i have a plant that looks like the pictures of a finger jade, but it is a dark green with no red on it even though it is in full light afternoon light in my office window (in north carolina). it was given to me about 5 years ago. it started out with two trunks and was about 4 inches tall. everything that i have read about the finger jade is that it is a slow growing plant, but i transplanted it to a bigger pot about a year ago and had to replant it again about 3 months later into a window box planter. it now has 6 different branches on it and it has grown about a foot since the first time i replanted it. several people at work would like to have part of it and i would love to share it, but i don't know how to root a new plant. at the part of the plant where the brown stem meets the new green growth, there are little growths that look like roots starting out. can i cut the plant below these and plant these? also, will the rest of the plant continue growing from there? thanks for any help. (this is the first jade plant i've had).
Nice! Never saw one before! I used to have a succulent I called the watermelon pickle plant - it had thick stems which were marked like elongated watermelons. It put out a few leaves occasionally. Smelled like cucumber. Do you have any idea what it was? Had to give it away when I moved.
No, I've never heard of that, but it sounds interesting. Here are some of my Jade cuttings, so unfamiliar folks can compare regular Jade with the Finger Jade... : )
To the original poster and query: Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden suggests propagation from cuttings isn't difficult: Crassula ovata. "Finger jade" is generally used as a common name for a selection of Crassula ovata with its peculiar form, but the propagation information will remain the same. You can find other helpful links by doing a search for [GOOGLE]crassula ovata propagation[/GOOGLE], but since they include commercial sites, I'm not posting them here.
there are many, many different crassula's - some are called 'jade's' and others not. many of those with the 'jade' moniker have elongated/tubular leaves rather than the thick/fleshy flat leaves we usually think of when we hear 'jade plant'.
this is what mine looks like. i couldn't get the whole plant in one picture. it's kind of blurry - not good at picture taking either. do these plants usually have thick, wide fingers as well as skinny ones?
i'm not familiar with a crassula that looks like that. doesn't mean there isn't one, though as there are thousands of crassula's!! could be a senecio.
