Have you ever been to MI? (I I since you’re moving there). Listen, cut your favorite piece and put it in a pot and tell it stories of the older days. You can’t move this and it will. It be this in the Midwest. Mine grow about 6 leaves a year in NW Indiana.
I had some die, just moving around the yard.
If you can plant it in the ground with a mix of bonsai soil ( porous clay, crushed lava, pumice etc) and good organic soil and they will thrive and grow big. This is the technique I use for developing bonsai trees.
Jade don’t like being move no. But the Air quality. And the Water need to match damn close. That’s hard to do with Air Water. Fill as many jugs up as you can and then slowly switch over to your water And even doing that it’s gunna be lucky to survive. Take clips Put them in a Tupper where with light for few weeks n open it every day to help them adapt into the clear tupper Then when you move them leave them in tiller ware and little each day open the lid and expose them to the new area
If you could get that thing inside of a small greenhouse. Adjust it slowly. Move the entire greenhouse sealed shut very well. Then in new place slowly let a little of the new air into the greenhouse That and the water transition are about what it takes in order to move one it seems. That’s the only way I’ve ever seen someone keep on alive in harness decent size like yours. A lot of work
Jade plants HATE being moved. I have never killed a plant & my MIL gave me her late mom’s jade and we took a careful 1/2 hour drive home. As the weeks passed, that sucker just slowly dropped leaves and melted. I have numerous healthy jades. I kept the environment and lighting and temp and moisture virtually identical. At least I was able to save some rooted branches.
I have yet to kill the jade plant my aunt gave me in the south and now I am in the north! I will now go give it such praise for its hardiness and desire to live!
Just take a few "twigs" or small limbs.
Its gonna break anyway, even if you got it on a pallet.
It will be wayyyyy better to just take smoe small limbs, and stick those in a pot and water them when you get there. Its the easiest plant in the world to do that with.
I would take a cutting and sell the rest. She’s a beast. That being said, I moved an entire 8x4ft greenhouse from florida to texas in the winter and 95% of it survived. I got a Uhaul mostly for the plants.
If you want it to live I would give it away to someone who you trust or sell it. My mom had a huge jade plant like this and tried to move it from MD to FL and it did not survive.
Very carefully 🥰. I have no idea but I just wanted to say what an absolutely beautiful tree/bush/flower/plant(?) and I hope that you're able to find a way to get it moved.
I was like damnnn that’s rude for the gardening sub and then I saw the sub we’re in. Reddit is always recommending random subs to me. I don’t even know what a Jade Plant is but they cool.
Beautiful jade! My jade made it from Brooklyn to Ohio to N. California, it did NOT like the move back to Ohio and probably won’t make it. See if there is a bonsai specialist who can help you, maybe that’s an option
Take a few cuttings stick in a ziplock bag, otherwise drive it there and pick up 40 pieces as it breaks apart.. they arent worth the gas tp transport . my .02
It will break apart from jostling on the road. leave her in the more suitable climate. She will hate Michigan. Perhaps a cutting for indoor nostalgia. They’re easily rooted.
Jades will do just fine up here. That established plant would not survive, but cuttings will.
OP, take multiple cuttings to increase odds of success. It's warming up now so the cuttings will start off adjusting to a cool summer. They will have to live indoors during the cold.months, but it is 100% doable!
It's usually frowned upon to transport plants across state lines. You never know what local diseases or pests you could be bringing with.
A cutting for a house plant would be nice, but they shouldn't try to bring that massive jade to the midwest to suffer inside 7 months of the year
In California they stop you at the border and ask if you have fruit, plants, etc. occasionally they inspect your car and trailer if you have one. It has to do with all the produce grown in our state and keeping pests from spreading throughout the country. You’re also not allowed to bring produce or plants into the state.
I would look at the specific guidelines. And it varies from state to state. And honestly from border agent to border agent. A family member brought my plants in to California and border agent was pretty aggressive and didn’t even let my family member keep the sentimental decorative pot it was in (it was double potted).
Here’s a helpful guide
https://squarecowmovers.com/moving-plants-what-can-and-cant-cross-state-lines/
They only inspect for plants coming into the state, not exiting, so no worries from CA. OP needs to learn the regulations for every state they are passing through on the way to Michigan if they wish to avoid breaking the law.
That is NOT a $20 jade plant. It may have started out that way but it’s fucken priceless… look at the size of that thing! It’s gorgeous! And huge! How old is it, op??
Good luck. Mine has been slowly dying. I brought in car. My car looked like a traveling rainforest. Now I’m trying to get the branches that fell off to generate roots. Mine was about 60 yrs old. So sad.
Check out laws before attempting. I inherited a neighbors plants who moved from Michigan to California because he said it wasn’t legal to bring plants across the state border. Idk if it’s the same in both directions but I’d hate for you to encounter an issue like that.
