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- From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
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- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] mulberries - pruning to weep
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:59:51 -0400
Alan wrote:
"The only mulberry I grow here is Illlinois Everbearing and it too has a
mysterious tendency to check out with no suicide note. Sometimes they
get canker that I've never identified that kills the trees in a few
years and sometimes they just don't come out of winter. At least they
often send up suckers from the roots when this happens so you can graft
a new tree. They are susceptible to scale so oil may be in order.
They are impossible for me to keep in a small space but you can keep
them in-bounds by pruning them to a weep and summer pruning them once a
season- removing all vigorous upright growth. They make beautiful trees
managed this way and you keep a lot of fruit in ladderless reach. "
But HOW do you prune them to weep?
I have been trying for a year by pruning upright growth to a downward
facing bud. When the lateral grows, it heads up again. I have even
thought of training each lateral by tying it to a weeping form while it
is soft, before it becomes woody. But that seems like an AWFUL lot of
work.
Are there any other methods to try?
Betsy Hilborn
7a NC
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Re: [NAFEX] mulberries - pruning to weep,
Hilborn . E, 06/02/2009
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- Re: [NAFEX] mulberries - pruning to weep, Sheridan Shumway, 06/02/2009
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