Hi Dingdong! I'm a new enthusiasts of Mulberrys. I remember them from when we luved in Virginia but don't recall if I ate any. We moved to SE Texas in 1973 and I retired in 2019. We bought some property in 2020. I learned i had a Mulberry Tree on the place but it turned out to be a male tree! I did a bunch of different kinds of grafts on one limb in August and seen one of the bud grafts has popped! I have bought a few trees but my main push lately is finding wild Mulberry Trees to take cuttings from. I have around 15 that are doing real good. I'm excited to see how they do next spring!
Hey that’s great! Dingdong grew up knowing about mulberries but I didn’t discover them until later in life when I saw another parent at our daughter’s school standing on a chair eating something out of a tree. “What’s that!?!” That, and I’m still tickled every time one of our cuttings roots or grafts takes. The possibility that it might not be successful always increases the excitement when it does. You know what I mean? -Mark
@dingdongsgarden Oh definitely Mark! This afternoon I noticed a bud opened up on a cutting from 10/17/24! The remaining 4 cuttings are just sitting there but I got one that is looking good so far!
Thanks! Hi, yes. We've had success with Illinois Everbearing and we're going to try propagating them again this year. We've consolidated a lot of our propagation resources and data on this page: dingdongsgarden.com/pages/success-rates-rooting-mulberries. Let us know if you have any questions and have a good weekend. - Mark
I am STOKED to find another mulberry fiend! Currently have Tehama (female), contorta (female), two completely differing offspring from some Persian fruit I suspect crossed with our ubiquitous white fruitless (sex if any unknown). Did successfully graft one branch of persian to my fruitless, have fruit, yay! And one fairly generic Morus nigra which this year is bent to the ground with luscious fruit. My original plan was to get as many varieties as UCD had, root them, then manage for fodder production for rabbits as a study. The quality of what cuttings I got was sadly very poor and we salvaged only two (Tehama and contorta). i would still love to try this study, if we can manage it... Did I mention Im STOKED, here?? 🥰😝🤯👍😛😛
What a great, comprehensive video! Thanks for posting! Which varieties in your experience root the quickest, thus less likely to rot away due to growing error. Thanks!
Thanks. I'm glad it was useful. I think the ones that root the quickest are also the ones that we have the most success with. We keep informal track of what roots well for us on our website. The ones with higher percentage success rate also probably root the quickest... dingdongsgarden.com/pages/rooting-mulberry-success-rates
Just looked at the rooting success list and it’s great info! Thanks and appreciate all the work you guys are doing and great insights you are sharing on mulberries!
Thanks! After the first winter of having them in ground at 7ft spacing we decided to double the density. So now they’re at 3.5 ft spacing. Hopefully I can get another orchard video out soon to show where we’re at. What are you growing? -Mark
Hi. I don't have any information on Nikita White. We have a few white colored mulberries: Buluklu, Tehama, San Martin, and Beautiful Day. White mulberries may vary a little in size and growth pattern, but I am pretty confident these and all other white colored mulberries probably taste pretty much the same. All sweet and no tartness. - Mark
Hi. I would suggest Maui, Worlds Best, Thai Dwarf, or something like that. It will quickly become root bound in a pot but if you water and fertilize regularly, it will produce fruit. And be sure to prune it back heavily after it fruits. - Mark
Hey Mark, I wanted to find out what was your favorite tasting varieties so far? I have a few different types and wanting to get 4 more, but hoping to find some really strong flavored sweet tart cultivars. It sounds like your taste is similar to mine, and I’m not wanting just sweet. Thanks for the input!
Hi! I've always just eaten them off the tree or given them to the family so it's hard to keep track what tastes good (the family aren't very discerning and seem to be happy with whatever is available!). That said, I think we'll have the quantity we need to do some semi-official taste tests this summer and some official taste tests down the road. Until then, my favorites are... Kip Parker, Gerardi, & Black Prince. White mulberries look nice and the birds miss them, but they are just honey sweet without tart. We're going to grow a lot though because I think sprinkling them on a basket of dark mulberries would look neat. So, sorry, not much info on taste now but hopefully more info to come! What types do you have now? - Mark
Great tour. I've been curious about the French Syrian. I think first saw it on Bass's site but it's never in stock. I'm mostly curious about DMOR9 and Australian Green. Would appreciate hearing about your experience with those if you had a minute to comment. Thank you!
Hi. We bought two Australian Green a few years back and we put them straight out to the orchard... they didn't make it. Since then, we grow out our trees a little more before putting them in-ground. We don't have any DMOR9. We do have traditional Black Himalayan but they have not fruited for us yet... as the farmer saying goes, 'there's always next year'! Thanks for the support. We're planting out the trees in a high density orchard this winter. Hope to have another round of videos next year.
