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[rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>]

This is a curious practice. I have never heard about
before. I am glad to know that mullberries are so
tough.  I my just try to play around with some
seedling  and see what happens. I like your bonsi
idea.

What about growing in large pots?
How a about summer prunning (if it doesnt bleed to
much)?
Has anyone tried to espalier them?

--- Gordon Nofs <gc_nofs@hotmail.com> wrote:
> You can always multiple varity grafts to same tree.
> Then bark girdle and 
> graft that back on upside down. This stops the tree
> growth for 4 years. Then 
> do it again.
>   I only have 2 acres. and a lot of multiple grafted
> trees.
> 
> Gordon C. Nofs
> Flint, MI.
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] dwarfing mulberries
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> It must be nice to have a big lot to play with. I
> only
> have about a 1/4 acre city lot. This is the reason I
> am interested in keeping my trees short. One of
> these
> days I will move to the country.  I just I need to
> just try out a bunch of mulberries too see what I
> like. then I could ideally graft them on to a dwarf
> rootstock and grow it as a bush (assuming that the
> dwarfing influence will affect the new graft.
> 
> Robert
> 
> --- Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> wrote:
>  > At 02:46 PM 7/9/2003 -0700, Rob wrote:
>  > >Are you going to the SFF meeting in a few
> weekes? I
>  > >would like to meet up with you and discuss in
>  > detail
>  > >what you are doing with your mulberries. One of
>  > these
>  > >days, I hope I will get over there to see them.
>  >
>  > Sadly, I won't be in attendance.
>  >
>  > Like many of the fruits here, I first planted
>  > mulberries at my wife's
>  > behest.  She'd grown up climbing a big mulberry
> in
>  > the yard across the
>  > street from her childhood home, eating berries
> 'til
>  > she was stuffed.  She
>  > wanted our kids to have the same sort of
> experience.
>  > I'd had no real experience with them, other than
> a
>  > big productive seedling
>  > tree in the yard of the farmhouse we lived in
> while
>  > I was in grad school at
>  > U. of MO, but as was the case with the pecans,
>  > hickories, and persimmons, I
>  > quickly became quite impressed with 'em, or at
> least
>  > with Illinois Everbearing
>  > The seedling trees - one was purchased as
> M.rubra,
>  > but it's M.alba -
>  > produce heavy crops of small, tart berries, and
> they
>  > ripen about the same
>  > time as the strawberries and cherries, serving as
> a
>  > 'diversion' crop for
>  > the birds, lessening depredation on the cherries
> &
>  > strawberries.  The
>  > Illinois trees are better climbing candidates, as
>  > they don't produce the
>  > profusion of small, scratchy twigs present on the
>  > M.albas, and my 9-yr old
>  > goes out at least twice a day for a session of
>  > climbing and grazing in the
>  > mulberry trees.  Early on, this season, birds
> were
>  > getting more of the
>  > Illinois fruits than we were, but now they seem
> to
>  > have moved on to other
>  > targets(like the blueberries), leaving most of
> the
>  > ripening mulberries for us.
>  > At present, we just pick and eat, but I suspect
> as
>  > the trees continue to
>  > grow larger and produce more fruit, we might
> start
>  > using them for
>  > cooking.  I have made mulberry cobbler, and it's
>  > very good.
>  >
>  > I've had a chance to sample a few 'wild'
>  > white-fruited M.alba trees, and
>  > they're just not to my liking - some sweetness,
> but
>  > flavor is lacking -
>  > taste like grass to me.
>  >
>  > Lucky
>  >
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