Jujube

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@castanea

Any Chinese jujube would grow well in middle Tennessee. So plant whatever you want to grow.

Technically true, but some won’t fruit that well, like GA866.

@clarkinks

Li, Lang , Honey jar

Lang is another one I’d recommend against, at least if you want it for fresh eating. Li is OK, but it takes a while to produce compared to some others and I haven’t been thrilled with it (not bad, but not top tier, at least so far after ~7 years).

Of the commonly available ones, I’d say Honey Jar, Sugar Cane would be best. Dong would be good for late season. For large fruit, Autumn Beauty and Dae Sol Jo are good. Bok Jo is another good one and massively productive, but not commonly available.

Lots of other varieties described here:

Jujube 2022

My jujube are just about done and I’ve been going around clearing the last fruit from them…To (mostly) quote game of thrones: I’ve declared this great summer done at last… the (best jujube) summer in living memory. Looking at my notes, I ended up picking just over 300 pounds. That doesn’t include the massive amount I ate while picking, nor a few times where I forgot to keep track and didn’t start until a few weeks into the season, around Oct 1st. In terms of per-tree production: Most produ…