Our Favorite Way to Propagate Mulberry Trees | Air Layering 101
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2021
- What is the best way to propagate a mulberry tree? Can you propagate trees during the summer months? What is air layering? Today we're answering all of those questions.
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Great Teaching Video 👍 Thank you both! I will definitely use your tips in the future.
God Bless ❤
Thanks Duane.... Found this very interesting. I need to go back through and make a list of items. Not sure if my neighbor would be up for air layering his tree, so I might have to wait until what I am propagating currently is big enough to do this with.
Ciao
Excellent video, MS. Lory is great woman
Glad you enjoyed this one Abid and yes, Lori really is an amazing woman!
Looking forward to the results!!!
We are to Kenneth. Fingers crossed on these!
Wonderful step by step process clearly explained. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you found this one useful!
Interesting system!!!
That was interesting.
Never knew what to call it. My aunt had a version of it thats close but a bit different.
For mulberry, fig,roses and confederate roses and grape vine.
She would take a branch or vine close to the ground. She would do like you did your cutting or she would snip it 1/2 with pruning shears. Some time she would use the rooting compound sometimes not. Why I don't know it could be as simple as none was available.
But all she did was dig up the dirt on the ground. Put the prepared spot on the ground and cover it with topsoil.
Most of the time she would get a start able plant from it.
Old school and it works. Seek-no-Further apple was planted as a pip, a seed, in the dooryard of a colonial farm in Mass. Eventually, the farm was abandoned, but the tree survived. Wind blew it over and branches dug into the rocky soil and rooted, thoe the old tree died. That happened 4-5 times until the tree landed near a road at the bottom of the hill. You can buy rooted cuttings and grafted trees of the variety, which is supposed to be pretty good. It's known to produce in Zone 8, which leaves me out.
@@marschlosser4540 its been a few years since I was able to walk to it. But the original homestead from 1823.
Had a hard pear tree ( canning pear). It was still alive by natural growth from limbs or pear that seed out. To at least 2015. But after mikle hit you can't get in there. About 200 year old white and red oaks fell all around it. And tge cousin that owns it not considered about clean up.
@@tbjtbj4786 The family kept the same varieties of apples and pears from the 1790s and before by allowing a root sucker to come up when the parent tree was getting old. Graft it and when it produces, the parent tree was cut down the next winter. Ants would get back. For sons leaving the farm (the old daughter inherited) for new territory, they took rooted cuttings and seeds. Some varieties went back to Hess and Bavaria, Scotland and Holland. Like you, too many cousins who don't care. And, it's in another state, besides. Walk in beauty
@@marschlosser4540 thats cool.
With my family the eldest son inherent the farm. Its been that way through the generations.
The only glitch my grandfather had a falling out. And left so to speak. He brought his part from his parents. Thats the part I have.
That's a solid technique as well and I'm sure it works better than this process (not to mention quite a bit easier!). That's what we do with our blackberries, so it would be worth trying with these also on these really low branches.
Thank you for the valuable explanation
I'm glad you enjoyed this one and found it useful.
Great info, we also air layer with good results, and thank you for sharing.
When do you guys normally start your air layering? We've tried spring, early summer, mid-summer, and Fall. For the most part it seems to do well as long as the birds leave the "potato" alone.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm We do it mid-summer but don’t forget to keep the potato 🥔 out of direct sun light.
@@danielfisch655 the plan is to do additional as we have time to see what the sweet spot is.
Fantastic 😊😊😊
Glad you enjoyed this one!
Looks like a special variety of mulberry 🌯 burrito trees!
Yes! Mulberry burritos sound like something you would find at a county fair in the Mid-west! Deep fried of course...
I just air layer my friends mulberry tree so will see how it goes in the next 6 weeks.
Air layering is probably the most successful way we have found to propagate mulberry trees, so fingers crossed you'll have a new tree here in a few months!
great video, did you do any ever bearing mulberries?
We sure did. Hopefully, we'll be able to produce a few this year and have them available for folks in the future.
Hey, abusing that poor mulberry at the end! Sigh, kids today!
This is very cool. It's nice to see you two working together. And, nice to see your air layering technique. Nope, no luck with it in Arizona. But, we'll see in the spring how well the grapes, fig, mulberry, and pomegranate do. And I'm going to do it your way and this time use heavy duty foil. Hasta!
