Dwarf Jade Indoors

[britbev5]

Its now fall and its too cold outside for my dwarf jade. Its been about 1 1/2- 2 weeks of it being inside and its starting to drop leaves. I know plants go into shock sometimes when you bring them indoors after a summer of outdoors. Is there anything I can do while it's indoors to help it continue to grow well?

 

[ForrestW]

Its now fall and its too cold outside for my dwarf jade. Its been about 1 1/2- 2 weeks of it being inside and its starting to drop leaves. I know plants go into shock sometimes when you bring them indoors after a summer of outdoors. Is there anything I can do while it's indoors to help it continue to grow well?

There are a lot of experts here that can comment, but I had one for a long time and it was common to have a setback in the transition inside including loosing leaves. Do not panic, but try to keep it on the dryer side, and it never hurts to add some supplemental light such as common grow lights.

 

[hemmy]

Its now fall and its too cold outside for my dwarf jade. Its been about 1 1/2- 2 weeks of it being inside and its starting to drop leaves. I know plants go into shock sometimes when you bring them indoors after a summer of outdoors. Is there anything I can do while it's indoors to help it continue to grow well?

In my experience, Portulacaria afra need bright light indoors to thrive. Likely more than you will get, unless you have big south facing windows. As previously mentioned, supplemental lighting will help. Full spectrum LED are great but can be jarring to look at in your living space. I have T5 fluorescents for an indoor grow shelf but it’s in a “breakfast nook” off the kitchen. Same room also has a large jade and for it I use a tall floor lamp with flexible sockets and use LED grow lights. I can turn them so the light is on the plant and not blinding us at meal time.

 

[Russ1]

I keep mine out (in a cold Greenhouse) down to 45ish deg. f at night and they seem to love it. When I do bring them in for the winter I keep them under a skylight in my attic which easily gets to 40 f average and even down into the thirties and they do much better, they look vibrant and green, than the ones I keep in my plant room where I keep my BRTs and orchids at 65-75 deg f with 40-50% RH. The ones I have kept in my plant room tend to have their leaves wrinkle and drop even though they are under LED lights for 14 hrs/day. Still experimenting with lighting and soil mix.