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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 10:27 PM 8/21/2005, Ed wrote:
> I
> tasted one in Oregon a few years ago that was very good, but was told
> that it probably would not survive the PA winters. I have planned to
> graft some of the many wild ones with "better" varieties. What
> are the best recommendations for zone 5 ??
Ed,
I suspect most of the M.albaXrubra selections will be plenty hardy for
you.  In my orchard, Illinois Everbearing is the 'gold standard' -
large fruits, good flavor with a good balance of sweet & tart, and it
bears from mid-June through late July.
Stearns and Collier are good, though in my short experience with them(2
years fruiting), they don't bear over such an extended period.
As Jerry indicated, Silk Hope also has gotten good reviews, but I don't
have it in my collection(yet).

As is the case with many fruits, performance in one area of the country
will be different from that in others - Gordon Nofs sent me one he really
liked - he'd purchased it as Pakistan, but it definitely was not - for
him, up there in MI, it was better than IE; here it's a good, but not
great mulberry.  I'm keeping my tree of it, but I'm fostering other
varieties onto branches, but it's not good enough here that I'll be
grafting any more of it.

They're easy to graft.  I've done cleft, whip & tongue, and bark
grafts, all with good success.  Have occasionally done T-bud
placements during summer/fall.





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> How difficult are they to graft?? I get good resultes with apples, plums
> etc.
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> Ed Mashburn
> Central PA
> Zone 5A
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Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY