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About the Author prepper1 Balmoral 7th February 2014 9:32am #UserID: 8342 Posts: 4 View All prepper1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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MaryT says... prepper1 we do have a member on this forum who specialise in growing Chinese jubube: http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/my/5635/ Perhaps if you leave your email address she'll be able to contact you | About the Author MaryT Sydney 7th February 2014 1:43pm #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Yes, Lucy sells around a dozen cultivars of Jujube's and comes highly recommended from me. The bare rooted, named, grafted trees are available mid winter. I am starting to pick the ripe fruit now. I can't wait for them to shrivel up like a date, I'm eating them as they start to colour up. Your grafted trees will fruit in the same year you buy them. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 7th February 2014 9:40pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Carl76 Wilston 4051 7th February 2014 10:03pm #UserID: 9276 Posts: 181 View All Carl76's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author yrt sydney 8th February 2014 6:13pm #UserID: 8343 Posts: 86 View All yrt's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... I think Li would have to be my fav, probably because they may be the first to mature. They are very addictive when you start eating them. They look like small round apples, have a finer texture than apples and are crunchy if you can't leave them on the tree long enough to shrivel into a very sweet "red date". Ta-jan is absolutely loaded, a larger tree would produce many hundreds of kilo's of fruit.
| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 9th February 2014 9:04am #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Miranda sydney 9th February 2014 11:37am #UserID: 5193 Posts: 25 View All Miranda's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author MaryT Sydney 9th February 2014 2:40pm #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Miranda, they are ff free this year. Not a single one. Quite different to last year, they caught me off guard and lost nearly all the fruit. Jujube Lucy made me up some very large organza bags that slip over a large part of the fruiting tree. I should throw them over the tree now just in case. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 9th February 2014 8:49pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Miranda sydney 12th February 2014 6:55pm #UserID: 5193 Posts: 25 View All Miranda's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Carl76 Wilston 4051 12th February 2014 9:03pm #UserID: 9276 Posts: 181 View All Carl76's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... I can't get enough of them, must have at least 8-10 varieties so far. Will probably get the remaining varieties available in Aus this winter, hopefully if Lucy is still selling them. For what they are and the amount of fruit they produce, they are well worth the cost in my humble opinion. In past years Lucy sold them for $65ea + postage, usually $20 for several barerooted plants. I can't vouch for the costs of future orders, they have been that price for at least 4 years that I know of. Here's the varieties that were available last winter: Li: Large round fruit up 3 ounces in mid-Mar. May be picked at the yellow-green stage. Best eaten fresh. Best single tree to have. Early fruiting Suimen: Fruit is elongated and excellent fresh or dried. Chico : Fruit is round but flattened to an unusual shape. Excellent, sweet taste.Excellent either fresh or dried. Tajan: Large, pear-shaped fruits which must be fully colored to be best eating. Tree is upright and virtually spineless Thornless: pear-shaped fruit similar to Tajan, It is virtually thornless. Lang Large, pear-shaped fruit which must be fully colored to be best eating. This fruit is best to let dry on the tree. Tree is upright and virtually spineless. Redlands Collected at an old homestead in Redlands, California. Very large, sweet, round fruit. Sherwood The fruit is very dense and sweet. Tree is very narrow and upright with leaves that are weeping in habit. Silverhill (Tigerstooth) An elongated fruit like a chili. Virtually spineless. SIHONG: Excellent, large, round fruit mid-season. SHANXI LI: Extremely large fruit with great flavor. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 12th February 2014 9:07pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Carl76 Wilston 4051 12th February 2014 9:35pm #UserID: 9276 Posts: 181 View All Carl76's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Two other new varieties I bought last winter: GA-866 An outstandingly sweet selection out of the Chico Research program. Large, elongated fruit. Admiral Wilkes Collected on a South Seas expedition in the 1840's and planted on the Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. Elongated fruit which has been the very last to ripen, generally in mid to late April. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 13th February 2014 2:13pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... Now is the time to start sourcing your Jujubes for the lovers of Jujube fruit. I have an order in for a new variety called Honey Jar, that will give me my 15th cultivar. Just bought a 1kg bag of dried fruit online to get me through till mine start fruiting. There's over one hundred large dried fruit in a 1 kg bag, they look like the Li variety, been eating them all day, gotta slow up a bit. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 2nd July 2015 5:09pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Glad they're doing well for you John. My foray into jujubes was pretty brief--They really, really don't like the humidity up here. There might be a more tropical type out there I can find one day, but until then, I'll be buying dried jubes. Good fruit. Honey pot is supposedly the best. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 3rd July 2015 4:01pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 5th July 2015 8:26am #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author sternus1 Australia 5th July 2015 2:13pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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phil@tyalgum says... Interestingly although the grow reasonably well here in the subtropics, my first crop should have been picked early at the crisp "green apple" stage. I left them on into the summer rain and they rotted overnight in situ. They seem to prefer a more mediterranean climate with dry summers and autumn. Now I am worried about my carob trees, I'm sure they will go the same way. | About the Author TyalgumPhil Murwillumbah 5th July 2015 2:31pm #UserID: 960 Posts: 1377 View All TyalgumPhil's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author audrey BOX HILL SOUTH,3128,VIC 7th February 2018 7:26pm #UserID: 5913 Posts: 9 View All audrey's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Fruitylicious1 says... Hi Audrey So far I have tasted 4 varieties of jujubes (Chico, pear, shui-men, Li). Personally I like li. It is the biggest and tastiest among the 4 I have tasted. But, then taste is a very personal thing. It might taste rubbish to some. If you want to taste the fruits personally buy different varieties of jujubes fruits from Jujube Australia. Visit their web site to know when they become available. I bought mine from them online before i planted my first jujube tree. Happy gardening :-) | About the Author Fruitylicious1 TAMWORTH,2340,NSW 9th February 2018 6:53am #UserID: 16885 Posts: 709 View All Fruitylicious1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Markmelb MOUNT WAVERLEY,3149,VIC 10th February 2018 8:13pm #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author audrey BOX HILL SOUTH,3128,VIC 10th February 2018 9:37pm #UserID: 5913 Posts: 9 View All audrey's Edible Fruit Trees |
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David says... Hi Audrey, If your kids want a fresh fruit to eat every day then Gala, Pink lady or even Golden delicious tastes a lot better than Jujube in my opinion. However, if you are looking for a different fresh or dried 'Jujube' taste or you've already accustomed to it then Li is the one and it is one of the best among Jujube varieties. Another example can you compare Pear with Apple, or even NA Persimmon with apple. No, as they are all good but they are very different in their own way, thus you need to try it by yourself to see whether you or your kids like it or not as Jujube has less flavour and less sweet when compare to apple. I bought the fresh/dried Jujube from the website below and now I have 4 Li and only grafted one bear fruits at the moment, which is about toe size, the other seedlings may take a year or two. Grow jujube is super easy and very fast . Hope this will help. http://jujubeaustralia.com/buy-fresh-jujube/ | About the Author David01 Melbourne 13th February 2018 2:48pm #UserID: 16671 Posts: 467 View All David01's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author audrey BOX HILL SOUTH,3128,VIC 14th February 2018 11:03pm #UserID: 5913 Posts: 9 View All audrey's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author audrey BOX HILL SOUTH,3128,VIC 14th February 2018 11:07pm #UserID: 5913 Posts: 9 View All audrey's Edible Fruit Trees |
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