SST Speechless Sunday( w/ text) Jade Surprise!

Wow Marian! That is a big plant and a beautiful one too. Sounds like it bloomed at just the right time!

How wonderful that it bloomed for you after all this time! What a gift for all your years of care.

Debi

Hi Marian:

That's a pretty large jade plant.

Looks beautiful!

Hello Marian,

Wow!  What a beautiful jade plant!  It bloomed for you too!  Thank you for sharing!

Rita

You must have a green thumb?

very nice!

your friend in Charlottesville Virginia!

Marian,

I did not know Jade plants bloomed....how cool. 

Okay, let's see your green thumb!

Ann Hayden in sunny Wildwood, Missouri

I've never had one long enough to see it bloom......I don't even think I've seen a picture of this before.  What a great plant!

I did not know they bloomed either.  I had ane years ago... I do not have a green thumb. My mother's had huge jade plants over the years. 

I can't believe you have kept a house plant alive for 25 years!!  I'm impressed!!!

Jade plants bloom best when they are under stress. Since you get a good amount of rain there, protect it from the rainfall and don't give it any water until the leaves start to shrivel. You can even let them shrivel quite a bit. Then water them, and overnight the leaves will be plump again. Don't water it again until the leaves shrivel again. If you keep doing that, you should have quite a few flowers on it this time of year.

Our jade plants around here bloom profusely because all they get is the ten inches of rain that falls naturally from the sky. Here's one about six feet tall from an inspection a couple of weeks ago:

I came back to add some after reading the comments. I had what I thought was a huge jade plant when I lived in Texas. I watered it and it grew. When I got to San Diego and saw these plants that are up to ten feet tall, and blooming, I had to find out what was going on.

I've been a gardener all my life, and one of the things I like most about San Diego is that anything will grow here if we meet its water needs. In doing that, I've also discovered many, many things that bloom that I never knew bloomed.

It is amazing it got so big in that little pot.  It's pretty though.  Best of luck in repotting it.  I have a shamrock I've had since I was 17 ... and that was a little more than 25 years ago. :)

I never knew Jade plants bloomed!  I am the daughter of a florist mother, and a very green thumbed father, and have worked in several different flower shops myself!  So pretty!  I really had no idea.... 

Great jade plant, Marian. I wish mine were that healthy looking.

Dan

Wow I love jade plants and I never knew they bloomed flowers!  I was just reading Russel's comments and looking at the picture and wow!

I know lots of people love jade plants, but they are just too common around here, and any leaves that fall off root and become another plant. They are almost weedy.