Yesterday I noticed something while I was removing grass and weed before watering. I had 3 seedlings of unknown origin, I lost record, and one was dead in spring. But while I was cleaning I noticed that it started to grow from root again.
There is difference so those jujubes probably are seedlings of la fleur raf sent to me last year. Im pretty sure of that, although I dont have any proof. Raf thanks again, although you dont remember You are generous and probably many people contact you so its ok
In 4th photo it can be seen how much seedling has grown,even in full shade cause it is beneath apple (im holding it where has stoped growth last year). So fertilization and watering was big success, for me at least. Jujubes are drought tolerant but that not means that water will be bad for them.
Hi Martin, i hope you didnât take offense i forgot. Probably should announce publicly that apart from getting old, i am a bit autistic and admittedly socially awkward. Have never opened accounts with facebook, twitter etc simply due to my social-forgetfulness. Growingfruit is pretty much my facebook account and even here am âslowâ and often clueless⌠My most awkward, cringeworthy and absolute klutz moments are folks have worked with, and especially those of the opposite gender that even though would like to attend reunions, i would rather not so as not to ruin the atmosphere.
anyway, so glad some la fleur seeds grew. Did i send you contorted seeds as well? Was wondering cause the third picture you posted seems to have the trait. Btw, and i hope i donât sound sophomoric(yet againâŚ), when spinosa is mentioned, it actually is a true jujuba, but of the wild-type often used for rootstock by nurseries. The full-blooded spinosa of antiquity (aka acidojujuba) is actually unknown and impossible to identify-- at least here in usa, as many of the rootstock used here are spinosa-types, or wild-types that have been diluted due to cross pollination. They are only pertained to as âspinosaâ due to their strong wild-type characteristicsâextremely spiny, small-fruited, and sour, but they are true jujubaâs
of the photos you posted above, it is the last one that is not of the jujuba species. It is a true Ziziphus, but hard for me to say if it is the tropical species, or a middle-eastern/african species. Quite sure though it is neither jujuba or spinosa.
Ziziphus jujuba generally pertains to domesticated chinese jujubes, while spinosa is actually of the same speciesâ Ziziphus jujuba, but with subspecies as spinosa or acidojujuba added to the genus and species, often written as Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa
taxonomy and nomenclature is painstaking sometimes!
btw, someone posted a protest-comment at our youtube channel, saying we were badmouthing cornus mas.
or sour-graping if thatâs more apt. We do apologize as it is true that never got to try a cornelian cherry that is not sour, so admittedly biased and clueless about cornus cultivars that are more sweet than sour. Anyway, will remove the offending verbiage as soon as able.
self-rooted sihong lateral. Undoubtedly one of the most valuable, intriguing and mysterious case-studies we managed to get our hands on in a long, long time(thanks to a good member here )
intriguing because it evidently produced sizeable fruits on adventitious roots even at a âyoung ageâ and sparse development. And mysterious because laterals ultimately assume deciduous fates, regressing after several years, unless a vegetative(perennial) upright stem buds out from one of its fruiting spurs, which does not happen often with jujus. The fruit-bearing green stems here are strictly deciduous annuals which will be shed in late autumn this yr. So really curious if it will produce an upright from the roots, or if it opts to develop one from the lateral.
reminds me of that toy story movie character-- the baby head directly attached to spider legs. Quite functional in the absence of a torso.
Not at all. I just wanted to say thanks
Even I was not sure if it was you, so I checked earlier messages
And I thought a lot about seeds from back then and im thinking that was more than one variety,but I still cant remember name of the other. Iâm pretty sure that even few seeds from china had sprouted. But the only information about varieties was photo with containers and names, which is gone when my cellphone was stolen. I will let these seedlings to grow and when they produce fruit we will see what is it. I will have spinosa for rootstocks. They are growing nicely
drought conditions in a pot: one of the rare instances in nature when a provider of nutritious fruits is actually more resilient than non-edible, noxious weeds. One of which is a xerophytic mojave desert native, the spotted spurge(seen here as the creeping weed with droopy leaves), whereas the sihong juju seedling continues to hold its foliage high.
That has happened here tooâŚI was looking at my seedlings and thought they looked good and then discovered some almost crunchy crab grass in one of the pots. Okay. Time to water!
if plants/trees have rights, iâd already have been imprisoned as a teenager, and will probably be still incarcerated as i type this
thatâs seeing it half-empty. I see it half-full as actually think the juju is choking the weeds lol!
you will definitely get budwood(better yet-- a root cutting) if it bears good and relatively large fruits. I already did the dehydration test so that is a check mark on one of its stats.
tale of two seedlings: both 1 yr.old from random seed.
Sharing one pot, the one on the left is vegetatively precocious while the one at right evidently in a hurry to bear fruits at the expense of growth. Also notable the subtle differences between hue of foliage. One with apple-green leaves while the other a darker green.
Just got through repotting 103 Honey Jar seedlings NONE of them looking anywhere as good as either of those two!!! . I had decided to make up my own potting mix and it was a dismal failure⌠paired with my last yearâs fiasco of feeding my rootstock seedlings twice with time release fertilizer and watching most of them die a time release death. I am very disappointed with these HJ seedlings growth over the spring months. So Iâve changed my potting mix and have started feeding them cautiously. They did have some new root growth even though Iâve seen no foliar growth since early spring. Perhaps Iâll see some improvement!
probably more stubborn than lucky.
It is probably a one in fifty or one in a hundred chance of getting a good quality cultivar when growing from seed, even when growing from seeds of desirable cultivars.
hj seedlings are slow-growers here as well, there must be an ovule-determined trait for runty growthâŚ
Yes, if I think about it itâs always harder getting HJ seedling going. The seeds though are so easily hatched with nice looking little seedlings. Itâs the second year that they just want to be begged to growâŚ
You are generous and probably many people contact you so its ok 
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. I had decided to make up my own potting mix and it was a dismal failure⌠paired with my last yearâs fiasco of feeding my rootstock seedlings twice with time release fertilizer and watching most of them die a time release death. I am very disappointed with these HJ seedlings growth over the spring months. So Iâve changed my potting mix and have started feeding them cautiously. They did have some new root growth even though Iâve seen no foliar growth since early spring. Perhaps Iâll see some improvement!