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["Joe Hecksel" <jhecksel@voyager.net>]

> Joe,
> I can supply scionwood.

Hi Lucky:

I'd love a stick of the Ky native.  I don't think I can afford $70 
Canadian.  Do you have a NAFEX member discount?

Any hints on successful grafting of mulberry?  My success has been 
sporatic.  Some years 10/12 others 0/10.  I just recently did some 
budding.  I did it later than usual and wrapped the buds less tightly 
with the rubber band.  I think I may have been crushing earlier budding 
efforts because the wood seems to firm up more slowly than apples and 
pears. My modest success at grafting mulberries was what kind of had me 
leaning toward seedlings.

-Joe

> I've got two good M.rubra selections - actually, I've never 
encountered a M.rubra in fruit that wasn't good, but these two, I 
think, are better than the average bear.  
> One is a local southern KY native, the other is one I selected on a 
trip home to AL.  Pretty sure the KY selection will work for you up 
there, but can't vouch for the winter-hardiness of the AL selection, 
though if you high-worked it, it might do just fine.
> If you're interested in even more genetic diversity, I can put my 
hands on no less than a dozen different M.rubra trees here on the farm 
and on the way in to work, with no difficulty.
> 
> 
> Around here, M.alba is everywhere in town - any untended fencerow, 
roadside ditch, flowerbed, etc. is rife with mulberry seedlings, though 
callery pears are making inroads, and may soon surpass M.alba as the 
predominant non-native urban/suburban weed tree - boxelder and 
hackberry still predominate in the native category).  But as you move 
out toward the city limits, and on out into the country, M.rubra still 
reins.  I see its unmistakable big, dark green, sandpapery leaves 
peeking out from the roadside forest understory, mostly on the small 
county roads, and it's scattered here and there throughout the woods on 
the farm here in KY, as well as back home in AL.
> 
> Lucky
> 
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Joe Hecksel
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New math:  151 + .357 = 10-2-20