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.
- Click here to view our "Fruit Tree Variety Chart"
- The tree will be shipped dormant and bare-rooted.
- See below for "Dormant Tree & Plant Guarantee"
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This is a pre-ordered item. It will be ready to ship starting January 2026.
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.