Someone on FB says they (Weston Gardens) sell jujube trees. He doesn’t know the source. Maybe they are seedlings of this tree.
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I thought about getting the justjujubes name about 20 years ago but didn’t think I would use it much.
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Weston Gardens looks like is actually a nursery that is not where the above tree is located. The large jujube tree is located at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. Western Gardens may have large trees there too.
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Good catch. I was not expecting to be faced with old jujube trees in two different locations in one Texas city.
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You can still get .net or .us or .biz or something?
Sure, but I still don’t think I would use it much.
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Here’s one I saw today. This one is a Sihong graft on a So at the rental site with vigorous growing trees. The graft was made this April, so it is pretty surprising that it is fruiting, while the tree I took the scionwood from has no fruit on it (and only 1 or 2 last year).
Not every new graft at that site has fruit, but several of them do. Here’s a Sugar Cane (on the same So)
The Bok Jo graft at this site (on a Honey Jar) has grown like crazy and has a heavy load of fruit. It also has particularly green leaves which are larger than most other jujubes.
Note the difference in color between the Bok Jo and the branch below it (and others on the tree).
It’s got quite a few fruit as well- here’s a closer view.
Not every tree at this site has a lot of fruit. The Li has only a few fruit (<5), though they are pretty large. I don’t see any fruit on it’s grafts either. The So and HJ don’t have fruit on all their grafts, but the Li seems to have none at all. All 3 trees are the same age (2019) and similar sized, though Castanea will probably say they are too young, even given their size.
The HJ was up to 14’ tall before pruning last month (down to about 10’). I wonder if the pruning was part of what induced the late but heavy set of fruit. Maybe I should do some earlier pruning next summer and see if I can get earlier set.
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I am starting to like your Bok Jo photos. It is a very productive variety. Is it crunchy, somewhat juicy, and sweet?
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Yes, that is a good description for Bok Jo. I don’t think it is quite as good as Honey Jar & Sugar Cane (a tad less crisp), but my wife said it was just as good to her. Maybe she isn’t quite as picky… 
In terms of size, it is larger than HJ and more similar to Sugar Cane.
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i hope your sihongs produce some!
Ate my first Shanxi Li today……surprisingly good! I have two more left on the tree.
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‘Linyi Pear’
A very dense jujube with good, but not memorable, flavor. Might be better dried.
These came from a very young graft though, so sweetness and flavors may improve with age.
Has some similarities to Sherwood, but not as good.
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Fucuimi -
First time I’ve had one that was ripe. Very nice flavor. Definitely a top 10 jujube for taste. Maybe even top 5. This came from a very small grafted tree so the fruit size should get bigger and the flavor may get better as well.
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Glad to hear it- my Fucuimi tree has been putting on decent growth, but no fruit yet.
I just got the first jujube of the season:
1 Back Sea
1 Coco
2 Sugar Cane (eaten before I could get a pic…)
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just love it!
btw, evidently you and @BobVance have sources unbeknownst to the most of us here, myslef included!
struck these bare-bottomed chico cuttings directly on dirt and a bit of IBA powder back in May of this year . Main reason why we start them in tiny containers is to avoid overt dilution of the rooting hormone. We kept the soil moist, but never drenched, to minimize hormone runoff. Was tempted to pull these off of the container but figured to just remove the bottom cap and plant in a bigger pot. Avoiding root damage while permitting them grow into a larger volume of dirt next spring. These cuttings no longer get ‘sad’ with direct sunlight exposure, and no longer need humid conditions(graduated from the ziploc bag “humidifier” 
) so just waiting for them to launch upright stems next year.
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I grafted Dae Sol Jo this year and have two fruits. Ate the first today and it was excellent. Sweet, crisp and juicy. About the size of a sugar cane or a bit larger. Thank you @BobVance for the scion.
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‘Shandong Pear’
These are the first fruits I have sampled from this variety. I was afraid that they might be a disappointment, like ‘Linyi Pear’ was, but they are superb. They are very, very crisp. Biting into the first one reminded me of biting into a Honeycrisp apple, except these tasted much better. Very sweet with a hint of sourness.
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looks so good, and quite sizeable too!
here’s our li growing on own roots (cloned last year). Intend to make it the motherlode of self-rooted giveaways once it sizes up its rootball, which will poach for root cuttings on a yearly basis.
it sure is worthy of the pedestal , having demonstrated everything wanted it to do-- to launch a sturdy upright, and demonstrate some degree of precocity with that one fruit albeit tiny! I just need to keep an eye for possible(and hopefully not probable) clonal senescence and/or susceptibility to diseases or pests as a self-rooted specimen
incidentally, despite advocating for everyone to consider starting jujus from seed, have to say that li, r4t3, chico, and vegas booty( all of which seem unable to produce viable seed) would make great candidates for establishing food forests out of idle land which don’t get enough rainfall for conventional fruit crops. Would-be feral suckers will continue to bear desirable fruits, and the inability to seed would minimize chances of producing new cultivars that might have growth habits and fruit qualities less desirable than their parents’.
starting from seed is only advisable when propagating jujus in controlled settings, since relatively thorny seedlings which also produce tiny/sour/bland fruits can be destroyed. But if the intent is to set jujubes free to populate vast tracts of land, then desirable cultivars that don’t come to seed would be the ticket
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