I LOVE all my fruit trees but this girl is genuinely the most underappreciated common fruit tree!! And if you're in North America, grow our native Mulberries!! The Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) and the Texas Mulberry (Morus microphylla) are the two species native to NA.
the thing with the fruiting is that the tree is trying to fruit too much so you wanna trim the tree right before or after they start to fruit. Way before they rippen.
@@sleepystar1638 put them pruning shears down Sleepy Star ;). they fruit early so enjoy the fruit & ya have all summer to prune ;) thanks for stopping by Sleepy Star, pkz sub!
@@morganflaherty9552 inexpensive trees and sweet fruit and a tress that grows for soooo many years. go for it Morgan! thanks for stopping by & Happy Holidays, pete moss
The absolute best mulberries I ever ate were from a 'tree' that was grown in our chicken coup. Rich droppings constantly fertilizing the tree and producing kilo's of fruit that we could never out eat. The chickens flying into the canopy to 'prune' new growth. That was 55 years ago and today, it is still there and feeding most of the kids in the neighborhood.
I second planting a mulberry over a chicken coup. You can just shake the tree to feed the chickens--they love them. The leaves are also high protein and can be up to 20% of a hens diet.
Underappreciated is absolutely correct. Everbearing types that are a cross between white and native red are unreal. In winter I cut stakes that are thumb diameter and 18" long and drive them a foot into the ground next to a dripline that runs daily. I get real close to 100% rooting success and if I remember to fertilize regularly, 8 foot of growth a year. I have a long growing season. They also try to flower in the first year.
whatever you're doing sounds interesting Nonya! i'm glad you feel the same way! they are amazing trees ;) Happy New Year soon.... Thanks for stopping by, pete moss
I got a volunteer red mulberry growing by my fence last year. I'll be moving it this week to a better spot in the yard, right now it's too close to the fence and eventually it'll shade out most of the yard. Hopefully in a decade we'll have a nice big tree that will give us afternoon shade on the patio but getting full sun for lots of food for us and the birds!
nice work Joseph! be mindful of staining fruit; personally, i adapt (like, take shoes off before entering home). good soil, full sun and you'll get a shade tree for sure! nice rescue on the Red Mulberry, btw! 🌳 👍
I love the video. I am looking for tips on grow8ng mulberries in the tropics. Though your video didn't address that, it was full of other useful information. Thank you.
Thank you Natalie! and best wishes living in the tropics! we'll have highs of 31 degrees F over the next few days :/ so don't rub it in ;) i don't know about the tropics although I grew up in southern california (SoCal). the tropics and so much life and moisture and heat, my sense is that soft, skinless fruits may be 'easy pickin's' for mammals & birds. that's ONLY my intuition. in SoCal, we have more mammals that eat sweet stuff :/. but as far as growing plants, they thrived in the heat. also, i'm a HUGE believer in microclimate; a specific location's sun exposure, soil, and funa activity is unique to a specific location. final thought: i just finished researching / writing about kiwis (heppy.org/kiwi). Papaya stands out as a highly nutritional fruit. Papaya grew on the side of the road in Mexico and the fruit is excellent for human health. sorry for the lecture -- i'm thrilled that ur in warm climate and that you visited!
About the mess it makes on the ground , we had a pet white rabbit , he got out of his cage and hung out under the giant mulberry tree, well needs to say the next day we had a purple rabbit but he didnt care he had a good time eating all the berries he could hold , he looked like something from Alice in wonderland
Susan -- we need a pic of that!! OMG -- a white bunny in Mulberry goodness! Toooo cute. what's bunny's name...maybe, Mulberry? :) thanks for stopping by Susan.
Hola Lara! + the native Red Mulberry grows way up into Canada (it's zone 4). now, our Red produces small fruits. she's still young, so we'll see. heppy.org/mulberries/#Mulberries_We_Are_Growing_in_Zone_7 i've had a fresh Black Mulberry and WOW was it good. grow the Red to support North American flora; grow other species if want large amounts of fruit. plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=MORU2 ************************************************************* + i don't have the names of specific cultivars but notes are: Black Mulberry (Morus nigra) "may be cold hardy to zone 5 or zone 7 (depending on source)." White Mulberry (Morus alba) grow in zone 4 BUT White Mulberry hybridizes the native Red Mulberry and threatens to replace it (you may not want to plant Morus alba if you have a native Red Mulberry population). ************************************************************* this is an excellent source (person and nursery) to but Mulberry from: www.whitmanfarms.com/category/allplants/edible-plants/mulberries/ and thank you for subscribing!
hello Kjaan! i am not familiar with the Afghan Mulberry :(. since Mulberry in general are tasty, I imagine the Afghan Mulberry is truly special! thank you for visiting!, peter
NICE!! well....all my girls have young fruit (zone 7). it also depends on species, i think. my Red Mulberry (started at 2') took 2+ yrs; by yr 4, she's producing good. my Girardi Dwarf is JUST a cutting, and about 1' and has some fruit on her!! (th-cam.com/video/qIUlhq0y954/w-d-xo.html) i'm NO Mulberry expert but fruit appear very early (like, now -- i see them in May); HOWEVER, it may depend on species; she just needs time; these trees live for 100+ years.
I have a large Maulberry tree and I just picked a nice bunch, it's a huge tree. Question. When I picked the berries they had some little pale worms in the bunch. Can they still be eaten after washing off the worms?
hi Ann -- thanks for stopping by! dude, i don't want to be sued! ;) i'll speak for me: i'd eat it. in May i'm eating Mulberry, Alpine Strawberry and Goumi Berry with dirty hands, and if the fruit falls to the ground, etc. heck, the Strawberries are basically on the ground. about insects: i'm certain that i'm eating a bug or two along the way; i'm NOT trying to eat bugs but, it's nature and we don't spray insecticides. healthy people have a healthy immune system; and, as of today, i'm not aware of toxic or dangerous insects on fruit. that's my $0.02 but PLEASE, be diligent and read and research and be sure you have situational awareness about the particular critter you're washing off. i hope this helped Ann. Thanks for stopping by and please subscribe!, pete moss
That is what I thought. I just washed and washed and washed with hot water, salt and vinegar. Not sure if that is bad or good, but no more critters. I will take your suggestions though to do some research. You are amazing and THANK YOU!!!!
@@TheAmbi42 you're welcome and thanks for stopping by! things like salt and/or vinegar are IDEAL for their inherent anti-this and anti-that properties, and salt & vinegar are natural. great move Ann! we sometimes rinse store-bought veggies/fruit in baking soda. the more i think about it the more brilliant the salt & vinegar rinse is! i hope to remember this; 'steal' the idea :/, and make a vid of it!! i'll mention "Ann M" gracias amiga -- thank you friend, pete moss
@@susantaylor8507 I'm up to about 7, but that includes a weeping mulberry and dwarfs. I recommend the nurseries I list here, heppy.org/products Starks is so so; treat yourself to a nice 4-6 footer from a speciality nursery 😄
by the WILL i have 100 mulberry trees been planting for 7 years, so many berries that the branches are on the ground, i have 900 fruit trees, 40 different species in guatemala on my farm.
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hey Margie -- cute cat!! ;) YES, it's totally okay to prune a little in Sept. I do. throughout the growing season I prune 1-5 branches for sure. manage the tree's desired shape by pruning the shoots ... shooting in all sorts of directions. it gets better: pruning the limbs that are not needed, during the growing season, allows her to push more nutrients to desired branches. hopefully the roots get stronger, etc. Finally, Mulberries are very tolerant of pruning. I've read somewhere about the Mulberry's milky sap (ie, prune Mulberries when dormant to avoid ... ?sap? or something). I see the sap but for small branches and limbs, it's inconsequential. our Red Mulberry is 10-12' tall and i'd call all her branches and limbs small. keep shaping and you & Kitty stay safe!!
My mulberry don't have a single trunk. There's just multiple "branches" growing from the root. Someone accidentally damaged the rooted cutting and instead of branching out from that stick, it sprouted more from the root.
not organized well, not delivered in a way that makes sense, still a thumbs up since thereis so little info on mulberriwa. But please consider my feedback.
HoneyBee! -- i only have "9,000" unpublished vids :/ you're right; i'm sorry HoneyBee; i'm working on it. i'm planting, planting, planting bbb ut to your point, i'll get a vid like that made. this girl was a little little plant -- shot in on of the first vid's i every made. th-cam.com/video/CprtkJmBDc8/w-d-xo.html
hey BA, they MAY change gender and if it can happen, it looks to be rare. no mention of that trait in USDA Plants & other quality sources. hey, whatever works for them.👍...
I have three giant red mulberry trees and they just rain down mulberrys. The birds will eat them and carry them off sometimes drop them and a new tree will grow. By far the best fruit.
Little Trivia on Mulberry varieties: Red Himalayan Mulberry: Very sweet, very aromatic (smells strongly of raspberry candy) which other mulberries do not have. Fruits are very long like gummy worms, the real "candy tree." Fruits as early as less than a year if you know how to force it to fruit with proper care and defoliation techniques. For most growers, they would say that this tree would only fruit when it wants to, which may take years for them. Fruits a LOT. Illinois Mulberry: Sweet, big fruits (3x the size of the native). Just a hint of berry smell. Fruits are slightly slimy which eliminates the "watery" texture from other mulberries. Fruits as early as 4 months old. Fruits a LOT. Austurkey: Probably the most expensive of them all. Fruits are sweet like Illinois but are massive (2x the size of Illinois variety). More berry-smelling than Illinois and native var. True overbearing, will fruit at 6 months old with proper care and will continue to fruit without stopping as long as it's growing. Due to its crazy everbearing nature, it devours nutrients like a hungry pig. As long as the grower fertilizes it properly, you'll be picking these sweet giant berries every day for the rest of your life. But if starved, it will still fruit but they will be smaller and sour. Taiwan Long (I suspect that it's also the Pakistani Long): The sweetest I've ever tasted and it wasn't even grown properly. Tastes more like sugar than a fruit. Fruits are long like the Red Himalayan but smell less fragrant. Not everbearing but fruits a lot more than others like CRAZY when it's fruiting time. Each node will produce 4 long fruits compared to others which only produce two fruits per node. NOTE: These mulberries I sampled were grown in the Philippines where there's a lot of sun and rain. Since there is no winter here and the sun is hot all year round, all mulberries grown here can become everbearing with defoliation techniques and proper fertilization.
WOW!! double Wow! are you ok if i use this content on our webpage? well...i'll store the info and dive into it anyways :/. the Red Himalayan & Austurkey Mulberries are instantly on my radar. i really like your writing style too, btw! let me know if you want to write for us. your writing is succinct, humorous and info-rich. anywho, thank you for the info Kitchen & Garden Venture -- thanks for stopping by!
