>>2568443>>2568445>>2568446>>2568448>>2568449> I just want a bunch of mulberry small trees, is there anyone that can tell me more info on rooting them?I've heard of the method you use (= stick a stick in soil & wait). I tried it for fun twice when I pruned my mulberries.
Some of them managed to grow leafs, even for three months, but none developed roots.
Last year my m. alba that I bought as a 'fruit plant' had fruit for the second time, and again the fruits were super tiny. This sucks :/
My parents didn't believe me that it's that bad, so I sent them pic related - bottom-right are mine, bottom-left are from another nursery tree (pendula) and top ones come from a random wild tree...
So I made some research & propagated mulberry with success
This turned out most useful: >>>
https://www.growingmulberry.org/propagation <<<
What I did: in late June, when the first ripe fruits appeared, I located a bunch of mulberries (m. alba) around, taste-tested them, and chose the tastiest ones with sufficiently large fruits.
Still in LATE JUNE, I did hardwood cutting:
- prepared a 2l plastic bottle: cut top of it and filled half of the bottle with plant soil mixed with sand. I did not drill any hole on the bottom.
- cut about 20 cm long, 1-year old branches (= those that are no longer green, but turned to wood)
- removed all leafs apart from either a small on top or 1/3 of a big leaf on top
- soaked the bottom with rooting hormone,
- stuck the cuttings in the bottle & watered it
I left the bottle closed (even with loosely screwed cap) out of sunshine in a room for about 6 weeks. Then the cutting grew new leafs and I saw roots appear.
Fast forward, now I got excessive amount of mulberries that, as all mulberries do, annoy me by suddenly popping green & enlarged buds in the early spring and then waiting a month until the day is long enough to suddenly burst with leafs.
I can post some photos of how they look today if you like, but I don't have pics from the process.
