Propagating Jade Plant Leaf Cuttings

Over the past month or so, I have read on various websites, forums and blogs how easy it is (though a little slow) to propagate Jade Plant cuttings. So, since my parents have a few Jade Plants over at their place, I have decided to try propagating a few leaf cuttings myself!

After taking several leaf cuttings fallen from my parents' plants, I let them sit inside a plastic cup without any water or soil for around a week, before I did anything with them. It was mainly due to my laziness, which turned out to be a good thing! As many had said that the cuttings should be left out of direct sunlight, without much watering, to let the cut ends dry out for around a week to seal the cut and prevent it from rotting. I later let them sit on the surface of some damp soil and left them there without any further watering!

Started with around 13 Jade Plant leaf cuttings

I checked the leaf cuttings every week or so to see if roots have developed. And today, after around one month since I left them on the soil, 7 out of the 13 or so leaf cuttings have developed roots! Yeah! :D I would have to plant them into some cacti & succulent potting mix very soon!

After around one month, 7 leaf cuttings developed roots!

Over the past month or so, I had to throw away a few leaf cuttings that rotted or was showing signs of rot. I now have only 3 leaf cuttings that haven't shown signs of anything yet. Hopefully, they will develop roots soon too!