Illinois Everbearing Mulberry

[BobVance]

@pileta

Did You make this experiment? I’m interested in dwarfing mulberry rootstock.

Yes, I grafted several varieties onto Gerardi. They grew like crazy, up to 10’ in the year of grafting. This thread has a lot more details:

Why Gerardi is a dwarf mulberry

I’ve been interested in the Geraldi mulberry for a while, hoping I could make other mulberries dwarf. As this pic from last year shows, it doesn’t. New grafts from 3 varieties grew 5-10’ in the first year, while the Gerardi only grew to 5-6’ in 6 years. [image] So, this spring, when examining grafts, I noticed something interesting. The Gerardi is chock full of flowers/fruit. I vaugely recall it having quite a bit last year, but I never paid enough attention to see how it compares to the …