I use my Xu Zhou almost exclusively for seeds. They grow beautiful hardy seedlings that I use for grafting and exploring new fruit from seedlings.
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Makes a good rootstock! Good thinking
What’s your thought on the taste and texture of your Sugar Cane?
I understand why you could not wait any longer. It has happened to many of us when our fruit trees produced for the first time.
However, next year when you have a chance to let them ripen fully, you may wonder why you rushed to eat underripe jujubes 
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Every year I always rush and pick a few not ready fruit, then they are so tasteless and I ignore them, eventually they turn out alright after that. But the pattern repeats everyyear, not just for the first year. Do I ever learn, no, lol.
Interesting to hear about your GA 866. I came across a new YouTube channel featuring that variety @thenoobgardener and the title of the video is "Jujube GA-866 loaded with fruits]. I have Li, Lang, Sihong, Chico and Vegas Baby… was wondering what to get next for here in hot, dry zone 9a.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPgAvO8Lag)
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Where in zone 9?
S. Arizona.
My Honey Jar always ripens a week before SC. It starts to ripen now.
These dropped. A lot of drops. It is either we had strong wind gust at night or my resident opossum has found my jujubes. I hope it is the former.
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I thought the SC was sweet and crisp, though it could be better if denser. Either way, I can probably eat a lot more of it if available.
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If you want denser, you may prefer Honey Jar. I like a lighter texture so I prefer SC.
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I just ate my first vine ripe Li, actually the birds must have poke it so it ripens early. Pretty tasty. I hope I can control myself and let the rest ripen up,haha. I love the crispy and crunchy of the jujubes.
SiHong is more dense than either sugar cane or honey jar.
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Nice. I have not gotten around to do root cuttings.
I have a lot of suckers but have not dug them up, either. I need more space to plant the trees I have already had.
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if it is an offshoot from the rootball of that tree, then it may well be a sport, and the second one have come across. We have only seen it occur once after all these yrs. Ours didn’t come from below ground though, but from an above-ground rootstock stem that produced pumpkin shaped fruits instead of oblong fruits. Sadly the fruit quality was just as awful as the original cultivar it developed from.
i hope the eating quality of yours turns out to be an upgrade, keep us posted 
quite impressed the ga866 on that video is productive, also hope the shapes of the fruits on that video were due to environmental factors. Ours have skimpy production and fruits have pointed bottoms–and lacking the minion-butt cracks quite noticeable on the fruits on the video
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That video shows the guy lives in my county, i can tell by the kind of concrete they have in the backyard, so I can see why it’s flourishing. Tree of Antiquity has sold out on GA-866 for a reason. It’s bred for California climate.
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your ga866 seems to have same characteristics as the ones we have here(acquired from TofA as well as from the late Mr Meyer)
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I have GA-866, Honey Jar, and Sugar Cane. Love the flavor of Honey Jar, but not the size. Is Shanxi Li worth growing?
I have one but not sure what to tell you.