We have 5 mulberry trees. In our growing zone you can literally take a 1/2 cutting about 12” long, do nothing to it, push it into the ground, and the next year it will be a thriving small tree and have fruit on it. In two years it will be 12 ft tall. We’ve put stripped fence posts in made of cut mulberry limbs and they grow into huge trees.
@@Ravey100 The variety that grows best in our area is called Illinois Everbearing. It produced enormous quantities of large 2” high quality sweet fruit and grows crazy fast.
Definitely the most underappreciated. An apartment complex I lived at had one that was 40 ft in diameter. We would get a pint a day for 3 weeks with 5 minutes of picking. But it can be a nuisance, with the staining. When fully ripe its almost pure sweetness and closer to a blueberry. But really a flavor thats of itself. Love em. I have a large one at my new house, but I soon found out that it was a male flower only tree, which I didnt know existed. I was rather disappointed. I've transplanted about 50 of them in a 1/4 acre area. In the country you can find them growing around every fence and underneath most trees (from bird droppings). Its going to be interesting how it turns out. Plan to utilize it in part for firewood. We'll see how it turns out.
Yes, you know Mulberry, given the 50 trees! ;) I'm sincerely glad you're enjoying the fruit and tree . My comment, 'most underappreciated' fruit tree, just blurted out as I had just learned about how cool this tree is! Am glad you're on board ;) Thanks for stopping by!
I bought an Illinois Everbearing mulberry from One Green World in Oregon to complement my 3 wild mulberry trees. She is such a wonderful producer of exceptionally long berries, up to 1.25 inches, from the normal fruiting period all the way thru mid-autumn. I will use the info in the comments to propagate a couple of more. I freeze the berries. My favorite way to eat them is in a pile, drowned in unsweetened soy milk and walnuts. Makes a nice sorbet. One of my wild ones has white berries and is exceptionally sweet so I mix them into the slightly for tart purple ones.
@elizabethfletcher1487 ❤️❤️❤️. I'm so happy to hear about your success!! Long fruiting season, sweet fruit and the enjoyment! It's an amazing tree and delicious fruit! Glad you're on board! Thanks for stopping by and for the feedback! Sincerely, Pete Moss 🐞
I sorta blurted-out the comment, most underprepared common fruiting tree! The are! But maybe not under appreciated.... 90 yrs old and still producing. Very nice! Thanks for the feedback!
Under appreciated fruit? Not for me. Since i discovered mulberry, my summers won't ever be ok if I don't get to eat some of the tasty fruits. Living in New York, where they grow everywhere, half of my summers are spent finding new trees and eating mulberries. I have really deep appreciation for this fruit.
female plants are the only ones that fruit I believe. Not sure if you knew this. But maybe thats why he calls them she. I dont know for sure though. lol
I'm going to attempt some grafts from multiple mulberry scions on to one rootstock... White, Red, and Pakistani... Gathering the dormant scions this fall, then going to graft before the buds break in the spring.
candidly, i've procrastinated with learning to graft but once i develop the skill, that's EXCATLY the ideal solution (i think ;). graft a wonderful variety of scion to one tree. one space & one trunk producing a variety of fruit. it'll be an outstanding tree Truth Serum! send pics or something, and thanks for stopping by, pete moss
I split my time between my home in Texas and Utah. When I was home (Texas) in April, a volunteer mulberry growing in my fence line was fruiting, and boy was I surprised! I plan to keep the tree since I quite enjoy the fruit and will be doing some judicious pruning to keep it manageable.
nice! they provide excellent fruit and are prolific fruiters. but yes, trim & shape her as you'd like but starting early is ideal ;) Mulberries can truly be shaped in any way. nice parts of the country -- TX & UT!
Looks wonderful, I got 1 like 35 ft tall, and the peacocks fly into it and shake the tree, and like 100 chickens is waiting to eat them at the bottom, I tried to send uall a pic, but it won't let me on here, or I'm not smart enough to do it correctly, lol!.
I have 13 dwarf mulberry trees in my backyard. They are so easy to propagate. I maintained them to about 6 feet in height. They produced hundreds of sweet fruits similar to blackberry but smaller in size.
NICE!! 13 of them is a very nice collection! you don't have to answer but i wonder what varieties you have, and in what part of the world are you located in?
I love mulberries but has anyone else noticed the tiny bugs on them? They are on literally all the mulberriy fruit I have ever picked. They look like tiny white worms.
@heppylifestyle ah, they are very very tiny. Look very closely. You'll see them. You can use a magnifying glass to look at them. I eat them anyway but they are literally on every mulberry I pick in the mid Atlantic. Look carefully because you won't notice them if you don't look. Very tiny skinny white worms with legs. No more than a millimeter long.
We planted a white mulberry (about five feet tall) here in Portugal this spring and, bless her heart, we got delicious berries all through June. And I mean DELICIOUS berries. Looking forward to her growing bigger and producing still more in the years to come. Thanks very much for this video.
Hello Portugal! glad the fruit was delicious! i hear the white Mulberries are tasty. keep her trimmed to grow large branches sideways, if you can / if you have the time :). Mulberry will tolerate major pruning. enjoy the fruit and Portugal!
I got a mulberry tree and it grew really beautiful in 2 yrs. But I only get a 1/4 inch (maybe) of this little white mulberry and then it falls off. Can anybody tell me why they don't seem to mature?
i'm sorry to hear that (fruit fall). i'm not sure if it's a pollination issue or minerals. i'd have to do a lot reading i'm thinking that a companion Mulberry is needed for pollination or weather; however, it may be still too young (fruit fall is more common in young trees) some possibilities are here: www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/fruitless-mulberry/mulberry-fruit-drop.htm i hope you discover a solution!
Thank you for making this video. I let my tree grow upwards bc I need it to shade the house fr the afternoon sun and the privacy screen fr my next-door neighbor. I love my mulberry tree even though the fruits stain the concrete floors by the swimming pool. Either the birds drop them mid-flight, they throw up, or I undeliberately spread them with my feet while doing garden chores. The intense heat of the AZ desert sun bleaches the stains within one month so I don't worry too much about them. What's nice is there are so many fruits produced that I can share with different kinds of birds. It's a treat to watch them hang out in my backyard bc they love organic berries!
Well, there is some sagging but it depends on how it's trimmed too; overall, the tendency is for branches to grow upward :/. Up up and away! I need to trim them and post the vid. ;)
that's a happy story, sad story!! we need to change ur name ;) glad you had some fruit! in Karachi -- that's awesome! thanks for stopping by and please subscribe!, pete moss
you're right Patrick -- deer are a major issue. they got to this Red Mulberry when it was young and just about ate it to death. only a few plants are not eaten by deer here at HEPPY. thanks for stopping by & please subscribe, pete moss
I was told to compost fresh leaves away from trees, they heat up in the process of decomposition and may damage your plant(s)… very informative video though… 👍🏼👍🏼
well thank you reloading & shooting! 100+ years of food!?!?! that's productive. with the leaves, i think the amount matters, and the tree's maturity. you definitely need to be mindful of what you do with younger trees (like ours). thanks for stopping by!
I"m so glad I happened upon this today. Just 2 days ago, I discovered a red mulberry tree growing out of the north side of a patch of woods. It gets a lot of shade but also some sun. Honeysuckle was growing all over it and I cleared that out. The tree seems to have two trunks and they are leaning way out. There is no way I can straighten them. I hope it will be okay! I've been going out twice a day and eating the little bits of fruit. I am thinking that I'll try to clear around it a little more and start putting mulch and compost there to help it along. Any thoughts?
Thought 1 is -- great job in rescuing her! The Red (and most Mulberries) can be difficult to identify but, our Red Mulberry does make smaller fruits, that turn from red to black when ripe. they can tolerate a heavy prune if you want to correct the leaning (if a correction is possible). the care you're giving will make it bounce back nicely. nice work! thank you for stopping by!
@miztri fantastic question!! it's 2024 (3 yrs later) and this year they grew too long (laterally) and the ends are sagging to 1-2'off the ground with fruit! I picked the fruit, then tip pruned (2-4 feet) the sagging limbs, and the limbs sprung back up! Tip prune back 2-4 feet -- prune back to the next bud that's growing laterally at a ~45 degree angle. your intuition is 100% correct -- many tree limbs would break. however, the Mulberry limbs are very flexible causing them to sag when too long; then, tip prune to find the "sweet spot" for continued lateral growth.
Thanks for the pruning tips. We have a mulberry plant on our fence line that shot up out of nowhere. More than likely it was transported and planted via 🐦 💩. But it thickened up so fast we decided to keep it, rather than keep the fence line clean, but we wanted it to be manageable so your pruning ideas helped.
sorry Owen for the falling fruit and because i'm writing really fast (am feverishly planting while spring just arrived). *** it could be water; is she getting adequate water. *** minerals. minerals is a subject i need to learn A LOT more about. deficiencies in a mineral or two can cause fruit fall. we're exploring some seaweed something of another. i'm need time to learn & experiment.... *** some fruit fall is normal; a lot is not. there's an answer but i can't confidently help (right now :( ) thanks for stopping by and plz sub'!, pete moss
I really enjoyed this video, I also love mulberries. I have a small farm that has a lot of wild mulberries on the land that are apparently all the same kind. They have small dark purple berries in abundance. My favorite one is a very beautiful tree of about 5 years of age and grows inside my enclosed back yard. This last season she gave us over a dozen gallons of berries. I go out and pick every other day and I just love doing it. Another reason to love mulberries is that they have a pretty good amount of protein in them if you eat the whole fruit (with seeds still in). As you mentioned, even without the seeds, mulberries are one of the healthiest fruits out there. Thank you for taking the time to make such a great video!
well thank you Jennifer! a dozen gallons of fruit!?!? very nice! oh yes, seeds & all -- it's all healthy. sounds like a nice lil' farm. thanks for stopping by, pete moss
Q: can you help me identify my mulberry? As a child we had a giant mulberry tree in our back yard. It was 30 feet tall and the trunk was easily 3 feet wide. The fruit was very dark and looked a lot like a black berry, not as long as other mulberry that I've seen. I've never seen one since.
hi Kristen. there are SO many varieties that all i could do is guess at it. heck, you may have had a variety that's no longer cultivated. BUT you're on the right track by looking at the fruit! i believe the fruit size, color and shape is your best opportunity to ID her. leaf shape is another tool. i wasn't much help but thanks for stopping by. plz subscribe and be good!, pete moss.
😢 I'm very sad as I sit outside looking at my White Mulberry thats coming down tomorrow because it's compromised with a huge root coming up. A large branch fell of a week ago. I never actually ate 1 of the berries, but my dog has eaten them. I'm really gonna miss this tree...😢
sorry to hear about it :(. smart dog ;) probably too late to graph a piece onto a potted Mulberry? Mulberry get big and yes, will become a nuisance if near a home, driveway or walkways :(. they grow and produce fruit for generations....
