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This is a Li variety.. 3rd year in ground.. many fruits even from 1st year.. yeah there are still plenty of fruit that shrink and die.. I guess that's how it is.. the tree will know how much to keep and produce..
I water 4x (15 min) each but that's because most of my trees are on a slope.. I use the seaweed fish kelp fertilizer like Neptune Harvest and GroMore (organics).
Lots of tasty fruits soon too!!
I think underwatering or not enough roots to absorb the water you give it.
Don't worry about letting it set fruit. It won't die trying to fruit like other trees. It will abort all fruits in order to survive if you didn't water it.
My tree is 5 ft planted into the ground early this year from a 1 gallon airlayer. It's holding some fruits and aborting some. At least yours has more root to start with although planted later on.
I actually stopped using Osmocote now that I have Nutricote because there is less waste from runoff. I use a hybrid approach with organics and chemical fertilizers and I have tons of worms and mycelium in my soil.
Simon
I have a couple of jujube trees. The Li i had started to drop fruit, and the fruit was shriveling prematurely. Someone on here mentioned that because my tree was in a nursery plastic pot, and it was really hot out, the roots were likely being burned. I switched trees to a fabric pot. Moral of that story, the tree lost all its fruit, but it is doing much better overall now, and it has some fruit coming in new. Jujubes are sensitive to root rot, but i notice they are pretty thristy when they are fruiting.
I like Osmocot especially their Plus. I hope the Temperature controlled stuff will give my plants more nutrients in our Summers, pretty much the only season it's warm enough for vegetative growth in Mangos, in my yard at least. It's still in the high fifties or low sixties at night. I recently pruned off some mango fruit when we had day temps of 90F but the cold nights are stimulating secondary blooms. I need a way to maximize Summer growth.
Simon
What about Gwen?
Highly recommended, IF, you can find it. Am growing it and it's holding a lot of fruit. It's Will Brokaw's fave if that tells you anything. It's a very small tree that tends to over produce. Quality of fruit is better than Hass if left to hang. Tree has very little vigor, being the smallest (and weakest) of about 8 varieties I'm growing. It's about 5 years old and no more than 5W X 5H', perhaps less.
I also have Holiday. New grafted cocktail tree with 3 others but it seems to be really nice in growth habit and fruiting. Highly recommended by all.
You can source the budwood like I did on 100's of varieties trees from U.C.R., Dr. Mary Lu Arpaia's clan.
June 11
June 11 fruit
I think that he meant Gwen (not gem) was better than hass.
I meant Gwen which can't hold a candle to Hass or Gem
Atkins nursery in Fallbrook had it last time I visited few weeks back.
-FruitFool
The fruit that forms is still an S8 but any plant produced from the seed of that particular fruit is going to be different from the parent, a hybrid . It will be a totally new variety! It may look, taste and seem exactly the same as its parent or it could be something completely different, but it is definitely not the same. This is how newer, sometimes better varieties are created!
If you grow a plant from the seeds of that fruit, you can name it after yourself as it's a totally new variety.
Hope this helps.
