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Big mulberry tree
« on: May 27, 2023, 01:06:08 PM »
Wanted to share some pics of the mulberry tree at my father inlaws. Its really amazing how many fruits are on this tree they taste decent pretty sweet with a honeydew melon taste, cant wait till they get ripe!







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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2023, 04:00:50 PM »
Wow!  That trunk is amazing!

I planted a lot of mulberry trees and look forward to mine maturing into beautiful old trees.

Thanks for sharing the pics.

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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2023, 06:33:20 PM »
How old is that tree

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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2023, 06:46:04 PM »
Thank you for sharing.
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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2023, 07:40:57 PM »
The fruit is so good you pitch a tent and camp out under it
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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2023, 07:50:10 PM »
Bill, those fruits look like maie flowers.

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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2023, 09:48:03 PM »
It makes a whole ton of mulberries every year drops about half and sets half im not really sure how to tell male/female flowers on mulberry ill have to check it out. I guess the tree has been here 80+ yrs, an old timer down the road talks about eating from it when he was a kid hes gotta be in his 90s.
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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2023, 10:58:45 PM »
When the fruits are ripe, please take a few photos of the fruits, I would like to see how large and color of your fruits. That is a huge tree, never saw one with that large a trunk.

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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2023, 06:00:37 AM »
Damn! That's about the size of some of my oak trees lol. I guess my 15ft spacing isn't going to cut it :P ;D.
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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2023, 10:20:01 AM »
Ill update a photo of the fruits when they ripen up. Fruit last year was about an inch long, purple fruits.
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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2023, 02:31:15 PM »
I've only recently grown an appreciation for mulberries.

Back in the midwest I did some telecom vegetation work; the bane of my existence at the time was dealing with 1,000's of weedy mulberry trees growing in any available space throughout the power line right-of-ways. The mature everbearing trees had weak wood and dropped limbs often as well.

Now that I dont have to deal with that, I eat these fellas as quickly as the birds do. I absolutely love the tropical varieties.

Bill, thank you for sharing the images of your tree. The contortions on that bark are gorgeous.

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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2023, 05:16:43 PM »
SO! I finally made it back to the tree and found 1 fruit lol. My father inlaw said it didnt have a great crop this year for whatever reason, unlike other years when its loaded! Heres a picture of the fruit i managed to find it was really tasty very sweet no sour and honey dew melon taste the berry i found was also alittle bit smaller than normal. Wish i made it out sooner that one wasnt enough! Going to try to root some cuttings to see if its possible i might try grafting one if i can find that last rootstock i know is some where lol.

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Re: Big mulberry tree
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2023, 12:08:42 PM »
We have some that size here in Vegas that were planted back in the 40s-70s. Mulberries, olives, and sometimes figs were yard decoration staples because of how easy they were to grow in our desert climate. There's a steakhouse here called Bob Taylor's Ranch House that is still open after 70 years and there's several of them in the parking lot that were planted back in the mid 50s. They're massive.

Unfortunately, since then, mulberry plantings became rare due to how much males put out pollen and wreak havoc on everyone's seasonal allergies, and were eventually banned in 1991 along with fruiting olives. Existing trees were all grandfathered in as legal, but many folks opted to cut them down anyways due to the leaf litter in winter and pollen output. All the huge ones I've seen are male or sterile. I've read that mulberries can change gender from female to male once they reach a certain age, but I don't know how true that is.

While fruiting trees were/are still legal, the ban also halted all sales of mulberries, male or female, from any local stores. Only now with the advent of the internet and a huge spike in gardening interest as a hobby have fruiting mulberries started to make a comeback.

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