Freeze Tonight?!

I probably shouldn't have put my winter clothes away. Heh! There's a freeze coming up tonight. I was hoping the forecasts were wrong and even if they weren't, it always showed the temperature at 34 or 35. I figure that's not bad for plants to creep through just one night. Now that we're nearing this cold night, I'm finding that the temperature right now is already 49 degrees and it's not even 1pm yet! The predicted low tonight is, at the moment, 32. Isn't that beautiful? Now I have to figure out if I oughta shuffle all the plants into the greenhouse to protect them in case it drops lower than 32 - which I'm convinced it will since it's already 49 right now.

Bleh.

One shows life!

In my grouping of small jade plants that I felt may have died - one finally shows signs of life! I removed the two rotting nodes when I saw these little leaves coming up. We'll see how the others are.

Jade Plants - Still not sure...

I took the jade plants out of the greenhouse yesterday. I still can't tell if any are going to make it. Sure, there's a bunch of green leaves but a good chunk are shriveling up - along with the branches. Heck, I'm worried my main Hummel Sunset is dying as well. A lot of the smaller plants look like they totally bit the dust.

And thus they live on...

Guess what I found beneath the table in the greenhouse? From the way they're all sticking up, I guess they rooted into the ground. I can't reach these right now but I guess I'll have to repot them when the time comes!

Warm temperatures but will it stay?

It's amazed me how many times we've had flurries this winter. I don't think I've seen it happen here that many times in a short period in... forever. Some of the jade plants may have bit it. I certainly did a lot of removing of dead branches. So far, I suspect two jade plants will die. Even their trunk is a bit soft. The rest still feel firm.

Even though I'm keeping an eye on the 10 day forecast, it doesn't seem like there'll be any freezing temperatures left. Who knows though, there's always a cold frost that'll kill a bunch of plants when they believe spring has already arrived.

Hummel Sunset Jade Plant

I was told: Withhold water and provide lots of light - Hummel Sunset should redden right up.



This is as red as its gonna get because the leaves are starting to shrivel up. I was going to water it but supposedly a storm is coming through the area tonight so I'll let it water my succulents and other plants.

Variegated Jade Leaf Growing New Plant

I hate my variegated jade plant. I do. It just seems to sit there but I guess that's what someone meant when they said that variegated jades are agonizingly slow to grow. At least it's alive. I think. I don't know. It hasn't done anything in the year I had it.

While in the greenhouse over winter, one of the leaves fell and started growing a new plant. All green!





This made me remember a comment on the Cacti and Succulents forum on Gardenweb years ago where someone said not to bother planting variegated jade leaves because the plant that grows from them would revert back to a solid green state. The only way to get more variegated jades is to grow from branches.