You didn’t comment on Morus nigra?
Hey chriso…good to see your text!
Yes, I didn’t mention Morus nigra. My tree was still just a pup back in 2019 when I made that comment… Now it is huge. Morus nigra fruit packs a punch. It has delicious, intense flavors and is sweet and sour at the same time. But it does have some downsides to it. If overripe, it can be fairly disgusting in taste, and the fruit tends to get affected adversely by rain and high humidity more easily than most other mulberries. It is difficult to pick without squishing the fruit and staining your fingers.
The fruit has been fantastic this year because of a very dry spring here in Gainesville, Florida. Even though my tree is fairly large (about 15 feet tall and wide), I don’t get to pick quarts of fruit, as I do with my Silk Hope which is planted nearby and fruits at the same time. Birds love this tree and beat me to most of the ripe fruit.
How are your Morus nigra plants doing down in wet and humid Miami? I am only aware of one other person growing Morus nigra in Florida. It is someone near Lakeland. Hers are struggling and have only grown a few feet in several years.
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mulberry bleeds copiously here just as it does in wetter regions. Maybe am just lucky with grafting bleedy mulbs as so far have been 100% success rate. Have to say though that probably grafted no more than a dozen or so nigra budwood
this m. nigra graft even produced a berry this June, even though grafted just this March, which i thought was special.
donating this to UNR extension botanic garden-- found it unacceptable that they don’t have m. nigra!!
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Of 4 nigra trees I have growing in the same area which is part shade, two are about 6’ in height, one is 4’ and one is 1’, and this after about 10 years. All are existing with no special care, save for mulching and minimal organic fertilizing. The two largest ones have produced 2-3 mulberries per season. I keep hoping that once more established and larger, fruit production will ramp up. They are painfully slow-growing. The few mulberries that I’ve gotten so far have been what I expect from a nigra. I just have to be patient I guess. I have a World’s best growing nearby with even more shade that produced a decent crop this year with flavorful mulbs. It is at least 20’ tall and I had to bring it back to 10’. I predict that in a few more years, the nigras will be more productive. I knew this was going to be a long term project…
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Hi
Where can I buy rootstock that can be grafted onto Pakistani mulberries?
Thank you
Are you asking to graft Pakistan mulberry onto which rootstock? Any Morus alba is compatible. Mine are cuttings growing on their own roots
I have grafred Gerardi to a 3 inch diameter mulberry stump (bark graft)… it grew 6 ft the first season. No exessive sap flow issues.
I have grafted 2 kip parker and 1 lawson dawson to BRNs russian mulberry rootstock whip/tounge and had no excessive sap flow issues. Successful grafts.
This spring I will be grafting a couple more Gerardi, a Shellie and a red mulberry to BRNs russian mulberry rootstock.
Hope all those work ok.
It seems that some people in some locations have excessive sap flow issues with mulberry… but so far I have not experienced that at all. Will see how it goes this year.
I have a Oscar and Silk Hope that I bought from Lucille at Whitmans Farms.
TNHunter