@@heppylifestyle 😢 It was cut down yesterday. The evening before I took a bunch of cuttings and left all with about 1/4 of a leaf still on them and put them into a large glass vase with some water in them. I'm hoping to get at least 1 of them to take (I have maybe 15 or so cuttings). I don't know if rooting hormone is necessary for these 🤷🏻♂️. I may just try to stick them into some soil and hope for the best. Do you have any advice for cuttings?
@@user-ck3ke4cj1h :( i have no experience rooting Mulberry. for rooting Rosemary in water, i don't put too many into in glass. a spray cuttings with water ~3 times a day to reduce dehydration. maybe try a mix of moist peat moss (or Coco Fiber) and perlite. bury 2-4 cuttings laterally, 1/2" deep. rooting hormone + Mulberry probably assures success. growingfruit.org has REALLY smart gardeners. i searched mulberry cuttings. growingfruit.org/t/rooting-mulberry-cutting/43436/5. there's a vid at the end showing what rooting hormone did for him (was successful). doggie has no tree :( hang in there J and thanks for stopping by!
Our park had a mulberry tree that a stormed killed years ago. This month I’m planting one in my backyard. Boy will my family be surprised and horrified because the trees can become giants. But I’ll be a-pruning.😁
snip snip snip. great job getting a Mulberry in the ground! and yup, you'll be prunin'. hope y'all did ok through the storm (at least, did better than the Mulberry tree :( if you have time, develop it's frame early on, i recommend. get at least 4 major limbs growing 4 different directions. she'll want to grow upward but u can 'sculpt' (prune) the Mulberry into any shape. i like my limbs just over my bald head ;) ur family will enjoy the fruit and it's damn healthy! carry on readysetsuccess, and thanks for stopping by.
Most Mulberry do NOT need a male to produce fruit. There are rare exceptions but likely not an issue unless you buy an unusual cultivar (like a male Weeping Mulberry). Geeky stuff: Mulberry are primarily monoecious (male and female flowers on the same plant [self-fertile]). Some, I've read, can change sex or something; some have an odd flowering situation. the latter will ~not~ be an issue for you if you stick with a well-known cultivar. i hope that helped Bianca. plz subscribe and thanks for stopping by!
I ordered 2 in the mail and the seller said they are small round trees about 10 ft in height when matures, is this correct? Then a friend told me that they would grow huge as big as 30+ ft. Then they are invasive.
Hello Me Too! come-on man ... it depends! ;) The Texas and Red are native to North America; however, some are invasive and some are...sorta invasive (i'm not being a smart ass; the Red gets dominated by non-natives). Height: typically, they are large trees. ur friend is correct -- 30' if not trimmed. but i just bought a dwarf cultivar (th-cam.com/video/qIUlhq0y954/w-d-xo.html). others many top-out at 20'. a 10' tall Mulberry is not typical; and yes, some are invasive while others are native. read a lot more here: heppy.org/mulberry plz subscribe, pete moss
@@carrasco2011sc it should have a label -- the cultivar (variety) name, like Illinois Everbearing or Kokuso Korean or Girardi Dwarf, etc. cultivar (variety) name generally 'points' to the species, Morus alba, Morus rubra, Morus nigra, etc. the cultivar-name + species = the tree's tendencies and it's place within ur continent. ;) i hope that made sense.... be well, pete moss
@@heppylifestyleIn Asian culture, it is typically from the leaves of the white mulberry tree. That may or may not be because of availability. White mulberry has been selectively bred for a few thousand years because it's leaves feed the silk worm in a way that causes them to produce evenly sized silk threads.
when: about any time. it's about to get hot here so i'll plant a bare root Pakistani Mulberry and put shade cloth over her. prepare: the bigger the hole and the more organicy you make it, the faster she'll grow and the less watering you'll need to do. it also depends on the soil u have. sandy, vs clay vs a naturally rich soil. i dug holes 5 foot by 5 foot by ~20 inches deep. huge holes; an investment because trees grow faster, healthier and i can water very little (NO water needed within 2-3 years). organicy soil: any decomposing matter from around your property, the woods, etc. rooted wood, decomposed wood chips, etc. was free. i hope this helped a little; remember, the health of a tree above ground is TOTALLY related to the health of the roots. IF nothing else, turn the soil so u aerate it; integrate all the free organic matter u can; water modestly and regularly after transplanting; protect from hot hot sun, if that's the case in ur neck-of-the-woods ;) be good, pete moss
Nice video. I'm planting my 1st Mulberry today. I've got 5 acres with is becoming a diverse orchard and this tree has me doing the most research. I know it's hardy and will grow but it gets so big that careful placement is on my mind. I'll probably spend an hour walking around deciding before I grab the shovel.
thanks Scott. yup, maria makes fun of me for 'thinking' when i'm in the garden doing the same assessment. i just stand & stare, check the sun, think of where other plants will be planted. you're on the RIGHT TRACK! over the years, pruning can be a pain UNLESS you're interested in shaping the tree so u can pick ~most while standing on the ground. she wants to grow upward but we prune her to be lateral. have fun!
@@heppylifestyle Well my two Mulberries have doubled in growth so far. These 1st two I want to let grow fully. I'm sure I'll need to prune to make them work. I don't like ducking branches on the riding mower. Sometimes I forget! Anyway, I'm going to propagate them at some point. They grow fast so I''ll plant some as future firewood. Some to pot up spring cuttings to sell. I'll also propagate one or more for low pruning like you're doing. I'll just be happy to have Mulberry. I haven't had one sense I was about 12 years old. Were did they go?
@@scott1lori282 nice work Scott & Lori! since they're growing fast u did excellent work with the shovel & soil! where did the Mulberries go!?!?! the most under-appreciated common fruit fruit. buckets of sweet fruit for a lifetime! what kind of Mulberries?
@@heppylifestyle The common Mulberry. Black fruit. I'm zone 6 Southern Ohio. They can get to 40ft tall so they are out back. One will make a west wind break for the orchard & the other is out on its spot on a hill. I hope to start propagating in a couple 3 years. The birds alone should do some of that. Happy 4th of July. Hope your trees are booming!
Hi, my neighbor has a mulberry tree and the mulberries have been dropping on my lawn this time of the year. It has been so many that I can't pick them up by hand and it is difficult to rake it off my lawn. My question is if these mulberries have any damage on my lawn if I leave it as is and just mow it off? Thanks
hi G Lin. the volume of fruit and amount of sunlight will be factors and could, possibly, smother grass a little. candidly, it would take A LOT of fruit to do that. laying down a sacrificial bedsheet. trimming any branches that can be reached on your side of the fence, or planting mints or raspberries or other plants in that area may be alternatives. hope you adapt and stay friendly with the neighbors. i hope this helped, and thanks for stopping by....
hi Geriann! well, thank you for the complement! ideally, i keep the height at no more than 15', with the primary limbs at a height that i can pick from. for Mulberry, it means pruning no less than twice annually. distance is 15' apart. thanks for stopping by and plz subscribe!, pete moss.
but i only have a baby mulberry plan it's growing how do i take care of it. some of the leaves are turning brown. I broke them off and pinch off the top of the plant, it has little leave growing at the bottom too.🤔
great question. 1 year if you buy a large tree (maybe, 5 feet plus) and 3+ years if you do like i did in the "early years" (but the smallest damn tree to see if it grows :/) ~5 years later, i buy the biggest trees i can have shipped. mostly bare roots because i can get a 6'+ large tree for ~$100. find a Mulberry in a 5-7 gallon pot from a nursery and you'll be set. one year for the tree to acclimate, and then she'll start paying back. you're soil & sunlight & watering are factors too. thanks for stopping by Superman, pete moss
hey Paribanu. with the information i have i'm thinking Nitrogen. Nitrogen is important; it's repelled by the soil over time (composting around the tree helps); Nitrogen makes leaves green. a cheap Nitrogen product IF it works for your situation is urine. yup, sorta weird but we regularly used Nitrogen on Avocado trees and the product was derived from "Urea" (urine). compost: kitchen waste (IF it works for you); rotting wood from around fallen trees; rotted woodchips; etc. minerals may be a factor and soil Ph too; we use TONs of organic material around our trees so their getting micronutrients. i hope this helped, keep in touch and thanks for stopping by!
well ... maybe. honestly, i don't know about silk worms, so i won't speak like i know :). BUT, any large insect infestation that's beyond normal (like, it's normal to have a few chewing insects) will affect the tree. however, Mulberry bear fruit early; we DO have some sort of chewing bug AFTER we harvest fruit (we're harvesting amount 🐞. take care Sans Makl, and plz subscribe!, pete moss
I live in the DFW Area of Texas and I see wild Mulberry trees everywhere! Many are really huge with so much fruit on them! Last week, I was in a park. Berries were dropping on us. We looked down on the ground and there they were, Mulberries! Lol. Then we looked up and oh my goodness, big huge mulberry tree! It was so freakin' high! 😂😂😂😂😂. We pick some from the ground. We walked more and found so many of the trees in that park. We did pick from the trees, but many were so tall that we couldn't reach. My twin sister and I are like 5'2" and 5'3" so we were struggling. 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 I'm going back! 😁 There's a white mulberry tree on the grounds of my apartment complex. Omg, there's so much fruit on it. Lol. I keep going out there every few days to pick from it. Wild Mustang grapes grow everywhere here, too.
i just got soooo hungry!! 😂 that's awesome that u and Sis are out there eatin' the goodies. pick 'em from the ground -- they're usually the perfect ones! 😋😋 our Mulberries are just forming -- still totally green. ya got nice warm weather! thanks for stopping by MoniMeka; please sub' and stop by again!, pete moss
Hi mate, good job I planted a lot of mulberry seeds and I have grown a lot of trees from them, at least 20, almost all with different genetics, some seem to have larger, fasciate leaves and seem to have greater vigor growing. and others seem to have more rounded and smaller leaves and have less growth vigor. The fastest growing ones have begun to produce flowers, it seems that they produce male flowers and some have produced male flowers and then female flowers and even some small fruits with a mediocre flavor. Do you know if they can produce quality fruit from seed? Can I hope that some of these will bear good fruit??? thanks, good job
Hello! first, congratulations on successful growing! amazing production from seeds! the short answer to your questions is, I don't know :/. honest answer. i did read that Mulberries are complex to include a tree's flowers changing sex. "true to seed" is something i'm still learning about stone fruits like the Peach! growingfruit.org/ is a forum of very experienced and helpful growers. the forum includes "regular" gardeners like me too ;). you ask a great question. it deserves an accurate answer! thanks for the feedback and for stopping by!, pete moss. 🐞
Hello HEPPY Lifestyle....ü...i hope u have a tutorial or atleast recommend your experience on how to grow mulberry from cuttings?..is it true that some varieties are easy to grow/propagate than others?..thank u in advance for answering my querry...ü
hello Max! i DO need to make vid's on cuttings -- the Mulberry tree and other delicious fruiting plants! i do not know if one variety is easier than another to propagate; i can say that the Red and Texas Mulberry trees grow VIGOUROUSLY. my sense -- as a gardener -- is that ~all Mulberry trees are easy to grow/propagate ;). we've become fanatical about the soil. organic & well draining soil is important. so far, we've propagated the following plants by throwing branches into moist (not wet) woodchips in a shady location (no hormones): Elderberry, Chaste Tree and Fig. The Hardy and Fuzzy kiwis did not do as well. we harvested the cuttings during our late late winter pruning (Feb-Apr, in Northern Hemisphere). this technique saves time (no hormones, no pots, no greenhouse, zero effort). we'll try Mulberry too! thank you for stopping by Max!
