No Branch or Leaf growth on Lang Jujube

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Hi,

I have another question for the forum. Everyone has been very helpful to me as I am learning about growing fruits. I have two Lang Jujube tree that have not grown and branches or leaves. This is the first year I have had the trees. One of the trees looks to have a yellow substance below the graft. I did a scratch test and both trees show some green under the bark. Can you give me some advices. Thanks. Dave

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The yellow stuffs are probably tree sealant. If the scratch test still green then the trees are still alive.

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Tell us more! Where are you located? When were the trees planted? Where did u get the trees? Why 2 of the same variety?

Inquiring minds want to know. :slight_smile:

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I live in Fredericksburg Virginia area. I received the trees from ISON in the spring and I am very happy with the calipher and the overall size(over 4 and 1/2 ft) of the trees when I received them. I placed one inground in the spring and then decided to move it in the spring and I placed it in a pot. The second one was always in a pot. Both came to me as bareroot. I have no good reason why I purchased two Langs other than ISON only sells Li and Lang. I have a Li from ISON and it has grown about two feet this year. I have ordered from ISON and I have been happy with the quality of their products. I would actually recommend them. Just not sure why these two trees appear to be dormant. I am still a newbie with fruit trees. I did recently purchase a honey jar based upon a couple of the posts on this site.

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Thanks. I have seen the pictures of your jujube trees on several different posts and I can only hope mines look half as good as yours someday.

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Hi Dave! As Tony said the trees seem alive. It does seem like there should be more growth. I’ve never grown these in pots so I can’t recommend much about that.

I like Isons a lot. Honey Jar is probably the most popular choice on this board so good choice there. I don’t care for the flavor of Lang’s much here in Dallas, hopefully they’ll do better for you, and they’ll act as pollinizers for the li and honey jar. Li was a good choice.

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Check the root system. It could be waterlogged.

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Thanks.

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Ok. My plan was to place them in the ground later in the fall.

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While I admittedly don’t know much about jujubes, I have to say, if they never got a single leaf on them all season, they’re probably dead.