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[hector black <hblack@twlakes.net>]

We've generally whip and tongue grafted mulberry, pencil size or larger.
Bench grafting has worked fine - done in winter, trees buried in sawdust
until the buds on the scion start to push, then set out in nursery beds..
This is grafting cultivars like Illinois Everbearing to white mulberry.
 Hector Black, zone 6 middle TN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kieran and Donna" <redherring@tnaccess.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:02 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] T-budding Mulberry and Bleeding


> On the 4th when we were all busy in this country, Bill Grimes
> <wagrimes@sonic.net>
> wrote:
> Melanie from New Zealand asked CRFG the following (implied) question:
>
> I have tried summer T budding with limited success as bleeding of M. alba
> forces bud off. As we are in mid winter now, I was going to try bench
> grafting some 1 year alba stock and get some callusing under way before
> planting out this spring.
>
> I do not have any experience with mulberry and was hoping one of you might
> be able to address the problem of budding mulberry and bleeding.
>
> Bill Grimes
> Golden Gate Chapter, CRFG
> golden_gate@crfg.org
>
>
> This made me sit up and take notice.  I grafted mulberries this spring for
> the first time, and got good results at first, with takes on 8 grafts.
Then
> hail knocked off a couple of buds but the grafts still held, and then they
> all proceeded to die off, some within weeeks, others taking a couple of
> months.  I think they are all dead now.  And no, my local stocks are not
> paper mulberry.  Anybody have experience with mulberries?
>     Actually, my initial failure sounds like Melanie's problem.  Most of
my
> grafts went on small twigs or branches about 1/2" diameter, but the
largest
> tree was about 2" in diameter.  It wept a lot of white sap all over the
> stump, and the two grafts on that one never showed any signs of life.
Donna
>
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