Favorite Red Mulberry from Online Sellers

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Good to see a nursery offering some real rubras! Does anyone know more about this one?

• Daugherty #2 — monoecious Morus rubra selection from Georgia which produces both male (staminate) and female (fruiting) flowers.

Edit: I had sort of overlooked this about Daugherty #2.

The next steps in developing better cold hardy mulberries

I received scions from Lucky Pittman of local to him Morus rubra selections. Among these were Daugherty #1 and Daugherty #2. Daugherty #2 produced both male flowers and fruits for me, so it’s monoecious, and most definitely a real deal rubra. I’m excited about this as I expected all my rubra selections to be dioecious. I have numerous cultivar mulberry varieties but really want to focus on breeding the rubras. How exactly to do this will be a bit of a trick considering all the wild mulberry pol…