Some damage but it looks like you’ll have fruit.
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Hope so!
Do you know how it’s cold hardiness compares to Pakistan mulberry? Can it take temps as low as 15f when dormant?
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Can we compare it to one green world pricing instead 
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According to the information above it survived the past winter in Indiana but took some damage from a spring freeze. But even the first crop looks OK. And any later crops induced by tipping will be perfect.
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The $50 includes shipping via USPS priority mail. That will cost me ~$20. I’ve shipped a lot of plants like this and am pretty good at it. But with today’s shipping service one never knows how that will go.
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If you’re thinking about buying a tree, Fruitnut might have some of the nicest of anyone I’ve bought from.
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OakieEd I’ve got you covered.
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‘JFYI Peaceful Heritage Nursery wants $50 for this size of mulberry plant. So that’s what I’m going to ask.’
My mulberry plants are generally a little bigger for that price (1-2 ft), and I thin to one main trunk. However, yours do look good.
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if you havent shipped them all out, would you mind snapping a few pictures of your boxing/shipping method?
Looks like both my cuttings and 1 graft are surviving so far! fingers crossed.
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Seems to have recovered well from the minor frost events we had here in southern IN. I am curious if grafting this variety onto IL Everbearing would help delay bud break. Just seems like the last few years its been getting really warm in late winter only to get cold again. The black walnuts have leafed out at this point so I’m hopeful we are in the clear from any more late frosts.
Definitely vigorous and has put on more growth than the feral hybrids here. It’ll likely be the first mulberry here to make ripe fruit.
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Hey Tim: Are you 100% sure that’s Siam Jumbo? I haven’t let a shoot fruit like that so far. Mine have been tipped or pruned back hard so buds aren’t breaking all along a shoot like that. Do any of those new shoots have fruit for about 6 nodes or are they like many mulberries and stop fruiting after 1-2 nodes?
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I grafted it last year from scion I got from Marta. Pretty sure its the real deal?
Im assuming that it’s not at its full potential right now due to stress from hail damage and late frosts. I would have expected larger fruit, so we’ll see how it progresses this season.
She had it labelled as Austurkey which I was assuming is the same as Siam Jumbo based on what I have read/seen online.
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I didn’t mean to question your credibility. Just hoping to make sure we’re working with the same thing. I think the best way to tell will be to tip some shoots after they stop setting fruit. If that shoot grows again and doesn’t set fruit, then we’re working with different material.
My tree is extremely vigorous. That’s partly the variety and partly because it’s over watered. As the pictures show the tree is out by itself and doesn’t have trees nearby to compete for water. Because of that vigor I thought this thing might have met it’s match on setting fruit. But don’t worry it’s setting monster fruits after the first tipping of new shoots. So this is the second crop now setting after the Febr 1 total prune back. The third tipping is well underway and will be setting fruit soon.
These are pictures from this morning. The second crop fruit is going to be huge and oddly shaped. The first crop fruit were uniform and cylindrically shaped.
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I didn’t take it as you questioning my credibility, so all good there. I want to make sure I have the real deal too! If it is the real thing I’m hopeful that it will improve with age in my climate.
Really excited watching it grow. And as always love seeing the fruit pics!
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That should be the same variety. Keep us informed and we’ll have a pretty good idea soon.
I’m asking the same question again: how many varieties will set fruit again and again after tipping like This one? I’m tipping my Silk Hope that’s outside to see what it will do. It set fruit right at the base and now has 5-6 nodes of fruitless growth.
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I’ll test on Valdosta. It set a light second crop for me the other year after deer stripped the tree of leaves and twigs, we’ll see if it does after manual pruning as well.
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