I got this e - mail a few days ago – Pamela apply me license to reply here :
“ Dear David ,
I indite you from New Port Richey , Florida , where my husbandand I have just purchase his childhood home . It demand many repair and improvements , which my husband will lean to when he has the time , he has done everything from roofing to catch lobster in Maine . I on the other mitt , have been focalise on the outside . The position which will be our garden some Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . My father in law ramp up the house 30 years ago , he had a garden and several yield Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ; among them mulberry tree . Two of them . One was attain by lightning and died . The other hangs across the driveway ( not a good place for it ) . I want to set out more Tree ( in better locations ) but do n’t know how to rationalize the tree and start others from those cuttings . The mulberry tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that ’s left is quite tall now , I would wish to snub it back , to a peak where we can reach the fruit and use cuttings to plant more of those scrumptious berries . If you could guide me , our family would be forever grateful .
-Pamela . ”
Congrats on the home leverage – it ’s really cool that you ’ve been able to give on to a piece of home chronicle . Sounds like your husband is a Isle of Man ’s man .
And … respectable questions . Mulberries are survivors . I ’m really surprised that a lightning strike belt down one . Mulberries are really bad . In fact , when the atomic Book of Revelation happens , they ’ll be the only food for thought leave behind for the make it roach . ( Which is good , because the roaches will in all probability need the vim to rebuild the banking system … )
Pruning mulberry trees is easier than with most other fruit.
How to Start Mulberry Cuttings
You ’re in chance , Pamela . Mulberries are loosely easy to start out from cuttings , with two exceptions .
I rule this out from Michael at theEdible Plant Project . The work stoppage pace is really inadequate because they ’ll render to fruit , rather than solution . You ’ll have much good lot if you try by and by in the yr .
There are Pakistan recollective mulberry trees with beautiful long fruit – those are really hard to get from cut and need to be ingraft instead . blood-red mulberries ( Morus rubra ) are baffling to root , as are black mulberry tree ( Morus nigra ) . I ’ve had blanched mulberries ( Morus alba ) root the light , but I ’ve had portion with all three after enough attempts . Rooting mulberry slip is n’t always possible … but you lose nothing by seek .
Pruning mulberry trees is easier than with most other fruit.
Now let ’s get to it .
My method acting of rooting cuttings is reasonably simple . I rationalise semi - hard Mrs. Henry Wood branchlet that are about 3/8″ to 1/2″ in diameter and 6 - 8″ long . ( That ’s new growth , but not so novel it ’s soft and green . ) chop a branch into multiple lengths will work . I then douse the bottom end into settle hormone and poke a few of them at a sentence into small peck filled with potting filth or cum starting mixing , then piddle well so the soil is damp . Then , I put readable plastic 1 - gal ziploc bag over the tops of the pots to make miniskirt - glasshouse , and rubber band them in property . This keeps the wet in . If the leaves and cutting dry out , it ’s dead . These pots then sit in full nicety until they root . Every few days , I ’ll pull up the traveling bag off ( being measured not to disturb the cuttings ) to let some atmosphere in and check to make trusted the dirt is still moist . After a few week , they ’ll protrude to root , and after about a month , you ’re believably secure to take the bags off for good . Just keep befog them once in a while with the hose until they ( hopefully ) take . Some cuttings may not make it – and some will mold . Do n’t worry . Do a bunch and you ’re bound to get some strikes . All of them may take – and in that showcase , share the bounty with friends .
When the cuttings seem full and established , I turn the passel over and divide the well - root infant trees into potful of their own . At this point , I also put them into half - Dominicus . They postulate to get acclimated to sun for a while . Full sunshine can cauterise the unexampled growth .
Pruning mulberry trees is easier than with most other fruit.
For a better bang rate on mulberry tree cutting , start them under intermittent mist like a nursery would do it .
Green Deane portion out an even easy method in hispost on mulberries :
“ mulberry tree , in my case , Morus rubra(MOE - russ RUBE - ruh ) arefull of life . One spring I trimmed my mulberry and used the ramification forstakes . They sprouted . Not one to get in nature ’s style I dug them up , gave them to a supporter , and they are still growing . ”
I ’ve puzzle some bragging 1″ diameter sticks in the grunge in my backyard to see if they would do the same for me – and it did n’t work on .
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Pruning Mulberry Trees
This is a small trickier . Because your Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is a declamatory , older tree , the jounce may kill it . But it also may not . I ’d take a bunch of press cutting first , and when you have some upright upstanding baby tree in pots , then I ’d take a look at chopping their mother down to size .
I know you’re able to severely prune mulberries without vote out them . I was told by the owner of the mulberries below that his tree get contract to the GROUND every three age and they grow back and fruit without fail :
Pruning mulberry tree tree is promiscuous than with most other fruit .
I do n’t know if I ’d be that crazy if I only had one Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , though .
If it ’s in the wrong shoes , I might cut back it hard … if I had backup babies . If it were my Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , and I was willing to possibly mislay it for the interest of skill , I ’d figure it off at about 4′ and let it grow from there . From what I ’ve noted in my own tree , they recoup remarkably well from injury , spring up newfangled bark around laceration and pruning injuries . It ’s good to cut it back like that while dormant , just before the outpouring blush , however . When the sap is up and it ’s pullulate its little woody eye into making a ton of parting … and then you turn off it … I just do n’t know for certain if it will total back . The trees down south are relatively young and are used to regular shearing .
Do n’t process me if I ’m wrong … but I ’ll still wager you could pull it off . New mulberry tree diagram produce and produce very promptly – if you have little 1 for back - up , you wo n’t have to go long without eating their wonderful yield . Take scene and let me know if you have succeeder with both your cuttings and the pruning !
And , if you fail on both , I ’ll send you one of my own potted mulberries .
