I may have cuttings in a month or two. My tree could use some thinning out. It’s a matter of letting the wood mature a bit.
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I had 2 cuttings from Jan come in today. Hopefully they’re the same as what you have.
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Hoping that Siam Jumbo is truely the same as Austurkey that Marta sells. I think it is, but time will tell. The fruit on mine looks similar to hers in the video, but none fully ripe yet.
If it seems different I may buy a cutting from you @fruitnut
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My Siam Jumbo and other cuttings, from Jan, went into pots Tuesday evening. All of them, pretty much, are pushing buds today. A few have broken through the parafilm.
this is my first time trying to root cuttings and I may not be following best practices. We will see how it goes. I hear that patience is a good quality when it comes to some cuttings.
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Howdy neighbor,
Well sort of. I live across the world from you, actually in the Texas pineywoods. I used to read the DWN blog and stalk your entries. That greenhouse. I’m not sure how you will sell your cuttings, but I would like to get one or two. Are you planning just an announcement or making a list. Just wanting to be prepared.
Thanks,
Richard
I don’t have a plan yet. My tree is growing so fast that I’m not sure what I’ll do or what I’ll have. I guess bigger caliper cuttings will work. I’m not sure how green they can be.
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Gotten close on a couple but birds are still eating them before they get ripe…hopefully theyll leave me some once the local hybrids start producing.
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Couldn’t find PM-function… Any chance you could send one or some cutting to Sweden? Or anyone else?
The tree now has fruit representing 4 pruning/tipping cycles. There is a small amount of overlap of first and second. From now on they’ll all run together since I’m tipping shoots every few days.
The last of the first crop are on the small side for that cycle. The second cycle fruit is bigger than any of the first crop. The fruit starts out looking miniature but grows up to be huge. 30 grams in this case which will probably be about as big as they’ll get.
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I got a thai dwarf variety cutting as a bamboo stake recently and it’s already fruiting less than 4 months in. Scared to put it in the ground.
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Yes, mine is growing way too fast for the greenhouse. It’s grown 4ft even with three tipping’s since being pruned Febr first. But I just potted up a plant that will start ripening fruit in June. It was started as a cutting in March. So, four months from cutting to ripe fruit. That plant may have to take over from the inground tree next year if not later this year.
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Second crop harvest is underway. Four berries from today that weighed 112 g, ave 28 g. And still eating the tail end of the first crop as evidenced by the tiny 2 g specimen on the left. I ate all for lunch and they were pretty good, not great. I need to measure brix next time. They get a lot sweeter if allowed to hang a few days after getting completely black.
These are big mulberries, fat and chunky…!!
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Those look great!
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do you have to prune after 1st crop to get 2nd crop? how do you tip prune? how do you know where to prune that is not too much?
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Pinch the tip out of every shoot every time it quits setting fruit. And it never sets fruit more than 6 nodes so tip every 6 nodes. Pretty simple. I’m on about the 5th tipping. By now they all run together. I tip every few days whenever I see a shoot that’s quit fruiting. Actually, I don’t even wait to see if it’s quit fruiting. If it’s grown a ways or looks like 6 nodes wrack off the tip.
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do you have a photo to explain that i think i understand what you are saying. but to be sure. I think you said 6 nodes from the trunk then trim. so basically only the new shoots will fruit. so does that mean the second crop will fruit from where you tip the branch? or the second crop will fruit from a new shoot from the trunk?
Each shoot will have successive crops along it’s length. It’s like a fig that sets fruit for 6 nodes but then needs tipping to set another six nodes. You can basically end up with fruit at every node. It’s not hard to figure out. Just need a variety like Siam jumbo that responds to tipping by fruiting again.
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So,that same branch will form new nodes?
When you tip, the top bud grows an extension of the original shoot. That fruits for about 6 nodes and you tip again. If the plant is exceptionally vigorous then more than one bud may grow. Growth from the second bud may not be as fruitful.
Some of my original shoots have now branched out into 6-8 or more shoots. One becomes two and two become four, etc. Last year with less vigor because it was recently planted, the shoot when tipped only pushed the top bud. So it became one long shoot of ~8-10 feet.
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