My mulberry and other fruits collection

Carld · October 3, 2019, 2:12pm

Some goodies arrived in the post today from Madeira Island

4 more Madeira Mulberries and some pitangas
Emanuel is really a nice guy, i bought 3 Madeira mulberries and he sent me one more as extra and a few madeira pitangas seedlings.

Gonna keep one or 2 Madeira mulberries in large 36L pots and the other 2 in ground

Pots for them

Luisport · October 3, 2019, 3:20pm

WOW! Very lucky! Congratulations!

Carld · October 5, 2019, 4:05pm

And planted the madeira mulberries
2 in 36l pots and 2 in ground

Carld · October 7, 2019, 6:43pm

Another acquisiton

Arbutus unedo / medronheiro / strawberry tree

Carld · October 10, 2019, 12:34pm

Look what arrived in the post today from turkey!!
Pink mulberry cuttings!!! Now rooting in pot

Mother tree

lilke · October 10, 2019, 4:34pm

Very interesting mulberry, do u know something more about it, cold hardiness for example?

Carld · October 10, 2019, 6:24pm

Nothing… its from turkey, so it should work here in Portugal also. Lets see how it.goes. i"ll keep updates on it here.
Probably i"ll buy more to graft if they dont root

ammoun · October 11, 2019, 4:13am

I’ve had those in Tunisia before, super super sweet. I wouldn’t be able to tell their cold hardiness unfortunately.

ammoun · October 11, 2019, 4:13am

How long did they take to reach you please?

Carld · October 11, 2019, 9:13am

They were sent on 22nd September and arrived yesterday the 10th of October.
2 weeks

Carld · October 14, 2019, 12:59am

Inga vulpina seeds now rooting
@Luisport

Luisport · October 14, 2019, 6:09pm

WOW that’s great! You got a lot of plants! Did you like the fruits?

Carld · October 14, 2019, 9:29pm

Luis, these are the seeds you sent me. 2 of them crumble in pieces in shipping but i still planted them and the divided pieces are also rooting…
Ive goot 10 rooted seeds

Carld · October 14, 2019, 9:32pm

Also i bought a reptile heat mat and a temperature and humidity reader to help in the mulberry rooting.
As i know some mulberries are very easy to root (oscar and shangri la i got like 99.99999% sucess), others i got 0% sucess (white pakistan, etc).
I am not sure how easy is this pink mulberry to root so i decided to add a heat mat to try and improve.
Any ideas how much the temperature should be around the rooting area for better sucess??