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Today we're back with my Jade, which no one will remember as the last video didn't get many views
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So I'll quickly recap. It was started from a leaf I took on holiday in early 2018
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It initially grew really well, then it got smashed by the sun and nearly died
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I managed to save it, then it nearly died again when I moved here as it was too dark
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So I put it in a smaller pot and left it under the grow light for a year, and this was the result
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the result. That's genuinely the same plant, it just took off and grew like crazy
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In February 2020 I decided it was healthy enough to be repotted. As you can see the
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roots were coming out the bottom and it's planted in this lid from a shaving foam I think or something like that
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It's pretty stuck in this little makeshift pot so it's definitely time for an upgrade
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Although the roots were coming out the bottom, it looks like the ones growing in the pot
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were nice and compact and healthy. I love the purple on the other side of the leaves
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So I'm going to pot up in this little brown pot. It a whole lot bigger than what it was in but it actually still a very small pot I really like it I like the colour and the little wavy lines I just using a mix of 50 perlite and motor clay
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I've sort of messed up here though. I can't work out if my perlite is bigger than usual
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or if my motor clay is smaller than normal. I think it might be a bit of both
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Either way, the particle sizes are not a great match. I've always found they are pretty similar in size
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and I haven't had any issues before. But you can see here they're just a bit off
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That's really why you should save your substrate, which I obviously can't be bothered to do
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But looking at this now, I'm probably going to have to do it in the future. I'm just not a fan of what's going on here
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I'm also not sure why I'm keeping the soda in a glass jar and using a fork to scrape it out
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I have no idea what past me was doing. I'm definitely questioning my previous life choices at the minute
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Anyway, I got this tree in the pot and it managed to stay in place
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I then used a little bit of wire to poke the soil and get it in and around the roots
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which would help it stay upright and make it a bit more secure in the pot. I think this might have been the first tree I repotted in the season, so I was a bit rusty
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Maybe that's why I'm making a right mess of this. I don't know, that's my excuse for an eye anyway
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So I got there in the end with little help from a few stones It went back under the grow light and it was left to settle in
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It looks happy enough a few weeks later in April. By May it had settled in and I had got rid of the stones
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I was thinking around this time about what I'm going to do with this going forward
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Shall I keep it as two trunks like this or cut one off
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I'm in no rush to decide what to do so for now I'm just going to let it grow out
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I was sent the other grow light on the tent by Mars Hydro in July which is now my tropical
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grow area so this jade went in there the light is amazing if you haven't seen my video on the
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light check the description below for the links you can see the tree started growing some side
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branches so it's doing excellent. It's grown so well since I nearly killed it last year but I
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didn't notice something about my grow tent. Well the tent is perfectly fine but my bedroom floor
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isn't. Apparently it isn't flat. I had this jade in the far back corner as I don't need to have
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much access to it. I don't need to get it out as much so it sits in the back
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anyway I didn't notice that all the excess water coming from the other pots in the tent
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was draining and then rolling down into the back corner so this jade was basically sat
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in a puddle of water not that you can tell now it looks so
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healthy but then these lower leaves fell off I assumed they were just
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old maybe it was an early sign of too much water though By September the two trunks had started to lean over
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I couldn't see anything wrong, so I was just assuming it was getting too top heavy
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A few days later I checked again and I noticed this. definitely something not right i tend to water everything and then leave it alone for 48 hours
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by that time everything needs watered again apart from this tree which maybe gets watered once a week
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so i wasn't noticing the pull of water at the back it had dried up by the time i was
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checking in again so i was a bit confused here and tried to use a stone to keep everything upright
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I couldn't quite work out what was going on. But I checked back after 24 hours again and seen the puddle and instantly everything made sense
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So I had to take drastic action and basically cut both trunks off and just start as two new cuttings
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I've then put them in the same pot, which should be fine. I've made the base of the tent flat
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and I've also raised this pot onto a little stand so even if it does pull
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this tree won't be sat in it so a total disaster
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in the short time I've had this tree I've nearly killed it three times too much light, not enough light and now drowning
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It was doing so well so hopefully it survives and gets back on track
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Have you ever said jades were easy to grow? Clearly hasn't grown them in my house
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Well at least they're tough fighters
