How to Prune Frozen Jade Plants

Instructions

• 1

  Put on rubber gloves or have paper towels handy. Waterproof gloves protect your hands from the wet plant tissues to be pruned, and the towels conveniently assist in clean-up and debris removal.

• 2

  Examine the jade plant for frost damage. Frozen leaves will be brown, mushy or completely fallen away while stems nipped by freezing temperatures feel soft or disintegrate when squeezed.

• 3

  Make firm, clean cuts with the pruners to remove the browned or mushy leaves and stems. A pruning cut just below rotting stems in the firm, healthy stem tissue diminishes mess and tearing of plant fibers. Wipe the pruner with paper towels if they become hard to grasp or become too wet with plant juices.

• 4

  Refrain from watering the jade plant until new leaves appear on the plant. Outdoors the regrowth may not occur for 2-4 months, whereas frost-nipped potted plants brought indoors after this pruning may grow new leaves in 3-5 weeks.