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["MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>]

I need to correct one thing. When I said that the dry areas of this country 
are better suited for jujubes, I did not mean that there are not varieties 
of jujubes that will bear in the more humid areas because there are; its 
just that you are more limited as to varieties in the humid areas.
Richard Ashton
Brownwood, Texas
7b/8a AHS 9

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Jujubes in New Mexico & Ilinois


> Humidity has as much to do with different varieties of jujube bearing as
> does cold hardiness zones.  I am talking about humidity during the 
> blooming
> time. Each variety was developed in China to fit a particular area over 
> many
> 100 years. We in this country are just now finding out where different
> varieties will grow. One thing has been determined, that is that the dry
> areas of this country are better suited for jujubes.
> Richard Ashton
> Brownwood, Texas
> 7b/8a AHS 9
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <martha_davis@highstream.net>
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:00 PM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Jujubes in New Mexico & Ilinois
>
>
> > Here in northern new Mexico I am seeing people with a jujube orchard of 
> > Li
> > &
> > Lang they have enough crop to bring them to the farmers market.  They are
> > slightly south of Santa Fe in Zone 5.  What I am not sure is how many
> > trees
> > that represents but several times they were there with a bushel or two of
> > jujube fruit and they go to several farmers markets.
> >
> > I know at least one person in Los Alamos (7300ft 18 inches annual rain)
> > with
> > both Lee and Lang.  They were fruiting and looked to have a lot more than
> > 5-10
> > fruits.
> >
> > I recall that Bill Vose had both Li and Lang for around 10 years in zone 
> > 4
> > in
> > Illinois The tree did fine, but no fruit.  He said he had heard from 
> > other
> > folks in Zone 6 midwest who had the same experience.
> >
> > Martha Davis
> >
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