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  • From: rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] figs,mulberry and jujuge oh my!
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:41:03 -0700 (PDT)

Hey thanx for all the information!
Are you going to the SFF meeting? If so, I would like
to meet you and discuss this further. I am aware of
only a few varieties. Maybe if you have a spare moment
after the meeting, I would like to stop by your
orchard on the way back to Atlanta and see some of
these tree?

Robert

--- Needham Greg <needhamgr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Rob,
> Jujubes are one of my favorite plants! I have
> put together a modest
> collection over the past several years; here are
> some of my observations so
> far that might help:
> I have a mixed planting of cultivars I hoped might
> succeed in the humid
> southeast and provide pollen for each other-
> Sherwood, Silverhill,
> Fitzgerald, Abbeville, Admiral Wilkes, Li, Honey
> Jar, GA866, Suan Tsao, and
> Sugar Cane. I also let a rootstock grow up for
> comparison. Each cultivar
> seems to have its own personality, so for example,
> in terms of which are
> more productive, each year since it was very small
> Honey Jar has put on all
> the fruit it could hold, while Sherwood (on its own
> roots) which is a couple
> years older is just now setting a few fruit. My Li
> usually has a very
> modest crop, though I have had it the longest, while
> Fitzgerald, Abbeville,
> Silverhill, and Admiral Wilkes will set an
> unbelievable number of jujubes.
> Vigor really varies too- Silverhill, Admiral Wilkes
> and Fitzgerald shoot up
> each year like crazy, but Honey jar and GA866 have
> been much slower (I
> should point out that it has usually taken a season
> of getting
> well-established for all of my jujubes before they
> really are happy and
> start to grow well). They like a lot of sun and to
> be fed and also watered
> if it is dry- this will help ripen a full crop!
> Once established they are
> pretty tough! My jujubes attract the most
> incredibly diverse collection of
> pollen- and nectar-hungry insects! We see all kinds
> of ants, miniature
> bee-like creatures, flies in all sorts of
> irridescent colors, and some
> insects so small I can't tell what they are...
> It is a fascinating show to watch, standing among
> the jujubes on an
> afternoon and breathing in the grape soda smell
> produced by the flowers.
> Honey bees, etc. don't go near my jujubes, but the
> other little helpers do
> the job nicely. I have had zero problems with
> insects, disease or even
> birds eating the fruit, but my children and I eat
> all we can hold every
> year. Flavor varies among cultivars and with some
> tasting better at
> different stages- some need to be red-brown, others
> are good when just
> turning yellow, etc.
> This turned into a long message as I was trying to
> piece together an answer
> to your question of how to get the tree to fruit
> better! I would say plant
> the cultivars that have been really productive for
> me (Silverhill,
> Abbeville, Fitzgerald, Admiral Wilkes, Suan Tsao,
> etc.) But I wonder if
> there is some pollination magic happening that I am
> unaware of? What if my
> most productive cultivars are able to be so because
> of pollen from one of
> the others? This is one reason I tried to plant
> enough different jujubes to
> make sure there was plenty of pollen for all. As
> for dwarfing, some of my
> plants grow smaller and others larger, though I
> don't know about the
> eventual mature size of any of them- to me it looks
> like GA866 will be
> pretty dwarfy.
> I hope this helps! Besides my own experience, my
> source for info on jujubes
> (and the source for most of my plants) is Roger
> Meyer- thank goodness he has
> done so much work with jujubes, rescuing material
> from the Chico Research
> station (like GA866!) and writing his Jujube Primer
> and Sourcebook!
>
> Greg
> zone 7/8
> coastal plain of North Carolina
>
> >From: rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >To: North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >Subject: [NAFEX] figs,mulberry and jujuge oh my!
> >Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:38:50 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >I was going to wait till the SFF meeting next month
> to
> >ask some of these question, but maybe some people
> here
> >may be able to help as well.
> >
> >Fig--
> > Has anyone tried growing different fig
> varieties on
> >Blackjack fig rootstock to see if it will dwarf the
> >growth?
> >
> >Jujube---
> > How do you get the tree to fruit better?
> > What are the pollinators?
> > Has anyone tried a variety called "GA866"?
> > Can this tree be dwarfed as well?
> >
> >Mulberry--
> > Has anyone tried to dwarf with Garaldi
> rootstock?
> >
> >Che--
> > My che tree seems to be doing fine with a good
> flush
> >of leaves, but there is very little growth on it
> these
> >past two years. What can I do to help it along?
> >
> >thanx
> >
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