Crassula Ovata Gollum Tree

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*If you going to plant it into the ground, ensure proper drainage
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* My Jades have really short roots, We reefed to the gallons that are planted in the add so you can see or estimate the actual size of the plant, do not expect to receive any Jade with long roots, That's why these trees are easy to Trim and give a shape as a bonsai tree and plant them in a shallow pot.
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*We take great care in the packaging of your plants, but unfortunately the same cannot always be said in how they are handled once they leave us
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Scientific Name
Crassula ovata Gollum

Common Names
Hobbit Jade, Hobbit Jade Plant, Finger Jade, Jade Plant, Jade Tree, Money Tree, Organ Pipe Jade Plant, Crassula Hobbit

Synonyms
Crassula ovata ‘Monstruosa’, Crassula argentea ‘Hobbit’, Crassula portulacea ‘Hobbit’

Scientific Classification
Family: Crassulaceae
Subfamily: Crassuloideae
Genus: Crassula

Description
Crassula ovata ‘Hobbit’ is a small branched, shrubby succulent up to 3 feet (90 cm) tall and up to 2 feet (60) wide, with interesting leaves up to 2 inches (5 cm) long. This is a very similar cultivar to the Crassula ovata ‘Gollum’, but while the cultivar ‘Golum’ has leaves that nearly tubular, the ‘Hobbit’ leaves are curled back around. The flowers are small, star-like and white or pinkish-white in color.
If you are planning to grow Gollum jade. You need to read the below Gollum jade plant care guide before growing the plant. Gollum jade is a succulent plant and succulents are easy to grow indoors as well as outdoors.
Gollum jade is also known as hobbit jade or crassula ovata. If you give it proper sunlight, water, and humidity. It will achieve its full 3 feet height. You will be surprised to see the color that it gains under full light.
Without wasting time let’s find out what is Gollum jade and how to grow it indoors in containers.
The Gollum jade plant is a succulent plant and is a member of the jade plant family. There are many types of jade plants. Most of them have the same growing and caring needs. Gallium jade grows up to 3 feet tall with even widespread. It has 2 inches long pipe-shaped leaves with reddish-pink tips.
Like other jade plants its leaves are filled with water. This plant only blooms under ideal growing conditions. When it blooms it produces beautiful star-shaped white color flowers. In 80% of the cases, indoor growing jade plants never bloom in their life.
But people like to grow Gollum jade for its leaves, not for the flowers. Flowers are the reward by the plant to its growers for its proper care.
It is a slow-growing plant but achieves its maximum height within 2 years. Repot it on time to speed up its growth. Hobbit jade plant spread a maximum of 2 feet when it gets fully matured.
Growing Gollum jade plant
As I said earlier, almost all jade plants need the same amount of light, water, humidity, and fertilizers to grow. The main thing they need to grow is light. Give proper light to the Gollum plant and it will give you colorful tubular leaves.
Plant it in organic-rich soil, give moderate water for shining leaves.
There are many things that you need to take care of while growing succulents. Jade plants do need care like other plants. Follow the below guide if your Gollum jade plant is not showing good growth.
Light
Crassula Ovata “Hobbit jade plant” can tolerate full sun. In fact, when you put plants in full sun it shows brilliant growth. The dark green leaves become lime-green and the red tips become extra bright and beautiful.
The indoor growing jade plant needs a minimum of 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight. Put the plant on the sunny windowsill to give it a good amount of natural light.
Some people do not have sunny windows. In this case, you can take the help of grow light.
These lights emit light waves similar to the sun. The plants cannot differentiate between artificial light and sunlight.
As long as they receive the light waves similar to the sun rays, they keep growing.
Always use LED grow lights because this lighting technology uses less electric current than others. Also, you don’t have to spend money on the maintenance of LEDs because they have zero maintenance costs.
Moreover, they have more than 100,000 hours of life span.
Best cheap LED grow lights
You can move your indoor hobbit jade plant to outdoors at any time of the year. Just remember that you have to slowly increase the outdoor time of a plant.
For example, on the first day put it outdoors for 4 hours then gradually increase the time by adding 1 extra hour each day.
Soil
For the best possible growth use the best cactus potting soil for Gollum jade plant care. Succulent does not need heavy watering. They are more prone to root rot like diseases. Therefore, you need to use the soil that drains extra water quickly.
Cactus potting soil is well-draining soil and you don’t need to add anything to it. It already has good aeration properties too.
If the soil you are going to use is old then you have to add perlite to make it suitable for the plant. Add a hand full of perlite in a medium-size pot.
The best soil mixture for growing crassula ovata Gollum is a handful of coarse sand in cactus soil.
If you are new to the houseplant then do not take risk of making soil at home. Buy a small bag of succulent potting soil from the local garden store.
Because the incorrect ingredients in the soil can kill the plant.
Water
For the best possible Gollum jade plant care, water the plants regularly in spring and summer. Then cut backwater in fall. Give light water on winter days.
On hot days of summer, my routine is watering jade plants 4 times a week. Because I live in a hot climate zone. You may need to water it less or more depending on the day temperature of your area.
The best way to water succulents is to check the soil conditions first. Insert the fingertip in the potting soil if the soil is moistened do not water.
The upper 3 inches of soil has to be completely dry before watering the jade plant.
Remember that excess water can cause root rot. Saving a small plant from root fungus is a hard job. In 80% of the cases, the plant dies due to root fungus.
In winters, water the plant infrequently, just once a month.
Use filtered clean water for watering succulents.
The golden rule says the water that is suitable for drinking is always good for watering plants.