Everyone this is Ross in today's video. I want to talk to you guys about jubis and this is really becoming one of my favorite fruits. I'm telling you guys this is something special. This variety here is called honey jar and believe it or not I swear to you it actually has honey in it. It tastes like honey. To me it reminds me at this point like a honey apple because it has a really nice crunch like an apple but it's very sweet and I'm almost certain that it's it's creating its own nectar which is a form of honey just like a lot of my figs do here guys. Some of my figs at the bottom of their their eye here let me see if I can get you guys one. Here's Smith it's actually forming its own honey its own nectar and I find a lot of fruits do this. Maybe all fruits do this I'm not sure but the point is this is one of them and it's really good it's really sweet. I want to show you guys my trees real quick. It has a pit on the inside and that can just be eaten around. You can also let them dry on the tree and if you let them dry which they will do here it's very incredible how even in this climate they'll dry they'll get a different texture more sugar content see those right there that's dry they're really red one and the texture will be just quite different it's almost like eating an entirely different fruit you kind of get two fruits in one with this tree. I'm gonna see if I can pick this here it may not be realistically perfect because it seems like something did get to this but I'm gonna take a bite and show you the the inside here in the texture it's just very different it's kind of like eating bread sweet bread people call these Chinese dates and that's inaccurate there's nothing like a date they are free sweet like a date but they're just a very good fruit and this lasts on the counter when you let them dry like this this will last on your counter for really quite some time I do have some pretty spotty pollination it seems like here in this climate I'm not sure if the bugs in the area really know what they're doing but some of these trees are just covered in flowers and I only get so much fruit set and I think a lot of it has to do with the pollinators I think parasitic wasps are probably the best pollinators for these jiu-bis and you can see over here on my fennel it's going to flower and there is a ton of parasitic wasps flying around in here that I think really do a good job of pollinating these jiu-bis but they just don't have parasitic wasps I think at that time of the year and you can see it over here on the seetom there is many species of different parasitic wasps or even regular type wasps you know the yellow jackets that love that but if I can get some kind of flowering plant to coincide with the jiu-bis flowers I think it might really be a big benefit you can see this branch over here is actually really heavy with fruit and there's actually quite a few fruits on this variety this is the honey jar this one seems to set well and also fruit well whereas my my leaf believe it or not my leaf has not fruited all that well for me this year however in years past you can see how much it's grown it's huge now and the wind really blows these things because they're very lanky trees guys it's quite unfortunate I've tried really hard to get them to bush out more horizontally you can see how big that is I mean it's almost it's at least 10 feet tall my leaf tree now if I come over here I can show you guys more of the fruit set this is still on Lee over here you can see these are very large fruits on Lee they have some of the largest and in fact I know a grower who's growing many varieties of these jiu-bis and recommends Lee the most it has the largest fruit and it's the most consistent bear in a climate such as mine you know these are more desert-like trees they should be grown in the desert they can definitely handle some drought but I find if it gets too dry the fruits will drop off the trees will be fine but the fruits will certainly dry off and in fact I think they're less drought tolerant than figs in fact my figs here need a lot less water than these jiu-bis do so what I've done this year is I've actually changed up the siphon injectors here the spot spitters down and for my irrigation this is a almost I think four times the water that my figs get my figs get 3.6 gallons per hour emitters I think this is like 12 points something and they're run for the same amount of time and they're just as happy it's just that these trees and even the chai here my chai tree that unfortunately drops every year it just they just need more water sorry the camera here I'm trying to get my wire but here's another variety that we grafted this is something called Zuzhou you can see the graft union down here I think that's where the graft union was right here and we grafted this onto Lang because I don't I'm not really a big fan of Lang it needs pollination and the pollination here is very spotty as I've mentioned so maybe if I can get more parasitic wasps or something to come in at that time we can get a better crop but Lang is one of those that's supposed to do really well and it's a reliable one it's very large but my Zuzhou is putting out a ton of fruit especially for such a young tree that to me it doesn't really matter to have Lang I'm personally really a big fan of the Zuzhou variety now the amount of fruit that it's been putting out also it really matters how early some of these are that's a big thing to pay attention to if you if you know you live in a shorter season climate you can see like look at all these flowers or remnants of flowers that never ended up getting pollinated so this is my sugar cane it's also a very early variety and a more reliable fruiter but it has no fruit on it so I think some of these just do better in other years and you know maybe I can figure out the pollination part of this my pomegranates have a similar issue with them but you know I don't know it is what it is I think we just have to deal with it maybe if I put one of these in the grounds I'd have better success with pollination but it's a really wonderful fruit here guys very sweet tastes a lot like honey a honey apple if you took an apple an apple slice and you had yourself some honey and you kind of dip the slice in honey that's what this would taste like a more mild version of it not as rich but really good so that's the video here in Jujubees guys I think we'll do a video on the perning of them a bit later we did one last year just to try to get them to kind of bush out better see if we can get that to work out to our benefit but yeah thank you all for watching this video on Jujubees definitely grow the man I've had mixed results but this is a year where I'm really thoroughly impressed so I'll talk to you all soon take care everyone