Have you ever tried to make tea out of the leaves? It's supposed to have a lot of calcium in the tea. I tried and it seemed awful but perhaps like dandilions I was supposed to harvest the leaves prior to it producing flowers and fruit.
i have not used our Mulberry for tea but i'll try it this spring!! online, i see it's popular but i wonder which variety of Mulberry is sold commercially. yup, timing the leaf-harvest is often a factor -- you nailed it. i'm sorry it tastes like poo. keep experimenting! maybe mix those leaves with dried Rosemary or Mint. i went 'off' on Mint tea this year (Mint from the garden). for Mulberry native to North America -- Red & Texas Mulberry -- i see that the "Cherokee made a tea from the leaves of the plant for treatment of dysentery, weakness, and difficulty urinating (Hamel and Chiltoskey 1975)." you got me wondering so I dove into PubMed. there's a great article here, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3397487/. i dove to the paper's Conclusion: "antioxidant activities are considerably affected with variety of plant chosen....M. rubra [Red Mulberry] can be investigated for its nutraceutical applications [health-giving / medicinal benefit]. On the other hand, a high amount of phenolics, DPPH radical and ABTS radical cations scavenging potential suggest the superiority of M. nigra over the other species regarding their disease preventive potential." thank you for stopping by Jim. and Happy New Year!!
Try adding honey to your tea, the variety you commonly see sold as tea online is the White Mulberry. I'm manufacturing the leaves into a brewable form right now. It's a lot of work when you're doing it in overabundance.
Nice.. I took several mulberries from seeds dropping.(Sprouts). I've kept them alive in pots for 3 or so years.. They are the black\purple Mulberry.. But found in Paso Robles..on a Job.. My question is Will they Fruit..? Without grafting..etc. I've just been letting them Grow..until I found the right spot. Good info here.. Thank you.
Thank you for the feedback! Not sure if they'll fruit; i potted 2 self-seeding one too, they're 3+ yrs old, and I saw no fruit. BUT im willing to bet they'll fruit (as yours will). There's also grafting. A cultivar not prone to popcorn disease. Thx for stopping by, pete moss
Did you know that mulberry leaves are medicinal? They are good for the kidney, and they are used by Chinese traditional medicine doctors for controlling high blood pressure. You can dry the leaves and used them for tea (either whole leaf or crushed).
I agree with growing branches low for harvesting fruit for myself, but I plan to let a few trees grow very tall so that maybe the birds will eat the higher up fruit, and leave mine alone. LOL
Okay Heppy, Maybe you can help. I'm in looking to get a dwarf everbearing, however I have red clay soil. What should you recommend I change the soil around where I plan to plant.
nice choice Preston. there are several factors (natural rain; U don't over water; sunlight [to dry soil]). but decayed /rotted woodchips is my koolaid; incorporate free organic'y decayed wood and mix it with the clay. we planted our Persimmon and some Pawpaw in areas with rock-hard clay soil. i dug holes as large as my old fat ass could dig, and used that soil to mix with decayed woodchips and decayed matter from around the area. you have to 'feel;' ur mix; clay is OK but 100%, hard clay reduces the vigor of roots, is not well-draining soil (which u know), and without organic matter, you don't have all the microbes and worms and 'things' thriving in the soil. the latter eat decayed organic matter and turn it PRIME soil!! i also planted my girls on a small mound of that soil so drainage was guaranteed. so a planted tree -- let's say, from a 1 gallon pot -- is actually above grade! but dig dig dig a hole. do it once; then, she'll be fruiting for decades to come. STAKE your tree. one stake always goes in the direction of typical winds. the other stake is opposite side. but she's a dwarf (great choice) so probably won't get top-heavy. fertilize next year. adding some black compost soil is good too but am leery of u placing too much organic 'hot soil' with clay. don't over water. the clay and organic matter retain TONs of moisture. too much coffee; sorry about the book i wrote; check out heppy.org/mulberry; plz sub'; and be good Preston. sincerely, peter
@@heppylifestyle Alright. I appreciate so so much you taking the time to break it down for me. So awesome, all the details. Yes one thingI totally forgot we're stakes so I'm headed to Lowes today. And then I'm gonna start digging this HARD clay. I definitely will subscribe and You have an awesome awesome Sunday!
@@heppylifestyle Good Afternoon Sir! Well I've got the hole started 😂 I think I'll hack at it through the week and get her in the ground next Sunday. Man this clay ain't no joke! I had another question for you. I have an area in my yard that I don't plan to utilize for a few years. If I continue to put grass clippings then cover with pine straw over an over for the next few years that ought to make the soil there useable? Maybe at the end when I'm ready turn an mix all that dirt?
@@MichaelPittmanJr. yes, it will make a difference (stimulate microbes & bugs & worms). it won't penetrate deep BUT its far better than doing nothing (nothing but mow which leaves the surface, essentially, dead). if you can tolerate the look, then consider letting grasses & weeds grow tall -- their roots penetrate soil. natural rainfall is a factor. at the end when ur ready turn and mix all that soil, you'll have awesome topsoil. veggies and herds and shallow-rooted plants can be grown over the top of clay on slightly raised bed / mounds. i'd still work a hole for trees (up to 5'x5'x[as deep as u feel like pounding away]). tree stakes / another lesson i learned: i buy 20' long rebar and cut it to 5' or ~7' lengths. they r my tree stakes. it takes space and time to do it but buying 20' sticks from a non-big-box commercial retailer is cheap. #4 i think is 1/2" rebar; #5 is 5/8" rebar and i know it's $16 for 20' (5/8") and i can use the stakes forever (easy to pound in and ~easy to pull out).
I LOVE all my fruit trees but this girl is genuinely the most underappreciated common fruit tree!! And if you're in North America, grow our native Mulberries!! The Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) and the Texas Mulberry (Morus microphylla) are the two species native to NA.
the thing with the fruiting is that the tree is trying to fruit too much so you wanna trim the tree right before or after they start to fruit. Way before they rippen.
@@sleepystar1638 put them pruning shears down Sleepy Star ;). they fruit early so enjoy the fruit & ya have all summer to prune ;)
thanks for stopping by Sleepy Star, pkz sub!
Kind of agree but the black mulberries were significantly cheaper so I went with the black ones
@@morganflaherty9552 inexpensive trees and sweet fruit and a tress that grows for soooo many years. go for it Morgan!
thanks for stopping by & Happy Holidays,
pete moss
The birds devoured all my fruit this year. Next year I will throw a net over it!
The absolute best mulberries I ever ate were from a 'tree' that was grown in our chicken coup. Rich droppings constantly fertilizing the tree and producing kilo's of fruit that we could never out eat. The chickens flying into the canopy to 'prune' new growth.
That was 55 years ago and today, it is still there and feeding most of the kids in the neighborhood.
wow! and, glad the kids are munching the fruit!
Wow! 😊
I second planting a mulberry over a chicken coup. You can just shake the tree to feed the chickens--they love them. The leaves are also high protein and can be up to 20% of a hens diet.
I have 3 mulberry trees. They fruit heavily year round for me. It might be because I live right on the equator. They sure do taste good!!
Mulberries at the equator -- very nice!
Underappreciated is absolutely correct. Everbearing types that are a cross between white and native red are unreal. In winter I cut stakes that are thumb diameter and 18" long and drive them a foot into the ground next to a dripline that runs daily. I get real close to 100% rooting success and if I remember to fertilize regularly, 8 foot of growth a year. I have a long growing season. They also try to flower in the first year.
whatever you're doing sounds interesting Nonya! i'm glad you feel the same way! they are amazing trees ;)
Happy New Year soon....
Thanks for stopping by,
pete moss
"I ain't gettin' on no ladder." 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
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I got a volunteer red mulberry growing by my fence last year. I'll be moving it this week to a better spot in the yard, right now it's too close to the fence and eventually it'll shade out most of the yard. Hopefully in a decade we'll have a nice big tree that will give us afternoon shade on the patio but getting full sun for lots of food for us and the birds!
nice work Joseph! be mindful of staining fruit; personally, i adapt (like, take shoes off before entering home).
good soil, full sun and you'll get a shade tree for sure!
nice rescue on the Red Mulberry, btw! 🌳 👍
I love the video. I am looking for tips on grow8ng mulberries in the tropics. Though your video didn't address that, it was full of other useful information. Thank you.
Thank you Natalie! and best wishes living in the tropics! we'll have highs of 31 degrees F over the next few days :/ so don't rub it in ;)
i don't know about the tropics although I grew up in southern california (SoCal). the tropics and so much life and moisture and heat, my sense is that soft, skinless fruits may be 'easy pickin's' for mammals & birds. that's ONLY my intuition. in SoCal, we have more mammals that eat sweet stuff :/. but as far as growing plants, they thrived in the heat.
also, i'm a HUGE believer in microclimate; a specific location's sun exposure, soil, and funa activity is unique to a specific location.
final thought: i just finished researching / writing about kiwis (heppy.org/kiwi). Papaya stands out as a highly nutritional fruit. Papaya grew on the side of the road in Mexico and the fruit is excellent for human health. sorry for the lecture -- i'm thrilled that ur in warm climate and that you visited!
My oldest son loves the red fruit 😊
About the mess it makes on the ground , we had a pet white rabbit , he got out of his cage and hung out under the giant mulberry tree, well needs to say the next day we had a purple rabbit but he didnt care he had a good time eating all the berries he could hold , he looked like something from Alice in wonderland
Susan -- we need a pic of that!! OMG -- a white bunny in Mulberry goodness! Toooo cute. what's bunny's name...maybe, Mulberry? :)
thanks for stopping by Susan.
