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["Naomi" <dragon-star@cableone.net>]

If it does I know you will share the information.  I have been looking at
the Pakistans for some years with interest.  But our area of Idaho is Zone 6
just like Kentucky.
Naomi 

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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lucky Pittman
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:41 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] mulberry .........

Interesting story, Naomi.

We started planting mulberries, mainly as a result of my wife's fond
remembrance of sitting in the branches of a large tree in her neighbor's
yard in Elizabethtown KY, eating the berries along with the birds.  The
owners waited until she went away to college to remove that tree because
they knew how much she enjoyed it - so, I never got a chance to sample the
berries from that one, but there were a number of them growing along the
creekbank and in the woods behind her mother's house - but none of those
were anything to write home about - most I encountered were the bland,
insipid, white-fruited types.
There was a particularly prolific and tasty lavendar-fruited M.alba in the
yard of the farmhouse we lived in near Rocheport MO, while I was in grad
school at MU, and the kids (well, me, too) used to love to go out and graze
on that one when it was in fruit.  I still have fond memories of my kids
toddling around with purple-stained hands & faces - and diapers.

Someone mentioned Pakistan mulberry.  AJ Bullard discussed this one in a
POMONA article(Summer '98, if I remember correctly)  years ago.  He
indicated that in its native Islamabad, 28F was the lowest temperature it
had ever been exposed to, so was 'iffy' for zones 7 & colder.  On his
recommendation, when I got one, I planted it with the graft union below
ground level.  It froze back to the ground every winter for three year - and
they weren't all that tough, as KY winters go.  It would re-sprout and grow
8-10 ft each year, but never fruited for me, so I took it out.
I've since gotten some Pakistan scions and high-worked them about 6-7 ft up
in an unnamed M.albaXrubra hybrid which is grafted onto M.alba rootstock.
Spring should tell whether or not high-working will allow this and some
other 'tender', large-fruited M.alba selections will survive here or not.

Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY

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