My pollinators are considerably reduced. I have not sprayed anything near them.
My last pesticide spray to other fruit trees was almost a month ago.
I am not convinced that such a small number of pollinators could get this large job done well. The temperature has been fine, sunny and almost no rain, a bit windy at times but only 10 - 15 mph.
Few pollinators on my smaller Massandra and So as well.
Nice. Do you use Miracle Grow potting mix. Your plants look healthy and happy.
Are you using wild jujube as rootstock? Maybe you have mentioned. I have one that is the gift that keeps on givingā¦ and probably shouldnāt be transplanting it to graft, but I am anyway. Itās the only one that I have noticed suckering so aggressively. Maybe seeds from others have a lower likelihood of suckering.
Yes. Miracle Gro moisture control potting mix. I also gave them some 10-10-10 fertilizer.
Some are wild jujube rootstock suckers. Some are not good tasting Honey Jar seedlings .
If a person plants wild jujube seeds, what percentage of them will sucker eventually? All of them? Maybe I should be germinating HJ seeds instead. Iām enjoying the āfreeā rootstocks and Iām planting them well away from the house to avoid issues. But the parent plant is right by my deck and I think I might move it this fall/winter to avoid too many more presents.
I have noticed that any jujube rootstocks either grown from seeds or suckers will send out roots 10-30 feet from the tree to search for water and from those roots that where the suckers formed.
Do you think that includes the honey jar seeds?
Yep. I top worked many HJ seedlings and now they suckers like crazy.
Well darn it. Iāll make a better plan to plant all of them much further from the house! My bright idea was they would have better winter protection right south of my deck.
I grafted this scionwood to an in ground tree for very a month ago. Every other grafts have shown sign of life. This one has not woken up. After several weeks, I thought I could cut it off.
To my surprise, the wood was green. It looks alive, to me. I start to wonder how late a jujube graft would need to show that it works. Mine usually 2-4 weeks.
What are your experience with jujube grafts (not other fruit)?
@BobVance , @jujubemulberry , @tonyOmahaz5 , @k8tpayaso, et al,
I have found grafts that have taken after having set it aside as a non take. It doesnāt happen very often for me but I have had it happen. I hesitate to remove non growing grafts just for that reason.
Most of my grafts took off after 2 weeks but there are a few that may take a month. I do a scratch test with a box cutter to confirm that the scionwood is still green.
I have had a few jujubes take at least 6 weeks to come to life.
Thank you, Katie, Tony and Castenea. Of all the jujube grafts I did this year, this one was as good as I grafted it. Good position and good cambium contact, I would think it would the first one that would take.
It has been 6 weeks now. I will leave it alone this year. If it does not work, I will remove it next year.
Tony, I wrapped my scionwood in parafilm so I do not want to scratch test it. It trimmed the top inch off. Thatās how I found out the wood is green. I re-wrapped the exposed area with parafilm.
I sprayed GA3 again (6/27 being the first), in roughly the same concentrations of GA3 and Borax, on Sunday evening, on the same trees (minus Fuicuimi, which I forgot). The Sherwood and Sugar Canes have a ton of flowers, so hopefully I can get them to set.
For me, I think 2 weeks is about right for nice warm conditions. If I graft earlier, like the first week of April, it can take a bit more time, maybe 3-4 weeks.
But Iāve had extreme outliers- stuff that leafs out in July. In particular, I remember many years ago I had what looked like a fail after 1-2 months. I cut the wood off, re-grafted in June and it took in July. I also have a note about a late May graft which took in September. Though in that case, there probably wasnāt enough mature growth for it to survive the winter.
Hereās a pic of a good jujube graft, with lots of callous around the cleft. Itās grown over a foot.
And hereās one which has so far failed. There is some callous, but I donāt think it is forming a complete connection. Close- maybe it will still work, but Iām not confident.
I didnāt get any crisping from GA3 this year. I sprayed twice and it was in the mid 80ās for several days after both. Not as hot as it was for you, so nothing conclusive.
But, I did get some crisped flowers on a jujube that didnāt get any GA3. This pic is of a large Coco which was transplanted to a rental property. Most, though not all, of itās flowers are browned. I transplanted 4-5 other large jujubes to the same property and none of the others has crisped flowers.
Maybe it is because this one is right at the limit of the hose, so when Iāve watered, I need to put my thumb on to get it to shoot further. Probably makes me less likely to give it extra water, even if Iāve made sure to water it at the same times as the other trees.
Maybe brown flowers are whenever the trees are water-stressed? After Monday, I see 6 days in a row in the 90ās, so Iāll need to make sure to water at least once this week.
sorry took me a while. Have had at least two juju grafts whose nodes remained dormant the entire summer on the year grafted, which i thought didn;t take, but leafed out on the following yearās growing season
Glad you share such an anecdote. I will leave that graft be and see what will happen.