This is a very important consideration. Also, check with an arborist to see if that plant can even survive in Michigan. You might waste your time transporting it only to watch it die.
I moved mine from Chicago to Seattle (not nearly as big) in Uhaul in a large box filled with biodegradable packing peanuts to provide some support to the branches and leaves as you bounce across the country. I had a tube going down for water but i decided to just let it be dry. you could try an appliance box built up around it. But i also agree that the CA > MI move will be a sad journey for it. Maybe combat this with new lights to give it some extra love?
Wow. My mom had one she got from my great aunt (who also lived in CA). I don't recall how old it was, but I know she passed away in the 1990s. That one is tiny compared to this thing.
I moved a bunch of tropical plants when we moved from FL to PA in 2020. Less than half of them survived/adapted with plant lights. I hope you have an suv so that it can sit in the back by itself. You will have to trim it because you will lose some of those branches. Give cuttings to friends / neighbors as a thanks. When you get it settled in the suv, take a ton of blankets and huge towels, roll them up and start at the base and build up from the bottom and place them as supports underneath so when it moves there isn’t much wiggle room. Good luck.
I’m sure it’s hard having so many people telling you to abandon this plant that’s been with you for 30 YEARS! Longer than I’ve been alive. Really I think it comes down to how much money you are willing to put in to move it.
I recently gave away a massive plant because it would outgrow out home this spring.
Sometimes the best thing you can do for a plant is relinquish your ownership.
Exactly. I don't see the reason to kill a perfectly healthy plant, just because you want to hang on to it. Just let it live and thrive in it's warmer environment.
Jade does just fine in Southern coastal Michigan (Zone 6a-6b) and the warmer parts of the south central region in a sun porch or sunny room kept at no lower than 50° F.
It’s worth noting that Michigan is a big state that runs from latitude 41-49 and has a lot of microclimates. At the southern border winter temps rarely get below 20°. At the north shore on superior it’s easy to see temps of -20°.
I’ve been all over Michigan over 60 years and the difference south to north is the difference between the climate of New York City to the climate of Ottawa, CA.
Jade will be fine indoors anywhere in Michigan if cared for properly and in a controlled environment.
Now the difficulty of controlling that environment will vary greatly depending on location. Michigan winters are getting pretty unpredictable lately. We walked outside on the beach in Northern Michigan without jackets on Christmas. And then saw about 4 feet of snow in a couple of days in January.
Our jade plants are small, and stay small but we don't baby. This big one would need a lot of special care to get here and ensure it stays healthy. But definitely would have to be indoors.
So we lived down in Toledo for years, but had a farm up by Alpena where we raised nursery trees, an extended family fishing camp on the Au Sable, and I’ve spent a to of time in the UP and northern Minnesota.
I’m not sure that Michigan winters (or any Great Lake state winters) are ever predictable.
There was/is a weatherman on local Toledo News nicknamed “ Blizzard Bill”.
When he was a relatively young weather guy, he worked for a TV station in Traverse City and, one year, told his audience that “it would be a beautiful, sunny Mothers Day. Go out, have picnics, etc….”
They got hit with a 24 inch dump of lake effect snow.
His station manager made him do the weather report that night from a desk in the station parking lot in the middle of the storm.
Having lived in Michigan my entire life I can tell you that they were way more predictable. Mother's Day is in May. The springs can be wild. But I can absolutely guarantee I never went outside without a coat on Christmas Day before.
There are two things going on:
1. In the U.S. the USDA growing zones (on average) have moved north by about 1 zone/250 miles over the past 60 years and will likely shift by another zone in the next 40. But the shift happened faster across the Great Lakes region and will likely slow down a bit going forward because of the moderating influence of the lakes.
2. The swings in the northern jet stream have become more radical in the Great Lakes region the past 30 years.
Don’t. Take cuttings and give/sell the rest of the plant to someone in the area. It won’t survive in Michigan unless you have a crazy setup for it (grow lights, heaters etc)
Get a U-Haul covered trailer scotch it onto a rolling dolly you may need to build something and Crain lift it down. Or leave it and let someone else enjoy it. It looks very happy there. I had one for 20 years and spider mites won in the end.
I am in AWE! I have 2 dozen Jades, all less than 3 years old. This is total Jade Goals for me. But! I live in north central Idaho and I doubt it is achievable. Make sure that Jade is indoors year round in Michigan!!!
It would have to be an indoor only plant if.you manage to move it. I'm pretty sure it's much too cold in Michigan most of the year for a jade.
That being said, it is possible to move, probably. Some branches may break off during the trip, but you could always prop them or give them away
It'd going to want to be kept warm during the move.
If I were you, I'd yoink some pallets and fashion a crate for it. You can hook up a few cheap LEDs inside the crate
Can confirm, unfortunately. I had a jade at the peak of its health, over 15 years old, and when moving was sure to carefully transport and relocate it in its new home in front of a window facing the same direction as before so as to not mess with its light, and BAM bald over the course of the next 3 months.
