Thank you for braving the weather! The second photo is very good. @Stan - what’s your opinion about the species of this mulberry cultivar?
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Throwing it out there, Trader is one of two trees available from Hartmanns in our group order.
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Good to know. Perfect Circle Farm is now out of stock until next year.
I’ve heard from others growing it that it is a pretty typical morus alba tatarica. Small sweet somewhat bland fruit on a cold hardy tree
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The plant on the photos by @smsmith is a typical Morus alba, in my opinion. I don’t see any trace of M. nigra in it. Any claims of it being a M. nigra or M. nigra x M. alba are baseless. (BTW, I don’t think a hybrid of M. nigra x M. alba is even possible due to the difference in the number of chromosomes).
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These arrived from Hartmann’s today. They are as advertised, 2" plugs with 4" - 6" stock above the soil line. Two of them have fine roots coming out the bottom central hole.
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@Marco
I’m expecting one more shipment from a 3rd supplier. Once they hit their growing stride next year I’ll add them to my repository of mulberry specimens. I hope to contract out for basic cytology analysis in the summer and obtain ploidy data.
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How is the fruit compared to Illinois Everbearing? Is it small? Is Trader considered an everbearing as well?
IE doesn’t survive winters here, I’ve never tasted one. From the pics I have seen of IE fruit, they are much larger than Trader fruit. So far, the fruit my Traders have produced are tiny and pretty much useless IMO.
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