I much prefer the fruiting varieties, heavy producers if possible! Love those fruits, I'm ok with the staining, etc.. The torts get the leafs, I get the berries :)
Hardwood cuttings with some dorment buds preferibly, cut all the leafs out on some, others I just leave 1 or 2 leafs. The bottom part of the cutting I scar and expose the green tissue underneath which I dip in rooting hormone then and put on pure moist perlite! Everything goes inside a white bin...
All mulberry species seem to be great tort food, so I'm into them. Torts get the leaves and I get the berries :) I have a few of them . . 2x mulberry wellington. . Mulberry bombycis kagayami. . Morus nigra - black mulberry king James...
Well I picked some leaves and cuttings from some mulberries here in Portugal to feed my tortoises back in the uk and try to grow some from the cuttings if possible. One I'm sure it's a morus alba the other pretty sure it's a morus nigra. The morus nigra is in my family for generations, no one...
Wellington I have over 40 dif types of opuntia already all from cuttings :) but tks for the advice :) however if you know tips for hibiscus cuttings I'm all ears :)
My holidays in the Algarve are almost ending so I will take some cuttings of the local flora to my greenhouse in the uk :) already have some hibiscus cuttings to try and root and now I'm getting some wild opuntia cuttings :)
these are some of the ones I have back in the uk, much larger and darker leaves, but only single/standard flower. Of these I have red, pink, orange, white and yellow