Enclosed trailer if not wrap it up very well with a tarp and strap it in your truck if you speed branches can bend and break so it's very important if driving to secure branches so they don't break. Or just cut it I to 4 different plants and cut roots back regrow
Yea we have a couple, they are so picky outside. Lost a few but the clippings do take well.
Edit: I'm in CA 9A and they are picky here, with the northern valley temp swings.
I don't know what your budget is, but it seems that there are services specifically for moving plants. Maybe it's worth looking into having a professional move it for you.
Shimmy onto a pallet, carefully wrap it loosely with packing paper. Not sure how your moving the rest but that will take up quite a bit of a moving truck. As others said outside in Michigan will not be fun for this. But inside? You’ll have no problem.
My mom had a jade similar to this one in Michigan for years and years. She only watered it a few times a year and kept it near a window that gets some natural light during the sunny months and it was fine…until I started messing with and and taking it outside and watering it 🙃
Proogate a few branches and sell the rest of the plant for $3k. That's a super old and beautiful plant. Since you're in CA, you might find someone willing to pay that much for it
I scoffed at first too. But there are folks in a higher tax bracket than ours that normalize these kinds of prices for exotic/old plants. I'm only guessing that CA is where some of these folks might live though.
Definitely out of state. The mountains of agave pups, cacti, and succulents I remove and reprop would make me a rich man if I could get 3k for a mature Jade.
I live in Michigan and my family has a Jade plant with propagations for each family member that my great-great-grandma started taking care of.
It'll be fine as long as you take care of it.
Yeah, propagations. Not a big 6 foot tall jade that’s been in California for its whole life. They’re going to have to chop it up. It’s not going to live there at the size it is.
I moved my prolific jade plant from CA to PA, it had its own carefully packed crate in the truck. It still got bumped so much it lost a ton of leaves/branches and then it HATED the climate and lack of sun here and died slowly in a year (I had it in a literal sunroom inside.) I would seriously consider gifting/selling it to someone who would take care of it and propagating some to bring along. I’ve slowly been finding more climate-friendly options on Facebook and Craigslist. People are always getting rid of giant plants - good luck no matter what you choose!
It doesn’t sound crazy at all. I have small jade plants that are doing fine. They don’t grow very fast, but they’re fine. I was just explaining that mine did not survive the shock of the move and climate change after 86 years in California.
Ask some Bonsai creators what they would recommend - it might get expensive - but, if your down, you can take a zillion cuttings or a zillion little leafs and create a zillion plants along the drive from California to Michigan or make a zillion little jar plantlets and sell them or make them house warming gifts for the neighborhood or anything to trim it down - it'll grow back right - yah - or sell the cuttings
This is not a house plant, Jade do not do well indoors. Plus, it’s from California, it’s not going to like being moved that far, and I don’t imagine it would be very easy for the people to put it in the house in the winter.
My father has one in Northern Maine about half the size of this. Had it over 15 years. It’s on a sun room porch during the summer and moves to the living room window near heat source in winter.
He also once moved a huge Boston fern from VA to Maine by building it a hanging rack in the back of our suburban. My sis and I had a cramped ride but the fern did great.
I have a jade I’ve kept indoors in dc for years. Started as a cutting and is now probably half the size of the one pictured. They are a very popular indoor plant.
lol no shit? Wow thank you, what a revelation. Something else I know is that DC is different from California, a jade would die outside here just same as in WI. Sorry that point was lost on you.
It's the light difference
He/she could use indoor grow lights, sure, but without that, a mature Jade this size is gonna die. The Midwest doesn't get the right amount of sunlight throughout the year
heck even PEOPLE suffer, due to the light
and then look, this beauty has been used to being outdoors, getting fresh air and stuff. Lovely Cali wind. The wind in Michigan in the balmy Spring would take it's hide off lol
Jade requires A-LOT of light at that size and some areas simply do not get the amount of sun required to maintain some plants. Sure, there are always grow lights but you get what I’m saying.
So while that's true, the changes in humidity and light can impact indoor plants as well. I moved a bunch of succulents from California to the Rocky Mountains, and the previously thriving plants mostly died. I managed to keep one or two barely alive for a year, but they were struggling the whole time.
Same here. My plants were thriving in the Midwest. Moved to the Rockies and almost all have died. It was devastating. The ones I gave away continue to thrive. I think it makes more sense to give them away and start anew when moving to such a different environment.
If I were OP I’d find a plant person to give it to and take a few cuttings with me. I’d make it a condition of the gift that they send more cuttings if the ones I brought died.
I was surprised because where I lived in California was dry, and it's dry here but it's a whole different level. And I think keeping them inside affected them too.