That’s awesome! I giggled when I read it. Bet that was one happy bunny! 😊
Hey lovely video, thank u sir for sharing, I am from Jamaica, I have two Mulberry trees in my yard
They are so nice and the juice are delicious
Glad you know about Mulberries and thank you for stopping by! Super delicious ;)
hopefully i get to see Jamaica -- soooooo tropical! love it! 🐞
Anyone have an easy way to get the stems off the berries?
i have not but you ask a great question!
Thanks for the video. Lots of useful information.
thank you Jean!!
Any info on growing mulberries in cooler zones 4-5?
Hola Lara!
+ the native Red Mulberry grows way up into Canada (it's zone 4). now, our Red produces small fruits. she's still young, so we'll see. heppy.org/mulberries/#Mulberries_We_Are_Growing_in_Zone_7
i've had a fresh Black Mulberry and WOW was it good. grow the Red to support North American flora; grow other species if want large amounts of fruit. plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=MORU2
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+ i don't have the names of specific cultivars but notes are:
Black Mulberry (Morus nigra) "may be cold hardy to zone 5 or zone 7 (depending on source)."
White Mulberry (Morus alba) grow in zone 4 BUT White Mulberry hybridizes the native Red Mulberry and threatens to replace it (you may not want to plant Morus alba if you have a native Red Mulberry population).
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this is an excellent source (person and nursery) to but Mulberry from: www.whitmanfarms.com/category/allplants/edible-plants/mulberries/
and thank you for subscribing!
Are you familiar afghan mulberry? It is the mist delicious mulberry I have tasted. I wish I could find it in USA
hello Kjaan! i am not familiar with the Afghan Mulberry :(. since Mulberry in general are tasty, I imagine the Afghan Mulberry is truly special!
thank you for visiting!, peter
I have one that popped up. I thought it was an apple tree. I have a few clones from it.
they'll do that (pop up); i have two on our property and i have no idea how they got there. maybe by bird... 🌳
Happy New Year Rebel,
pete moss
i just planted my first two mulberry’s this year… they are 2 feet tall… when will they flower?
NICE!! well....all my girls have young fruit (zone 7).
it also depends on species, i think.
my Red Mulberry (started at 2') took 2+ yrs; by yr 4, she's producing good.
my Girardi Dwarf is JUST a cutting, and about 1' and has some fruit on her!! (th-cam.com/video/qIUlhq0y954/w-d-xo.html)
i'm NO Mulberry expert but fruit appear very early (like, now -- i see them in May); HOWEVER, it may depend on species; she just needs time; these trees live for 100+ years.
My plant yield 1.5 - 2 inches mulberry in length. Initially it is green and turn into white color.
that's a genuine white mulberry. i hear that white mulberry fruit don't stain. is yours stain free?
Great video!
I have a large Maulberry tree and I just picked a nice bunch, it's a huge tree. Question. When I picked the berries they had some little pale worms in the bunch. Can they still be eaten after washing off the worms?
hi Ann -- thanks for stopping by!
dude, i don't want to be sued! ;)
i'll speak for me: i'd eat it. in May i'm eating Mulberry, Alpine Strawberry and Goumi Berry with dirty hands, and if the fruit falls to the ground, etc. heck, the Strawberries are basically on the ground. about insects: i'm certain that i'm eating a bug or two along the way; i'm NOT trying to eat bugs but, it's nature and we don't spray insecticides. healthy people have a healthy immune system; and, as of today, i'm not aware of toxic or dangerous insects on fruit. that's my $0.02 but PLEASE, be diligent and read and research and be sure you have situational awareness about the particular critter you're washing off.
i hope this helped Ann. Thanks for stopping by and please subscribe!,
pete moss
That is what I thought. I just washed and washed and washed with hot water, salt and vinegar. Not sure if that is bad or good, but no more critters. I will take your suggestions though to do some research. You are amazing and THANK YOU!!!!
@@TheAmbi42 you're welcome and thanks for stopping by!
things like salt and/or vinegar are IDEAL for their inherent anti-this and anti-that properties, and salt & vinegar are natural. great move Ann! we sometimes rinse store-bought veggies/fruit in baking soda.
the more i think about it the more brilliant the salt & vinegar rinse is! i hope to remember this; 'steal' the idea :/, and make a vid of it!! i'll mention "Ann M"
gracias amiga -- thank you friend,
pete moss
Steal away please!
@@TheAmbi42 😃
How many trees did you plant i live in the south i was thinking of planting one
@@susantaylor8507 I'm up to about 7, but that includes a weeping mulberry and dwarfs.
I recommend the nurseries I list here, heppy.org/products
Starks is so so; treat yourself to a nice 4-6 footer from a speciality nursery 😄
Nice share
thank you Alia!
by the WILL i have 100 mulberry trees been planting for 7 years, so many berries that the branches are on the ground, i have 900 fruit trees, 40 different species in guatemala on my farm.
Wow!!! I'd love to see pictures 🥳😊
@ Lead Farmer 73
*ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. THE DARK ONES. THEY SAY THE WHITE, TOO*
*THE TREES 🌳 DO WELL WITHOUT A LOTTA FUSS. WATCH OUT STAINS EVERYTHING, BUT YUMMY, 😋 YUMMY, YUMMY. SWEETER THAN SUGAR LEAD FAMILY*
Nailed it ... in CAPS 🤣😂
I planted at the end of March, is it okay to prune a little bit in September?
hey Margie -- cute cat!! ;) YES, it's totally okay to prune a little in Sept. I do.
throughout the growing season I prune 1-5 branches for sure. manage the tree's desired shape by pruning the shoots ... shooting in all sorts of directions.
it gets better: pruning the limbs that are not needed, during the growing season, allows her to push more nutrients to desired branches. hopefully the roots get stronger, etc. Finally, Mulberries are very tolerant of pruning.
I've read somewhere about the Mulberry's milky sap (ie, prune Mulberries when dormant to avoid ... ?sap? or something). I see the sap but for small branches and limbs, it's inconsequential. our Red Mulberry is 10-12' tall and i'd call all her branches and limbs small.
keep shaping and you & Kitty stay safe!!
My mulberry don't have a single trunk. There's just multiple "branches" growing from the root.
Someone accidentally damaged the rooted cutting and instead of branching out from that stick, it sprouted more from the root.
i'm sorry to hear about the damage. hopefully something positive comes of it😊
not organized well, not delivered in a way that makes sense, still a thumbs up since thereis so little info on mulberriwa. But please consider my feedback.
thanks for the thumbs up and feedback Andrew. i am unscripted and that can by awkward. but point well taken.
I love Mulberries but they don't taste like raspberries. They are more sweet and don't have the tartness that Raspberries have.
Yup -- I love Mulberries! No tartness -- nailed it.
you don't tell people how to raise from from a baby plant.
HoneyBee! -- i only have "9,000" unpublished vids :/
you're right; i'm sorry HoneyBee; i'm working on it. i'm planting, planting, planting bbb ut to your point, i'll get a vid like that made.
this girl was a little little plant -- shot in on of the first vid's i every made. th-cam.com/video/CprtkJmBDc8/w-d-xo.html
Is mulberry male tree can turn into a female tree? (Or Maybe a Gay) 🤣🤣🤣
hey BA, they MAY change gender and if it can happen, it looks to be rare. no mention of that trait in USDA Plants & other quality sources. hey, whatever works for them.👍...
I have three giant red mulberry trees and they just rain down mulberrys. The birds will eat them and carry them off sometimes drop them and a new tree will grow. By far the best fruit.
fat birds i bet ;). three big Reds -- very nice Mr. Sandman!
Little Trivia on Mulberry varieties:
Red Himalayan Mulberry: Very sweet, very aromatic (smells strongly of raspberry candy) which other mulberries do not have. Fruits are very long like gummy worms, the real "candy tree." Fruits as early as less than a year if you know how to force it to fruit with proper care and defoliation techniques. For most growers, they would say that this tree would only fruit when it wants to, which may take years for them. Fruits a LOT.
Illinois Mulberry: Sweet, big fruits (3x the size of the native). Just a hint of berry smell. Fruits are slightly slimy which eliminates the "watery" texture from other mulberries. Fruits as early as 4 months old. Fruits a LOT.
Austurkey: Probably the most expensive of them all. Fruits are sweet like Illinois but are massive (2x the size of Illinois variety). More berry-smelling than Illinois and native var. True overbearing, will fruit at 6 months old with proper care and will continue to fruit without stopping as long as it's growing. Due to its crazy everbearing nature, it devours nutrients like a hungry pig. As long as the grower fertilizes it properly, you'll be picking these sweet giant berries every day for the rest of your life. But if starved, it will still fruit but they will be smaller and sour.
Taiwan Long (I suspect that it's also the Pakistani Long): The sweetest I've ever tasted and it wasn't even grown properly. Tastes more like sugar than a fruit. Fruits are long like the Red Himalayan but smell less fragrant. Not everbearing but fruits a lot more than others like CRAZY when it's fruiting time. Each node will produce 4 long fruits compared to others which only produce two fruits per node.
NOTE: These mulberries I sampled were grown in the Philippines where there's a lot of sun and rain. Since there is no winter here and the sun is hot all year round, all mulberries grown here can become everbearing with defoliation techniques and proper fertilization.
WOW!! double Wow! are you ok if i use this content on our webpage? well...i'll store the info and dive into it anyways :/. the Red Himalayan & Austurkey Mulberries are instantly on my radar.
i really like your writing style too, btw! let me know if you want to write for us. your writing is succinct, humorous and info-rich.
anywho, thank you for the info Kitchen & Garden Venture -- thanks for stopping by!
WOW I'd love to get some cuttings
I bought an Illinois from Lazads, 6 mos and still no fruits. I have it in a large pot and it's already more than 5 feet tall. 😢
It's always good to hear a 100 years of experience pruning tips :D
We have 5 mulberry trees. In our growing zone you can literally take a 1/2 cutting about 12” long, do nothing to it, push it into the ground, and the next year it will be a thriving small tree and have fruit on it. In two years it will be 12 ft tall. We’ve put stripped fence posts in made of cut mulberry limbs and they grow into huge trees.
Where are you located? I love these berries so much, grew up with them in Ukraine.
I live near Dallas
@@Ravey100 We’re in the Southeast U.S., Growing Zone 7A.
@@Ravey100 The variety that grows best in our area is called Illinois Everbearing. It produced enormous quantities of large 2” high quality sweet fruit and grows crazy fast.
@@Ravey100 You would be in a great area for growing the Large Pakistani mulberry also.
