この苗は、2024年夏に日本ナツメの大苗を買ったあと、その秋に出てきたヒコバエを鉢上げしたものです。高さ60cmくらいのところで摘心しましたが、去年・今年と樹高は基本的に同じです。 上に伸びられないので、毎年 一年限りの結果枝がたくさん出てきて、しだれた樹姿になります。
今年は夏の長雨で、実が小さいうちの落果が多かったですが、ここ２，３日の晴天で色づいてきました。
This jujube plant was one of the suckers that appeared a few months after I got the Japanese jujube tree in summer 2024. In winter that year, I cut the trunk at about 60 cm high, and the tree's height has remained the same ever since. As it was stunted upwards, the tree produces a lot of little limbs with fruits, with the result that the tree looks weeping.
This year, a lot of young fruits dropped off the tree due to the long rainy months caused by passing typhoons. The weather has been dry and warm for the last few days, and the fruits started to turn red at last.
上の角度をアップにすると、こう。
Looking at the above tree up close.
これは苗の反対側からのようす。
Looking at the same tree from the other side.
ほぼ全部収穫しました。実は小さいけど、甘酸っぱくて美味しいです。
I picked most of the fruits. These fruits are tiny, but they are delicious with sweet and sour taste.
その日本ナツメの横に置いてある
大雪棗は、この１個に赤味がさしてきました。この品種は晩成なので収穫はまだまだ先のことです。
Standing next to the Japanese jujube is this Big Snow Jujube. One of the young fruits seems to be turning red. This variety is late ripening, so real harvesting is away weeks in the future.
７月中旬の開花からこの２個だけが着果して、現在着いている他の幼果は全て８月の開花からのものです。実のサイズはこの２個が最大です。
From the first flowering in mid-July this year, these two were the only fruit setting. All the other young fruits are from August flowering. These two fruits stand out in size.
ただし実の形は多少いびつで、カタログ写真のリンゴ型ではありません。これら２個は少し扁平で、むしろ蟠棗のような形をしています。蟠棗は梨棗の枝替わりで、あの扁平な形を固定させたものですが、他に冬棗の枝替わりから油蟠脆棗も開発されていて、こちらは更に極端な扁平です。もしかしたら、この大雪棗からも平べったい品種が生まれる可能性があるのでは？
However, the shapes of these two fruits do not conform to the catalogue picture which shows apple-like fruits. Instead, these are looking a little flat, rather like the fruits of Panzao. Now, the Panzao was developed from a bud mutation found on Li Jujube. Likewise, Yupancui was developed from a bud mutation found on Winter Jujube. The shape of Yupancui is even flatter than that of Panzao.
Looking at these two young fruits, it might be able to develop a flat fruit variety from the Big Snow Jujube, too.