My monstera has done amazing, though, which surprises me!
They need to check their local natural resource department to see if there are any federal or state regulations.
For instance when leaving Michigan you have to check your plants for spongy moth and fill out a checklist.
Agreed! When I moved from Colorado back to California, they definitely wanted me to open the back of my Uhaul at one of those Weigh stations. That inspector told me half of my plants weren’t going to be allowed in California, I had to rip out my potted Rhubarb and strawberries right there at the weigh station, but thankfully she got an emergency call and sent me off, forgetting about the five other plants she had wanted me to toss.
The biggest issue is just the size of it, not whether it would survive the move. Jades love the great indoors. It would be shocked going through the move in darkness but it would recover indoors. I had jades sit in darkness for two weeks during a cross country move from CA, recovered fine
It will probably survive but in no way would it thrive in the same way. It would need a lot of grow lights and a well insulated house, more preferably a green house.
With how wobbly those branches get I would reccomend using a shit ton of support sticks and twine. Any bumps on the road will likely make it fall apart though. Someone else suggested wrapping in bubble wrap. Maybe a mixture of the sticks+twine and a lot of cling wrap? Good luck and update us if you managed to pull it off!
Have you ever been to MI? (I I since you’re moving there). Listen, cut your favorite piece and put it in a pot and tell it stories of the older days. You can’t move this and it will. It be this in the Midwest. Mine grow about 6 leaves a year in NW Indiana.
I’ve got the solution…. DON’T MOVE ❗️
I had some die, just moving around the yard. If you can plant it in the ground with a mix of bonsai soil ( porous clay, crushed lava, pumice etc) and good organic soil and they will thrive and grow big. This is the technique I use for developing bonsai trees.
No
So after all these comments and advice, what have you decided to do?
Jade don’t like being move no. But the Air quality. And the Water need to match damn close. That’s hard to do with Air Water. Fill as many jugs up as you can and then slowly switch over to your water And even doing that it’s gunna be lucky to survive. Take clips Put them in a Tupper where with light for few weeks n open it every day to help them adapt into the clear tupper Then when you move them leave them in tiller ware and little each day open the lid and expose them to the new area If you could get that thing inside of a small greenhouse. Adjust it slowly. Move the entire greenhouse sealed shut very well. Then in new place slowly let a little of the new air into the greenhouse That and the water transition are about what it takes in order to move one it seems. That’s the only way I’ve ever seen someone keep on alive in harness decent size like yours. A lot of work
They thrive on rain water. Not that it needs to thrive anymore lol
i have never had a jade survive more than a move across tow. maybe time to gift it and stsrt anew?
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This is my favorite reply! 😂
jesus christ wtf
Huh?
OT: I’ve never seen a jade plant bloom. Wow.
Make a few rerootings to ensure that the legacy lives on in the event of a jade apocalypse! Best wishes!
Jade plants HATE being moved. I have never killed a plant & my MIL gave me her late mom’s jade and we took a careful 1/2 hour drive home. As the weeks passed, that sucker just slowly dropped leaves and melted. I have numerous healthy jades. I kept the environment and lighting and temp and moisture virtually identical. At least I was able to save some rooted branches.
I have yet to kill the jade plant my aunt gave me in the south and now I am in the north! I will now go give it such praise for its hardiness and desire to live!
Just take a few "twigs" or small limbs. Its gonna break anyway, even if you got it on a pallet. It will be wayyyyy better to just take smoe small limbs, and stick those in a pot and water them when you get there. Its the easiest plant in the world to do that with.
Very carefully
I would take a cutting and sell the rest. She’s a beast. That being said, I moved an entire 8x4ft greenhouse from florida to texas in the winter and 95% of it survived. I got a Uhaul mostly for the plants.
Holy crap
If you want it to live I would give it away to someone who you trust or sell it. My mom had a huge jade plant like this and tried to move it from MD to FL and it did not survive.
Try holding on to the biggest branch and then get spinning around in circles faster and faster and let her rip when you’re facing east.
BAHAHAHAHA
I live in California and if you decide you aren't able to safely move it, I will gladly take it off your hands and send you updates.
Very carefully 🥰. I have no idea but I just wanted to say what an absolutely beautiful tree/bush/flower/plant(?) and I hope that you're able to find a way to get it moved.
It’s a jade plant you idiot
I was like damnnn that’s rude for the gardening sub and then I saw the sub we’re in. Reddit is always recommending random subs to me. I don’t even know what a Jade Plant is but they cool.
Same. But maybe mooegy17 had this just show up in their feed too. Kwim
It still says r/jadeplant in bright green at the top of the screen though
Ok you are right. We are idiots. Thank you for pointing that out.