@@dingdongsgarden Thanks. I saw in the video that you had a nursery for the trees before they good in ground. Sounds like a good plan. Looking forward to your winter scion sale.
Hi. Great question. They are hard to tell apart. The fruit on Florida Giant seems smaller and the leaves on the Tice seem wider but they may be the same. We keep the name we acquire trees under and don't do any genetic testing but we try to take as many photos and videos of each variety as we can. I'll try to get a video of them for comparison at some point... - Mark
You could. It won’t produce as much and you would have to prune, water, and fertilize regularly, but it will survive. Sorry it took me so long to respond! I sometimes lose track of all the notifications we get. -Mark
Hey which one of the white ones taste sweetest and produce a good yield I want to buy from you? as a child in iran I would go around the neighborhood with a blanket and shake the white mulberry trees and catch them and eat them want one in my house in California
I responded to your comment on the other video but here it is again!... Hi. They all seem to do well. Buluklu, San Martin, and Beautiful Day produce similarly sized berries. Tehama produces larger berries. I can't really taste the difference between them. For me, all the white colored mulberries taste similar... a honey sweet taste that doesn't have any of the tart balance that you find in the dark colored berries. I didn't grow up with mulberries but many people I talk to that grew up back east in the U.S. did! They have similar childhood memories of climbing trees to pick mulberries. Thanks and have a good week! - Mark
Hi. I wish. No we don't have Taiwan Long. We had a sharp cold spell that did severe damage to our more sensitive mulberries this winter. So I'm not sure Taiwan Long would work here. - Mark
Hi! I think any of the everbearing types like World's Best, Thai dwarf, or Maui would do fine. Also, there are a bunch of trees that come out of the humid southeast like Tice, Florida Giant, Valdosta, etc that should work. You should check out Jan Doolin's channel. She's in Florida... much closer to the Caribbean than we are! And she has a wide variety of mulberries. www.youtube.com/@jandoolin6675 - Mark
I have a white pakistan mulberry that I bought recently, it's a rooted branch that is already very tall (2m). It has new shoots but no fruits at all. Is this because of the problem you speak about that some varieties do no fruit from the trunk?
Hi. I don't have any direct experience with White Pakistan fruiting (ours didn't make it through the winter here). But it might be one of those mulberries that is shy about fruiting. Sometimes those shy mulberries have no fruit on the trunk, no fruit after rooting, or no fruit after pruning during mid season. Everything varies by climate condition and people might have different experiences but it might take a year or two to fruit. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Mark
I have a question about the Mulberry that I have growing in my yard. I have several trees. One is the female, which produces very black berries. The male tree has leaves that are very fuzzy. They’re large, but I feel my male mulberry trees are extremely invasive I live in Maryland. I am constantly digging up roots and shoots everywhere and I have a roots system that gets into my flowerbeds that literally chokes anything growing, and I’ve become to hate the mulberry tree, I do not know the variety I have. the trunk is more smooth with lots of knots. The leaves are large and fuzzy. I wish I knew what kind of mulberry tree I have. I like the female but the male is invasive in my yard.
Hi. Hmmm. I don't hear of many grown male mulberry trees in yards but there's not many in the wild around here either. We only have a few male mulberry cultivars in our orchard and the flowers are catkins. Is it possible that tree is something other than a mulberry? As for keeping that tree out of your garden, I'm not sure what to suggest. Trees planted near our garden are always an issue too. You have our sympathy. Sorry I couldn't help more! - Mark
I am looking for a variety that starts white but turns purple as it ripens. it is sweet but it does develops a flavor as it ripens. can you help me find what variety that is?
I'm terrible with judging taste but I do know the lighter the mulberry, the sweeter and less tart. White mulberries are like honey, all sweet, no tart. Easter Egg is a lavender mulberry but my understanding it remains sweet without much tart. Riviera Mulberry is lavender and continues to turn dark if left on the tree. If I remember correctly it had some tart. There's other lavender varieties as well. Even some white varieties if left on the tree will take on the lightest shade of purple... I've seen Tehama do this. I hope this helps. Sorry I couldn't be more definitive. - Mark
@@dingdongsgarden Thanks Mark. looking through your pictures i also saw that San Martin looks visually like the variety i am looking for. i will order cuttings from these varieties and try them out when you guys start shipping again. Thank you. - Mike
Hi I’m in zone 6B , I wanted to chance planting a Pakistani black , black mulberry of Spain , & a Shangri la next spring , I got a worlds bes this summer, any thoughts?
