Here are some pictures of the buds on jujubes pushing green. You’ll notice the “bud” on the upright branch as an irregular spot just underneath each side branch union. It is sometimes hard to recognize the buds on young new wood.
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nice vigorous growth @k8tpayaso 
and the specimen featured at the bottom is a ‘leftie’
makes me think first photo features a lateral, but of course i could be wrong
That’s what I thought too. 
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The first wave of Honey Jar jujubes is beginning to ripen here in Vegas.
In the course of a couple days, the fruit that were more exposed to this summer’s extra-intense sun turned from yellowish-green to a bright red that makes them look almost like little apples. They are also larger than last year. They are as super-sweet as ever, and pretty crisp, but not quite as crunchy as last year.
The Vegas jujubes are at least several weeks ahead (possibly more) than the North Georgia jujubes.
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nice updates! and so happy for you @marten
your hj actually looks much better than ours. Our trees have been through spartan conditions early this month due to water starvation/neglect. Unintended of course.
some of our potted specimens succumbed, but just glad managed to save the majority from croaking…
and hoping not many more of our >110F highs…
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Texas twister fruits, here grafted to burntridge’s contorted. Fruits are considerably bigger than burntridge’s and of better quality. Fruits in background are those of burntridge’s. Thanks @k8tpayaso
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Baby Red fruits, thanks @castanea and @k8tpayaso
this cultivar is quite attractive with its deep red young foliage and young fruits.
not sure what am doing wrong as fruits tend to split when nearing maturity. Being potted, i probably should keep the soil consistently moist instead of alternating dry and deep-watering.
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**Hi Everyone. New member here, southern Indiana, 6B, about 30 minutes from Louisville, KY. I have a vegetable garden, fruit trees, fruit-bearing shrubs and brambles. However, I am most excited this year about my two jujubes I planted the first of June. Reading all your posts the past couple of years have made me really excited about jujubes and I have learned so much from everyone.
I purchased a small Tigertooth on its own roots and a small R4T3 grafted on Tigertooth root stock from Brambleberry Farm, a small permaculture nursery near me. They have grown like gangbusters, the Tigertooth tripling in size and the R4T3 is at least double its size, and covered in blooms. Tigertooth has a few blooms on it. Of course, I am not expecting fruit this year, but maybe I will get at least one or two to taste next year. It’s on my bucket list.
I am going to have to take the leap and learn to graft because I am pretty certain that Tigertooth will not ripen in my area before our usual first frosts in mid-October. So, I am reading everything you all write and trying to decide what varieties I might want to graft. I did bury the graft when planting R4T3, based on reading at England’s orchard site and also based on conversation with the owner of Brambleberry Farm, so we shall see how things work out.
Thanks to all for sharing your knowledge. There are probably quite a few people reading out here who are getting interested in jujubes and want to see them become part of the American scene because of your work and efforts!
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thanks for sharing @Jujumama
would love to hear more from you re: Indiana jujus.
really awesome that you’ve started with jujus having self-rooted known cultivar as rootstock. All suckers that show up won’t be as thorny as typical rootstock, and will be bearing decent fruit compared to random rootstock used by most nurseries(which are practically exlusively of the wild-type)
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Twister is definitely a keeper for me here. The fruits were equivalent in size to JF&E and tasted better to me. They have a very subtle lemony taste that I don’t find in either of the other contorted and a beautiful twist to the limbs also. I was afraid it would be fruit stingy but with maturity it has been very productive and not nearly as prone to splitting. I will be willing to share with anyone that wants and I do have 2-3 small suckers so far that will be own rooted.
Maybe. Mine haven’t split so much but we got early rain and then none. My trees seem to be doing fair without watering and with trying to keep my seedlings going I haven’t yet watered in orchard……that’s coming soon. Here are my stage pictures of Baby Red. They start out beautiful red, fade to a pink tan, start to darken but still hints of pink, get nice and red brown like other jujubes.
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that’s great to hear @k8tpayaso !
we had more than a week of >112F daytime highs here so may just be the reason which caused the splitting issue with Baby red. Have to mention that TX twister fruits were so much better a year ago( or was it 2 yrs ago) when we didn’t have absurdly high temps.
It truly is a keeper, diversifying that growing list of jujus “born in the usa”
unlike li, hj, sugarcane etc which are merely “borne” in the usa
Yes, I was thrilled to find jujubes on known cultivar roots. They have already started suckering, so I think they like where they are planted. I probably need to get inside the fencing I put around them to keep the deer off and remove the suckers.
I will keep you all posted on how my Indiana baby jujubes are doing. 
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What is the best way to process jujube for cooking? Is there an easy way to get the seed out without much waste?
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I have used cherry pitters but you have to persevere as they are very firm. Other than that I just chip the flesh form the fruit. I steam them for juice and don’t bother removing the seed when I’m using fruit that I don’t want to plant.
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didn’t know there was such a thing 
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This is what I use……I’ve bent a couple of them already. It even has pictures of jujubes as examples.
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that’s a cutie!
How good is the taste test.
Tony
those are beautiful! I will experiment on the Baby red next year if it does not produce more fruits this year. We had an unusually protracted winter this year and last year which delayed leafing out, then followed by brutally high and record-breaking temps(118-120F) which obvisouly compromised the fruits.I hope the so-called climate change reverts to the typical highs and lows at some point 
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