My Silk Hope mulberry has a second crop ripening now in September, and I was curious if anyone else has ever had this experience. It seems like it might be a response to hard summer pruning. Earlier in the spring, I had two late frosts that killed back all the new leaves on my mulberries. As a result, there were only a handful of fruit on each tree this past spring. I decided to give them all a more significant pruning than usual in early July to control their size. They’ve all put on a lot of new growth since then, but Silk Hope is the only one to fruit again. I’ve heard of perennial plants and trees that flower and fruit heavily as a last attempt to reproduce before they die. I hope that’s not what’s going on here!
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My Pakistan mulberry has started a second crop. It may be related to stress - the microdrip line got pulled from the source, so it did not get any water for a couple of weeks.
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Yesrs ago, before I gave up on it, Pakistan had all its leaves burned off by a freakishly early frost…like in late Sept/early Oct…
It releafed, bloomed, and set fruit, but had not a prayer of ripening cefore real winter artived
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Pruning will cause another crop. Youtube has some video’s of when to do it for best results. I have several trees and when they are done I’m overdosed on mulberry.
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I just encountered a couple of wild mulberry trees in Oshkosh, WI that are fruiting in Sept. The owner of one of the trees said that it cropped at the usual time in the spring, too.
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In northern climates Illinois everbearing will produce into early September
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My mulberries ripen fruit from mid April to mid June.
Gerardi, Silk hope, oscar, Lawson dawson, kip parker.
I wonder if I pruned them back hard late June (after all fruiting).. if they might fruit again ?
I know they will grow like crazy after that.
I will try that next year.
TNHunter
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My white mulberry are fruiting again right now, I think it’s in response to getting beaten up by the hurricane that hit last month.
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The hurricane stress response makes sense, trees do that sometimes when they think they might not make it. Mine fruited late one year after a rough dry summer, nothing like the main crop but still got a decent handful in September.
I’ve heard that works, but never tried it myself.
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