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Despite the technological progress we experience today, grandmothers’ advice and recipes remain essential in our daily lives. Among the recipes based on garlic to cure colds, or vinegar to remove stains, there is a plant capable of attracting positive energy, money and luck.
Here you will find everything you need to know about this plant with its priceless benefits!
In addition to beautifully decorating interiors, plants are excellent air purifiers; It’s nice to have them both inside and outside. Some are even known to attract luck, money and prosperity, such as the Crassula ovata, also called the jade tree.
What is the Jade plant?
Crassula ovata or Jade Plant is a plant with small pink or white flowers. This is a plant native to South Africa, very popular throughout the world as a houseplant.
Its leaves are 3 to 9 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide, oval to elliptical in shape, often with a red edge and a slightly pointed end. The leaves of this plant can grow for many years without flowering.
How to maintain the Jade plant?
Crassula ovata plants are ideal for indoors because they tolerate dry conditions and can survive neglect. Except that cleaning is important for the health and beautiful appearance of this plant.
All dead leaves and stems must be removed periodically, and care must also be taken to clean the leaves of the plant every month with water at room temperature.
The Jade plant needs lots of light, its ideal position would be on a sunny windowsill, it is a plant that grows in full sun or partial shade, but will flower best in a sunny position.
The watering rule for this plant is rather complex, little in winter and frequent in summer. It is therefore necessary to water regularly and abundantly in spring and summer, but without exaggerating.
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