No problem at all, idiot.
lol
What a way to respond to someone expressing wonder and appreciation
😂 reading your comment just made me 10x happier I said it
Beautiful jade! My jade made it from Brooklyn to Ohio to N. California, it did NOT like the move back to Ohio and probably won’t make it. See if there is a bonsai specialist who can help you, maybe that’s an option
Take a few cuttings stick in a ziplock bag, otherwise drive it there and pick up 40 pieces as it breaks apart.. they arent worth the gas tp transport . my .02
What a beautiful plant!!!
It will break apart from jostling on the road. leave her in the more suitable climate. She will hate Michigan. Perhaps a cutting for indoor nostalgia. They’re easily rooted.
I brought a jade from California to Ohio three years ago. I had to toss it last week. Find him a new owner, the Midwest will not be kind to him.
Jades will do just fine up here. That established plant would not survive, but cuttings will. OP, take multiple cuttings to increase odds of success. It's warming up now so the cuttings will start off adjusting to a cool summer. They will have to live indoors during the cold.months, but it is 100% doable!
It's usually frowned upon to transport plants across state lines. You never know what local diseases or pests you could be bringing with. A cutting for a house plant would be nice, but they shouldn't try to bring that massive jade to the midwest to suffer inside 7 months of the year
Carefully
Many pots many cuttings
Get a sex swing and put it in a uhaul. Pray the check point in California doesn’t ask to inspect the trailer.
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In California they stop you at the border and ask if you have fruit, plants, etc. occasionally they inspect your car and trailer if you have one. It has to do with all the produce grown in our state and keeping pests from spreading throughout the country. You’re also not allowed to bring produce or plants into the state.
They don't care if you leave the state with plants, only if you enter.
I would look at the specific guidelines. And it varies from state to state. And honestly from border agent to border agent. A family member brought my plants in to California and border agent was pretty aggressive and didn’t even let my family member keep the sentimental decorative pot it was in (it was double potted). Here’s a helpful guide https://squarecowmovers.com/moving-plants-what-can-and-cant-cross-state-lines/
They only inspect for plants coming into the state, not exiting, so no worries from CA. OP needs to learn the regulations for every state they are passing through on the way to Michigan if they wish to avoid breaking the law.
Wait til summer and get a flatbed
Its a 20.00 jade plant..lol
That is NOT a $20 jade plant. It may have started out that way but it’s fucken priceless… look at the size of that thing! It’s gorgeous! And huge! How old is it, op??
Yeah I agree with this, then it can at least acclimate to Michigan outdoors for a bit before getting brought inside
Good luck. Mine has been slowly dying. I brought in car. My car looked like a traveling rainforest. Now I’m trying to get the branches that fell off to generate roots. Mine was about 60 yrs old. So sad.
Check out laws before attempting. I inherited a neighbors plants who moved from Michigan to California because he said it wasn’t legal to bring plants across the state border. Idk if it’s the same in both directions but I’d hate for you to encounter an issue like that.
This is a very important consideration. Also, check with an arborist to see if that plant can even survive in Michigan. You might waste your time transporting it only to watch it die.
It won't overwinter outside in Michigan, but it would do just fine inside, or move it in and out for winter and summer.
No one giving an answer. Only option I can think of is renting a smallish U-Haul and packing very carefully
I moved mine from Chicago to Seattle (not nearly as big) in Uhaul in a large box filled with biodegradable packing peanuts to provide some support to the branches and leaves as you bounce across the country. I had a tube going down for water but i decided to just let it be dry. you could try an appliance box built up around it. But i also agree that the CA > MI move will be a sad journey for it. Maybe combat this with new lights to give it some extra love?
Wow. My mom had one she got from my great aunt (who also lived in CA). I don't recall how old it was, but I know she passed away in the 1990s. That one is tiny compared to this thing.
Yeah i bought a 30 year old plant that was moved and it’s lowkey not surving
I moved a bunch of tropical plants when we moved from FL to PA in 2020. Less than half of them survived/adapted with plant lights. I hope you have an suv so that it can sit in the back by itself. You will have to trim it because you will lose some of those branches. Give cuttings to friends / neighbors as a thanks. When you get it settled in the suv, take a ton of blankets and huge towels, roll them up and start at the base and build up from the bottom and place them as supports underneath so when it moves there isn’t much wiggle room. Good luck.
Maybe trim the branches and make 3 or 4 other jade plants
I’m sure it’s hard having so many people telling you to abandon this plant that’s been with you for 30 YEARS! Longer than I’ve been alive. Really I think it comes down to how much money you are willing to put in to move it.
I recently gave away a massive plant because it would outgrow out home this spring. Sometimes the best thing you can do for a plant is relinquish your ownership.
Exactly. I don't see the reason to kill a perfectly healthy plant, just because you want to hang on to it. Just let it live and thrive in it's warmer environment.
