My mulberries

[tortoisept]

All mulberry species seem to be great tort food, so I'm into them. Torts get the leaves and I get the berries I have a few of them . . 2x mulberry wellington. . Mulberry bombycis kagayami. . Morus nigra - black mulberry king James. . Unknown cultivar hybrid possibly (red fruits). . Unknown cultivar hybrid (red fruits). . Weeping fruiting mulberry. . And trying to root several cuttings of morus alba (giant leaves) and some of an high producer of berries morus nigra (from a family centenary tree). Meanwhile also waiting for 15 different cultivar mulberries to arrive . Mulberry fanatic here

 

[wellington]

Wow, that's great. I only have the fruitless ones, three of them. I like the berries, but I don't want the mess they can make.
How did you do your cuttings? Where do you cut and how do you then try to start them?
I have done cuttings before from Rose of Sharon trees, but just placing the cutting into water and when it roots, then planting it. I am trying that now with a grape vine cutting, fingers crossed it will work.

 

[tortoisept]

Hardwood cuttings with some dorment buds preferibly, cut all the leafs out on some, others I just leave 1 or 2 leafs. The bottom part of the cutting I scar and expose the green tissue underneath which I dip in rooting hormone then and put on pure moist perlite! Everything goes inside a white bin bag (greenhouse effect) which needs to breathe a bit everyday to avoid rot. Mine started to form some fungi on the buds so I immediatly took the bag out and are on my windows balcony. Put cinnamon on the affected plants (kills the fungi). Take 45 days or more to root.

 

[tortoisept]

Morus alba already rooting

 

[tortoisept]

Morus nigra is very difficult but I'm trying

 

[TortoiseRebel]

Have any Mulberry seeds or cuttings I could get off you?

 

[tortoisept]

No seeds, just cuttings I can get. But I'm in the UK

 

[Yvonne G]

I agree with Barb. I went the "volunteer" route a while back. As the volunteer mulberry tree grew and matured, I found it had berries on it. What a mess. Besides more volunteer plantlets sprouting up all over my property, there were purple splotches from bird droppings all over everthing - the sides of the house, the lawn chairs, the car, the tortoises - whew! Awful!!

Far as I'm concerned, seedless is the way to go.

 

[tortoisept]

I much prefer the fruiting varieties, heavy producers if possible! Love those fruits, I'm ok with the staining, etc.. The torts get the leafs, I get the berries