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  • From: rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] T-budding Mulberry and Bleeding
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:57:10 -0700 (PDT)

By the way, has anyone grafted any mulberries to dwarf
or contorted rootstock? I would like to keep mine
small.


--- hector black <hblack@twlakes.net> wrote:
> 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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