To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] fast fruit/weeping mulberry
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 09:12:03 -0500
Bill, I had an IL Everbearing that never grew. When the bad freeze April
07 killed it, I discovered that the rootstock that came up was pure alba.
R. alba seems to do very well in GA but around here they tend to get really
creamed by late frosts, and I don't think our winters do them much good
either. You might was to take Lucky's offer of selected rubras. Don't know
if he has any left, but I know that some Nafexer had great success simply
rooting mulberry cuttings. So it might not be too late to get started this
year. Dunno if you can keep them small though. Trouble with mulberries is
they need either to be small enough to pick from the ground (ideal) or small
enough to shake from the ground, or big enough to climb up in and shake. If
you spread (OLD) sheets on the ground, you can get mulberries by the
bucketful. Donna