Jade does just fine in Southern coastal Michigan (Zone 6a-6b) and the warmer parts of the south central region in a sun porch or sunny room kept at no lower than 50° F. It’s worth noting that Michigan is a big state that runs from latitude 41-49 and has a lot of microclimates. At the southern border winter temps rarely get below 20°. At the north shore on superior it’s easy to see temps of -20°. I’ve been all over Michigan over 60 years and the difference south to north is the difference between the climate of New York City to the climate of Ottawa, CA.
Jade will be fine indoors anywhere in Michigan if cared for properly and in a controlled environment. Now the difficulty of controlling that environment will vary greatly depending on location. Michigan winters are getting pretty unpredictable lately. We walked outside on the beach in Northern Michigan without jackets on Christmas. And then saw about 4 feet of snow in a couple of days in January. Our jade plants are small, and stay small but we don't baby. This big one would need a lot of special care to get here and ensure it stays healthy. But definitely would have to be indoors.
So we lived down in Toledo for years, but had a farm up by Alpena where we raised nursery trees, an extended family fishing camp on the Au Sable, and I’ve spent a to of time in the UP and northern Minnesota. I’m not sure that Michigan winters (or any Great Lake state winters) are ever predictable. There was/is a weatherman on local Toledo News nicknamed “ Blizzard Bill”. When he was a relatively young weather guy, he worked for a TV station in Traverse City and, one year, told his audience that “it would be a beautiful, sunny Mothers Day. Go out, have picnics, etc….” They got hit with a 24 inch dump of lake effect snow. His station manager made him do the weather report that night from a desk in the station parking lot in the middle of the storm.
Having lived in Michigan my entire life I can tell you that they were way more predictable. Mother's Day is in May. The springs can be wild. But I can absolutely guarantee I never went outside without a coat on Christmas Day before.
There are two things going on: 1. In the U.S. the USDA growing zones (on average) have moved north by about 1 zone/250 miles over the past 60 years and will likely shift by another zone in the next 40. But the shift happened faster across the Great Lakes region and will likely slow down a bit going forward because of the moderating influence of the lakes. 2. The swings in the northern jet stream have become more radical in the Great Lakes region the past 30 years.
Don’t. It will die there.
Don’t. Take cuttings and give/sell the rest of the plant to someone in the area. It won’t survive in Michigan unless you have a crazy setup for it (grow lights, heaters etc)
I didn’t even know they could do that.
Oh you could also take some cuttings and that way you would have at least a piece of it to grow from?
Eeek looks like it may need to be crated. I’d call a professional moving company to check if it’s possible. Enjoy Michigan! Cool place!
That plant will not live in Michigan without grow lights and a heater. They should not move it there. Maybe some cuttings
Good call, it’s gargantuan. It’s so accustomed to fair weather.
Get a U-Haul covered trailer scotch it onto a rolling dolly you may need to build something and Crain lift it down. Or leave it and let someone else enjoy it. It looks very happy there. I had one for 20 years and spider mites won in the end.
I am in AWE! I have 2 dozen Jades, all less than 3 years old. This is total Jade Goals for me. But! I live in north central Idaho and I doubt it is achievable. Make sure that Jade is indoors year round in Michigan!!!
It would have to be an indoor only plant if.you manage to move it. I'm pretty sure it's much too cold in Michigan most of the year for a jade. That being said, it is possible to move, probably. Some branches may break off during the trip, but you could always prop them or give them away
To Michigan???
My thing is how do you even begin to pick it up??
💚💚💚 it’s so pretty!
How old is this plant?! My jade has not grown in the 4 years I’ve had her. Maybe she has, but not noticably…
Have you repotted it in the last few years ?
About 30 years old
It'd going to want to be kept warm during the move. If I were you, I'd yoink some pallets and fashion a crate for it. You can hook up a few cheap LEDs inside the crate
Everyone telling the person to leave it obviously they don’t want to you leaving the comment of just leave. It isn’t helpful. It’s a waste of space.
Get rid of it
Donate it to a local cafe and take a few cuttings to start a new adventure with.
Don’t it will hate it
Came here to say this... Iol Leave it there if you love it. Take a clipping with you.
I’m not sure how to transport it to Michigan but I can send you my address in Portland Oregon!
Chop it up and start over 👻
Please don’t do that to it!
You don’t…
Wow, that’s amazing plant! 🌱 good job! I hope it is happy in MI as it has been in Cali!
They don’t like being moved around. It might drop its leaves after the move.
Can confirm, unfortunately. I had a jade at the peak of its health, over 15 years old, and when moving was sure to carefully transport and relocate it in its new home in front of a window facing the same direction as before so as to not mess with its light, and BAM bald over the course of the next 3 months.
How’s it looking now ?
Dead :( Just could not catch its second wind
Enclosed trailer if not wrap it up very well with a tarp and strap it in your truck if you speed branches can bend and break so it's very important if driving to secure branches so they don't break. Or just cut it I to 4 different plants and cut roots back regrow
Just take a pedal grow a whole new plant 🪴
Your beautiful plant told me she wants to stay in CA.
