try the 55 gallon barrels they list all the time for rain barrels, you should be able to get 2 or 3 rings per barrel and i believe they are PET and the PET is fairly resistant, although i could be wrong
Some sucker a lot. Some donāt sucker at all.
I have 2 jujube. Hopefully at least one of them has the tendency. Do you know what factors may influence whether it does or not? Perhaps those grown in a specific climate are more or less likely to? Just a wild guess. If not, I suppose I can grow seedlings. But for rootstock wouldnāt the sucker be better?
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Suckers might be better than seedlings or they might not be better. Some suckers are very thorny. Some seedlings make great stock and some do not.
Rootstock can vary just like jujube varieties can vary. Some are very vigorous and some are not. Some are thorny and some are not. Some tend to produce suckers and some do not. In areas where summers are dry and hot some stocks donāt sucker much but others do. In heavy soils some suckers donāt sucker much but some do. Probably the single factor that most promotes suckering is pruning trees. The trees interpret pruning as damage to the tree and many stocks will throw up suckers to provide undamaged growth.
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Thanks for your insights. Much appreciated. Iām new to jujube. I got my first two trees last spring and got a small crop in the fall. It wildly exceeded my expectations. I particularly enjoyed the dried specimens. I thought they tasted like a brown sugar candy. I canāt wait for a much larger crop in years to come.
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@tonyOmahaz5 , forgive me if I missed your update on these, but how did they fare with -29F? Iāve been too chicken to plant mine put In the ground here in zone five (keep bringing into my root cellar for āone more winterā). I may regraft to have backups and then plant. -Neal
Jujube trees were all dead to the ground level at -29F even 8 to 10 years old trees. So bury the graft union a foot below ground for insurance of resprout of the same cultivar.
Tony
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Something interesting for zone pushers may be to air layer a potted tree, and plant that in ground. That way, if you have die back it will come back true everytime
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This is very helpful. Thanks!