Definitely the most underappreciated. An apartment complex I lived at had one that was 40 ft in diameter. We would get a pint a day for 3 weeks with 5 minutes of picking. But it can be a nuisance, with the staining. When fully ripe its almost pure sweetness and closer to a blueberry. But really a flavor thats of itself. Love em. I have a large one at my new house, but I soon found out that it was a male flower only tree, which I didnt know existed. I was rather disappointed. I've transplanted about 50 of them in a 1/4 acre area. In the country you can find them growing around every fence and underneath most trees (from bird droppings). Its going to be interesting how it turns out. Plan to utilize it in part for firewood. We'll see how it turns out.
Yes, you know Mulberry, given the 50 trees! ;)
I'm sincerely glad you're enjoying the fruit and tree . My comment, 'most underappreciated' fruit tree, just blurted out as I had just learned about how cool this tree is! Am glad you're on board ;)
Thanks for stopping by!
I bought an Illinois Everbearing mulberry from One Green World in Oregon to complement my 3 wild mulberry trees. She is such a wonderful producer of exceptionally long berries, up to 1.25 inches, from the normal fruiting period all the way thru mid-autumn. I will use the info in the comments to propagate a couple of more. I freeze the berries. My favorite way to eat them is in a pile, drowned in unsweetened soy milk and walnuts. Makes a nice sorbet. One of my wild ones has white berries and is exceptionally sweet so I mix them into the slightly for tart purple ones.
@elizabethfletcher1487 ❤️❤️❤️. I'm so happy to hear about your success!! Long fruiting season, sweet fruit and the enjoyment!
It's an amazing tree and delicious fruit! Glad you're on board!
Thanks for stopping by and for the feedback! Sincerely, Pete Moss 🐞
We have a mullberry tree on our farm and it’s about 90 years old and massive never gets looked after and they are the best tasting i have ever had
I sorta blurted-out the comment, most underprepared common fruiting tree! The are! But maybe not under appreciated....
90 yrs old and still producing. Very nice! Thanks for the feedback!
Under appreciated fruit? Not for me.
Since i discovered mulberry, my summers won't ever be ok if I don't get to eat some of the tasty fruits.
Living in New York, where they grow everywhere, half of my summers are spent finding new trees and eating mulberries.
I have really deep appreciation for this fruit.
Great feedback; they provide such tasty fruit and are so long-lived! Thanks for stopping by!
You can actually eat the leaves. Don’t just have to wait for fruit. It is a tree you can eat right away
I love how you refer to your trees as "she" 🤩
those are my girls! ;)
thx Debbie, & take care!
@@heppylifestyle I understand. I call mine, "my babies", and when referring to a specific plant I refer to it as "she" 😊
female plants are the only ones that fruit I believe. Not sure if you knew this. But maybe thats why he calls them she. I dont know for sure though. lol
@@garrettmentel9663 That makes sense! Thanks!
I'm going to attempt some grafts from multiple mulberry scions on to one rootstock... White, Red, and Pakistani... Gathering the dormant scions this fall, then going to graft before the buds break in the spring.
candidly, i've procrastinated with learning to graft but once i develop the skill, that's EXCATLY the ideal solution (i think ;). graft a wonderful variety of scion to one tree. one space & one trunk producing a variety of fruit.
it'll be an outstanding tree Truth Serum!
send pics or something, and thanks for stopping by,
pete moss
Save those trimmed leaves for tea! Mulberry leaves are medicinal...anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. The leaves are also edible!
Great idea!
I split my time between my home in Texas and Utah. When I was home (Texas) in April, a volunteer mulberry growing in my fence line was fruiting, and boy was I surprised! I plan to keep the tree since I quite enjoy the fruit and will be doing some judicious pruning to keep it manageable.
nice! they provide excellent fruit and are prolific fruiters. but yes, trim & shape her as you'd like but starting early is ideal ;) Mulberries can truly be shaped in any way.
nice parts of the country -- TX & UT!
Looks wonderful, I got 1 like 35 ft tall, and the peacocks fly into it and shake the tree, and like 100 chickens is waiting to eat them at the bottom, I tried to send uall a pic, but it won't let me on here, or I'm not smart enough to do it correctly, lol!.
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Peacocks in a Mulberry! very nice! and a 100 chickens!? 🥰
I have 13 dwarf mulberry trees in my backyard. They are so easy to propagate. I maintained them to about 6 feet in height. They produced hundreds of sweet fruits similar to blackberry but smaller in size.
NICE!! 13 of them is a very nice collection! you don't have to answer but i wonder what varieties you have, and in what part of the world are you located in?
I love mulberries but has anyone else noticed the tiny bugs on them? They are on literally all the mulberriy fruit I have ever picked. They look like tiny white worms.
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We don't have them, thankfully! I'm sorry to hear about that!
@heppylifestyle ah, they are very very tiny. Look very closely. You'll see them. You can use a magnifying glass to look at them. I eat them anyway but they are literally on every mulberry I pick in the mid Atlantic. Look carefully because you won't notice them if you don't look. Very tiny skinny white worms with legs. No more than a millimeter long.
@@bigg368 i'll definitely be on the look out!
We planted a white mulberry (about five feet tall) here in Portugal this spring and, bless her heart, we got delicious berries all through June. And I mean DELICIOUS berries. Looking forward to her growing bigger and producing still more in the years to come. Thanks very much for this video.
Hello Portugal!
glad the fruit was delicious! i hear the white Mulberries are tasty.
keep her trimmed to grow large branches sideways, if you can / if you have the time :). Mulberry will tolerate major pruning. enjoy the fruit and Portugal!
Did you get a choice of varieties? I am in portugal too, castelo branco region.
I got a mulberry tree and it grew really beautiful in 2 yrs. But I only get a 1/4 inch (maybe) of this little white mulberry and then it falls off. Can anybody tell me why they don't seem to mature?
i'm sorry to hear that (fruit fall). i'm not sure if it's a pollination issue or minerals. i'd have to do a lot reading
i'm thinking that a companion Mulberry is needed for pollination or weather; however, it may be still too young (fruit fall is more common in young trees)
some possibilities are here: www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/fruitless-mulberry/mulberry-fruit-drop.htm
i hope you discover a solution!
Thank you for making this video. I let my tree grow upwards bc I need it to shade the house fr the afternoon sun and the privacy screen fr my next-door neighbor. I love my mulberry tree even though the fruits stain the concrete floors by the swimming pool. Either the birds drop them mid-flight, they throw up, or I undeliberately spread them with my feet while doing garden chores. The intense heat of the AZ desert sun bleaches the stains within one month so I don't worry too much about them. What's nice is there are so many fruits produced that I can share with different kinds of birds. It's a treat to watch them hang out in my backyard bc they love organic berries!
@Ckawauchi35 you're welcome, thank you for the feedback, and you have a wonderful perspective on the Mulberry! Very nice, and thanks for stopping by!
As the tree ages the horizontal branches will sag, won't they?
Well, there is some sagging but it depends on how it's trimmed too; overall, the tendency is for branches to grow upward :/. Up up and away! I need to trim them and post the vid. ;)
I have a dwarf black mulberry which suppose to grow to 5foot but it's taller than me already and I am 5f5"..can't wait for the berries!!
Sounds delicious! Let me know how they taste! 🥳🤣
In Karachi -Pakistan I planted mulberry tree. This is called shehtoot here. The tree has given while mulberry. The taste is awesome, very sweet.
that's a happy story, sad story!! we need to change ur name ;)
glad you had some fruit! in Karachi -- that's awesome!
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The more you trim leaves more fruits you get. Add 10-10-10 and see this tiny mulberries will be little bigger and tons of berries.. based in Florida
@@ltp9113 great advice!
I can see you have some in wire cages so you must have problems with deer eating them.
you're right Patrick -- deer are a major issue. they got to this Red Mulberry when it was young and just about ate it to death. only a few plants are not eaten by deer here at HEPPY.
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I was told to compost fresh leaves away from trees, they heat up in the process of decomposition and may damage your plant(s)… very informative video though… 👍🏼👍🏼
well thank you reloading & shooting! 100+ years of food!?!?! that's productive.
with the leaves, i think the amount matters, and the tree's maturity. you definitely need to be mindful of what you do with younger trees (like ours).
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I love your insight on the tree. Just shows you are very experienced. Already being able to tell how the tree will grow
well thank you Musaad!
much appreciated,
pete moss
I"m so glad I happened upon this today. Just 2 days ago, I discovered a red mulberry tree growing out of the north side of a patch of woods. It gets a lot of shade but also some sun. Honeysuckle was growing all over it and I cleared that out. The tree seems to have two trunks and they are leaning way out. There is no way I can straighten them. I hope it will be okay! I've been going out twice a day and eating the little bits of fruit. I am thinking that I'll try to clear around it a little more and start putting mulch and compost there to help it along. Any thoughts?
Thought 1 is -- great job in rescuing her! The Red (and most Mulberries) can be difficult to identify but, our Red Mulberry does make smaller fruits, that turn from red to black when ripe.
they can tolerate a heavy prune if you want to correct the leaning (if a correction is possible).
the care you're giving will make it bounce back nicely. nice work!
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Has the canopy branches grow and bears fruit don't those branches become heavy and will eventually break
@miztri fantastic question!! it's 2024 (3 yrs later) and this year they grew too long (laterally) and the ends are sagging to 1-2'off the ground with fruit! I picked the fruit, then tip pruned (2-4 feet) the sagging limbs, and the limbs sprung back up! Tip prune back 2-4 feet -- prune back to the next bud that's growing laterally at a ~45 degree angle.
your intuition is 100% correct -- many tree limbs would break. however, the Mulberry limbs are very flexible causing them to sag when too long; then, tip prune to find the "sweet spot" for continued lateral growth.
Thanks for the pruning tips. We have a mulberry plant on our fence line that shot up out of nowhere. More than likely it was transported and planted via 🐦 💩.
But it thickened up so fast we decided to keep it, rather than keep the fence line clean, but we wanted it to be manageable so your pruning ideas helped.
Thank you for the laugh and Mulberries do have a way of popping up :). Glad the vid ?planted a seed? about managing it 🐞🧑🏼🌾
The attribute of the fruit staining a white vehicle I planted it on the property line I don't like my neighbor he has a white van hehe haha
:(. sorry to hear about the neighbor.
Fascinating…Seems like too much effort. In the Midwest USA, all you need is a chain link fence.
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But that'll be too hard on my teeth 🫣🧑🏼🌾😎
I have long fruit mulberry tree(Pakistan mulberry), but most of it falls before ripening, I wonder why?
sorry Owen for the falling fruit and because i'm writing really fast (am feverishly planting while spring just arrived).
*** it could be water; is she getting adequate water.
*** minerals. minerals is a subject i need to learn A LOT more about. deficiencies in a mineral or two can cause fruit fall. we're exploring some seaweed something of another. i'm need time to learn & experiment....
