Delicious jujube pastries…
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Very YUM!!! Lovely looking pastry!
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Thanks a lot! It is really good. They just have jujubes on sugar syrup we did.
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I saw this gentleman on YouTube reviewing all these varieties and Chico had a similar pumpkin shaped with Panzao and Abicus. As I remember you had quite a bit of these newer varieties.
Tony
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That video features a lot of the jujubes from Ying Ge. I got a bunch of scionwood from her last spring (13 kinds, I think). Even though I added all the ones I didn’t already have (other than Cool Winter, which she didn’t have wood for), I’m not sure I have takes on everything. I should go around and check to see how many of the grafts that just formed laterals last year survived the winter. Hopefully some of them produce a shoot this year.
Some interesting ones that I don’t see in the video are Small Round, Ying Lo, and Goat Tit. Here was the complete list.
Ying_Ge_Jujubee.pdf (117.7 KB)
Pan Zao should be larger. I can see why Castanea is sure that it isn’t the real PanZao. It does seem to have a lot of names: Persimmon, Fuyu, Donut Peach, etc.
Chico looks a bit like Abacus/Fuyu, but is a bit less flattened. Here’s some of my Chico from last year.
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Thank you, Bob and Tony to help expand our jujube knowledge.
Hope you guys can provide feedback on the taste of these varieties to us in the near future.
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A graft will often only produce the compound leaves which drop off at the end of the season. In the 2nd year, there are 3 outcomes:
1.) Same thing happens again, with just the lateral leaves.
2.) It sends up a shoot, which means that it is actually growing. Note the shoot on the left. That isn’t from the graft, but the underlying rootstock (in this case, a So tree). I pinched off a good chunk of the competing shoot to ensure that the graft gets more energy.
3.) It dies over the winter…no pic needed for this one…
The two above pics are from “Board”, another of the varieties which Ying Ge sent me last spring. Last spring, I had 4 grafts of it, with 1 dying and 3 only putting out leaves. So, I’m glad to see that one of them seems to be on the right track this spring.
Here’s an even better outcome. I grafted Wu He (no idea what it is like- got wood from Cliff) this spring and it developed a shoot soon after it was grafted. Sometimes these only grow a few inches. But many grow 1-3 feet.
You can also see how much fresher the parafilm looks on this years graft, compared to the ones from last year, where it is pretty dark and torn.
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This is interesting. I have a lot of leaves on my jujube grafts but no shoots on some of them.
This one however is one of my better grafts.
It was started from a pit few years ago. From the first jujubes I ever tasted, Mamuang sent me the fruit. It is planted right next to a rain garden on somewhat raised soil. I’m sure the roots go into the rain garden and that good store bought tractor full of soil. It is somewhat lop sided because not all the grafted branches are producing shoots. Some just have leaves…Processing: IMG_0466.jpeg…
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Okay, I’m curious. Will Jujubes grow in Oklahoma, zone 7?
Jujubes seem very adaptable to different climate as long as it is not too cold (zone 4 and lowr).
People here grow them in the east coast, in zone 5 Omaha and in a hot and dry area like Las Vegas, CA, etc.
I think jujubes should work in OK. The issue is will you like the fruit. I know several people who do not like the taste, the size, or both.
I may have to give them a try. I have never had fruit that I didn’t like, unless it is really sour. I just can’t do sour. From the descriptions I’ve read, jujubes are sweet, so that should be no problem. 
Now I just have to find a source to get started. Any recommendations?
This late in the season, you will need container trees rather than bare root ones if you want to get started right away. Also, you will need at least two varieties for cross-pollination. One of the varieties should probably be Honey Jar – it is reliable and relatively quick to fruit, and is probably the current standard for fruit quality. Other good choices to consider are Black Sea, So, and Sugar Cane.
Just Fruits and Exotics, while a rather expensive nursery, sells container trees that are generally of very good quality, with good root systems. They have Honey Jar, So, and Sugar Cane in stock right now.
It is commonly believed that there are two different cultivars being sold as So (the contorted jujube) at nurseries in the US, one of which is markedly superior to the other in fruit quality. Just Fruits and Exotics sells the superior one.
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Thanks. I will check them out.
How old is your tree? The trunk is quite skinny for the height.
I don’t remember exactly…my guess would be 5 years. Hopefully the support will keep it from breaking…
5 years and it has grown that tall, that’s impressive. My potted jujube hardly grows. However, my 5 years old trees bought from nursery has grown well but a couple of feet shorter than yours. Their trunks have thicker/bigger each year.
I am surprised that your tree has not spread out but keeps shooting uop to the sky.
I grafted it last year and the year before. I purposely trained it up the first few years because I didn’t want low hanging branches. Hopefully trunk will thicken up. This has grown a lot compared to store bought tree I have. I have a feeling this will fruit this year, a lot of flowers so far. I had couple of fruits last year. I ended up actually picking 4 fruit by the end of summer. Hoping for 10 times that this year. It’s rewarding to see how this grew from a pit to this size in a short time.
Yes, very impressive. I dug up root suckers and pot them for for two years now. They grow like a foot in two years!!
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