Update: Siam Jumbo mulberry: cutting to huge fruit in 5 months

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Those are rooted for sure. To me they are way easier than figs.

Here are my Siam Jumbo cuttings at about 7 weeks of rooting and figs at 4 weeks.

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Siam Jumbo seems to be waking up here in 7a Indiana. I really did not expect it to make it. At this point itll be seeing how well it will do against our enivitable late spring frosts.

I grafted two of them onto established rootstock last spring and they have grown like weeds. Hopefully they are actually hardier than originally thought.

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Wonderful posting Steven, I have to try it with your scions!
Thanks
Dennis

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That is spectacular…!! Made it through a 7a winter, wow. Never would have thought that possible. I am quite sure it won’t take spring freezes well. But if not killed outright it might just act like a tipping or pruning and you’ll still get fruit.

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If it handles 7a winters it will be a champ here. We almost never get late spring frosts.

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I have one on the northside of a vinyl privacy fence. I’m hoping it will act as a sort of colder microclimate to slowdown early budbreak. It does seem slightly behind the tree that gets slightly more direct sun. Hoping that as it gets older it will learn to stop pushing so much late season growth. I may have also over fertilized it😅

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A graft of Siam Gumbo onto M. alba with a help of hot callous pipe. It’s taking off.

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Looks nice Stan, do you intend to grow outdoors?
Dennis

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Sounds like a Cajun delicacy. And a nice graft.

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Thank you Steve. You have a beautiful set up going with the figs and mulberries!

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Thanks Dennis. It’s in the greenhouse just initially, I’m hoping it can survive our winters outside.

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My guess is that Siam Jumbo will behave similar to Bryce’s Worlds Best. It may start waking up in December like BWB did this winter. Fortunately for BWB, it doesn’t seem like there’s any die back on it after 18F in February. The buds are swelling up and still showing green.

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Interesting, I had been a bit discouraged by some of the speculation about hardiness. If it’s surviving 7a winters I need to get one! I’ve got a “cold” greenhouse I can put it in if it wakes up to early that should protect from the light frosts we sometimes get in March.

Looking forward to seeing it distributed more widely!

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The Macroura mulberries have had zero damage this year. I don’t have white Pakistan but regular Pakistan and DMOR9 which woke up in January have had zero damage. Despite low temp of 21.2 F.

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If anyone has scions in the future please let me know, I’d be happy to pay/trade for some. Been searching for scions to no avail haha

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Same here! They’re hard to find.

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On the whole internet I only found this, but I’m 99% sure it’s dwarf everbearing based on the fruit, it used to be named black austurkey.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1298181115/?ref=share_ios_native_control

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Those don’t look bad at all but Definitely doesn’t look like Siam Jumbo Mulberry!

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I have this Gunner. I can send you once the wood lignifies. It also goes by Australian Turkey, btw, if that helps your search :grin:

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I think this is legit. Austurkey, Austrialian Turkey, Siam Jumbo are all the same. Here is mine, squirrel ate most of the lower parts :rofl:.

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