Hi. Our only experience is in zone 8a. When we first got Pakistan, Noire de Spain, and Shangri La we planted them directly in our field and they suffered. Now we leave our new trees in a pot for a year and, where possible, under plastic in a hoophouse. When we plant them as larger trees, they seem to survive the winter better. There's some great threads about cold hardiness of different mulberry cultivars over on growingfruit.org. Hope this helps! - Mark
I wish you the best! We had the same plan until our cold snap last winter but have now re-evaluated our dreams. If it's useful, here's what survived and didn't survive under specific conditions at our place here in zone 8a... ua-cam.com/video/SXeLLGA72kY/v-deo.html - Mark
Hi. That’s a great question that I’ve thought about lot about over the years. Mulberry trees are native in many parts of North America. And if I remember correctly there is only one state that restricts importation of Morus Alba only. So it’s native and not disallowed in all but one state and it’s not considered invasive in most places so the only thing I can think of is that the fruit can stain sidewalks so local HOAs , suburbs, and local municipalities put restrictions on planting them. Not much of a theory but I can’t think of any other reason. Do people give specifics when they say it’s a no-no? -Mark
Yes I've done some research some people specifically on reddit complain that they ruin fences and crack foundations with their roots. I'm strongly considering trying to make a living fence around my property in the way that people do with willow. I'm just apprehensive about potential problems for me later. @@WooShoo-26
@cajunhimself Right! Now I think I understand. By escaping you mean spreading roots beyond where you want them. I apologize I thought you were referring to mulberries in the first question. Yes! All trees if put near a foundation or plumbing may cause long-term problems. Roots follow moisture gradients. Willows are well known for doing this. Since we coppice our willow yearly, the root system can't spread far but I wouldn't recommend putting any kind of large tree right next to a home. Hope this helps. - Mark
I have a volunteer mulberry tree is there a way I can identify the virility? It is vigorous in growing. I've cut it down when it was young and it would just come back. So I identified it as a mulberry with a plant ap on my phone. It did have a few small fruit on the mature limbs but never ripened before falling off. It is maybe 2 years old now.
Hi Lori, unless you can confirm it was planted by someone it is difficult to identify newly discovered mulberry varieties. Volunteer mulberries that grow from seed are frequently different than the parent mulberries they came from. So it may be completely different from known varieties. Fruit drop is something we experience on young trees as well. Perhaps the fruit will develop more with time? Hope this helps. - Mark
Great video. I am a Texan with Pakistani roots. I was wondering if you sell those plants or you just grow them for your personal use. I live in West Texas in zone 7b, to be exact. I want to purchase a couple of authentic Pakistan King Mulberry plants (King red and King white Mulberries) so we can plant them on our land here. Let me know in the comment section if you would be willing to sell them. Thank you!
Hi! Thanks! We don't sell trees but we do sell and ship cuttings of Mulberry and other plants. All of our cuttings will go on sale this year in early January. Unfortunately we don't have Pakistan cuttings for sale this year, but when we do, they will be listed here: dingdongsgarden.com/collections/mulberry-cuttings. - Mark
Hi! They all seem to do about the same. But like anything in a pot, consistent and sufficient watering, along with fertilizing is crucial. We're hoping to get all of ours in-ground but if I were to grow a mulberry in a pot long term, I would choose an everbearing like World's Best or Issai or Jan's Best because they don't grow as aggressively and would take longer to outgrow a pot.
There is a very special variety of mulberry that for what I know it grows only in that country the Persian name is “SHAH TOOT “ which means king of toots or king of mulberries. Anyone knows how to find them here ? They taste sourly sweet and they sweeter as they ripen more is Burgundy/ dark red in color and taste like pomegranate .
Hi. Can you describe the size? Was it long and cylindrical? There's a mulberry called 'Pakistan Mulberry' here in the U.S. I've heard referred to as Shahtoot before. - Mark
@@dingdongsgardeni have grown 4 trees of white Shahtoot brought in dried mulberries. I soaked em in water for a day colled seeds and there i have now 4 6 feet tall now ! I am waiting for cuttings from North Pakistan this year !
@@Clark4EC That's exciting. What zone are you in? We had a couple of White Shahtoot when we first started growing mulberry trees and they didn't make it through the winter. - Mark
Hi! We do. The names of our three Morus nigra are Black Beauty, Noire de Spain, and Persian. They are pretty small, but you can see them in this video: ua-cam.com/video/j9ddUTYBTv4/v-deo.html. Morus nigra is one of the three more popular Mulberry species. The other two are Morus rubra and Morus alba. Unfortunately the nigra, rubra, and alba names have nothing to do with fruit color which leads to a lot of confusion. Also, my understanding is that all of the circulating cultivars of Morus nigra might be genetically identical so the three Morus nigra that we have are possibly the same plant. But we maintain the names the way we received them. Hope this all helps... probably way more than you were interested in hearing but it is a confusing topic!
