Hello, I'm trying to revive a jade plant for someone. I had to cut quite a bit of rotten areas of stem off a couple weeks ago, then I put some cinnamon on the ends as I've heard that can help kill remaining rot. Then I set them on my shelf to callous. Last week I found a couple more areas of rot and cut those off. Today on one smaller stem I found more rot on the end and threw it away just in case the rot was a bit deeper than I thought. The plant looks more withered and wrinkly than it did when I first started to take care of it. I don't know what my next step should be...do I pot the remaining jade stems in soil? Do I give them more time to callous?
Also I saw a small white circle on a piece of the plant. I got it off with my fingernail and it came off in pieces and there's a little circular mark remaining. I didn't know if that was scale since I've never dealt with scale before. And I saw some other area of the plant that looked like it could possibly have a pest on it. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks so much!

Hi,

The white spots...haven't seen them but I'd guess powdery mildew or mineral deposits, depending on where you live and soil conditions.

Might help: https://www.google.com/search?...

If it was me I'd lose the entire rotten V section and go for at least 5 or 6 cuttings.
Hard to tell where those roots are, might be able to get more.

I've had good luck with my 50 year-old jade letting stem and leaf cuttings callous for a few days to a week and potting in a cactus mix soil with extra pumice. When I re-pot I add sharp sand and green sand.

Normally about 1" of stem with growing leaves in the center.

If there's no rot you can also just root the top 2" cut off a healthy branch.

Last time I did a major pruning I cut a dozen 1' branches, put them in an open cardboard box in my carport.

That was a year ago, and I'm still rooting new plants out of that box. They're hardy plants.

Sorry for the late reply. Okay, I will get some more cuttings out of it. Thank you!

Good luck!

Let us know how they turn out.