My Gerardi is just behind yours. Two little sticks of a tree one year after grafting. I can see the blooms held by the leaves. Maybe I’ll leave a single fruit on each branch.
My two branch tree is about 18 inches tall.
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I could be wrong here but I don’t think there is any need to thin fruit on a mulberry like you would with a lot of other types. I would only in the case of a freshly rooted cutting as I always remove the fruit as they come out while they root. But year 2+ no chance I’m thinning a mulberry.
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@Shibumi … and if yours progresses like mine did… first year fruit was quite bland… year 2 was better… nice fruity flavor and some sweetness. Year 3 last year much better… complex fruity flavor sweet and tart.
TNHunter
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Considering I’ve never even eaten a mulberry in my lifetime, have pretty low expections.
One good part about it being so small, I can easily keep the birds off of it.
And yes, I’ve read enough to know mulberry as well as other fruit often take a few years to produce better tasting fruit.
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Lee 8 Serviceberry seedling (I’m like 90% sure it was a seedling) is flowering, a lot, in year 2.
Anyone know what these things are?
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Devils walking stick? That’s the first thing that popped into my head.
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Me too.
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Looked it up and definitely looks like it. Supposedly most of the plant including the berries are edible.
Quince flowers
Quince and forsythia in full bloom
Juliet cherry blossoms
Bald faced hornet pollinating wild plum. Didn’t know what it was until I looked it up later. If I knew it was a hornet, I wouldn’t have gotten that close.
Things are really coloring up on the farm, but hillsides are still barren, but leaves are slowly filling in on the trees.
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I had never seen Trillium (or I guess never looked). We were standing at the edge of some woods today on a job site, I looked down, and I said “I know what that is”!
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@dkr06022012 … here in TN you dont normally find trillium on a ridge top or in higher elevations on the side of a ridge.
It is normally found from the bottom of the hollow to about half way up the ridge side.
It is similar to ginseng preferring cooler moist locations.
TNHunter
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same here. it likes shade as well.
They come in a variety of colors too… pink and white. The majority of mine here are that dark burgendy color. I find the pink and white ones on down the hollow near a 30 ft waterfall… in a very steep ravine.
TNHunter
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This one was almost at the top of a hill above some bottom swamp ground. It was heavily shaded, but we had to remove some trees and brush to run a storm drain pipe.
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Does it do better with a pollen partner? If so, what do you have that serves the purpose?
It is described as doing well with either an apricot or another P. dasycarpa as a pollinator. I have two P. dasycarpa, but the other tree doesn’t yet bloom and it didn’t bloom either last year. That is a little frustrating…But these are probably anyway too early blooming for me, I don’t really expect fruit (but am hoping anyway).
Maybe it is somewhat self fruitful? (Propably hopefull delusion, but still…)
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I know of only one source for this tree in the States & wanted to taste one & hear someone’s experience before spending the cash. Blooms with apricots; fruit blue like a plum, short fuzz like an apricot, tastes like…?
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Maybe I can tell you more this summer, but I would not count on it, sorry.