That heavy-duty foil is really the key. It still has a tendency to degrade over the 2 months we leave it on the tree, but far less than the regular stuff does.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I bought a roll of heavy duty foil today. :)
I'm assuming this is the same process for air layering of figs. Do you wait until the fruiting is done to start air layering, or does it matter?
Great job! Impressive method. Btw, how do you water your trees? And how often? Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed this one. I'll see if I can find a video(s) we did on how we water and also how often, especially this time of year;
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Hopefully that answers those questions for you in more detail than I can type out here!! 😉
I love mulberries they grow wild all over New Mexico. Though not everyone feels the same.
It's a funny thing when it comes to things like this. Most folks are perfectly fine with a lawn that doesn't provide for them, but frustrated with a tree that produces an edible crop to sustain life. I suppose the purple bird poop on the car might be driving some of the frustration! Where are you at in NM?
I live in Albuquerque, yeah they complain about the purple mess and dragging it in the house. I was raised eating off the trees so I see them a little different.
@@breakingburque2200 I used to travel to ABQ every month years ago, so I know the climate pretty well. It's great for mulberry trees that need the cold winters to help with fruit set and hot summers to make it sweet.
Is that my tree growing a chorizo burrito?! 😂
If that tree were available, I would be all over it!! 🤣
I find the best way to apply the rooting hormone is to make a paste of it with honey and then applying it. Do you have any problems with birds eating the fruit there? What methods do you use to help minimize the damage they might do?
Good point on the rooting hormone. For the most part the birds are not a big problem with mulberries. Eventually they find them, but we are able to harvest the vast majority for ourselves. Ours put on so much fruit it's just not an issue sharing with the birds.
Shangri-la is one that I don't have. Might just have to buy one off you if you don't mind.
Hey Alan. They really are an amazing variety. I'm sure you can find a spot for it somewhere on that property of yours. Even if it shares a home out back with that beautiful Pakistan that you have!
Do you sell any mulberry trees? I wound consider buying one :) they look great!
Hey Kris! We do not currently sell any trees, but possibly in the future.
Dewan
You are a champ.
Is there anyway that I can buy one of these Pakstani Mulberry I am willing to pay for the Shipping. I am in Santa Clara California. My Filipino friend promise to Air layering a big branch of his this year but for some reason I think he moved to his country temporarily for Family issues. Can you please make my dream come true. I love those trees .I have been looking everywhere and I don’t want a little plant. Thank you Dewan and Lori
Great job guys
God bless
Jimmy from California
Hey Jimmy! Our mulberry trees are newly planted this year, so it will still be another year or so before we have big enough branches to be able to effectively propagate from them. You may be able to find decent-sized trees from Dave Wilson nursery this winter during their bare root season. I'm not sure where your closest nursery would be that carries them, but you can usually find them online in the Fall and have them shipped to you. Those would actually be a much larger tree than what we're air layering here on the farm.
I have been wanting a Pakistan mulberry for sooo long!! Nobody has them. Would you consider selling and shipping a young tree to Texas???
Hey there Sherri. I don't know that we'll eventually be shipping trees, but your best bet in finding a Pak Mulberry is in the Fall/Winter months when online nurseries start selling their bare root trees. That's how we purchased all of our original trees on the old property.
I feel sorry for you on that dry ground. In Florida the easy method for propagating mulberry or fig is to drive hardwood cuttings in the ground in February and put a drip line on it.
That would sure make things easier. The only thing that survives that kind of propagation is cactus and even then you have to water them from time to time if it's extremely hot and dry!
I like your explanation, and demonstration, but I have a question: Why bother with the Air Layering, when you can just cut off the branch, remove some bark and cambium, and place the branch in a pot with some rooting stuff, and a planting medium, such as your coconut coir?
Thanks...I love the channel.
Great suggestion Richard and that would probably work as well. We seem to have better luck with this method during the summer months, but not always. The biggest advantage this has would be the lack of watering that is needed during the rooting phase and these don't take up any additional space until they're removed from the tree.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm
Thanks for your reply.
Best to you and Lori.
Quick question: was the coco coir wet when you wrapped it around? how is it able to get the water?
Yes, the coir was sopping wet when we wrapped it. It slowly loses moisture over time, but typically not before you remove them from the tree and pot them up.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thanks man you earned a subscriber🤙🏻 what’s your fav top 5 mulberry varieties? I’m looking for something with a balance of tart & sweet with flavor vs straight sweet bland..
