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Today I'm back with my little variegated dwarf jade. I've not been doing much to this tree
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I bought it in 2016 so I've had it about five and a half years and as you can see it's still
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pretty tiny and pathetic. It is growing a lot better now it lives under the grow light. So I
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do get to prune it a bit more which I'm doing here. I just let it grow out and then I trim it
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back. That's literally it. I keep saying I need to make some styling decisions but
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clearly I've not bothered yet. I'm sort of hoping that if I wait long enough it'll
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almost style itself although there is quite a few tea branches and things in
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there that need removed so I will have to make some decisions at some point
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Right now it's just kind of a blob of foliage so I guess it has a while to go
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yet before it stiles itself. You can see in July it's started to put on some good
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growth but I just let it get a little longer In August I think it long enough to prune again If you seen any of my videos on my normal dwarf jade you know I prune it almost monthly
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This one is a bit slower and needs a few more months in between pruning
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I do like this species, it's just annoying how it's not as fast as its green brother
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It been a while since I repotted it so I imagine it got a pretty strong root system at the moment I just gonna leave it until it ridiculously full in that pot
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It's still got a while to go. to go
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You can see in December that it's looking like it could do with a prune
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So it's done well to keep growing over the winter period. I put the grow light on a lot less over the winter just to try and keep it a bit
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more natural. It's not a full winter but it's still pretty tropical in there. But a little bit
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of seasonal variation is what's going on. So I'm happy it's still doing its thing
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In February I gave it another prune. It's basically the end of winter
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Well, I started to increase the light levels to make it sort of more like spring
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So I just setting up for a new season hopefully keeps doing exactly what it been doing It nothing impressive yet but it a slow and steady tree
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And here it is now, looking happy enough and ready for the season
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should be starting to push new growth anytime soon thanks for watching see you next time
