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Yeah they bounce back quickly, I would just prune whenever it is convenient. 

They will take whatever you throw at them.  I have pruned them to near-stumps and they grow back.  I have sawed most of the rootball off and placed them in shallow trays and they take it. 

I have ordered some trees and shrubs over the years from BurntRidge and they seem pretty good.  I am thinking of getting a few pawpaws to try in-ground

I will have to make an earnest effort to grow some pawpaws outdoors.  It would be funny to find I spent so much time growing tropical annonas only to find the best one is native to my area!  Though still rare it seems

Wait, are people really saying the best annona is the cold-hardy native paw-paw - Asimina triloba?? 

Somebody gave me a few seedling pawpaw trees years ago and I planted them out in the woods and forgot about them.   I'm not even sure what they look like I haven't really gone searching for them.  I've never actually tasted one or seen a mature tree.

from this thread in the Buy/Sell section: https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=52302.0

Anybody's cuttings sprout yet?

As far as I know hort oil overspray is not dangerous, if anyone finds evidence otherwise I would be interested to see. 

I put googley eyes on them and use them as halloween decorations

Their zest doesn't seem as pungent as regular lemon, I think their only value is as novelty

At this point I would not be worried about the current fruit crop and focus on trying to get the plant healthy again.  The most noticeable thing in your photos is that the remaining leaves look quite old but I do not see any young leaves.  When was the last time your tree put out a flush of new growth?

I suggest removing the tree from the pot and inspecting the roots, see if there is rot, see how large the root ball is compared to the container it is in.  Is there stagnant water?  Large dry areas?  If the root ball is small compared to the container I suggest putting it in a smaller container until it starts growing new roots.

How much light does it receive?  The location looks pretty bright.  And I assume it must be fairly warm there, certainly warmer than where I am at and I just put my Meyer Lemon in the greenhouse a week or two ago.

The only jujube I have eaten were generic green ones in India.  They tasted similar to a malus apple but with a slightly spongy texture, versus malus apples that are more crisp. 

How do these varieties compare to the common green jububes?  Not sure if these green jububes are even ripe, nor what variety they may be, probably seedlings.

There was just a recent post about this.  I use oscmocote plus slow release for small plants and switch to granular jacks hpf 25-5-15 once plants get large enough that fertilizer burn is no longer a real threat

Yes it is the same product meant for ball fields.  It is just small pebbles of fired clay, basically.  I use turface all-sport which I think is the same as mvp but cheaper because it is missing some additive that isn't relevant to growing plants.  Turface is much denser than perlite so it doesn't float or blow away.  Otherwise, it has the same effect as perlite and you could use them interchangeably.  I prefer turface because my containers are always blowing over in the wind, the extra weight helps a bit.  I would use perlite if it was dirt cheap though

K-Rimes I am interested in hearing more about why you specifically avoid wood chips/mulch as a container soil component. 

I have always used mulch as a main component, though over time I have been slowly moving away from it simply out of laziness...  basically I have a big pile of soil outdoors and anything that gets repotted is mixed back into the pile.  It now contains enough turface, perlite, cut plant roots, and (unfortunately) spent osmocote beads that it has become pretty free-draining without added mulch so I rarely add more. 

I do recall that mulch tends to form a solid mass as it degrades, and like peat moss can contribute to large dry areas in the container.

I still have half of my first 25lb bag of Jacks HPF left

It doesn't go bad, just a matter of initial cost and storage.