Like a number of other fruit bearing trees, needs a hot summer for the fruit to ripen. Which PNW'ers typically do not have. The suggestion for our cool summers is to pick the fruit half brown and half green and bring it inside to finish ripening.

And like a number of other fruits, crops best if grown with another cultivar for cross-pollination.

I don't think I've ever seen this species growing here. A bare-rooted one I bought once at a local farm store and planted on Camano Island didn't leaf out.

Thank you both very much, perhaps this is not something to invest in:-)

Thanks T W Lim, I look forward to hearing back from you.

I received a couple of plants from a friend. The slugs ate them to the bone by the time I checked on them a few days later.
Mike

saw one about 4 feet tall today in bellevue. 3 year old never fruit yet.

Sorry to hear miketann, they must be quite small to be devoured like that.

Thanks sherry k, that's a good info. My Asian persimmons took 4 years to produce fruits so Jujube could be similar.

Both plants were one stem 3 ft. tall.
Mike

Wow! I didn't know slugs can be that bad.

They also go for pawpaws, I lost a couple small Burnt Ridge grafts to slugs as they would not leave the little trees alone.