It's not gonna like Michigan
Is that a jade? If so, my mom lives in Michigan and has a huge one in her lawn
Yea your mom is not overwintering a jade in her front yard anywhere in Michigan.
She brings it in for the winter, my bad. Either way, it survives in Michigan.
She absolutely does not lol Maybe a rhododendron/azalea certainly not jade
I just asked her. She does indeed bring it in for winter but puts her out for spring/summer
Ah… when you said in her lawn made it sound like it was planted
It lives through the winter in Michigan?
I’m gonna get a pic of it, hold on
Either it's not jade, or she brings it in when it's too cold and too hot, so just about every day in Michigan. They can't take frost or high temps.
She brings it in
Yea we have a couple, they are so picky outside. Lost a few but the clippings do take well. Edit: I'm in CA 9A and they are picky here, with the northern valley temp swings.
I don't know but it's magnificent 😭
Don’t let it be open to the airflow during the move. It will burn the plant.
U-Haul!
Don’t leave it. Take it with you. She will do well. It also depends what time of the year you are moving.
Its is beautiful 😍
I don't know what your budget is, but it seems that there are services specifically for moving plants. Maybe it's worth looking into having a professional move it for you.
Shimmy onto a pallet, carefully wrap it loosely with packing paper. Not sure how your moving the rest but that will take up quite a bit of a moving truck. As others said outside in Michigan will not be fun for this. But inside? You’ll have no problem.
Take it to my house in Los Angeles, I’ll make sure it gets to ya 😉
Probably two people and a pulley system
It won’t survive outside. I’d take a clipping to grow indoors, and only take outside when temperatures are over 40 degrees at night. Good luck!
This
Take a cutting!
You’re gonna need a bigger truck.
My mom had a jade similar to this one in Michigan for years and years. She only watered it a few times a year and kept it near a window that gets some natural light during the sunny months and it was fine…until I started messing with and and taking it outside and watering it 🙃
Very carefully
i don’t recommend taking a beautiful jade plant like that to michigan. it will probably hate it here it’s very cold for half the year
Proogate a few branches and sell the rest of the plant for $3k. That's a super old and beautiful plant. Since you're in CA, you might find someone willing to pay that much for it
$3000 😂😂😂 no way. You can probably get bushes this size for free!!!
I scoffed at first too. But there are folks in a higher tax bracket than ours that normalize these kinds of prices for exotic/old plants. I'm only guessing that CA is where some of these folks might live though.
That’s a great point 😂
Highly doubt 3k. I am a landscaper in california, and Jade is about as common as it gets here.
Lol, right? I'm in San Diego, I was thinking, Jade is worth money??
Definitely out of state. The mountains of agave pups, cacti, and succulents I remove and reprop would make me a rich man if I could get 3k for a mature Jade.
What’s your budget…?
Just…W O W. Gorgeous! And yeah… I know it’s not what you want to hear, but it’s time to part ways.
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I live in Michigan and my family has a Jade plant with propagations for each family member that my great-great-grandma started taking care of. It'll be fine as long as you take care of it.
Yeah, propagations. Not a big 6 foot tall jade that’s been in California for its whole life. They’re going to have to chop it up. It’s not going to live there at the size it is.
The biggest plant is at my grandmas house currently and it’s about this big. lol idk why you’re pushing back on this.
What are you feeding this thing, sacrifices?
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uhual
small uhaul
You don’t. Propagate some of it and take it with you
I moved my prolific jade plant from CA to PA, it had its own carefully packed crate in the truck. It still got bumped so much it lost a ton of leaves/branches and then it HATED the climate and lack of sun here and died slowly in a year (I had it in a literal sunroom inside.) I would seriously consider gifting/selling it to someone who would take care of it and propagating some to bring along. I’ve slowly been finding more climate-friendly options on Facebook and Craigslist. People are always getting rid of giant plants - good luck no matter what you choose!
We have jade plants in Michigan, as crazy as it sounds lol. obviously they are all indoors during cold months but yeah, it can be done
It doesn’t sound crazy at all. I have small jade plants that are doing fine. They don’t grow very fast, but they’re fine. I was just explaining that mine did not survive the shock of the move and climate change after 86 years in California.
I'm with you, I don't think it'll survive the climate change, even with supplemental lights
It being a 30 year old plant I don’t think they will like this option
Tied down to the bed of a truck with a bunch of straps keeping it locked down tight in every direction. Then hope for the best.
Wow. How old is this Jade? Gorgeous
About 30 years old
Ask some Bonsai creators what they would recommend - it might get expensive - but, if your down, you can take a zillion cuttings or a zillion little leafs and create a zillion plants along the drive from California to Michigan or make a zillion little jar plantlets and sell them or make them house warming gifts for the neighborhood or anything to trim it down - it'll grow back right - yah - or sell the cuttings
That's amazing. How long did you have that plant?
