Propogating Jade Plants

Jade plants are extremely easy to propogate.  Jade plants can be propogated from stem or leaf cuttings any time of the year. 

Propogating Stem Pieces of Jade Plant:
When your parent jade plant gets leggy it is time to trim it and propogate the pieces you cut off.  A jade plant cutting will root from the leaf joints all along the stem.  When you are trimming back your jade plant save these cuttings to root.   Save the pieces that are at least a couple of inches long so there is enough stem to form roots on.   Allow the cuttings to dry and cure for a couple of days to prevent them from rotting. 
Dip the cuttings into rooting hormone to get them to root faster.  Jade plants will root best in a light sandy soil such as a mix of sand, peat and perlite.  You can use a commercial succulent soil mix, too.  Use small size pots.  Make a hole in the soil for the cutting.  Place jade into hole and lightly pack the soil around the base so the cutting stands in place.  Drizzle a few spoonfulls of water aroung the base of it and then only water the jade cutting sparingly until it has roots.  Once you start to see new growth on the top of the cutting, that's a sign that it has started to grow roots.  Once roots have formed (3 to 4 weeks), water it like you would normally.

The jade plant will grow new shoots from the spots where you have pinched off leaves or stems to propogate.

Propogating from Leaf:
Pinch of snip of the leaf from the jade plant.  Lay the jade leaf onto the top of potting mixture.  Water gently.  Water sparingly.