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  • From: "Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] training mulberries
  • Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:57:00 -0500


One thing that A.J. Bullard mentioned in an article
he wrote for POMONA, back in the '90s, was that for
'tender' mulberry varieties - like Pakistan, in his
Mt. Olive NC orchard(it had never seen temps lower
than 28F in its native Islamabad)- was to plant them
with the graft union below ground, so that in the
event of winter kill, it could still resprout from
the below-ground grafted portion.
I did this with the first Pakistan I planted, and it
froze and re-sprouted at least 3 times - growing 10ft
or more per year, before I dug it up and potted it,
to give to my Dad, back down on the zone 7/8
interface. But I forgot where I put it before it made
the move 8>0

Lucky


------- Original Message -------
>From : Matt Demmon[mailto:mdemmon@gmail.com]
Sent : 4/16/2010 7:24:29 PM
To : nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc :
Subject : RE: Re: [NAFEX] training mulberries

Every one that I've seen planted here in Michigan
has been grafted,
and died after 1-3 years in the ground. Unclear as to
whether it can't
handle the cold, or is graft incompatible to white
mulberry. I'm
suspicious, since I've never heard anyone say "I've
got a ten year old
Geraldi dwarf and it's doing great!!"

The berries, or rather berry that i've tasted from
one was very good
though. Not as good as Morus nigra, but better than
90% of the Morus
alba's I've sampled. If you want to plant it, I'd say
plant the graft
below ground to see if you can get it to root,
protect it during
winter, and pray.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, William C. Garthright
<billg@inebraska.com> wrote:
>
>> Is Gerardi own-rooted or grafted?
>
>
> The one I got (from Edible Landscaping) was
grafted,... unfortunately.
> When the top died over the first winter, it started
sending up vigorous
> shoots from the roots. But that was a white
mulberry of some type, if I
> remember correctly. And definitely not a dwarf.
>
> Bill
> Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
>
> http://garthright.blogspot.com/
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