my mulberry cuttings

[Tomas]

Hi,

I am just surprised how easy it seems to grow mulberry from cuttings. If I knew that before I should have done it many years ago. I just stuck them in the pot and watered. Took only 1 week for the buds to open.



Tomas

[fruitlovers]

Some mulberries are extremely easy to start from cuttings, but not all. Some mulberries need to be grafted.

[jb_fla]

Tomas,

Are these the Pakistan and Shatoot mulberries?  I can tell you from experience with the Pakistan that cuttings can not only push buds but even try to fruit without any roots.  I have never been sucessful with rooting Pakistan, though I have tried many times.

[Tomas]

Pakistan

[lkailburn]

Tomas,

Are these the Pakistan and Shatoot mulberries?  I can tell you from experience with the Pakistan that cuttings can not only push buds but even try to fruit without any roots.  I have never been sucessful with rooting Pakistan, though I have tried many times.

I'll have to post up some pictures of mine. I had my grandfather take some cuttings from his mulberry tree from his front yard(been there for xx years now) and mail them to me. Most of the cuttings pushed out fruit before any pushed out leaves. i had to keep snipping off the little fruit lol

-Luke

[FlyingFoxFruits]

mulberries are notorious for pushing leaves and having fruits on cuttings, with no roots!

The sap and juices are flowing (like celery that turns blue in water with food coloring), but roots are most likely not forming yet.

The pakistan will root from cutting though (and looks like u may beat the odds). IThe best rate of success I've heard is about 1 of 3 cuts to take.

Hope the cutting takes!  I grafted one that looks good so far.

[bsbullie]

Some mulberries are extremely easy to start from cuttings, but not all. Some mulberries need to be grafted.

The green/white tend to not root from cuttings, at least from what I have seen.

[murahilin]

The green/white tend to not root from cuttings, at least from what I have seen.

Yea I remember them not being able to propagate it from cuttings at Excalibur. They had to either airlayer or graft. I wonder if all M. alba species have a hard time rooting from cutting?

[FlyingFoxFruits]

a feller near me propagates white mulberry by cuttings, but not as easily as regular mulberry...he has about 60-70%rate of success...instead of about 90% success with red and black mulberry

[Jackfruitwhisperer69]

I harvested some cutting from a tree, the fruit is about 3cm,dark black, sweet, prolific and an early bearer! The tree is located at Praia formosa in Lido, the tree is about 15m away from the beach! which is not bothered by salt spray's!
This tree is really popular among beach lovers, the owner protect's the tree with broken bottles on the wall!

I used 4-(indol-3-yl)-butyric acid to root the cuttings!



I politely asked a neighbour for some raspberry cutting's! She gave me some and said that she brought a small plant with here from Boston MA, which is freak'n awesome because America has excellent raspberry cultivars!

[lkailburn]

mulberries are notorious for pushing leaves and having fruits on cuttings, with no roots!

The sap and juices are flowing (like celery that turns blue in water with food coloring), but roots are most likely not forming yet.

The pakistan will root from cutting though (and looks like u may beat the odds). IThe best rate of success I've heard is about 1 of 3 cuts to take.

Hope the cutting takes!  I grafted one that looks good so far.

Does it matter where on the branch the cutting was taken whether it leafs or fruits out while rooting? I noticed most of mind were end cuts and those mostly had fruit buds.

-Luke

[Jsvand5]

I have always had really good luck with mulberries. I take cuttings in the fall after they are dormant, put them in a pot, and ignore it until spring. I get pretty close to 100% to root.

[fruitlovers]

I have always had really good luck with mulberries. I take cuttings in the fall after they are dormant, put them in a pot, and ignore it until spring. I get pretty close to 100% to root.

The types of mulberry that root easily will do so whether dormant or not. Here they never go dormant and still super easy to root cuttings.

[Guanabanus]

But do they have roots?  They can groww a while just on top in the Spring.

[Tomas]

I am a little confused about the temp zone for Pakistan mulberry.  I have seen both zone range 5-8 and 6-9 on different nursery sites. I hope it will grow even in zone 10A where I live.

Tomas

[mangomandan]

My Pakistan does well in western Lake Worth, which I think is zone 10a.    It did get a little confused and it flowered in the fall, but a lot of other trees were confused as well.

[jb_fla]

I am in zone 9a zip 33541 and it does beautifully here.  Here is a pic of mine from 2010

[bsbullie]

I am in zone 9a zip 33541 and it does beautifully here.  Here is a pic of mine from 2010

As the tree grows, a grows it will  , they make a great shade tree.

[Tomas]

Hi jb_fla,

Wow, that's a beautiful mulberry tree you have! I don't live very far from you so that gives me hope.

Tomas

[FlyingFoxFruits]

Morus alba, white mulberry...prettier one I've seen