Jujubes

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Can indian jujube (Ziziphus/Zizyphus mauritiana) or regular jujube grow in a container that is put outdoors in summer and kept indoors in winter?

Tran says...
For Indian jujube you need tropical heat to grow but with Chinese jujube you can grow in cool weather.

Tran says...
Hi Frank,

Just give it some water every now and then and also some potassium or slow release fetilizer and see if flowers will set fruit.

Good luck.

Tran says...
Hi Frank,

Water your tree 2 or 3 times a week and some fertiliser and see if things improve.

All the best.

Tran

Damian says...
Apart from Perry's nursery are there any other sources of chinese jujube trees? Diggers seem to be an unreliable source as they keep pushing back the eta of jujube availability.

Any suggestions?

frank says...
HI all
I wonder if anybody knows what is the rootstock that they use to graft jujubes because i didnt know that they grafted them because were i come from in the Meditterenian we use to get sukkers from the roots of the tree.

frank

Frank says...
Hi Jantina
I wonder what would the purpose be to use the same tree for rootstock i thought that they use a stroger rootstock like for pears they use quinches and for stone fruit they use sweet almonds, and is perry`s the only supplier of the jujube fruit tree because this monththey are cloced for the whole month and i am waiting for a reply you would think that this fruit tree would be abbundant in the north of the great county of our thank you Jantina.

Frank
Sydney

Frank says...
Hi Adam
I wonder if the indian jujube( Chinese apple) is the same as the chinese date which is also a jujube tree.

Jantina says...
Hi Frank, Zizyphus jujuba is is known as the Chinese date because it is so widely grown in China. It is the jujube of choice for those with a suitable climate because the "date" is of superior quality to the rest of the family. The Chinese date does not apparently fruit well where it is wet and humid (although it grows well)ant Indian jujube is more suitable there. All my research says the jujube if grafted ,is grafted to jujube either sucker or seedling, the purpose being to get a known quality. Apricots for instance are grafted to seedling apricot trees too, using other rootstock, if compatible, on say ,citrus is to make it more suitable for certain soils or to dwarf it or make it hardier. The jujube it plenty hardy and will grow in almost any soil. Louis Glowinski says Chico , the variety I have does not sucker but that might be if it is cutting grown (apparently difficult but possible). My Chico is grafted and I don't know what variety or seedling it is grafted to. As for supply, Perrys in S.A. is the only one that I have been able to track down that have accessible stock although it can be a long wait, I have a Li on order and they told me it would be a years wait. Tass 1 in W.A. has them but he told me he does not export interstate and so far I have not been able to ascertain whether his supplier exports interstate or if in fact his supplier is over in this side of the world and in fact exports to him but I am determined to find out. It's all very frustrating.Onward ho!.

Jantina says...
Apparently varies between varieties and grafted supposedly less thorny. My Chico only has little thorns.

Jantina says...
Hi Santalum, email joe@tass1trees.com.au he may not have any in stock at the moment but he told me he has a big order coming in for winter. Good luck to you I'm certainly not having any luck over here.

Santalum says...
Thanks folks. Much appreciated. Happy self sufficiency :)

Julie says...
I don't know how Tass1 is selling them, as both Z.Mauritania and jujuba are considered weeds in WA.

Phoenix Seeds sells Z.jujuba, but not to WA.

sam says...
hey ,, i just need 10 leaves of jujuba plant ..i am not sure where i can find the plant.. please could u guide me the nursery or can u give me 10 leaves

Wenny says...
Hi,Frank, could you give me your jujube tree cutting to me? I would like to grow jujube tree.please sned email to me if you agree. Thanks.

Wenny

JUJUBE FOR SALE IN MELBOURNE says...
Hi Chikko,

Red Chinese date or Jujube trees like FULL SUN, during growing/flowering season
- feeding with dynamic lifter or blood and bone every 6 weeks, a bit at the time.
- potash felilizer TWICE a year (OCTOBER AND APRIL)
- Richo complete mineral ONCE A YEAR
and water during flowering time.

Last but not least MULCH heavily.

If yours does not produce well, I would wait to winter (the only time) to move to another sunny location.

Please note that for a young tree, I would not worry too much about fruiting for now because bare root trees need to build more roots, therefore stronger tree and lots of fruits to follow.

I would give it a chance this year because it is a bit early to tell My trees are still setting fruits at the moment.



I hope this helps.

JUJUBE FOR SALE IN MELBOURNE says...
Hi Chico,

I had a tree that did not well in semi sun and I moved to a full sun area and it is doing very well now.

Please note that jujube trees should not be grown near big tree or grow anything undernearth the tree or they won't fruit well due to not enough sun or food to share.

I think the first year or two. They may not fruit properly (too busy to produce more roots or branches) then they will fruit well in the third year.

Here is my LI variety. It has 10 fruits in 20cm branch and still setting more fruits. One for each leaf node so it is as good as a CHANG variety.

There is no secret I just follow the above steps I mentioned earlier. BTW, they don't like chemical fertilizer, I use aged chicken manure.

Take care and goodluck.

Lucy.

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JUJUBE FOR SALE IN MELBOURNE says...
Hi Phil,

How are you?

These jujube trees are grown in Melbourne.

Lucy.