Jade Bonsai & Prebonsai for Sale

Pickup, Delivery, and Shipping Options/Policy

            Local pickup is free in the Columbus, Ohio area, or pickup is also available when I road trip, especially to bonsai shows around my area of the Midwest. Delivery is also free if not more than 15 minutes out of my way from home or on any of these trips. See here for the most updated list of pickup sites/delivery routes I will be making in the coming months. 

            If you would like to have any of my products shipped to you, see my Etsy page invivobonsai.etsy.com (almost all prices include shipping) or contact me if the item is not listed on my Etsy and I'll look into a cost estimate. Contacting me can also get you a cheaper price than buying through Etsy as there will be fewer fees and shipping multiple items can be combined.

Jade Bonsai Available in Columbus, Ohio from In Vivo Bonsai

Last updated, 11/15/2025

Sections:

1. Species Info
1. Basic Info
2. Watering
3. Lighting
4. Varieties
2. Sale Info
1. Regular Jades (Crassula ovata)
2. Gollum Jades (Crassula ovata gollum)
3. Small leaf jades (Crassula ovata, subspecies not known)
4. Mature Starters/Workshop Trees (not in ceramic pots)
3. Sold Example Gallery + Pruning Tips

I. Species Info:

A. Basic Info

            Crassula ovata is a highly beginner-friendly tropical succulent that can be styled as a bonsai due to the woody appearance of its stem. Because it is tropical, it can be grown indoors year-round or outdoors in summer and indoors in winter to avoid freezing. The advantages of this species include its hardiness, ease of propagation through cuttings, and rapid growth rate in ideal conditions such as when placed outside over summer. The disadvantages of this species as bonsai include a tendency for plants to become top-heavy if they are not properly pruned and the relatively large leaf size which may be undesirable for styling them as smaller-sized bonsai.

B. Watering

            I water my jades 1x/ 1-4 weeks in the winter, depending on the light intensity of their spot in the home. You can assess if the tree needs water by holding the leaf in your hand and feeling its turgidity. If the leaf is firm, it does not need water. If the leaf is soft, it is because the plant needs more water to properly fill its volume. The thick, waxy cuticle on the leaves as well as the regenerative and propagative properties of this species are evolutionary traits that the species obtained in their native desert environment of South Africa-Mozambique.

C. Lighting

            The plant thrives in full sun or under intense grow lights, but it also can survive in winter with very low light. It does not need to be near a window, but if it does not at least have window light then it will hardly grow at all. , Thus to continue their bonsai transformations, I'm sure to put them back outside each summer or under a grow light to keep them healthy.

D. Varieties

            There are a few varieties of jades also including gollum jade (aka shrek-ear jade) which has a narrow leaf mutation, a small-leaf jade (not to be confused with the elephant bush aka dwarf jade), and a "lemon leaf" varigated jade. I am propagating all of these varieties Inquire directly if you don't see your variety of interest pictured below, I may have others available. Care wise, all these jade varieties are treated the same.

II. Sale Info

        These jade beginner-friendly bonsai starters I sell quickly for a low price so the stock is always rotating. This makes them not great to put online since that is a time-consuming process but some available are pictured below. If interested in buying one, please feel free to contact me for pictures of the latest options or come in person/see my In-Person Bonsai Partner locations where you can find them.

New stock added november 2025. Some photos are from summer 2025 or fall 2025. Updated photos available on request,

A. Regular Jades (Crassula ovata)

J1 - Slanted jade potted in orange mug with a drainage hole

    Propagated 1-2 years ago from a cutting, recently pruned and potted (October 2025). It will become more full in the coming weeks with its first branches in response to the pruning. $10.

J2 - Curved trunk jade potted in a soap dish with a drainage hole

    Propagated 1-2 years ago from a cutting, recently pruned and potted (October 2025). It will become more full in the coming weeks with its first branches in response to the pruning. $10.

J3 - Curved trunk jade potted in a soap dish with a drainage hole

    Propagated 1-2 years ago from a cutting, recently pruned and potted (October 2025). It will become more full in the coming weeks with its first branches in response to the pruning. $10.

J4 - Twin trunk slant/windswept jade potted in a bowl with a drainage hole

    Propagated 2-3 years ago from a cutting, recently pruned and potted (October 2025). It will become more full in the coming weeks with its first branches in response to the pruning. $25.

J5 - Twin trunk slant/windswept jade in a bonsai pot

    Available at Yelo Apple if I recall correctly.

J6 - Curved trunk jade potted in a soap dish with a drainage hole

    Available at Yelo Apple if I recall correctly.