*** some fruit fall is normal; a lot is not. there's an answer but i can't confidently help (right now :( )
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I really enjoyed this video, I also love mulberries. I have a small farm that has a lot of wild mulberries on the land that are apparently all the same kind. They have small dark purple berries in abundance. My favorite one is a very beautiful tree of about 5 years of age and grows inside my enclosed back yard. This last season she gave us over a dozen gallons of berries. I go out and pick every other day and I just love doing it. Another reason to love mulberries is that they have a pretty good amount of protein in them if you eat the whole fruit (with seeds still in). As you mentioned, even without the seeds, mulberries are one of the healthiest fruits out there. Thank you for taking the time to make such a great video!
well thank you Jennifer! a dozen gallons of fruit!?!? very nice! oh yes, seeds & all -- it's all healthy. sounds like a nice lil' farm.
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Q: can you help me identify my mulberry? As a child we had a giant mulberry tree in our back yard. It was 30 feet tall and the trunk was easily 3 feet wide. The fruit was very dark and looked a lot like a black berry, not as long as other mulberry that I've seen. I've never seen one since.
hi Kristen. there are SO many varieties that all i could do is guess at it. heck, you may have had a variety that's no longer cultivated.
BUT you're on the right track by looking at the fruit! i believe the fruit size, color and shape is your best opportunity to ID her. leaf shape is another tool.
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😢 I'm very sad as I sit outside looking at my White Mulberry thats coming down tomorrow because it's compromised with a huge root coming up. A large branch fell of a week ago. I never actually ate 1 of the berries, but my dog has eaten them. I'm really gonna miss this tree...😢
The tree must be at least 60 ft. tall btw
sorry to hear about it :(. smart dog ;)
probably too late to graph a piece onto a potted Mulberry?
Mulberry get big and yes, will become a nuisance if near a home, driveway or walkways :(. they grow and produce fruit for generations....
@@heppylifestyle 😢 It was cut down yesterday. The evening before I took a bunch of cuttings and left all with about 1/4 of a leaf still on them and put them into a large glass vase with some water in them. I'm hoping to get at least 1 of them to take (I have maybe 15 or so cuttings). I don't know if rooting hormone is necessary for these 🤷🏻♂️. I may just try to stick them into some soil and hope for the best. Do you have any advice for cuttings?
@@user-ck3ke4cj1h :(
i have no experience rooting Mulberry. for rooting Rosemary in water, i don't put too many into in glass. a spray cuttings with water ~3 times a day to reduce dehydration.
maybe try a mix of moist peat moss (or Coco Fiber) and perlite. bury 2-4 cuttings laterally, 1/2" deep. rooting hormone + Mulberry probably assures success.
growingfruit.org has REALLY smart gardeners. i searched mulberry cuttings. growingfruit.org/t/rooting-mulberry-cutting/43436/5. there's a vid at the end showing what rooting hormone did for him (was successful).
doggie has no tree :(
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Our park had a mulberry tree that a stormed killed years ago. This month I’m planting one in my backyard. Boy will my family be surprised and horrified because the trees can become giants. But I’ll be a-pruning.😁
snip snip snip. great job getting a Mulberry in the ground! and yup, you'll be prunin'.
hope y'all did ok through the storm (at least, did better than the Mulberry tree :(
if you have time, develop it's frame early on, i recommend. get at least 4 major limbs growing 4 different directions. she'll want to grow upward but u can 'sculpt' (prune) the Mulberry into any shape. i like my limbs just over my bald head ;)
ur family will enjoy the fruit and it's damn healthy!
carry on readysetsuccess, and thanks for stopping by.
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My grandfather planted a mulberry tree in 1905 and it is still fruiting every year.
i hope to remember this comment. a Mulberry planted in 1905 is fruiting every yr! amazing.
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Do you need a male to get the female tree to produce fruit? Or will they produce fruit with Or without a male??
Most Mulberry do NOT need a male to produce fruit. There are rare exceptions but likely not an issue unless you buy an unusual cultivar (like a male Weeping Mulberry).
Geeky stuff: Mulberry are primarily monoecious (male and female flowers on the same plant [self-fertile]). Some, I've read, can change sex or something; some have an odd flowering situation. the latter will ~not~ be an issue for you if you stick with a well-known cultivar.
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@@heppylifestyle Thank you!
They will produce fruits without
I have two trees andthey bear a lot of mulberries
I ordered 2 in the mail and the seller said they are small round trees about 10 ft in height when matures, is this correct? Then a friend told me that they would grow huge as big as 30+ ft. Then they are invasive.
Hello Me Too! come-on man ... it depends! ;)
The Texas and Red are native to North America; however, some are invasive and some are...sorta invasive (i'm not being a smart ass; the Red gets dominated by non-natives).
Height: typically, they are large trees. ur friend is correct -- 30' if not trimmed. but i just bought a dwarf cultivar (th-cam.com/video/qIUlhq0y954/w-d-xo.html). others many top-out at 20'.
a 10' tall Mulberry is not typical; and yes, some are invasive while others are native.
read a lot more here: heppy.org/mulberry
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@@heppylifestyle Oh. I see. Thank you. The nursery where I bought mine said they will be around 10' so I guess they were selling dwarf ones.
@@carrasco2011sc it should have a label -- the cultivar (variety) name, like Illinois Everbearing or Kokuso Korean or Girardi Dwarf, etc.
cultivar (variety) name generally 'points' to the species, Morus alba, Morus rubra, Morus nigra, etc.
the cultivar-name + species = the tree's tendencies and it's place within ur continent. ;)
i hope that made sense....
be well,
pete moss
Stark bro sells trees there out of texas i was going to order from them
@@susantaylor8507 starks is ok but I list my fav nurseries here, heppy.org/products
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Make mulberry tea from the leaves.
we look forward to doing that! do you make tea from Mulberry leaves? any particular species of tree?
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@@heppylifestyleIn Asian culture, it is typically from the leaves of the white mulberry tree.
That may or may not be because of availability. White mulberry has been selectively bred for a few thousand years because it's leaves feed the silk worm in a way that causes them to produce evenly sized silk threads.
@@-whackd thank you. crazy-long history in Asia. thanks for stopping by!
when do i transplant in the ground how should i prepare the soil?
when: about any time. it's about to get hot here so i'll plant a bare root Pakistani Mulberry and put shade cloth over her.
prepare: the bigger the hole and the more organicy you make it, the faster she'll grow and the less watering you'll need to do. it also depends on the soil u have. sandy, vs clay vs a naturally rich soil.
i dug holes 5 foot by 5 foot by ~20 inches deep. huge holes; an investment because trees grow faster, healthier and i can water very little (NO water needed within 2-3 years). organicy soil: any decomposing matter from around your property, the woods, etc. rooted wood, decomposed wood chips, etc. was free.
i hope this helped a little; remember, the health of a tree above ground is TOTALLY related to the health of the roots. IF nothing else, turn the soil so u aerate it; integrate all the free organic matter u can; water modestly and regularly after transplanting; protect from hot hot sun, if that's the case in ur neck-of-the-woods ;)
be good,
pete moss
@@heppylifestyle thank you
Nice video. I'm planting my 1st Mulberry today. I've got 5 acres with is becoming a diverse orchard and this tree has me doing the most research. I know it's hardy and will grow but it gets so big that careful placement is on my mind. I'll probably spend an hour walking around deciding before I grab the shovel.
thanks Scott. yup, maria makes fun of me for 'thinking' when i'm in the garden doing the same assessment. i just stand & stare, check the sun, think of where other plants will be planted. you're on the RIGHT TRACK!
over the years, pruning can be a pain UNLESS you're interested in shaping the tree so u can pick ~most while standing on the ground. she wants to grow upward but we prune her to be lateral.
have fun!
@@heppylifestyle Well my two Mulberries have doubled in growth so far. These 1st two I want to let grow fully. I'm sure I'll need to prune to make them work. I don't like ducking branches on the riding mower. Sometimes I forget!
Anyway, I'm going to propagate them at some point. They grow fast so I''ll plant some as future firewood. Some to pot up spring cuttings to sell. I'll also propagate one or more for low pruning like you're doing.
I'll just be happy to have Mulberry. I haven't had one sense I was about 12 years old. Were did they go?
@@scott1lori282 nice work Scott & Lori! since they're growing fast u did excellent work with the shovel & soil!
where did the Mulberries go!?!?! the most under-appreciated common fruit fruit. buckets of sweet fruit for a lifetime!
what kind of Mulberries?
@@heppylifestyle The common Mulberry. Black fruit. I'm zone 6 Southern Ohio.
They can get to 40ft tall so they are out back. One will make a west wind break for the orchard & the other is out on its spot on a hill.
I hope to start propagating in a couple 3 years. The birds alone should do some of that.
Happy 4th of July. Hope your trees are booming!
@@scott1lori282 cool! and Yes!, Happy 4th of July!
Good sense of humor
Hi, my neighbor has a mulberry tree and the mulberries have been dropping on my lawn this time of the year. It has been so many that I can't pick them up by hand and it is difficult to rake it off my lawn. My question is if these mulberries have any damage on my lawn if I leave it as is and just mow it off? Thanks
hi G Lin. the volume of fruit and amount of sunlight will be factors and could, possibly, smother grass a little. candidly, it would take A LOT of fruit to do that. laying down a sacrificial bedsheet. trimming any branches that can be reached on your side of the fence, or planting mints or raspberries or other plants in that area may be alternatives. hope you adapt and stay friendly with the neighbors. i hope this helped, and thanks for stopping by....
That is not a morus rubra. Not the leaves and not the fruit.
Love your vid. How high do you keep yours plus how far apart do you plant your trees?
hi Geriann! well, thank you for the complement! ideally, i keep the height at no more than 15', with the primary limbs at a height that i can pick from. for Mulberry, it means pruning no less than twice annually. distance is 15' apart.
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but i only have a baby mulberry plan it's growing how do i take care of it. some of the leaves are turning brown. I broke them off and pinch off the top of the plant, it has little leave growing at the bottom too.🤔
how long does it take to give fruit after planting
great question. 1 year if you buy a large tree (maybe, 5 feet plus) and 3+ years if you do like i did in the "early years" (but the smallest damn tree to see if it grows :/)
~5 years later, i buy the biggest trees i can have shipped. mostly bare roots because i can get a 6'+ large tree for ~$100. find a Mulberry in a 5-7 gallon pot from a nursery and you'll be set. one year for the tree to acclimate, and then she'll start paying back. you're soil & sunlight & watering are factors too.
