My aalst struggled these past few years, a lot of diebacks, it may be 40cm hight right now. My Saharanpur died, so my Geraldi dwarf. I’ve had bad luck with my order from him
Received my grafting tools, the first you pictured. It seems good stuff!
No refund from Lubera ? There seems usually serious. They have so good stuff, but soo expensive, i dont think i’ll order from them one day -_-
Now i remember i was disappointed by the look of the grafts from my geraldi and saha. Hope your ones will be fine. I defenitely going to try to graft the saha, i so much want to taste the melon-flavor of the fruits !
Ho i missed the hybrid, so basically it is the pakistan pollinated by a macroura (such a pain to attribute a species to a cultivar in the mulberry world) ?
Is there a report of fruit size/quality ? Breeding mulberry is hard because one has no clue of fruit potential of male pollinators (except of one selects for this for generations, i guess)
ait, i’m confused. If i’ve get things right, it is from a seed of Pakistan, and if pakistan is the mother, and is alba, it is thus M. alba x M. macroura.
I somehow missed your first post. Did you find some more information about that mulberry? I am thinking about buying one. It’s a selection of morus acidosa found in sweden. It is said to be extremely frost hardy for a mulberry. But I found one source saying it is flowering in march. Now that would mean it could never fruit outside in my climate cause the last frosts here I expect in April/May.
Update: Ok, I did it again . I found Mulle on amazon for 10 bucks incl. shipping and it is on its way to me… I hope it is the real deal however. It was sold much cheaper than any other offers. Such a thing always makes me sceptical.
I can accept the -10 C (14 F) for a mature Pakistan (perhaps 3 year old)…-15 C (5 F) sounds like a stretch…but through breeding I suppose it is quite possible. Can you obtain this plant? Maybe you will someday send some scions to your friends here in America.
Nut sore they bred that. Maybe they selected it for hardiness among different germplasm ? Hardiness of Pakistan/macroura is always a mystery, so maybe it is just some marketing playing with hardiness under special circumstances ? But i think Haeberli is a serious nursery.
No way to buy it from France now, maybe in a few years, but prices can be high for this kind of marketed fruits. Maybe @Austro_PawPaw can have more chance from Austria
Many people in the US would love to find a ‘Pakistan’ mulberry that could survive -15 C (5 F) and, hopefully, without major stem dieback…so please keep us updated!