What are the advantages and taste of the new Taiwan jujube seedling variety Tainung No. 13 Shirley?
Do you like eating jujubes? Generally when the jujube season arrives, the sales of jujubes on the market are relatively good, so the jujube is a fruit we quite like. Let us now learn about its new variety! Fengshan Tropical Horticultural Experiment Branch, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute
Do you like eating jujubes? Generally when the jujube season arrives, the sales of jujubes on the market are relatively good, so the jujube is a fruit we quite like. Let us now learn about its new variety!
The new honey jujube variety "Tainung No. 13 - Shirley" released by the Fengshan Tropical Horticultural Experiment Branch of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute has a high sugar-to-acid ratio and a sweet-and-sour taste like first love. The fruit has thin skin, fine flesh, is juicy, and has low astringency, and its storage life is comparable to traditional varieties such as Mid-leaf. It is an early-maturing new star of high-quality honey jujube!
The new honey jujube variety "Tainung No. 13 - Shirley" released by the Fengshan Tropical Horticultural Experiment Branch of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute has a high sugar-to-acid ratio and a sweet-and-sour taste like first love. The fruit has thin skin, fine flesh, is juicy, and has low astringency, and its storage life is comparable to traditional varieties such as Mid-leaf. It is an early-maturing new star of high-quality honey jujube!
"Tainung No. 13" honey jujube is an excellent early-maturing variety with a unique sweet-and-sour flavor
The Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute stated that the Fengshan Branch has a high reputation in tropical fruit tree variety breeding and strives to select and breed excellent varieties with distinctive characteristics. In addition to its excellent moderately sweet-and-sour flavor, the "Tainung No. 13" honey jujube released this time has attractive fruit appearance, with a cute flat-round fruit shape that catches the eye, a waxy and glossy fruit skin surface, and an average fruit weight of 135-145g (3.5-4 liang), like a small green apple. Compared with ordinary high-quality honey jujubes, it is not troubled by brown spots, and its quality is quite excellent. This honey jujube is an early-maturing variety (maturing 105-115 days after flowering), and its production period is earlier than ordinary varieties, but it does not have the disadvantages of early-maturing honey jujubes, such as poor flavor, hard flesh, low water content, and high astringency. Moreover, although the production period is earlier, the fruit is also not prone to yellowing and over-ripening due to high temperatures!
Easy cultivation and management make "Tainung No. 13" a new choice for honey jujube farmers
The institute emphasized that the new variety has a strong tree vigor, flexible and elastic branches that are not easy to break, and rapid growth, giving it the advantage of quick recovery after wind damage; in addition, the branches have short and few thorns that are not troublesome, the fruit set is appropriate, and the yield is stable, which can reduce fruit thinning work and improve the efficiency of cultivation and management. Therefore, this variety has the advantages most favored by honey jujube farmers, including early maturity, labor saving, stable fruiting, a long harvest period, no brown spots, high yield, and a high rate of large fruit, making it highly competitive in the market.
