No, I’ve never been that fond of dried fruit, though Apricots and sour cherries (unsweetened) are both OK
Some of the jujube I stored back in October are still in OKish shape. Here’s some from a few days ago, though I washed off another bowl today. About 1/4-1/3 of the last one was bad, but there were only a few bad ones today. I guess I did a better job of keeping anything with a small crack out of today’s bag.
Most of the above are So, with a few Lang thrown in. Picked fresh, Lang are much lower quality, but at this point they are about the same, if not slightly better.
yeah, had i not given vegas pasas budwood away i probably would rename it.
I think i named it “pasas” because didn’t get to try the fresh fruits on its first crop, and only got to eat it as dried raisins which were really, really good. Recently had a large sample size of fresh fruits and they were excellent
fruits from left to right: R4t3, Sihong, and Texas Honey on one of our multi-grafted juju trees. If remember it right this has more than a dozen varieties on it
strange occurrence on juju bark-grafts. Quite disappointed that none of the scions leafed out, but instead stimulated the rootstock’s cambium/meristem to produce de novo buds where the scions were in contact with the rootstock. If one looks closely, one will see at least two of the lifeless micro-scions nudged out of the bark by the vigorous new growth of the rootstock.
while disappointing , it gave some insights on jujube’s ability to leaf out. Taking into account the new growth occurred multiple times at the trunk’s tip, it makes me now think that juju root cuttings likely leaf out not from pre-existing dormant nodes along the length of root cuttings, but rather from undifferentiated cells which evolve into actual buds on as-needed basis(or when stimulated).
I’ve noticed this as well on many of my jujube grafts. I usually bark graft the scions, and I’ll have shoots grow from the point of contact between the rootstock and scion where no bud had previously been. I usually try to remove them when I catch them early so they don’t compete with the scion. Sometimes they make it look like the graft took when it didn’t. Definitely don’t ever see that in any other plants I graft - one more thing that makes jujubes special!
That is just so intriguing, and glad to hear it is not just me. Must be some kind of hormonal effect of the rejected scions.
Jujus sure are full of surprises, if not mysteries!
Yep, me too. I actually have one that I broke the scion off and this grew and I am not sure if it was rootstock or scion. It fruited last year and it’s still not certain whether it’s the sugar cane or the rootstock with nice fruit.
that is a possibility, maybe the scion meristem is what may have been stimulated. The rootstock interstem i used was norris #1, and the scions were all round-fruited, so will find out by shape of fruits on these new growths.
It’s interesting that you mention Norris #1, because I notice that my Norris #1 tree has a higher tendency than my other jujube cultivars to produce shoots directly from the cambium layers of exposed during grafting. Now that I think about it, the shoots aren’t always coming from points at which the scion and rootstock connect, but sometimes also from another point of the cut to the rootstock (i.e., the “back” side of the cut rootstock branch, opposite from or adjacent to the side where the scion was bark-grafted but not in contact with the scion). The shoots that result from the point of contact between the scion and the rootstock always get more of my immediate attention because I’m looking for scion growth in that location. But the shoots come from any point of wounding on the rootstock. I wonder if I looked carefully where I’ve pruned the tree but not grafted branches if there would be similar shoots that originated from the exposed cambium instead of a bud. I haven’t noticed that, but it might not have anything to do with the presence of a scion.
the only other cultivar have seen this happen was with lang. I grafted sihong on a thick lang upright. While the sihong graft leafed out vigorously, just an inch below the graft junction sprouted a bud of lang that leafed out almost as vigorously, which i removed to optimize the graft’s dominance. That lang bud sprouted not from a typical jujube node, but from smooth bark where juju nodes aren’t supposed to be(directly above a lateral, instead of diagonally below a lateral)
That is beautiful @SVM! Such a down-to-earth photo of an ancient fruit in the middle of urban modernity
Taking into account photo was last night’s, makes me think they were shipped from australia or anywhere from the southern hemisphere. Or maybe another species of jujube
Thanks for sharing
Hello
No… they are local… i’m working in Iraq these weeks…
it’s their season here… all corners have someone selling jujubes… they are not too sweet… but are nice tasting…
Have seen at least 2 varieties… these that are about 3cm in diam. and some smaller ones…
love it!
Iraq allegedly is where the jujube tree which Adam and Eve, and the infamous serpent got acquainted. Or original fig/quince/pomegranate tree bearing the forbidden fruit, but definitely not an apple tree
incidentally, if not for their “sin” – i wouldn’t be around typing this, haha
have to say-- i can’t believe my filthy hands got hold of a scion of Baby red which am currently babying
taking into account already got hold of >60 cultivars over the years, adding this novel variety to our collection admittedly borders on greed. Or should i say, criminal!
anyway, big thanks to the generous members of this forum
It doesn’t hurt that Bay Red fruits are very good once you learn when to pick them. Basically they color up like other jujubes do except that they have red where other cultivars have green. Once the red turns to brown, they are ripe. It also doesn’t hurt that they are extremely prolific and mature fruit over a very long period of time.
and this grew and I am not sure if it was rootstock or scion. It fruited last year and it’s still not certain whether it’s the sugar cane or the rootstock with nice fruit. 
