I have a jade plant in my office close to a South-facing window and it has grown wonderfully in the past couple of years. This past March, however, I had to leave town suddenly to take care of my mother & wound up being gone for seven weeks b/c she passed away. Four weeks in, I remembered my poor plants and got my co-worker to water them. They all survived, but the three main (trunk-sized) branches off of the jade's primary trunk now grow horizontally and are 12" long. They are quite heavy & starting to grow smaller branches off of them, and I'm worried that they will snap right off & not survive the fall to the floor. For now, I'm going to try to use twine and physics to bring the branches up into a goblet-type shape. If anyone has a better idea for trying to get the branches to grow more vertically, however, I'd love to hear it. Thanks!
I have a jade plant in my office close to a South-facing window and it has grown wonderfully in the past couple of years. This past March, however, I had to leave town suddenly to take care of my mother & wound up being gone for seven weeks b/c she passed away. Four weeks in, I remembered my poor plants and got my co-worker to water them. They all survived, but the three main (trunk-sized) branches off of the jade's primary trunk now grow horizontally and are 12" long. They are quite heavy & starting to grow smaller branches off of them, and I'm worried that they will snap right off & not survive the fall to the floor. For now, I'm going to try to use twine and physics to bring the branches up into a goblet-type shape. If anyone has a better idea for trying to get the branches to grow more vertically, however, I'd love to hear it. Thanks!