After reading this forum, I’m deciding to add Oscar’s and IE to my collection.
My Cooke’s Pakistan Mulberry (morus alba sp.) gets huge, but less flavorful berries. It grows fast but seems very sensitive to early warm spells.
Those pictures are from few days ago, the damage is from our only freeze spell last winter, a low of 29°F on April 5th and 31°F the night before.
I also have Cooke’s Black Beauty Mulberry (they claim it’s morus nigra sp.) Which a is comparatively low yielding, small sized berry that are very tasty, strongly flavored, juice bombs. If you pick them even a hair too early, they’re quite sour. Unlike the other tree, they leaf and fruit quite late, seemingly indifferent to random January warmth.
These pictures were taken the same day as two above, April 30th:
