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Post by spinifex on Mar 10, 2019 16:50:41 GMT 10
I've been given a few fruit off one of these - they are like an apple crossed with a date. Left long enough they dry like a date/raisin. Very high nutrition. Very hardy tree. heaps of fruit and it ripens over a very extended season. I rate it very highly and will be trying to get my own trees by taking root suckers and scion from my friend tree. Hard to get from nurseries. www.agric.wa.gov.au/minor-fruits/jujubes-western-australia |
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Post by Beno on Mar 14, 2019 8:33:21 GMT 10
One other plant of the Ziziphus genus, Chinee apple grows well....too well....in the dry tropics and gulf in QLD. It’s a mongrel with cm curved thorns but refreshing small “apples” the size of a grape. The Chinese date seems like a more civilised version of this. I think that we could grow a lot more asian tree fruit and nut species in Australia. Daleys nursey in Kyogle has a good range of weird and wonderful fruits and nuts and i thi k they have stuff that will grow well in SA as well.
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Post by herbgarden on Dec 7, 2019 17:37:57 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Dec 7, 2019 20:20:57 GMT 10
Bringing this up is timely. I planted my Jujube tree out in the ground today. The root sucker method of propagation has worked really well.
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Post by quietprepper on Dec 7, 2019 20:53:17 GMT 10
Interesting, i’ll have to look into it. never heard of it before
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Post by doglovingjim on Dec 7, 2019 23:02:03 GMT 10
For documention purposes what's the root sucker method of propagation?
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Post by feralemma on Dec 7, 2019 23:20:13 GMT 10
Bringing this up is timely. I planted my Jujube tree out in the ground today. The root sucker method of propagation has worked really well. So if they grow where you are they can tolerate heat, drought and sand? |
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Post by SA Hunter on Dec 8, 2019 2:20:35 GMT 10
Bringing this up is timely. I planted my Jujube tree out in the ground today. The root sucker method of propagation has worked really well. Let me know if you ever have a few spare suckers ( not people who vote for the Greens either ). |
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Post by spinifex on Dec 8, 2019 8:17:32 GMT 10
For documention purposes what's the root sucker method of propagation? Once the trees are several years old they start popping up sprigs of growth from their shallow roots. My mates tree is about 7 years old, has been generating suckers for a few years and last year was the first time he tried getting a spade and taking a core of soil including the section of root with the growth on it and potting them up in 8 inch pots. The trees are deciduous so he did this after they dropped leaves. I've had it sitting in a pot, keeping it moist but not wet. It started getting new leaves back in late September/early October and its now a nice little 30cm high shrub, already flowering and trying to set fruit on this seasons growth. |
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Post by spinifex on Dec 8, 2019 8:22:13 GMT 10
Bringing this up is timely. I planted my Jujube tree out in the ground today. The root sucker method of propagation has worked really well. So if they grow where you are they can tolerate heat, drought and sand? Yep! Although I'm planting mine into a nice red loam so it should do better than my mates tree ... his is in lime-sand and grows and fruits ok. I don't think it gets any harsher than that! I think they are originally from the arid areas in China. |
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Post by feralemma on Dec 8, 2019 11:26:30 GMT 10
So if they grow where you are they can tolerate heat, drought and sand? Yep! Although I'm planting mine into a nice red loam so it should do better than my mates tree ... his is in lime-sand and grows and fruits ok. I don't think it gets any harsher than that! I think they are originally from the arid areas in China. I'll have to give them a try 😁 Despite real estate agents sometimes marketing farms around here as having "silver loam" it's really just beach sand 🙄 if they grow in lime sand they obviously prefer an alkaline environment |
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Post by spinifex on Dec 8, 2019 14:00:53 GMT 10
My fruit tree book reckons they'll grow anywhere and in anything that isn't too wet.
I forgot to mention the lime-sand at my mates place is only about 40cm thick (at best) and sits atop solid limestone ... so about as harsh a growing environment as it gets.
The other things that do well on the 'natural soil' at his place are grapes and pomegranate. Given his interests and expertise I always think he's a nut-job for not buying a home block on a better bit of country with actual decent soil.
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