Now, there are at least a few other long jujube threads to brush up on…
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Cliff was recently mentioning to me that he had several varieties not fruiting much at all and he thinks its due to his relative lack of heat. I also have a significant problem with getting some varieties to fruit. Cliff mentioned Chico, GA-866, Li, and Sherwood not fruiting in 15 years. I have all four of these and none of them have fruited any significant amount for me in 10 years.
In fact, no jujube variety fruits super well in my yard. The only one which regularly produced a full load e…
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Nice little article on Jujube.
Tony
Jujube - A Fruit Well Adapted To Texas.
By Richard Ashton
Freelance Writer
The jujube, also known as the Chinese date, thrives in our Texas climate. It requires little care once established and lives a very long, productive life. So why is it so little known in our state and the country as a whole? To find the answer to that question we have to go back to the early 1900s when the first improved varieties were introduced to growers in the U.S. by the Unite…
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I know its late in the season for bare root trees, but as you can tell from the exclamation points I’m really excited to be able to buy these guys- they’ve been sold out everywhere else for quite a while.
I think I can hear the sound of a lot of you pulling out your credit cards and dialing your phones.
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This is a work in progress. I’m just trying to list all jujube varieties I can find that are grown in the US. Those with an asterisk* are varieties that originated in the US.
Some of these cultivar names may be duplicates with different spelling. Some NMSU Amerizao cultivars reached the US without help from NMSU, and in those situations I am listing both the Amerizao cultivar name and the individual cultivar, in part because I’m not 100% sure that the two are identical. For example, I am not su…
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I’ve had store bought jujubes, both fresh and dried, and they were pretty good. They were very sweet, and the fresh ones had a nice texture like crisp apples, but I wouldn’t say they were amazingly delicious. Of course, these were store bought fruit, so I assume they weren’t the best examples of how good jujubes can be, just like a typical store bought peach can’t compare to real tree-ripened peaches. I don’t want to judge a fruit by the ones in the store.
So, how good can homegrown jujubes be?…
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Given that some of the Jujube threads have reached thousands of posts, I thought that it might be easier to group 2021 results in one place. I’m going to start with some pics/reports from the last few days, but may come back and add some from earlier in the season.
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Shanxi Li has been far better that in past years. The 2 trees were planted in 2016, so maybe it is getting better with age, as Castanea suggested it would.
Bok Jo is not only very productive, it gets qu…
So, you are 2676 down and 6617 to go!
The last one is the smallest at 59, but I highly respect the guy who started it and made most of the posts in it, so I included it
Uh-oh. I thought it just needed a lot of sun and heat to set, not to ripen. If she has trouble, I’m in an even worse situation. If it is a late variety, it could be 35-40F at night by the time it (kind of) ripens in late October. Well, I should find out soon.
At a rental, I noticed something was nibbling on a few Russia #2 . You can see one in the upper left of the pic.
Wider pic of the same Russia #2:
The fruit have a bit of a blush. I don’t think they are ripe, but maybe soon. The 2 Russia #2 / Black Sea at my house don’t have the same blush, so I’m not sure what is causing it.
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