If by money plant you are referring to Crassula ovata, I just take a cutting and stick it in damp potting compost with a little grit. They never fail.

So do I,Dorian..they root very easily ...

Same here. We used to have a huge plant, which got pot-bound and started to send out little roots at every node. We just broke bits off, put them in ordinary garden soil (we knew no better in those days!) and away they went. We had dozens, and used to sell them at charity fetes.

Still got my original in a pot,Gattina..at least 20 years old now..and huge..it should have been repotted again this year,but it will have to wait now..got some flower buds on..not a lot,but looking forward to them opening..poor thing thrives on neglect !

Good gracious, Bloomer, I've never seen one in bloom! Perhaps I mollycoddled ours too much. They're supposed to bring the owner good fortune, and the month after we potted all the little ones on we won a (very small) premium bond prize! We lost the plant when we moved out here, unfortunately, and look what's happening to the Euro. I feel quite guilty!

There's a huge one in the entrance to our doctor's surgery. It flowers for months, must reflect GP's enhanced pay and conditions.

I have one and find that if you take just one leaf it produces roots easily.

thanks does not quite fill the bill, but thank you to
everyone who helped me out. it was more then appreciated. i am going to have the most beautiful plant once i do the right thing as i have learned. thank you all sooooo much! sincerely, dorian

If you are thinking of Pachira aquatica, I've found that it doesn't root well from cuttings, so the growers normally grow it from seed.
FYI, you folks from the UK: Crassula ovata isn't often called "money tree", or "money plant". Most often, it is called "jade plant", or less commonly, "rubber plant"--to the confusion of us nurserymen!

That's why I asked if it was Crassula ovata. To us Brits money plant is known as Crassula ovata and I think that the other people that commented assumed, as I did that Dorian meant this. It sometimes can be confusing using common plant names instead of Scientific names as different people refer to plants by different common names.

I can understand how frustrating it must be as a nurseryman. Maybe Dorian can clarify exactly which plant they have?

Mine is definitely Crassula ovata,Tugbrethil,and I mainly refer to it as 'jade tree' and not 'money tree' ,but both names are commonly used here in UK....so it may be as Myron suggests,that Dorian has a different plant ..any chance of a pic,Dorian.please?

Gattina, we hadn't realised that the Italian economic
money crisis was all your fault...

Well, I have had a little help.....:-((

Maybe we should refer to said tree as a Euro tree from hence on Jan? ;o)

once again, thank you so much, all of you touch my heart. i have no idea what the actual name is but i am going to research this week and hopefully i will be in touch again. and again, thank you!

Given as how the Euro is an imperilled species, maybe not, Myron. Could be tempting providence.
Loretta, I do hope the information (ignore the silly bits in between) will be useful, and your money plant (whichever kind) takes root successfully, and grows and grows! Looking forward to news of it!

I think we should all come to Italy,Gattina..to help boost the economy..and bring you a new 'Euro' tree...any excuse to re visit Italy ! :o)..In one of the Sunday papers..it said that 'Silvio' is about to release an album of love songs. allegedly! It must be true,if it's in one of the tabloids !!

Yes, Bloomer, I am afraid it is all too true. Yukk! No-one here seems to see anything strange in it, either. Explains a lot. Nasty, silly, vain, corrupt, RICH little insect.

OMG,the cheek of him,Gattina....Insect.? would call him much worse than that..if I wanted to be flagged! :o)

Funny, isn't it? Everyone here is in agreement, he's a horrid little man, and a "buffone" but they all still vote for him. Apparently, they don't care about his bedroom antics, or the fact that the rest of the world laughs at him, he obviously knows how to make money, and there's very little serious political opposition. There was one - a local guy - Romano Prodi, who's strength was his probity and honesty, and he got in on that ticket. Briefly. Mr Nice Guy. He just wasn't up to keeping all the other ba****ds in order, and he resigned. The trouble is that Berlusconi owns so much of the press and television stations, that very few people here have any idea how ridiculous the rest of Europe and the world think he is. We taped a "Panorama" programme of the truth behind Italian government, and no-one here would believe what it was showing. Political lesson over.

Back to the crassula, if that's what it is. Most succulents root quite well in almost dry open gritty compost, but as many cutting strike best in the growing season you could always beg a couple more later and try again if these don't take.