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Need help with my jujube tree
Vid_nand:
Hello fruit tree lovers,
I need some help with my jujube trees. I have two jujube trees, Li and sugarcane. I got this Li over five years back. It’s in container all along.. I replanted it last year and added some fresh soil & compost. I got this tree as a one long main trunk without any side branches around five years back. I never got any side branches from this tree after that.. the tree just send some leaflets, flowers and fruits and go to dormancy during winter. The tree also slowly starting to dry back a few inches every year from the top. Is there anything I can do to make the tree to start branch out?
Regarding my sugarcane jujube, the soil has shrunk to half. I have replant it and add some more soil to that. is it the right time to do that
If i want to add another variety, should i go with GA 866 or honey jar? Your suggestions please 🙏
Where can i find scions to graft?
Here comes a picture of my trees
Li
Sugarcane
miniorchard:
I grow my jujube trees in the ground. A few years ago, I cut one tree down to 4 feet to bark graft "Sugarcane" scion too it and it stimulated new growth as well... about 6 feet worth of new growth. Unfortunately, cutting the tree down to 4 feet also seemed to stimulate suckers to grow from their roots (10 feet - and counting away from the trunk!!!) I grafted other varieties to the root suckers I dug up and cut off a sucker and planted it into a 24" box last year. The "soil" that I used in the boxes are just decomposed granite and sand mixed with some old peat moss I had left over. I mulched the top with compost. Looking forward to some fruit this year. I think I grafted Sugarcane and Li to it. I plan on grafting a GA 866 branch to it this year. I bought my Sugarcane and GA 866 scions from https://fruitwoodnursery.com/ In the past. I generally stay away from using "ground up trees" as soil in potted plants. And in hindsight, had I known that the roots were so aggressive and sends up suckers now some 20 feet away, I would have planted the tree into a box and not in the ground.
SoCalGardenNut:
I like jujube because it’s just a stick, easy to find a corner to put my tree in, I don't prune nor plant my trees in the ground ever.
nana7b:
Regarding the Li you may want to pull out the plant and examine the roots. If rootbound loosen up the roots and possibly up-pot it with mostly new soil. I would not add compost to your soil mix. You can add compost as a top dressing. Also if you repot make sure to keep the root flare at the surface and don't bury it. Hopefully doing these things will make it send out a side shoot. Another option is to graft a scion on to it. Since it does not have any branches you will need to do a bark graft on to the main stem.
Regarding the Sugar Cane ....yes add more potting soil making sure not to bury the root flare. I would not use compost in the mix. I am assuming it is the dormant season for you now so it is a good time do these activities.
In my experience they don't do well when grown in soil containing a lot of compost(In containers). Also, when grown in containers they seem to reach a limit and stagnate. I am sure refreshing the soil mix can help here.
Compost alone is not providing enough nutrition for your trees. For better results you would need to fertilize them. I like using a slow release synthetic fertilizer for my container plants but you can use organic as well but need a larger quantity.
Both Honey Jar and GA866 are very good. Where I am at while HJ is very prolific GA866 barely produces any fruit. I hear that GA866 is productive in CA.
murahilin:
Vid_nand,
Here’s a Gary Matsuoka video on growing jujubes: https://www.youtube.com/live/IpBDotCNeHs?si=Mho61KijvJALCnpe
If you plan to grow your jujubes in containers, check out some of Gary’s videos on the best soil/potting mix for containers.
The potting mix you’ve described sounds like it may be what’s killing your trees.
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