This post is of updates of three previously mentioned trees:
a Si-Hong which featured in What Would You Make of This Tree?, first posted on 1st October 2024 and with a follow-up on 13th December 2024 here; and,
two cuttings which featured in Miraculous Jujube Cuttings, Plural!, first posted 21st January 2025 and with a follow-up on 18th February 2025 here.

The Si-Hong

The Si-Hong just over a year ago began the 2024 season as this runty little thing I couldn’t help but love:

and which went on to grow these fruiting branchlets:

Which, being deciduous, all fell off over winter this year 2025, and so this little fella again looked as he began (I never took a photo, so yes, this is simply the same photo as the first one above, for effect!):

In the 13th December post update, I wrote:

But come the following spring, with their tree now settled in, there is every chance an extension branch bud will shoot and cause that tree to double and sometimes even triple in height in just weeks.

Well, a year later it is that following spring, and would you look at this!

I didn’t even notice this until two days ago. It just shot out of nowhere, as they do! Runt no more — that new, permanent extension branch has now not quite tripled the height of this tree in a few short weeks.

Here’s a close up of the extension branch coming out of the mother branch:

The very thin stems coming off that are this year’s fruiting branchlets, and you may even be able to see the flower buds forming on the upright one closest to the camera.

The Two Cuttings

Back in August 2024 I discovered two sole surviving cuttings from at least sixty failed others — jujube trees are notoriously difficult to strike from cuttings, like Japanese maples. These two were, quite frankly, miracles, as it wasn’t from years of trying countless other times. Here they are on 21st January 2025:

and four weeks later on 18th February 2025:

The stronger cutting was labelled a Silverhill, and went on to develop Silverhill fruit (can you see where leafcutter bees have been?):

which I think the Satin bower birds took. The weaker cutting never fruited and I have no idea which cultivar it is, as I actually fished that piece out of the compost after having a change of heart and giving it a chance would you believe! (All the others I fished out went on to fail of course.)

I didn’t dare touch them that first season, but they couldn’t stay where they were another year, and so I re-potted them when they entered dormancy last winter 2025. I was very pleasantly surprised by the root mass, and while they look dwarfed in these 9 L Air-Pot containers, the roots justified this size and I felt an Air-Pot gave them their best chance to develop further.

The delicate roots were probably a bit put out by the handling — and despite every care some roots on each did come away — but each cutting did reshoot this spring 2025. Here they are on 28th October 2025: