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Li Jujube starting to flower.. plenty of fruit last year.. so it can do well in Southern CA.. picture taken about a month ago.. This is actually one of the easier trees to grow (haha, compared to things like sugar apple, cherimoya, and rollinia), so don't worry..
Radoslav,Sorry to hear that it is not a good tasting producer for you. How hot do your summers get? I wonder if that cultivar might need a lot of heat to produce sugars?
I have a Li in the ground and I love it. Healthy, disease free, fruited its first year in the ground, you can just leave the fruit to dry on the tree and they're basically like raisins. Nice snack. Normally they're grafted on a wild suckering variety and you have to pinch off suckers. Li is one of the most common and is "seedless". If you crack open lots of stones, you can find a seed or two, but I've never had luck germinating them. Dont know about the other varieties.Basically a care free snack fruit.
The problem is not a sugar level, it is sweet but tasteless. For me jujube is nothing to bite twice, when you have garden full of cherries, peaches, plums, apricots, pears and apples.