My Experiences Growing Jujubes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2021
- Jujubes can be a very rewarding a reliable fruit to grow. Here.. I consider them a great source of food, but there are a few things to watch out for. In this video I show you my trees. Different varieties, some in containers and some in the ground with my tips along the way.
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Shriveled Jujubes are an essential ingredient in Chinese soups and deserts for centuries
You never cease to amaze me with the things you come up with Ross! I did try a Goji plant, nothing will ever be as bitter and nasty to eat, even the Cardinals refused to eat the berries, and they looked real good. I thought I had bought a bad bush, but the bright red berries seemed to get worse! Thanks for the videos. I always learn something from your experience.
I bought a very expensive pint of fresh gojis at the farmer's market to give them a try before I even considered them in the yard. Glad I did, I only ate a couple before we gave up. Not for us...
There are new varieties out there that are bred for better taste
@@nmnate goji berries are very sweet and delicious once dried, or dehydrated even dried on the bush. Fresh it taste more sour.
Our goji berries were actually very sweet and juicy fresh off the vine. Maybe you picked too early?
i picked the rest of my fall set yesterday. bagged all of them individually and the birds and bugs still got half of them lol, but they are really good! i actually like them still crisp before they get fully ripe as well
Nice food jungle!
I used to get the dry ones at farmer’s market in California and they recommended making tea with them.
Ross, What? No figs in this vid?? Seriously....a gr8 video. I have one jujube rooted from a cutting...supposed to be a Norris. Hope to see fruit on it next year since its already about five feet tall in ground. Not always acknowledged but jujubes have gorgeous SHINY green leaves which are very ornamental . Cant wait to try my first home grown jujubes. Thnx, Randy/GA
Plenty of non fig videos. TH-cam doesn't recommend them. Search any fruit, you'll find multiple videos from me.
Ross i realize you are multi-faceted, but figs are kinda special to both of us. Keep doin what you doin! Randy/GA
Jujube is my top favorite fruit. I bought bare root “Shanxi” jujube which’s self pollinating. It is very sweet and crunchy, especially the large size
How long did it take doe yours to bear fruit?
@@lemontea128 4 years🤪
@@TigiLova oh my, 4 long yrs 😖🤣 and I just planted my shangxi li this year …😅
I have a 3 year old honey jar and a 2nd year sugar cane. They seemed to work out well in our short season (had about at least a month from when they started to turn brownish to our first frost date). Once the trees start getting a little bit of size...wow, they fruit a TON. Absolutely no pest issues here.
Do you water them a lot when they have a fruit load or no?
@@Qingeaton We have our trees on drip irrigation (2-3 days a week during the summer). It isn't a huge amount of water, but enough to keep them happy. In a less arid climate they probably don't need much if any supplemental water.
@@nmnate Thanks. I didn't know if there was more problems with keeping them too wet or letting them get too dry. We had a few small fruit last year late. Not sure if it was just the late pollination date or not enough water.
@@Qingeaton There's probably a happy medium for water quantities. We had a really ample amount of rain last summer during monsoon, and I think we ended up getting slightly less fruit than the prior year (when the trees were quite a bit smaller). A lot of the fruit had cracking from the excess moisture, and would mold instead of drying normally.
I have no idea about pollination, I haven't figured out what insects are interested in the flowers.
@@nmnate O.K. Thanks. We have honey bees and they don't seem to care. I think I saw some very small native bees last year on them. Maybe your excess rain kept the pollinators or flowers swamped out.
I'll go with my 1" a week standard and see where that gets me.
I have many JuJubes, Honey Jar, Sugar Cane, Lang, Li Li, and I am basically getting little to no fruit. Any suggestions on what may be going on?? The trees look healthy and I see many flowers.
Hi, I live in se Florida and have. Thai Giant jujube tree that produces intermittently. Now I am getting a few fruit-January. Can or how can I make jam with these? , other uses. The tree is 10 feet tall
Uncle, I have a tree in my yard. I've eaten jujube my whole life. Jujube is a great source of fiber and vitamins. But it's just not my favorite fruit. They're not bad. Just a personal preference. I would rather eat a mango, or an avocado.
I bought Li and Lang for the spring. Wonder if I can plant in my front yard without people trying to steal the fruit.
is it fenced in?
if you don't you might want to install a motion activated driveway alarm ( in a strategic position) to notify you when someone is stealing your fruits.Thats if you plant those trees in your front yard.
th-cam.com/video/8d84R2u06I8/w-d-xo.html I used gaurdline and it notified me when my neighbors were "fiddling" by my grape vines..
I bet no one even knows what they are..
Jujube jiffing, Grape fiddling, Persimmon poaching; I need a guard dog!
Wish we have those in india..just a common indian jujube
I hear jujube in the ground send suckers everywhere and nearly impossible to remove
None so far. I heard the same when I started. I think it depends on the tree's dominance like any other. They all can send up suckers if the trees have hormonal issues.
if these jujubes are that similar to apples i dont know if its worth the time growing them. for the people up north. i know most people have not had the really good high sugar high acid apples. i grafted some a few years ago now. this year i finally was able to taste them. they knocked my socks off. even the best store type apple like honey crisp is beat. i had ants going after my apples. i have only experienced ants like that when the sugar content is pretty high. you start to have a problem, how do i store all these apples. i am blessed with 2 m111 and 2 m27 trees. i have about 40 variety's spread out on these trees. you could graft more but it gets messy and less productive.
Apples are better for sure. I'm finding now that I really like them in their dried state.
@@RossRaddi i havent dried any apples yet. been cooking them all the time. apple sauce, butter, jelly. you can make simple hot apples for dinner really easy. its a great healthy dessert too. you can even put it on ice cream. you can cook them different ways. you can do the low heat method so they get really soft. i like cooking them with sugar on high heat. you can create amazing caramelized outside. my favorite has been karmijn de sonnaville. its similar to cox but is a better grower than cox, cox has a big problem with splitting and other diseases. i lost a larger percentage of cox than i was able to eat. its still worth growing even with the problems. i didnt think an apple can have that much complex flavor. its really a different class of apple. its not the type you just grab and eat, its an experience. i stopped focusing on figs as much. i know you struggle with growing apples. make sure to feed them nitrogen after the leafs fall off. then stake them in some way. the dwarf trees produce way more if the tree senses it is supported. i learned a lot from the university documents.
@@666Necropsy thanks for the info ! my first year growing the Honey jar and Sugar Cane
You Should Try Honey Bees For More Pollination
Honey bees are some of the least effective pollinators and they kill off or drive out the local pollinators who are much more effective.
Would they grow well in Florida?
I'm not sure. I would see if anyone on growingfruit.org is having success down there.
Mine struggle due to mold on leaves - too damp. SE Florida.