Hopefully my graft holds onto the fruit. It will be interesting to see which one I have. If my Porterville looks like yours, it could be that we both have Big Melon and the wood was switched upstream from Castanea (or he swapped everyone’s wood). If my Porterville looks like a traditional Porterville, then maybe one of you swapped Katy’s wood. I really like it when a cultivar is visually distinctive, as it makes ID a lot easier.
Both cultivars look pretty good, so I’ll be happy with whichever I have. Also, I noticed that I called “Porterville”, “Porterfield” in my above pics. which I’ve now touched up.
Nice!! I’ve got fruit on 2-3 XZ potted seedlings this year. One dried up really fast and I tasted it and there was quite a bit of sweetness even though I’m sure it wasn’t completely mature. I hope it’s good fruit for you.
This is fruit drop/fruit dry up year here. I’m having to water 5 year old trees that still have some fruit on them trying to save some of it. We had August #1 in June, August #2 in July and in a couple of weeks we will have Super August.
Springlers on even days for 3 hours for a total of 6 zones. I hate to see my water bill. It has been above 90F -99F for several weeks now and plenty more to come. . It is so hot that my fig are starting to ripen.
Update on Baby Red: this has been exceptionally hot year but also very very dry. Much of my fruit has dropped at a late stage. I still have two Baby Red fruits that are nearing maturation. Their color has faded but I don’t think they are ripe yet. It’s hard to tell but they got kind of a pink brown. Still watching.
Baby Red -
What you want is for the pink to fade away. Sometimes they’re OK at this point, but usually not.
It’s very frustrating waiting for the color to reach the correct point because it’s so subtle.
Back in the spring, when I moved some mature jujubes, I ended up with roots which accidentally got snapped off. I grafted to them and some have done well. Here’s a Black Sea which is over 2 feet tall and actually has fruit on it, after being grafted on 3/26.
One thing I’ve noticed is that the ones I put into tall pots (allowing a longer section of root) have done much better. Most of the ones in the smaller pots just put out leaves, but no verticals. It could also be related to the amount of water in the pot- the tall ones probably take longer to dry out, with my somewhat lax watering.
a friend texted me below photo taken at a local store. 18$/lb, which is just ridiculous. Will check it out when i get the chance. Fruits look like jfae’s mango dong zao…
here, bok jo was vigorous on sugarcane interstem. Its foliage seem to be favored by leafcutter bees though, so branches could end up leaf-deprived in the southwest
Something is definitely different about Bok Jo’s leaves. Here in CT, they are noteworthy in that they are by far the largest jujube leaves. In fact, I made a post about it a couple years ago. Though I guess the question is are the leaves so big because it is happy growing here (stressed jujube often have smaller leaves), or is it productively happy because it makes big leaves to better capture the slightly less abundant light (vs the sunny SW).
A couple other jujubes also have noteworthy leaves- all my Honey Jar are wrinkled early in the season (easy to ID at a glance). Churchpoint seems to have small, but dark green leaves that stand out from other cultivars.
here, li and sherwood may have foliage that are longer, but not as wide as bok jo’s, which probably have the largest surface area. Bok jo 's also have a matte appearance and with a different tinge of green.
Mine are too. Some years they stay wrinkled the entire season.
I’ve never connected leaf size to any other trait, but I’ve never paid really close attention. The most productive jujube I’ve ever grown is Sweet Tart and it has consistently small leaves. Some cultivars seem to have consistent leaf size on the tree without much variability from one branch to another, or from one year to another, like Sugar Cane. Other trees seem to have wide variability in a given year an/or variability from one year to the next. This year Sherwood, Orange Beauty and Redlands have some large leaves. Orange Beauty usually doesn’t but I’m not sure about the other two.
. It is so hot that my fig are starting to ripen.
