my own. But I'm sure there would be restrictions in getting them from Canada into the US.

I have a Jade Plant and I didn't know how it was root bound until the pot fell off on me lol. The soil is rock hard and I use the Flora app and someone said I shouldn't chop the bottom of it. I wanted to cut a quarter of the bottom to keep it in the same pot. Someone told me it would die so I didn't do anything to it and I put it in a new pot 1 inch bigger. It seems ok but the leaves still feel a bit soft. Other than that it's ok.....should I chop the bottom? I couldn't even stab the soil is just too hard

Love your videos! They're super informative! They're giving me the confidence to repot my jade and prune the leaves and prob roots. 🙈 I have a random question... Can you paint a terracotta pot? Or will that have some kind of negative effect? Thank you, in advance 🙏🏽

I have a question. My Jade looks relatively healthy, but it's kind of scrawny. The end of the branches have leaves but the trunk/branches are bare. Is there a way to get sprouts off of the trunk/branches?

Is there a reliable way to get leaves further down the stem of a jade? Mine looks a bit bare below the ends

What a gorgeous Jade! How old is this one?

Do you give it a fertilizer each time you water it?

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Could you soak the soil before hacking away or is that not recommended

Is Molly’s succulent soil the substrate you are using in this demonstration? You referred it to as “soulless soul.”? Thank you.

Would be great to see how it did in a month or two.

Do u glaze your terracotta pots?

Jeff, the jade king! I got a varigated jade last summer. I had high hopes....it is loosing leaves and some are turning grey-ish? I haven't over watered. I do have well draining soil. It has new leaves... I hope I can succeed with it.

Hi! I have a Jade that I just repotted (for the 1st time) and it has many trunks. I didn't separate them. My question is : should I separate them next time?" They looked like they were very close together and I was afraid to hurt them. I'd love to send a picture but I see that there isn't a way to do so.

I love your channel and your yooper accent gives me life. LOL #midwesterner

I put my jade plant outside in afternoon sun for 1-2 weeks, it got very dry then I moved it inside and watered it, the leaves became plumpy again but now after 3-4 days it is dropping its leaves as well as stems also.. What could be the problem?

Hi Jeff, how old is that gollum jade?

Why is there a string with a weight hanging off of a branch?

Hi Jeff. Beautiful Jade plant. How long have you had it and get it to that size?

❤❤your Jade is beautiful. I try but I'm not good w/them. I start ova every spring. Put them outside w/my other plants & they thrive. They'll do well up until Fall. After then they die. Any advice???Thx n advance ❤❤

What are the white dots on my jade leaves?

How long did it take you to grow it that big??!

I didn't know you can rip those thin roots. I just repotted my 3 year old jade plant. The root ball is solid hard. But I didn't rip the fine roots. I just poke it with bamboo skewer then repot with the hard root ball. I hope it is going to be OK

I have a variegated jade under a plant light 12 hrs per day. The variegation is leaving, any clue as to why. I’ve had the plant about two or three years.

What soil was it in before repotting?

What is the name of the soil/rocks,again?

The word you are looking for is "substrate"!

Great vid!!! Learned a lot. Def need to get my babies in the right soil. 🫶🏽🙏🏽 Ty

I’m totally going to try that substrate as I’ve seen this around and been curious. I have two HUGE jades I want to repot this Spring. Thanks for saying you’re good with questions as I have some! 1) with that substrate, how frequently are you going to water the one you just repotted? 2) Do you recommend repotting and then pruning at a later stage or doing both at the same if time if the plant need pruning? 🪴❤