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- From: "Bassem Samaan" <bassem@gardener.com>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Pakistan Mulberry in zone 6
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:00:51 -0500
I thought it wasn't possible, but I wanted to try it. Two years ago I grafted a Pakistan mulberry on a seedling mulberry here in zone 6. It had survived 2 winters, with little die backs. This year it fruited nicely. The Pakistan was the earliest ripening mulberry variety I've seen, at least 2 weeks earlier than the wild mulberries.
Here's a photo of the tree setting fruit.
Here's how the fruit compare with other varieties.
On the left: Pakistan, Greece, and a wild mulberry.
As you notice the pakistan isn't as dark as I though it would be, but it's fully ripe. At first I kept the fruit hanging on the tree wanted it to get darker, but apparently that's the color it got when fully ripe.
The taste is very good, on a scale from 1 to 10 I'll rate it a 7 and rate Greece 8, Illinois I rate it a 10. The juice doesn't stain the fingers, the birds think it's a cross between worms and a berry so they prefer it over wild ones.
Bassem Samaan
zone 6, Bethlehem, Pa
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[NAFEX] Pakistan Mulberry in zone 6,
Bassem Samaan, 06/14/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Pakistan Mulberry in zone 6, Michael Nave, 06/14/2007
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- Re: [NAFEX] Pakistan Mulberry in zone 6, drosehngs1@juno.com, 06/14/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Pakistan Mulberry in zone 6, Bassem Samaan, 06/14/2007
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