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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:34:29 -0500
From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illinois Everbearing mulberry
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> Finally tasted some Illinois Everbearing mulberries the other day & they were really lovely.
For what it's worth, I just cut mine down. I had a couple of minor
problems with it (these might not be a problem for you), and one major
one. The minor problems were (1) some regular winterkill and (2) it
wanted to grow like crazy, while I wanted to keep it in a compact spot.
But the reason I cut it down is because I never once got a ripe mulberry
from it. Ordinary mulberries produce a lot of berries all at once, so
the birds can eat a bunch and still leave plenty for me. But this one
produces a few all summer long, so the birds got *all* of them before
they ever got completely ripe.
And the tree is so vigorous that it would have been almost impossible to
net (and it would be hard to keep netting on a tree all summer, anyway).
I finally decided that it just didn't make sense to keep it.
As an aside, I'd like to try a dwarf mulberry there. But the only one
I've ever heard of is the Geraldi Dwarf Mulberry from Edible Landscaping
(in Virginia), and I've had trouble with that nursery and that
particular variety. Does anyone here know of a dwarf mulberry available
elsewhere? And what in the heck dwarfs the Geraldi, anyway? It's
grafted, but the rootstock seems very vigorous (judging by the results
when the top of my last one died).
Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:44:45 -0500
From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illinois Everbearing mulberry
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> *Supposedly* mulberries can be rooted - their 'cousin' the fig is easy to propagate that way - but I've never had any success with dormant-collected cuttings,
That's a shame, because the wild ones grow like weeds around here -
literally - and I've had nothing but trouble trying to grow named
varieties. I thought about trying to find a good-tasting wild tree and
rooting a cutting from that. (Since they vary so much in taste, there's
a good chance I wouldn't be too happy growing a seedling at random.)
Of course, I'd still have the problem of them wanting to grow too big,
but I like the idea of pollarding.
I've already got more fruit than I can possibly eat, but I do love
mulberries. And now that I've cut down my Illinois Everbearing Mulberry,
I've got the space to plant something else...
:-D
Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
Message: 6
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 02:21:36 +0000
From: Joseph Richardson <joe_r_richardson@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Illinois Everbearing mulberry
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I don't how they normally come from the nursery but I managed to root about a dozen cuttings this summer under mist using hormodin.
Joseph Richardson
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