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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pollarding a mulberry and tree decapitation
  • Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:57:08 -0700

When I was at Davis, very close to Sacramento, just about every mulberry was pollarded annually. If you wanted lots of poles for your garden, you just had to collect them at pruning time. The trees were all males so even when a shoot or two was missed and came into bloom, no fruit. In the oldest part of town you could find unpollarded bearing females. I even have a seedling of one. Morus alba, with small berries. It doesn't like our wetter, cooler climate, though, and has lots of dieback. Pollarding would improve it in that case.
I will say that in my opinion the pollarded trees looked great in full leaf, but ugly as heck when dormant.
-Lon Rombough
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On Jun 5, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Kevin Moore wrote:

I don't know about fruit production, but pollarding mulberries has a long history in China as a means of raising silkworms. I believe many mulberries along the streets of Sacramento are, or were, pollarded just for the sake of keeping them smaller.



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