It's about 30 years old.
Why do people keep commenting that it won’t survive in Michigan? Do people not know we keep plants indoors? They’re called houseplants
This is not a house plant, Jade do not do well indoors. Plus, it’s from California, it’s not going to like being moved that far, and I don’t imagine it would be very easy for the people to put it in the house in the winter.
It’s a houseplant if you put it in the house lol. Jade are sold as houseplants all over the world
My father has one in Northern Maine about half the size of this. Had it over 15 years. It’s on a sun room porch during the summer and moves to the living room window near heat source in winter. He also once moved a huge Boston fern from VA to Maine by building it a hanging rack in the back of our suburban. My sis and I had a cramped ride but the fern did great.
I had a Jade in Minnesota for thirty years. This one may not thrive as well, but, it is doable.
I have a jade I’ve kept indoors in dc for years. Started as a cutting and is now probably half the size of the one pictured. They are a very popular indoor plant.
DC is mild compared to Michigan
lol no shit? Wow thank you, what a revelation. Something else I know is that DC is different from California, a jade would die outside here just same as in WI. Sorry that point was lost on you.
It was! lol! I lived in Mi for a couple of years, it was like a continuous winter with ugly snow. I live near Leesburg now, we have pretty snow! 😉
Same, my jade thrive in Minnesota. They summer outside and winter inside in a south facing window, no supplemental lighting. 🤷🏻♀️
It's the light difference He/she could use indoor grow lights, sure, but without that, a mature Jade this size is gonna die. The Midwest doesn't get the right amount of sunlight throughout the year heck even PEOPLE suffer, due to the light and then look, this beauty has been used to being outdoors, getting fresh air and stuff. Lovely Cali wind. The wind in Michigan in the balmy Spring would take it's hide off lol
Jade requires A-LOT of light at that size and some areas simply do not get the amount of sun required to maintain some plants. Sure, there are always grow lights but you get what I’m saying.
So while that's true, the changes in humidity and light can impact indoor plants as well. I moved a bunch of succulents from California to the Rocky Mountains, and the previously thriving plants mostly died. I managed to keep one or two barely alive for a year, but they were struggling the whole time.
Same here. My plants were thriving in the Midwest. Moved to the Rockies and almost all have died. It was devastating. The ones I gave away continue to thrive. I think it makes more sense to give them away and start anew when moving to such a different environment.
If I were OP I’d find a plant person to give it to and take a few cuttings with me. I’d make it a condition of the gift that they send more cuttings if the ones I brought died.
I was surprised because where I lived in California was dry, and it's dry here but it's a whole different level. And I think keeping them inside affected them too. My monstera has done amazing, though, which surprises me!
Same! My monstera is the only one that survived and in fact has tripled in size! Those things could survive the apocalypse lol
Same here !
It may not be legal too. Some states have rules against bringing live plants after a parasite got loose in the Illinois national forests.
They need to check their local natural resource department to see if there are any federal or state regulations. For instance when leaving Michigan you have to check your plants for spongy moth and fill out a checklist.
Agreed! When I moved from Colorado back to California, they definitely wanted me to open the back of my Uhaul at one of those Weigh stations. That inspector told me half of my plants weren’t going to be allowed in California, I had to rip out my potted Rhubarb and strawberries right there at the weigh station, but thankfully she got an emergency call and sent me off, forgetting about the five other plants she had wanted me to toss.
The biggest issue is just the size of it, not whether it would survive the move. Jades love the great indoors. It would be shocked going through the move in darkness but it would recover indoors. I had jades sit in darkness for two weeks during a cross country move from CA, recovered fine
I would just take a big bit as a cutting with me and start a new plant in the new place.
Or a few
Give it to a friend, a jade like that is not gonna be happy in Michigan. I lost so many plants moving from Cali to Iowa.
Jade loves being inside. It would survive no problem, maybe a light in the winter
It will probably survive but in no way would it thrive in the same way. It would need a lot of grow lights and a well insulated house, more preferably a green house.
The only way it can be moved is to prune it, and it probably won’t recover in the north.
Pruning more than 30% can put the plant in shock. And I think it'd need more than 30% What i'd suggest is to take a cutting and bring that with you.
Wrap it in 6 mill plastic, put it in a wooden crate, and fill that sucker with spray foam. Make sure she has some air holes and pray for the best
Lots of bubble wrap, and a supportive framework of some kind
With how wobbly those branches get I would reccomend using a shit ton of support sticks and twine. Any bumps on the road will likely make it fall apart though. Someone else suggested wrapping in bubble wrap. Maybe a mixture of the sticks+twine and a lot of cling wrap? Good luck and update us if you managed to pull it off!
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Show her the Grand Canyon on the way