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Posted 1Y ago by @BabeVila

Pruning damaged jade plant

Freaking spider mites, the bane of my existence, got to my littlest jade plant, and as you can see, they had themselves a feast before I noticed them and killed them all good and dead πŸ’€ Rest in distress, spider mites πŸͺ¦ So, as you can see, I have very few good leaves left. Anyone with experience here want to give me some pointers? Should I cut the whole thing back? Should I only remove the most damaged leaves? What would you do if this was your baby jade plant? πŸͺ΄ lol thank you in advance and I hope everyone enjoys their weekend β™₯️🌿 #SucculentSquad #SucculentLove #Succulents #Jade #JadePlant #FixingTheDamage #babevila
1ft to light, indirect
3” pot with drainage
Last watered 1 week ago
Ohhhh nooooooo Jackie!!!!! 😒

I do not have advice, unfortunately, but I know someone will! πŸ₯Ί

P. S. I have a jade plant I can mail to you if all else fails πŸ’• Or I can just mail it to you anyways. πŸ€ͺ
@theloveofplants lol I love you! I have another, larger one that is thankfully fine. This just the cutest little baby one that was in an arrangement that Brett got for me πŸ₯Ή it’s so little and precious. I will probably have to cut it back at least a good amount… it looks like the mites went mostly for the middle leaves lol
I decided to start by removing the most damaged and then assessing. Doesn’t look too bad πŸ€” I think I can save her after all
She will definitely live and grow back! Consider it a pruning... maybe she will grow faster!
@BabeVila - 🀭 I love you too! πŸ’•

Oh okay, that is all good news! Gracious me, I did not realize how cute and little she is! πŸ₯Ή It hard to tell the size in the original pictures. Then you added that other picture in the comment section.

I love that Jackie was in an arrangement Brett got you!
He did a good job!

Those daggon spider mites - just leave - we no like you. 😀
Id give it a chance to recover. It still has good green! Alot may plump@back up . Even if they all dont it may give you more chances to prop more leaves . I just dont think its a life or death situation for the plant? So might as well wait and see πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
It'll bounce back. When you're cared for by the best you have no choice but to bounce back better than before! 🫢🏼
I have a devils backbone that's not in to good a shape, im going to transplant to smaller pot and hope it revives, the stem is good and does have a few good leaves on each limb any suggestions please
Pruning will probably help grow back faster!
Plants can go into Shock if you prune more than 20 % of it. You did a great looking job of it. I hope it bounces back. Good luck. πŸ˜„
@TinaRedchic thanks! It’s doing very well now, growing lots of new leaves πŸ˜‡