Anybody growing these? I am curious what’s your experience so far…
Fruit look so interesting (look very similar to an unknown variety I’ve tried growing up in Bangladesh before development project wiped all those trees ;-( … I remember a distinct sweet taste that’s really hard to describe. I don’t know, but just decided to gamble and purchased one from Ediblelandscaping. This is the description they have in their site:
Tigertooth is a long, slender date-shaped fruit, up to 2.5 inches in length. Very sweet and a favorite of Paul Miller, who was the curator at the Gainesville, FL jujube collection. As most jujube varieties, young trees can have juvenile thorns. Older trees are much less thorny. Trees are of small stature in Zones 6-7 reaching 12 to 15 feet. Warmer areas height and spread can be 18 to 25 feet. These trees are not grafted but on their own roots.
-I can imaging having to deal with thornes
-There will be lots of suckers
But still if this turns out to be like the one I tasted, it would be totally worthwhile … I was very young though (7-8 years old) so who knows if I will appreciate the same.
if you get to like your juju, you will end up being a sucker–for juju suckers
the love of jujus come in three phases: obtaining trees for the first time, getting them to fruit, then giving them away as fruits/suckers/seeds.
I got the Tigertooths in the ground for 3 years now from the rooting that Jack @forestandfarm propagated for an exchanged of scionwoods. The fruits are still green here in my Zone5. It is very cold and raining here for the next week or so and I don’t think they will be ripen in time before the first frost. If you have a long summer then it will be worth while to grow the Tigertooth. I will topworked the two Tigertooth Jujube trees to the Honey Jar next Spring. I got about 10 varieties of jujubes but so far none of them can beat the Honey Jar in sweetness, crunchiness, juciness, productive, a early ripening in my Zone5 climate.
Yes, tigertooth are late ripening. My application is for a wildlife tree and I wanted them to be available as other food sources diminished. I did not get any fruit this year. It was a weird weather year here with rain. I presume there was a pollination issue since I saw no fruits form. Last year I had a good crop. In the few years I’ve had fruit, ripening has not been an issue here in zone 7a. I can’t speak to colder zones.
I have so far Li, Sugar Cane and Honey Jar (none of which fruited for me (2nd year) but flowered both years. I suspected not enough male flower, so adding a Lang (and also the Tigertooth of course) . I’m on Zone 7b, so maybe I have a chance to taste the TT. Wish me luck
Good morning! I’m in Texas, would like to order a Tigertooth jujube tree planted. Please help me to have it ASAP by anyways. If someone knows the buyers numbers, emails, or any connection…please share those to me!
My email address is thammymadam@yahoo.com
Thank you in advance!
Good morning! I’m in Texas, would like to order a Tigertooth jujube tree planted. Please help me to have it ASAP by anyways. If someone knows the buyers numbers, emails, or any connection…please share those to me!
My email address is thammymadam@yahoo.com
Thank you in advance!
Just fruits and Exotics sells them but out of stock now. you can call and ask them to put you on a waiting list for it. I grafted my over to a Honey Jar because Tigertooth fruits are way too late to mature for my Z5.
I’m curious if you’ve found juju’s like those you ate in Bangladesh…
We have a large Bengali population here and they’re always asking me about my boroi, but I don’t know how they compare to the fruit they are used to eating in Bangladesh.
Thank you very much for the helping. I appreciated!
I put my email address on the waiting lists many months ago but didn’t hear anything back from them.
I’m trying to find more places to get it.
It is still quite small and I have yet to get any fruit from it. It has survived two winter, and saw flowers, but no fruit unfortunately (Maybe Georgia Weather has something to do with it - 7B) …
Having said that, Iw ill probably crop at a later point when it have some content to trim … Right now, I’m just leaving it alone to see if it changes any result for me. I hope this make sense.
Scott, Sorry just saw this (been distracted with my career lately …lol) … so hearing “Boroi” from you made me smile. Unfortunately, all my trees aren’t doing well and I have yet to get any fruit from any of the 5-6 varieties I have in my backyard unfortunately. They will go to dormancy, leaf out really well in Spring time and even flower but no fruits. … I tried hand pollinating and I just don’t see any pollen when I use swab. I know I’m not timing it well or these are just all female (I even got a Lang, just so it would generate some male flower, but I have not detected any pollen from any flower on that as well. So waiting to see how their fair this year.
I almost given up with “PawPaw” and they started fruiting finally, so not loosing my hope on Jujube also
… I was very young though (7-8 years old) so who knows if I will appreciate the same. 
. I ended up purchasing one 
(Maybe Georgia Weather has something to do with it - 7B) … 