Today, I removed a mulberry seedling that was growing too close to the house. For fun, I cut 12 inch pencil size pieces and pushed them a few inches into the ground in two spots in the yard to see if they might root. After doing so, I researched it and saw a bunch of threads about rooting mulberries. It seemed that, based on those threads, it is much better to root mulberry in the spring and that bottom heat and mist improve the odds. I’m feeling like the odds of success for this experiment are super low, but it didn’t really take much effort, so I’ll leave them to see what happens. I put about 15 cuttings in the ground. Does anyone think that there will be some that take?
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I’ve done some mulberry cuttings in early spring and they grew extremely well and put some fat long roots out for the size of the cutting and grew a couple feet.
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Good to know. I have two other seedling mulberries growing, so I’ll probably try to do it in early spring as well.
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ive had my best luck rooting cuttings over winter in ground than any other way. depending on the variety i bet you get at least some takes. i usually put mulch around mine up to the highest bud then come spring pull i pull it back a few in. from your cuttings. good luck!
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I’m glad you have had luck with winter rooting. There was mulch already in the two spots, so they have a little mulch but not a pile. I’ll give an update in the spring.
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Agree with SteveB4, since you already did them; but it’s better done in spring just a few weeks before bud swell, dipping the buried end in either a powder hormone or you can make willow tea as your rooting hormone.
Dennis
Kent, Wa
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