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thank you
Hi my white Mulberry tree become yellow what should l do to save my tree . Please help me,🙏 thanks
hey Paribanu. with the information i have i'm thinking Nitrogen. Nitrogen is important; it's repelled by the soil over time (composting around the tree helps); Nitrogen makes leaves green.
a cheap Nitrogen product IF it works for your situation is urine. yup, sorta weird but we regularly used Nitrogen on Avocado trees and the product was derived from "Urea" (urine).
compost: kitchen waste (IF it works for you); rotting wood from around fallen trees; rotted woodchips; etc.
minerals may be a factor and soil Ph too; we use TONs of organic material around our trees so their getting micronutrients.
i hope this helped, keep in touch and thanks for stopping by!
Sorry stark bro out of lousiana
@@susantaylor8507 try top notch specialty nurseries. I list the ones I trust here, heppy.org/products
I finally have all the fruit trees I have been wanting except this one. Soon 💜 God bless and enjoy those acres💜
Trellis them like grapes , keep them no higher then eight feet. No ladder needed for picking?
Is silk worms a sign of problems?
well ... maybe. honestly, i don't know about silk worms, so i won't speak like i know :).
BUT, any large insect infestation that's beyond normal (like, it's normal to have a few chewing insects) will affect the tree. however, Mulberry bear fruit early; we DO have some sort of chewing bug AFTER we harvest fruit (we're harvesting amount
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My giant mulberry was invaded by fruit flies and their larvae. I am told i can spray malathion or get chickens under the tree to break the cycle.
I live in the DFW Area of Texas and I see wild Mulberry trees everywhere! Many are really huge with so much fruit on them! Last week, I was in a park. Berries were dropping on us. We looked down on the ground and there they were, Mulberries! Lol. Then we looked up and oh my goodness, big huge mulberry tree! It was so freakin' high! 😂😂😂😂😂. We pick some from the ground. We walked more and found so many of the trees in that park. We did pick from the trees, but many were so tall that we couldn't reach. My twin sister and I are like 5'2" and 5'3" so we were struggling. 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 I'm going back! 😁 There's a white mulberry tree on the grounds of my apartment complex. Omg, there's so much fruit on it. Lol. I keep going out there every few days to pick from it. Wild Mustang grapes grow everywhere here, too.
i just got soooo hungry!! 😂 that's awesome that u and Sis are out there eatin' the goodies. pick 'em from the ground -- they're usually the perfect ones! 😋😋
our Mulberries are just forming -- still totally green. ya got nice warm weather!
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Hi mate, good job
I planted a lot of mulberry seeds
and I have grown a lot of trees from them, at least 20, almost all with different genetics,
some seem to have larger, fasciate leaves and seem to have greater vigor growing.
and others seem to have more rounded and smaller leaves and have less growth vigor.
The fastest growing ones have begun to produce flowers, it seems that they produce male flowers and some have produced male flowers and then female flowers and even some small fruits with a mediocre flavor.
Do you know if they can produce quality fruit from seed?
Can I hope that some of these will bear good fruit???
thanks, good job
Hello! first, congratulations on successful growing! amazing production from seeds!
the short answer to your questions is, I don't know :/. honest answer. i did read that Mulberries are complex to include a tree's flowers changing sex. "true to seed" is something i'm still learning about stone fruits like the Peach!
growingfruit.org/ is a forum of very experienced and helpful growers. the forum includes "regular" gardeners like me too ;).
you ask a great question. it deserves an accurate answer!
thanks for the feedback and for stopping by!,
pete moss. 🐞
Sound not loud enough.
Sorry about that! 🐞
Hello HEPPY Lifestyle....ü...i hope u have a tutorial or atleast recommend your experience on how to grow mulberry from cuttings?..is it true that some varieties are easy to grow/propagate than others?..thank u in advance for answering my querry...ü
hello Max! i DO need to make vid's on cuttings -- the Mulberry tree and other delicious fruiting plants! i do not know if one variety is easier than another to propagate; i can say that the Red and Texas Mulberry trees grow VIGOUROUSLY. my sense -- as a gardener -- is that ~all Mulberry trees are easy to grow/propagate ;). we've become fanatical about the soil. organic & well draining soil is important.
so far, we've propagated the following plants by throwing branches into moist (not wet) woodchips in a shady location (no hormones): Elderberry, Chaste Tree and Fig. The Hardy and Fuzzy kiwis did not do as well. we harvested the cuttings during our late late winter pruning (Feb-Apr, in Northern Hemisphere). this technique saves time (no hormones, no pots, no greenhouse, zero effort). we'll try Mulberry too!
thank you for stopping by Max!
Have you ever tried to make tea out of the leaves?
It's supposed to have a lot of calcium in the tea.
I tried and it seemed awful but perhaps like dandilions I was supposed to harvest the leaves prior to it producing flowers and fruit.
i have not used our Mulberry for tea but i'll try it this spring!! online, i see it's popular but i wonder which variety of Mulberry is sold commercially. yup, timing the leaf-harvest is often a factor -- you nailed it. i'm sorry it tastes like poo. keep experimenting! maybe mix those leaves with dried Rosemary or Mint. i went 'off' on Mint tea this year (Mint from the garden).
for Mulberry native to North America -- Red & Texas Mulberry -- i see that the "Cherokee made a tea from the leaves of the plant for treatment of dysentery, weakness, and difficulty urinating (Hamel and Chiltoskey 1975)."
you got me wondering so I dove into PubMed. there's a great article here, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3397487/.
i dove to the paper's Conclusion: "antioxidant activities are considerably affected with variety of plant chosen....M. rubra [Red Mulberry] can be investigated for its nutraceutical applications [health-giving / medicinal benefit]. On the other hand, a high amount of phenolics, DPPH radical and ABTS radical cations scavenging potential suggest the superiority of M. nigra over the other species regarding their disease preventive potential."
thank you for stopping by Jim. and Happy New Year!!
Try adding honey to your tea, the variety you commonly see sold as tea online is the White Mulberry. I'm manufacturing the leaves into a brewable form right now. It's a lot of work when you're doing it in overabundance.
@@corygardner3945 was I supposed to harvest the leaves prior to it producing flowers and fruit?
@@jimmiller6704 I don't think that matters before or after, fruit and flowers.
different varieties and species of Mulberries leaves will be different
Handsome (and helpful).
Nice.. I took several mulberries from seeds dropping.(Sprouts). I've kept them alive in pots for 3 or so years.. They are the black\purple Mulberry.. But found in Paso Robles..on a Job.. My question is Will they Fruit..? Without grafting..etc. I've just been letting them Grow..until I found the right spot.
Good info here.. Thank you.
Thank you for the feedback!
Not sure if they'll fruit; i potted 2 self-seeding one too, they're 3+ yrs old, and I saw no fruit. BUT im willing to bet they'll fruit (as yours will).
There's also grafting. A cultivar not prone to popcorn disease.
Thx for stopping by,
pete moss
Been doing it for 100 years!
Did you know that mulberry leaves are medicinal? They are good for the kidney, and they are used by Chinese traditional medicine doctors for controlling high blood pressure. You can dry the leaves and used them for tea (either whole leaf or crushed).
Thank you. I'm seeing any comments about using the leaves for tea! Much appreciated. 😎
for all the wine drinkers and makers. mulbery wine is delicious cheers mate great video
thank you Curtis 😋👍
I agree with growing branches low for harvesting fruit for myself, but I plan to let a few trees grow very tall so that maybe the birds will eat the higher up fruit, and leave mine alone. LOL
smart. birds definitely show up...they're smart too ;)
Great video
well, thank you Sans Mal!
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pete moss
Salute yo you sir i like the way you share❤
well, thank you! and thanks for stopping by!
Low hanging fruit…
Okay Heppy, Maybe you can help. I'm in looking to get a dwarf everbearing, however I have red clay soil. What should you recommend I change the soil around where I plan to plant.
nice choice Preston. there are several factors (natural rain; U don't over water; sunlight [to dry soil]). but decayed /rotted woodchips is my koolaid; incorporate free organic'y decayed wood and mix it with the clay. we planted our Persimmon and some Pawpaw in areas with rock-hard clay soil. i dug holes as large as my old fat ass could dig, and used that soil to mix with decayed woodchips and decayed matter from around the area. you have to 'feel;' ur mix; clay is OK but 100%, hard clay reduces the vigor of roots, is not well-draining soil (which u know), and without organic matter, you don't have all the microbes and worms and 'things' thriving in the soil. the latter eat decayed organic matter and turn it PRIME soil!!
i also planted my girls on a small mound of that soil so drainage was guaranteed. so a planted tree -- let's say, from a 1 gallon pot -- is actually above grade! but dig dig dig a hole. do it once; then, she'll be fruiting for decades to come.
STAKE your tree. one stake always goes in the direction of typical winds. the other stake is opposite side. but she's a dwarf (great choice) so probably won't get top-heavy. fertilize next year. adding some black compost soil is good too but am leery of u placing too much organic 'hot soil' with clay.
don't over water. the clay and organic matter retain TONs of moisture.
too much coffee; sorry about the book i wrote; check out heppy.org/mulberry; plz sub'; and be good Preston. sincerely, peter
@@heppylifestyle Alright. I appreciate so so much you taking the time to break it down for me. So awesome, all the details. Yes one thingI totally forgot we're stakes so I'm headed to Lowes today. And then I'm gonna start digging this HARD clay. I definitely will subscribe and You have an awesome awesome Sunday!
@@MichaelPittmanJr. well thank you!! drink water and circle back and let me know how it goes!
@@heppylifestyle Good Afternoon Sir! Well I've got the hole started 😂 I think I'll hack at it through the week and get her in the ground next Sunday. Man this clay ain't no joke!
I had another question for you. I have an area in my yard that I don't plan to utilize for a few years. If I continue to put grass clippings then cover with pine straw over an over for the next few years that ought to make the soil there useable?
Maybe at the end when I'm ready turn an mix all that dirt?
@@MichaelPittmanJr. yes, it will make a difference (stimulate microbes & bugs & worms). it won't penetrate deep BUT its far better than doing nothing (nothing but mow which leaves the surface, essentially, dead). if you can tolerate the look, then consider letting grasses & weeds grow tall -- their roots penetrate soil. natural rainfall is a factor. at the end when ur ready turn and mix all that soil, you'll have awesome topsoil. veggies and herds and shallow-rooted plants can be grown over the top of clay on slightly raised bed / mounds. i'd still work a hole for trees (up to 5'x5'x[as deep as u feel like pounding away]).
tree stakes / another lesson i learned: i buy 20' long rebar and cut it to 5' or ~7' lengths. they r my tree stakes. it takes space and time to do it but buying 20' sticks from a non-big-box commercial retailer is cheap. #4 i think is 1/2" rebar; #5 is 5/8" rebar and i know it's $16 for 20' (5/8") and i can use the stakes forever (easy to pound in and ~easy to pull out).
I love mulberrries! I've been wanting a white peach tree but I would love mulberries more!
Can't go wrong with either one!! Glad ur in the garden!