Jade - Recent Styling.

rowan57

Hey all, another recent styling.
For a while now i have had my eye on a jad growing in our living room due to its twin trunks which are around 2 inches diameter (roughly 6 inch circumference). It had gotten very very leggy and mom had been complaining about it for a while so i though why not! i aked her if i could have it to style and she said yes, as long as they could have one of the smaller trunks back as a cutting, which i readily agreed to, not needing it.
The jade does not really have any roots to speak of and as such doesnt really have a nebari but i think it is attractive none the less. I basically got it out of its pot and pruned all the leggy branches back hard leaving the more major branches only. The 2 trunks join in the middle under the soil in like a mega thick u-shape and as such i was happy to leave them joined together

Im not exactly sure on the future of this jade so i am going to keeping pruning it to try and establish some ramification and see it where it goes.
Its about 18 years old and now about 2 ft high.

Hope ya like it.
Regards
Rowan

Pic 1 - Jade Before
Pic 2 - Jade after (possible front)
Pic 3 - Jade After (Possible front 2)
Pic 4 - Jade after, side.

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	jadeafterfront.jpg (63.0 KB, 31 views)
	jadeafterback.jpg (67.0 KB, 24 views)
	jadeafterside.jpg (59.9 KB, 34 views)

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pootsie

Some great potential here. Where are you thinking of taking it?

pootsie

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rowan57

This is what im not sure about i saw a picture of a jade which i quite like and had a similar sort of style to this one but cant find it lol, i think its going to be shorter, im going to keep the twin trunks but try and get the mother/daughter relationship sorted so that one is smaller than the other and then look at establishing a canopy. Its one of those one where i will look at it everyday and one day it will just click in my head what i needs to do!

Cheers
Rowan

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Sky

Well, I heard somewhere that Jade plants make decent bonsai and are very forgiving and hard to kill. I guess your posts answers my questions, I was thinking of starting one. I can get almost ANY size shape jade cutting... Mom has TONS of them... lol

Your pics gave me inspiration to start my very own.

Will_Heath

My nieces were introduced to bonsai with a couple gift jades that I gave them. They love them and are now looking for other species.

I recently repotted one for them, they do grow quick.


Will