Getting ready to buy Honey Jar and Sugar Cane. I have to many deer to have small trees. Are either of these small in size. I need max size like the Li I have.
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Time to have venison on the plate.
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I hate the game taste. Everyone that likes them is free to get some. I have an endless supply.
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You need to call to find out if they don’t list the size on their website. I bought a 2 ft and a 4-5 ft. Bigger is better for jujubes but is also more expensive.
Not sure if bigger size ones are still available this late in the game. Good luck.
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Deer jerky and snack sticks if cured well hide the game flavor. I treated a few neck roasts like a texas brisket last year and it was to die for!
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Honey Jar tends to be a smaller tree. Sugar Cane is larger but not as large as Li. GA 866 gets very tall, as does Jin/Chang.
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Need the total height to be more than six foot or it will not last long here. Will the HJ exceed that enough to be worthwhile?
Honey Jar will get well over 6ft. Mine has only been in the ground a few years and is already at least 9ft tall. I’ve considered pruning it back so I can pick the fruit on top more easily.
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You meant the total height of a full grown HJ tree? It will be well over that.
I thought you asked about the size of bare root HJ. If you can find a bare root tree in a large size ( 4’ of taller), you get a good head start. It will grow over 6 ft in 2-3 years.
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Bob Wells has 4-5 foot potted ones for $70. That’s a good start. Glad to hear HJ has some size. Going to complete that sale tonight.
A Potted jujube for $70 is a good price. When I bought my 4’ HJ, bare root, it was $65 and that was a few years ago.
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Was also thinking about Shanxi Li, but I already have LI. Do they taste any different?
Don’t know where you live.
@BobVance and I are in New England. We have said it several times that our experience with Shanxi Li has been similar. Although the fruit can be large, taste is subpar, texture is kind of spongy and it is not productive (lot of flowers, not many fruit).
I’m a little further south of Scott. Think I will skip it too. East coast is very specific in what does well here.
I’m in North Carolina, and I wouldn’t recommend Shanxi Li either. I’ve had some good tasting fruit on my tree, but so far never more than a handful. If you want another recommendation for the East Coast after Honey Jar, then Black Sea seems to be productive and good tasting here. Mine has fruit that are significantly larger than Honey Jar.
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They don’t carry it where I’m shopping. I’m going with HJ and Sugar Cane.
Yes, I was going to say that you’d probably have a hard time getting a 4’ Black Sea tree. HJ and Sugarcane are good choices.
It’s not a bad option if you are getting it during the summer when bareroot isn’t possible. But from what I understand, at this time of year, the Bob Wells “potted” trees are just bare root trees which are shipped with a pot and some potting medium (they recently got the trees from DWN and pottted them up). You may as well get a bare root tree from DWN for $20 less…
Good choices- I don’t view Li as much better than Shanxi Li. As NCDabbler said, Black Sea is also good. So is Russia #2 (very similar to BS IMO) and Massandra. So/Contorted isn’t bad and is quite productive and aesthetically interesting with pretty good fruit (not quite as good as the others listed above, but better than Li/Shanxi Li).
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They are repotted bare roots. Could be wrong, but I think they let them grow a year in the pot before sale. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
They pot up plants from DWN. The ones I got last summer weren’t any bigger than usual DWN trees (one was actually smaller), so they definately didn’t spend a year in the pot.
Also, I asked someone who recently visited and he confirmed that when he went to plant:
He also mentioned that Contorted (another name for So) was the largest one they had by far.
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