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Jade Plant

Jade plant care is mostly about pruning correctly and giving the plant enough light, since both leggy growth and a thin, floppy trunk usually trace back to one of those two things. Pinching new growth back to two leaf pairs is what encourages a thick, tree-like trunk instead of a sprawling bush, a technique covered in our jade plant pruning guide.When a jade plant stretches out with widely spaced leaves, low light is almost always the cause, and our guide to diagnosing legginess breaks the five likely causes down by stem pattern and leaf size so you can fix the right one. Growth that stalls entirely points to roots, soil, or light rather than the plant simply being slow, and it’s also worth knowing the toxicity risk if you keep cats or dogs around the pot, since jade plant is mildly toxic to both. The guides below cover pruning, propagation, light requirements, and troubleshooting.

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