I’m looking for places online to purchase Mulberry rootstock for a reasonable price.
I’ve only found 2 sources so far.
Morus Tatarica
Morus Tatarica
I mostly just dig up bird-planted seedlings here around the house/orchard/barnyard, but did purchase a bundle of 100 “Red Mulberry” seedlings from the KY state forestry nursery, maybe 10 year ago… and none of them were M.rubra… fairly large range in caliper size within that bundle, but they are really just a big woody weed, so survival was pretty good, though I had to grow some out for a year or two to get them large enough to graft.
MO Dept of Conservation nursery usually offers mulberry, but prices & availability are not currently listed online. I’ve not seen photos of their mulberry seedlings, but Persimmon, Pecan, and oak seedlings I’ve seen from them were very nice.
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I bought 4 of the Russian mulberry rootstocks from burnt ridge late spring… this is what they looked like.
3 of them leafed out nicely and quickly… and I grafted 2 kip parker and 2 lawson dawson to them.
The one that did not leaf out quickly… the graft failed.
The other 3 have done very nicely… i have 2 KP and 1 LD now. They have put on 3 ft of growth or more.
Growing like weeds.
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I got a bundle of 10 from burnt ridge and they have been great
I even got a couple of the tops to root after I grafted the bases (and my success rooting is awful)
One of the rooted tops
They have a decent diameter 5/16” - 3/8”
They are M alba tatarica (a very cold hardy alba)
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@Lucky_P funny you mentioned that. I went out yesterday looking for young mulberry seedlings to flag for digging up once they go dormant. the small town where i live there are hundreds an hundreds of mature trees and even more young small ones that could be dug up
@TNHunter those look great do you remember if you ordered the 2 year seedling or the 3 - 4 foot transplant seedling?
@rubus_chief those look great do you remember if you ordered the 2 year seedling or the 3 - 4 foot transplant seedling?
@Fishinjunky … I ordered the 3-4 ft… it was quite late this spring when I got scion of KP and LD… and when I ordered from BRN… they had those 3-4 footers on sale… half price.
Perhaps that is why one of my 4 failed… they had been stored there a long time.
They all had very nice looking roots, quite large. I had to pot them up in 2.6 gal pots.
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2 yr seedling
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cold stream farm in M.I caries red and white mulberry for a decent price.
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I am willing to collect wild berries/seeds this year if anybody needs them. It would probably be much cheaper to ship seeds than seedlings. The birds deposit seedlings all over our yard and wild berries are easy to find growing along the side of the road.
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