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Sugar Cane Jujube - Variety Information
- Sugar Cane Jujube is a sweet fleshed fruit with the crunchy texture of an apple.
- Reddish-brown, small to medium-sized fruit when fully ripe.
- The tree is precocious, hardy, drought-resistant, virtually pest and disease-free.
- Requires long, hot summers.
- Very low chill requirement.
- Pollenized by any other jujube.
- It withstands wide-ranging temperatures; from over 100° F in the summertime to -20° F during winter dormancy.
- Require minimal chill and plentiful summer sun and heat to set fruit.
- Prefer sandy, well-drained soils and while tolerating many soil types, do less well in heavy, poorly drained soil.
- Drought tolerant, but better crop with regular water. Winter prune to maintain plant health.
- Jujube trees do have thorns.
- USDA Zone 5-10, Requires 200 chill hours to set fruit.
- Protect when temperatures fall below -20°F.
- The tree will be shipped dormant and bare-rooted.
- See below for "Dormant Tree & Plant Guarantee"
Click here for our Bare Root Fruit Tree Growing Guide (pdf)
Guia de cultivo para un arbol de raiz desnuda
Optimize Shipping: Shipping is calculated by box size. We can fit up to 8 bare-root fruit trees in a box. Multi-budded fruit trees and Jujube trees will count as 2 due to branching. Optimize your shipping by ordering multiple trees.