Questions tagged [mulberry]

Mulberries are widely cultivated edible fruits in the genus Morus. Use this tag for questions on both the fruit and the tree.

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Mulberry new growth leaves curling down

My mulberry tree leaves are curling fully or partially from the new growth. I can see it right now in 1/3 of the branches. There are no insects near or on the leaves. I water every 3rd day about 100 litter as it is sandy soil and tree trunk is about…
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Mulberry tree on mostly impervious surface

My recently planted mulberry tree is about 15 feet long. It appears to be growing okay but what I learned is that the growth will be very limited as the area surrounding it is mostly impervious (using bricks & cement). The area where it is planted…
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Grafting only one of three branches of Mulberry

I have a white mulberry tree. I have planted it about 3 months ago. It was already pretty good in size and it is growing well. As you can see in the picture below, it has three main branches. I want to graft only one side branch with black mulberry.…
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When to remove unwanted buds

I have planted a 15 feet long mulberry plant about a week ago. I don't want it to have any branch in its bottom 7 feet. But I see it is growing new buds everywhere. When to remove these wanted bottom buds? Right away or let them grow to some length…
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What should i do with this mulberry tree?

Last year i had planted 4 mulberry trees outside but slowly they all started to die. I figured it was the soil. It was badly compacted. Eventually, i was left with just one which i decided to pull out and put in a container. Soon after, that one…
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mulberry fruit shrivels up

hi my mulberry tree bears lots of fruit but the fruit shrivels up before it ripens. i don't know how old the tree is but i'll guess OLD. never cared for until my sister bought this property 6-7 years ago and i didn't pay attention to it (or know it…
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Grow out a pollarded fruitless mulberry

In the backyard of our new house is a fruitless mulberry tree that is probably about 40 years old. It has been pollarded for probably the last 20 years about 3 feet out from where 5 major limbs emerge from the trunk -- these major limbs have grown…
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'Climbing' black mulberry (morus nigra), is this real?

Ran in to this plant a the supermarket. It was only 3 bucks so I picked it up out of curiosity. I've started growing mulberry trees a while a go and did quite some youtubing and reading about them. Never have I seen or read about a climbing black…
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Are they snails in the mulch?

Are they snails? They are in mulch of my mulberry tree. I read they are dangerous to plants. What should I do? https://youtube.com/shorts/NlB4EqgUm_o
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What kind of tiny green bugs are these on mulberries?

I will try to take a picture next time I see them, but they were thin and green and there would be a few of them crawling around a single mulberry. As I recall, the length of their bodies was hardly as long as the individual drupelets on the…
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