@@rocket2811 If you're wanting that balance the Shangri La is your best bet in our opinion. It's our favorite overall because of that balance. As for top 5 - Shangri La, Illinois Everbearing, Black Pakistan, Persian Black, Contorted. In that order from our favorite to least.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm when you say Persian-the other day i saw a couple at a nursery labeled as Fruting Persian (juicy red-black morus nigra) , do you think it could be the one?
@@rocket2811 it probably is. It's a pretty generic term for a Black colored fruit on a mulberry tree that's not a well known variety like Shangri La or Black Pakistan.
Tortoises love mulberry leaf
I imagine they would really love those green leaves!
What was the white powder put on stem ?
That is rooting hormone. I'll link to it on Amazon for you here;
amzn.to/3z1awBp
I have a Pakistani mulberry tree. 7-8 feet tall. In the ground for 2 1/2 years, NO fruit. It is a single tree. Do i need another tree,or should i try something else. I am in Central Florida,East coast. Sebastian area.any ideas please. Of course, i mulch,water, ferterlise. My soil is pure sand. PH is 6.5. Thanks
Hey Robert, sorry to hear that mulberry tree is not producing for you. It's hard to say for sure what's going on, but a few thoughts. I pulled up your area and it looks like you have very limited chill hours (time below 45 degrees F) in the Winter. While it's debatable whether or not chill hours are required for fruiting it's generally accepted that they do need at least some. Pakistan Mulberries generally fruit very young, but they can take up to 3 years to start producing. The key here is producing. They usually attempt to set fruit younger than that, but the fruit will not take. It is possible you have a male mulberry tree which only produces pollinating catkins. They both (male and female) have catkins, but the female tree's catkin almost immediately starts to set and grow into fruit. Lastly, they do well with pruning which can induce fruiting. Fruit forms on new growth that extends from branching that is at least 1 year old, so cutting back some of last year's growth will encourage the tree to branch out and possibly give you some fruit. While there is a chance the tree will still produce, if you decide to swap it out a more tropical variety might be a better option. We really like the Shangri La (featured in this episode). Hopefully you'll figure this out and get some fresh mulberries soon!
Try to use some paper or cloth instead of aluminum foil...better isolation from heat..
As long as it can block out the light completely that may be a better option.
Did they create roots?
Hey Alessandro! Yes, roots did grow at the air layered spot. More so when we got the potted up!
How many days it took to grow roots
These usually stay on the tree for about 2 months before we move into pots.
Where is the part 2? Can someone link it please
We didn't film one for this round of air layering and I can't seem to find the one we did a few years ago. There are a lot of them out there, but we should probably do one again here for everyone.
@Edge of Nowhere Farm agreed. Want to see the results, both if success or fail.
why not just cut the branch off the tree and stick it in a pot of medium? you have severed the cambium layer so you have severed the life line .What is the point of leaving it on the tree? Will the layer under the cambium layer continue to supply water to the distal section?
I can't speak to the mechanics of it, because I really don't know tree physiology well enough to attempt it. I will say we have done both and our success rate is higher with the air layering method. I can only assume it's because there is no movement of the "cutting" when leaving it on the tree. That's my theory at least, given our experience.
Do you have Pakistani White Mulberries on the farm?
Great question. We haven't been able to find a true white Pakistan mulberry. We bought one a few years ago, but it was mis-labeled and is actually a Persian white mulberry.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I'm in the same boat.
@@AMAOG78191 ugh, that's frustrating!
What type of mulberry is this ?
This is a Shangri La mulberry.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm never heard of it. Is it bear any fruit?
@@tyomailinator2491 oh yes, the fruit is VERY good. About 1.5" (4cm) in length.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm wow that's the big one. I might couldn't find that types of mulberry in here, Indonesia. And the leafs of that plant aren't similar to any mulberry plant in here, so different. One more thing, does it shangrila mulberry can grow in tropical country?
@@tyomailinator2491 oh yes. In fact, it would probably do better for you there than it does here. Those large leaves really prefer having more moisture in the air which is a challenge for us in the middle of Summer.
Why are you making more of the same trees?
Great question Cintia! We have had numerous people ask if we sell Mulberry trees and this is a great way for us to do that.
Geat idea! Your trees are super healthy. We ave one Shangri-la and love it.
11:34 Lol. Yet another use for duct tape.
It really is the thing that holds most of society in place!