I’d be very happy to get in line sir! Thanks.
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Both are great mulberries. But Kokuso is bigger and tastes a little better, which is probably why the birds don’t leave any for me.
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Nice color on Kokuso, I didn’t know the fruit looked like that.
It’s usually darker. These were all I could find yesterday after the birds had been in the tree.
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I know this struggle with the birds 
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Did you pick these or did they fall? Is there a difference in taste in Kokuso between the dark purple on the left and the very light pink on the right?
just curious
thanks - I have Kokuso but it is tiny
I have a Morus nigra that is 3 years old and quite productive at it’s young age.
Birds never touch them for some reason. They eat everything else in my garden except feijoa’s.
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Good for you! Starlings have arrived here last week and keep pilfering mine as they darken. Maybe it’s because there are too few sweet alternatives in my area at the moment…
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@ramv … how old is your silk hope ?
Those are some nice size good looking berries.
I have a silk hope in year 2 now. It was a shy bearer again this year and my fruit was not near that nice.
Just wondering how long it takes them to start bearing a crop of berries like that.
Thanks
Hi Trev, my tree is a few years in ground. But it has been in a pot for many years. Before that it was in ground and neglected.
It originally belonged to @Bradybb who gave it to someone who never watered it and it was stunted. We dug it out and I kept it in a pot for a few years. It then went in ground in 2022.
I suspect it will produce very well within 3 years under normal circumstances.
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Nice, my silk hope graft made the first few berries. I picked two way prematurely, then the rest disappeared. I’m suspecting birds. They’ve started getting some of the Pakistan on the same tree after having left them alone for a good amount of time.
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Silk Hope has to be really ripe before it tastes excellent. Pakistan, I’ve noticed can be picked a bit under and is still very good.
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Lawson Dawson graft left… Kip Parker graft right…
LD is now the tallest mulberry on my back porch… KP has larger leaves. Both are growing very well.
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That jibes with my small sample observations, thanks.
@Lucky_P … can you give some details on how that second flush of fruiting happens on Lawson Dawson ?
I am interested specifically in timing of pruning or what ever you do that makes that second flush happen.
Also interested in normal date span for fruit ripening during your first and second flush.
My Gerardi mulberry ripened fruit from early May until early July… some of that time the ripening was quite slow and near the end much faster.
I pruned it some after last fruit was harvested… but still see no other fruit developing. Perhaps Gerardi simply can not do a second flush ?
What about Oscar ? Silk Hope ? Kip Parker ?
Are any of those capible of producing a second flush of fruit ?
Thanks
TNHunter
This tree i came across in Charlevoix MI at a roadside park. No idea of fruit. However it looked unique to me. Maybe it is or isn’t but it is hardy enough for Northern MI.
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Trev,
I’ll admit, up-front, that I have never really paid much attention dates/timelines… but looking at the data on the ‘2nd flush LD’ photo, that was 10 June (2021 or 2022). This year, there really was no significant ‘second flush’ of fruit on any of the mulberries here… maybe a few on IE. They mostly just hit a big lick and finished way early.
As a result, birds have been decimating our blueberries… while we would normally be picking 2-5 gallons of BBs every couple of days, for weeks… I’ve managed to pick about a quart of ripe berries, total. The birds are eating them as soon as they show any color.
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