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  • From: Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pakistan Mulberry in zone 6
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:12:15 -0700 (PDT)

This year my Pakistan is that color but in some years
it gets darker.


--- Bassem Samaan <bassem@gardener.com> wrote:

> 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.http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/Bassgarden/P1010088.jpg
> Here's how the fruit compare with other varieties.
> On the left: Pakistan,
> Greece, and a wild
>
mulberry.http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/Bassgarden/pakistan-mulberry-compariso.jpg
> 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 Samaanzone 6,
> Bethlehem, Pa
>
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