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karpes
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Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 379
Location: South Louisiana

Posted: Fri 27 Oct, 2006 3:36 pm

I could use some advice and opinions on Jujube. From what I have read it seems like it would be an easy no hassle tree to grow. Anyone have any experience with them?
Karl
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mrtexas
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Joined: 02 Dec 2005
Posts: 1029
Location: 9a Missouri City,TX

Posted: Sat 28 Oct, 2006 12:14 am

Easy, no hassle, no bugs, but fruit not great. It kind of grows on you though, it is like a sweetish low flavor apple. You can make a great raisin/date substitute by boiling the fruit in syrup. I have two trees, a So and a SugarCane. Most trees are very thorny but a few varieties are thornless. You need two for pollination. Plant where you can fight back the numerous suckers that pop up everywhere. Grafts easily so you can have one tree and graft a branch for pollination or let one of the suckers grow. Get a tree for free, find someone else with one, dig up suckers and graft it like I did. My trees are low on my list but I'm keeping them. Quite a novelty.
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karpes
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Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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Location: South Louisiana

Posted: Mon 30 Oct, 2006 8:08 pm

Mrtexas
I visited your website and notice that you have a lot of experience with most of the verities. From reading your comments it looks like you favor the Chico GI 7-62. I had been looking at the GA-866 but it did not get a favorable review from you and the fact that it is only now producing after six years does not help.
How long did it take for the GI-7-62 to start producing fruit?
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