I usually prune mine if nothing else for scion. Some of mine are getting pretty tall. I’m not a good pruner 
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I found this from our local Indian grocery store. The label said “fresh dates”. They were not dates but as sweet as dates esp, the totally brown ones. The best fresh jujubes I have ever had.
I could not get juice out to measure brix but believe it would be high 20 or even 30.
Can anyone tell what variety these are?
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by your description and photograph i think might be GA866. Does packaging say where it came from? I would think california, but california is NV’s next-door neighbor but never seen cylindrical jujus being sold here, so really intrigued!
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we don’t top our trees, and don’t even prune our trees since we like as much shade as we can get during summer.
if i might have qualms about you keeping your jujus to a manageable height, it might be that your tree won’t be getting enough sunlight, since taller trees obviously get more sun than short ones.
Those jujus were piled on the store “container”. Nothing I could find to tell where they came from. I could go back and buy more. They are $4.99 a lb.
The cherimoya next to these is $7.99 a lb.
thank you since i had honey jar and so is a cute tree being contorted but it doesnt seem as sweet i also didnt taste any tartness either. my tree is potted and roughly 3 year old so i wasnt sure it that is normal or my tree is just young. however, ripening time it wasnt earlier than honey jar. it seems about same time but all the fruit on my most of my jujubes have dropped.
I am getting lot of Xu Zhou ripening now so I thought I would add my report. The good news is it is very vigorous and productive. Also I am having few problems with it, the normal cracking and that’s it. But, in terms of flavor it is very much an average jujube… reminds me a lot of Li when I used to have that one.
It is on a stock shared with Honey Jar and the XZ is much more vigorous in spite of being lopped back several times to give HJ a chance to catch up. So, unless XZ decides to start tasting better with the ones left I will be removing it and turning that tree into 100% HJ.
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If I didn’t have good use for the seeds it would go bye bye! I’ll see if it gets better but I’m keeping it for the seeds. The seedlings grow fast and have nice straight trunks with a good history for cold hardiness. I’ll use them as and sell them for rootstock.
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My 7 ft high Li has one fruit on it. The temperatures will go below 30f this week. At what temperature will the fruit be damaged?
Doesn’t anymore this year. Checked today and something took my one jujube.
So sorry…. That’s always a disappointment.
I never have any last long enough for a freeze to hit. Even my second crops ripen before our last frost.
I dug up my non-performing So this past Sun. It was planted at that spot for 3 years but it barely grew. Turned out, the roots were circling. I chopped off circling roots and put the tree in a pot. It may or may not survive.
I put a Sugar Cane in its place. I was careful to spread the roots well this time.
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Maybe we should dig up stragglers more often!
Have you tasted an Allentown fruit yet?
Haven’t even heard of it……
I think Bob is one of the few who has it. Cliff England has one and sells the wood.
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I grafted it in 2019 and had at least one take at a rental. It had quite a few fruit in 2020. But, that year the squirrels got everything at that site other than the earliest ripening cultivars. Interestingly, the squirrels didn’t seem to eat much at all this year, even though some of the trees had even more fruit (Sugar Cane, a rootstock and Li in particular). But, Allentown didn’t have any fruit this year, possibly impacted because it got cut back by someone who got irritated by the tree reaching out into the parking area a bit.
I think I have a 2nd graft of it at home (need to check to confirm), but that one hasn’t ever produced. Interestingly, both grafts are on my only 2 Sherwood trees.
But, I don’t think I ever got to sample Allentown, even though I got them to this point in 2020…If I had known what was going to happen, I would have picked one green, just to see how crisp it was 
Yes, I got it from Cliff in 2019. I checked with him recently and he won’t be able to send out any jujube wood this year. He lost a lot of trees to 2 late spring frosts and a lot of them came back from the ground. But, until they fruit, he won’t know which are the actual cultivars (with graft union below soil) vs rootstocks. Hopefully he gets a lot of them to come back, as many of the cultivars are not available anywhere else in the US.
In fact, if anyone has these, I’d be very interested in cuttings:
Big Melon jujube
Mu Deung Dae chu
Tea pot
Ying Lo Jujube
Jun Dae Chu jujube
Hunan Eggs jujube
Goose Eggs
Te Da Su Cui Zao
Golden Silk Jujube
BOARD JUJUBE
Millstone
Zoa Cui Wang
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Cliff seems to be the only one growing many different varieties commercially. That being said, he does have a unique position to possibly be able to reach out to those he’s sold trees or scion to previously to be able to reclaim his amazing selection (probably still the best in the country as is).
I do have Ying Lo. I know it’s not real big but I’ll check it to see if can take a cutting when things warm up around here.