Pictures of your North Star and Montmorency cherry please. Bonus points for Gerardi Mulberry!

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Geraldi seems to be putting out mulberries. There’s a ton of the suckers coming out of this little stick.

Geraldi puts out 3-5X as many flowers/berries per foot, compared to other varieties. I took some pics last year and collected stats for a few cultivars.

Why Gerardi is a dwarf mulberry

I’ve been interested in the Geraldi mulberry for a while, hoping I could make other mulberries dwarf. As this pic from last year shows, it doesn’t. New grafts from 3 varieties grew 5-10’ in the first year, while the Gerardi only grew to 5-6’ in 6 years. [image] So, this spring, when examining grafts, I noticed something interesting. The Gerardi is chock full of flowers/fruit. I vaugely recall it having quite a bit last year, but I never paid enough attention to see how it compares to the …