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  • From: "Idell Weydemeyer" <iwgarden@earthlink.net>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] training mulberries
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:11:36 -0700

I have had almost no luck in rooting mulberry cuttings or kiwis (in El
Sobrante CA near Berkeley) but grape, fig, currant, gooseberry, etc do very
well. I put them in dirt or potting soil (or the compost heap) to root in
January--sometimes I have used rooting hormone but usually not. I scratch
the bark a bit just below each of the two buds I put under the soil for figs
and grapes (and have two buds above). Occasionally I have almost no figs or
grapes root but usually I get a high percentage.

I had heard that some folks in S CA root mulberries in November--a different
trick--not yet dormant--but S CA they also have a mild winter.

Some friends in San Francisco rooted kiwi--probably a moister and cooler
environment.

Idell

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:32 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] training mulberries


Richard Harrison wrote:
Mulberries root very easily for me from dormant
hardwood cuttings.

Richard, would you care to relate your procedure?
I've had minimal success rooting dormant-collected
cuttings - though I would have anticipated them to be
similar to their 'cousin' the fig, in ease of rooting.
I will say, though, that I've not done much more than
dip the base of end-of-the-season unused scionwood in
rooting hormone and stuck them in soilless potting
mix, with not much aftercare or attention.

Thanks,
Lucky



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