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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pakistani Mulberry Idaho
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:25:38 -0600

At 07:07 PM 3/20/2005 -0700, you wrote:

I went to the Carnefix Nursery yesterday and they had the Pakistani
Mulberry. I asked if it would do here (zone 6) and they said yes. Okay.
So I took a flier on it. With a local nursery if it does not work they will
stand behind it.

I am very excited. No special instructions except not to plant it where you
or your animals will tend to walk through it.

Naomi,
I've still got that bundle of mulberry cuttings in the fridge - planned on trying to get some of my plant materials packaged up and shipped out to you and various others today.

Good luck with the Pakistan - if it's true to variety name. My own previous experience with it was that it did not survive my zone 6 winters. I'd read an article on mulberries for the Southeast by Dr. AJ Bullard, of Mt. Olive, NC, and while he liked Pakistan, he cautioned that in its native Islamabad, the lowest temperature it had experienced was 28F, so he recommended planting it with the graft union below ground level, so that if it winter-killed, it could re-sprout and grow.
Mine, planted in that manner, winter-killed three years in a row, and would re-sprout and grow 8-10 ft the following season. I finally took it out. I have, however, re-grafted it, and several other selections from FL about 6 ft up in a vigorous young M.albaXrubra hybrid, and the last time I looked at them, they looked good - hopefully, they'll fruit for me this year.

LLP





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