When and How to Water a Jade Plant So It Never Dies

Not sure when to moisten the growing medium of your favorite crassula ovata? Here’s all you need to know When and How to Water a Jade Plant, So It Never Dies!

The number #1 rule is to avoid watering your outdoor or indoor jade plant every often. It’s not a regular indoor plant that needs watering twice a week.

It’s a succulent and loves to live in dry soil, so avoid keeping your jade plant’s soil moist all the time.

Water this plant only when the soil in the container becomes dry. Not bone dry, but dry, and for this succulent, don’t follow that typicaltopsoil dry rule because sometimes, below the lower layers of soil remain moist.

If you’re a new gardener, use a moisture meter to determine when to water a jade plant. One more trick is to poke a chopstick in the growing medium to determine the soil saturation level.

Jade plants are drought-tolerant and require the soil to dry out between watering spells; you know it now, but what should be the watering frequency? Should you water every week or wait for a little more?

The jade plant favors dry conditions. Needless to say–it is quite vulnerable to overwatering issues. To successfully grow a jade plant in the home environment, it is essential to imitate the watering condition of its native habitat.

Keep in mind that jade plant needs soil around roots to dry out a bit between watering spells, but this doesn’t mean that lack of water can’t damage it:

Always water deeply–not a bit today and a bit tomorrow but thoroughly until it starts to seep out from the drainage holes. Carefully water around its base.

Never do overhead watering, as frequent splashes on the foliage may cause the leaves to attract pests along with diseases and water spots.

Also, never use hard water. If you are using