My mulberries

tortoisept

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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 ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442065937.873412.jpg. ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442065974.255749.jpg ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442066000.563491.jpg. 2x mulberry wellington. ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442066036.355801.jpg. Mulberry bombycis kagayami. ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442066077.846562.jpg. Morus nigra - black mulberry king James. ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442066121.407421.jpg. Unknown cultivar hybrid possibly (red fruits). ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442066191.539261.jpg. Unknown cultivar hybrid (red fruits). ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442066267.258905.jpg. Weeping fruiting mulberry. ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1442066296.641527.jpg. And trying to root several cuttings of morus alba (giant leaves) and some of an high producer of berries morus nigra (from a family centenary tree). Meanwhile also waiting for 15 different cultivar mulberries to arrive :). Mulberry fanatic here :)
 

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Wow, that's great. I only have the fruitless ones, three of them. I like the berries, but I don't want the mess they can make.
How did you do your cuttings? Where do you cut and how do you then try to start them?
I have done cuttings before from Rose of Sharon trees, but just placing the cutting into water and when it roots, then planting it. I am trying that now with a grape vine cutting, fingers crossed it will work.
 

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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 bag (greenhouse effect) which needs to breathe a bit everyday to avoid rot. Mine started to form some fungi on the buds so I immediatly took the bag out and are on my windows balcony. Put cinnamon on the affected plants (kills the fungi). Take 45 days or more to root.
 

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I agree with Barb. I went the "volunteer" route a while back. As the volunteer mulberry tree grew and matured, I found it had berries on it. What a mess. Besides more volunteer plantlets sprouting up all over my property, there were purple splotches from bird droppings all over everthing - the sides of the house, the lawn chairs, the car, the tortoises - whew! Awful!!

Far as I'm concerned, seedless is the way to go.
 

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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 :)
 
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