thanks for your input
I grafted a bunch of mulberries onto the Geraldi Dwarf this spring. I can report definitively that GD doesnāt dwarf the variety grafted on. While the GD is 5ā tall after 5+ years, there are at least 3 grafts which have grown more than that this year.
Kokuso Graft- you can see the temflex tape near the bottom of the pic. It was hanging loosely on the graft and I knocked it off for the pic.
I was wondering about that and you answered the question. Now I wonder if it would reduce vigor after a few years. Iād love to find a way to slow down Illinois Everbearing. After an early summer pruning it still grew an additional 8 ft. I donāt know if there are any slow growing quality mulberries that can handle 0 degrees.
I found this wild mulberry tree at the corner of my lot because the birds are going crazy over it. I went over to taste the fruits and I was supprized how sweet and tasty they were.
Tony
This past weekend, my kids and I put a drop cloth under our wild mulberry tree and shook the limbs. It rained mulberries!
Iāve now got about a gallon or so of them in the fridge. This weekend I plan to make mulberry syrup!
Those of you who cook with your mulberries, how do you deal with the stems that stay on the fruit? I canāt imagine picking them off one by one.
We eat the stems right along with the fruit.
They look so much like a blackberryā¦very nice for a wild tree.
Iāve always thought of them as a weed treeā¦they pop up in my yard every year and grow like a weed. There are some large mulberries not far from my houseā¦iāll have to go investigate the berry quality.
all this talk about mulberriesā¦makes me think I need to add one to the collectionā¦Donāt know that Iāve seen them down here, seems like they woud wellā¦
Jeremy I think you could grow the really nice Persian mulberries!
yeah I was looking on the Just Fruit and Exotics site they carry quite a few varietiesā¦I saw pakistan, but not Persian and they were pretty much sold out of everythingā¦guess Iāll wait until next yearā¦
Has anybody else found mulberries extremely variable? Iāll love a tree one year, but then be very unimpressed with it the next. I havenāt seen any consistency in any of the wilds one Iām tracking so far.
Yes. Rain at harvest is a huge factor. Dry weather equals sweet berries. Wet weather dillutes the taste.
That could be part of it, but I feel like my good and bad trees just keep swapping places. The white-fruited one that became my first mulberry graft 2 years back is producing fruit that isnāt even worth eating this time around. I was hoping to make a named variety out of that tree! Meanwhile, some trees that were poor producers last year are picking up the slack this time around.
Maybe in future years Iāll be able to discern a pattern.
Clark, those mulbs youāve got there LOOK as good as any mulb Iāve ever tasted. Does their taste match their good looks?
They taste great!
Mulberries are already coloring up! These are not named varieties but rather just seedlings I grow and graft.
My Sweet Lavender graft grew about 6ā last year and is loaded with fruit this year! Anybody have experience with this variety? Specifically, howās the taste and are they early enough to avoid SWD?