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Jujube Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A hardy deciduous tree tolerant of heat and dry soil, picked in autumn and eaten fresh or dried like a date.

Jujube

Ziziphus jujuba

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

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Guides

Pests and diseases (5)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Rust

Disease

Small raised orange-yellow to red-brown pustules form on both leaf surfaces, then rupture and release powdery spores. Heavy infection yellows the leaves and kills them early.

Leaf Spot

Disease

Small round brown to gray-white lesions appear on the lower leaves, the centers turning gray with tiny black specks. As they multiply the leaf yellows and drops early.

Witches' BroomLeaf BlightBrown Speck

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