Well, Ken is right about that...we all have different growing conditions. In my area I never do submerging for any of my succulents. They just get watered a bit more frequent in summer, if I know they are actively growing at that time. Like once a week frequency than every two weeks. All depends on your temperature, humidity, media, and location where you grow the plant (indoors year round or outdoors ).
What is more important is to keep that media very well draining, to avoid root rot. I also try to avoid overhead watering for the succulents, just direct to the soil, their stomates are closed during daytime anyways.
I do not know if you notice the seasonal change with the jades..as with some of the other succulents, after winter, as spring comes they begin to lose the outermost leaves, they wrinkle badly, makes you think they are dying, but they are just actually shedding the older leaves. Then pretty soon the newer growth in the middle comes about..or maybe it is attempting to make new blooms. Either way they do that. And I think that is the stage that most people overwater, thinking it needs more water. As summer comes in, jades begin to be thirstier, fattening up the caudex. As the older leaves fall off, the stem just got taller. As summer now starts to go into fall, they love the cooler temps, so it will make more leaves, either from the center or anywhere up and down the stem. Come winter time, it will slow down a bit growing. But it is not dormant. It can take the stress of the winter cold, as long as they do not get damp and too wet. Gets those rosy colored chilled leaves. And then Spring comes about..cycle continues..etc. etc.