J7 - Shohin Jade forest in a bonsai pot

    Available at Yelo Apple if I recall correctly.

J8 - Shohin Jade in painted bonsai pot

    Available at Yelo Apple if I recall correctly.

J9 - Shohin Jade in plastic bonsai pot

J10 - Shohin Jade forest in bonsai pot

J11 - Shohin curved trunk jade in mug with drainage hole

J12 - Shohin slant trunk jade in ceramic pot with drainage hole

J13 - Shohin twin trunk mature jade - future raffle tree once it fills in.

    This tree was pruned and repotted towards the end of summer. Once it matures with more leaves and branches in response, it will be used as a raffle tree with one of my consignment sales partners.

J14 - Shohin twin trunk cascade jade - future raffle tree once it fills in.

    This tree was pruned and repotted towards the end of summer. Once it matures with more leaves and branches in response, it will be used as a raffle tree with one of my consignment sales partners.

B. Gollum Jades (Crassula ovata gollum)

GJ1 - Twin trunk gollum jade potted in glazed mug with a drainage hole

    Propagated 1-2 years ago from a cutting, recently pruned and potted (October 2025). It will become more full in the coming weeks with its first branches in response to the pruning. $10.

GJ2 - Twin trunk gollum jade potted in glazed bowl with a drainage hole

    Propagated 1-2 years ago from a cutting, recently pruned and potted (October 2025). It will become more full in the coming weeks with its first branches in response to the pruning. $15.

GJ3 - Twin trunk gollum jade potted in bowl with a drainage hole

    Propagated 2-3 years ago from a cutting, recently pruned and potted (October 2025). It will become more full in the coming weeks with its first branches in response to the pruning. $30.

GJ4 - Gollum jade forest potted

    Available at Casa cacao cafe.

GJ5 - Gollum jade broom potted in cup with drainage hole.

    This one either lives at casa cacao cafe or at Yelo Apple houseplant store in Columbus (or I already sold it and I forgot).

GJ6 - Mame gollum jade potted in XS bonsai pot

    ~3 years old. $20.

C. Small leaf jades (Crassula ovata, subspecies not known)

SLJ1 - Mame jade in XS bonsai pot

    Available at Yelo Apple if I recall correctly (or possibly already sold, I forget where this one ended up).

D. Mature Starters/Workshop Trees (not in ceramic pots)

            Typically, I propagate my tropicals in shallow pots as this saves space and not all cuttings survive (although for jade, branches or even individual leaves are a near guaranteed success). Then, either in workshops or on my own, I separate the mature ones into individual pots, but I've found that after ~1 yr, the jades do not have a very developed root system, so lately I think additional time in their own pots will improve the ease of their use for workshops. So I am starting to separate my workshop trees/prebonsai into individual plastic containers before using them in bonsai pots. Smaller prebonsai will need another year in these pots before being recommended for workshops or being made into beginner bonsai, whereas more established prebonsai can be used straight away.

• Smaller prebonsai jades generally ~$5/each.
• Larger/more established prebonsai jades generally ~$10 each, possibly a bit more for the less common varieties.

Small jade starts. Photographed Nov 2025.

Large jade starts. Photographed Nov 2025.

Large jade starts. Photographed Nov 2025.

Small-large jade starts. Photographed Nov 2025.

Mostly small leaf jade and a few gollum jade small starts. Photographed Nov 2025.

Mostly small leaf jade and a few gollum jade small-large starts. Photographed Nov 2025.

III. Sold Example Gallery + Pruning Tips

            As I get more mature examples and organize my pictures, I will add them here. The styling is pretty basic and similar with other broadleaf species. Cut after 2-3 internodes so dense branching is formed. This also gives you the chance to use clip and grow to alter trunk/branchlines. Wire will work to some extent but because these are succlent, the bends cannot be too severe or they will snap.

            

            The plants in this gallery are a few examples which have been in training from cuttings for 1-3 years. They sold in the early stages of training and when I have some examples that I hang onto long enough to show more refinement, I will add a link to them. I have also made some in very miniature pots from young leaf cuttings which creates the smallest leaf sizes or others which ramified nicely via typical pruning methods over time but do not have photos for all of them. This species responds well to directional pruning for ramification and to change the direction of the trunk/branch lines. You can also remove lower leaves and leaves that grow at the intersection of branches to highlight the trunk and branch structure better to make these trees more tree-like in appearance rather than shrub-like if they are allowed to grow and elongate too long without pruning.

An example Jade - Crassula ovata. 2 years old from cutting. These are tropical and must be kept indoors over winter. Low light and drought tolerant!