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

I agree with you but having gotten the tree from a very good local breeder
and nursery outfit I am interested in giving it a try.  We have not had a
winter yet that did not go sub zero.  The Carnefix family knows this.  They
have lived and raised fruit trees here for 3 generations.

Looking forward to your cuttings.
Naomi 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lucky Pittman
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 8:26 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pakistani Mulberry Idaho

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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