Which jujube cultivars have no thorns at all? And which have thorns, but they’re very small, sparse, and easy to avoid?
Here’s my list of what I know about so far:
Totally thornless:
GA-866
Sherwood
Massandra
Very small thorns:
Black Sea
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My Honey jar (planted this spring) has little tiny baby thorns.
My Honey Jar’s thorns aren’t too big. Tree is about 5 foot.
Black sea is about 3 foot and looks almost thornless
Both planted this year
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Ooh, thank you for the pictures of the Honey Jar! You’re right, those do look quite small.
You’re welcome! When I picked it up from a local nursery, I got stabbed by some other jujube thorn that took a while to heal! I didn’t realize thorns were a big reason to select HJ and Black Sea; I picked them because of the taste reviews. If you are considering honey jar, someone recently bred a “giant honey jar” which supposedly is just honey jar but bigger.
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Yeouch! Which variety stabbed you that badly? If you know which one it was, I will add it to my “never consider getting that variety” list. 
Don’t know for sure, but I do know it’s one of:
Jujube - GA 866
Jujube - Lang
Jujube - Li
Jujube - Sugar Cane
Because besides HJ, this is what they carried. Based on your list, I’d cross off ga as the culprit for sure. I’m sure others on the forum can or have weighed in on thorn size of lang li and sc
Lang tends to have minimal thorns I beleive, (though while the ones I’ve tried I thought were ok, the geberal concensus is that the fruit are pretty mediocre).
Iirc sugar cane has some more prominate thorns of the 4 varieties you have there (but take my statement with lots of skepticism as i am not nearly an expert in jujubes).
Hopefully some of those folks will pop in to give you good leads.
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Yeah, it definitely can’t be GA-866. I have no personal experience with the other three, but based on the pictures I’ve scrutinized of them, Lang and Li have small-to-average-sized thorns and Sugar Cane has ginormous thorns, so I suspect Sugar Cane was the culprit!
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