Thanks that makes sense,I have heard that morus nigra was best tasting mulberry and a long lived tree so was looking to get only a couple of varieties of mulberry since I already have a bigcollection of fig and pomegranate varieties...also I don't believe I have male mulberry near my area, would I need to have male mulberry to get fruit.
@@valerie8217 I have heard differently- that you don't need one because there are so many mulberries trees growing that chances are there will be a male within a couple of miles that what i read dont know if its accurate, I'm probably 30 miles away from a mulberry right now. My fruit did drop the first year without ripening
I haven't produced large enough quantities to be definitive but I think Illinois Everbearing and Kip Parker consistently taste good. Once our little orchard starts producing a lot, we hope to do taste tests. In terms of production, I think the everbearing types like World's Best and Thai Dwarf spend a lot of energy on making fruit instead of growth. Hope this helps! - Mark
Thanks for reaching out. We don't have any experience with mulberries in colder areas but there's some varieties listed at zone 4 and below on www.growingmulberry.org/. Another good resource is the 'Mulberry Growers' group on Facebook. With over 30,000 members, there's tons of collective knowledge.
I live in zone 4 and thrs tons of purple or black mulberries, i have a bunch in my yard and a white or hybrid one right n between my property line fence.
Hi. Yes. We don’t sell trees, but we sell cuttings to root or graft seasonally. It’s typically available on our website in the winter around the first of the year.
Most of our mulberries are hybrids or Albas with a few Nigras. I don't think we have any north American native Morus rubra. We go by the name we received it under and have done our best to list the scientific names but without genetic testing, it's often hard for me to tell the difference between a native rubra and a some of our hybrids. - Mark
I threw a pack of seeds one year around my fence line and now I have mulberry trees everywhere but back in the 1800's, my area was known for the wild blackberries and mulberries>>>>I HAVE the red, white and black on my property>>>going for their cousins the che fruit or chinese mulberry>>>we will see
Hi. We ship cuttings within the U.S. during the dormant season... usually late fall through winter. Here is a link to our cutting page: dingdongsgarden.com/collections/mulberry-cuttings
Hi Dingdong!
I'm a new enthusiasts of Mulberrys. I remember them from when we luved in Virginia but don't recall if I ate any.
We moved to SE Texas in 1973 and I retired in 2019. We bought some property in 2020. I learned i had a Mulberry Tree on the place but it turned out to be a male tree!
I did a bunch of different kinds of grafts on one limb in August and seen one of the bud grafts has popped!
I have bought a few trees but my main push lately is finding wild Mulberry Trees to take cuttings from.
I have around 15 that are doing real good. I'm excited to see how they do next spring!
Hey that’s great! Dingdong grew up knowing about mulberries but I didn’t discover them until later in life when I saw another parent at our daughter’s school standing on a chair eating something out of a tree. “What’s that!?!”
That, and I’m still tickled every time one of our cuttings roots or grafts takes. The possibility that it might not be successful always increases the excitement when it does. You know what I mean? -Mark
@dingdongsgarden
Oh definitely Mark!
This afternoon I noticed a bud opened up on a cutting from 10/17/24! The remaining 4 cuttings are just sitting there but I got one that is looking good so far!
Wow, what a great video. I'm particularly interested in Illinois everbearing mulberry. Can they be propagated from cuttings?
Thanks! Hi, yes. We've had success with Illinois Everbearing and we're going to try propagating them again this year. We've consolidated a lot of our propagation resources and data on this page: dingdongsgarden.com/pages/success-rates-rooting-mulberries. Let us know if you have any questions and have a good weekend. - Mark
I am STOKED to find another mulberry fiend!
Currently have Tehama (female), contorta (female), two completely differing offspring from some Persian fruit I suspect crossed with our ubiquitous white fruitless (sex if any unknown). Did successfully graft one branch of persian to my fruitless, have fruit, yay! And one fairly generic Morus nigra which this year is bent to the ground with luscious fruit.
My original plan was to get as many varieties as UCD had, root them, then manage for fodder production for rabbits as a study. The quality of what cuttings I got was sadly very poor and we salvaged only two (Tehama and contorta).
i would still love to try this study, if we can manage it...
Did I mention Im STOKED, here?? 🥰😝🤯👍😛😛
What a great, comprehensive video! Thanks for posting! Which varieties in your experience root the quickest, thus less likely to rot away due to growing error. Thanks!
Thanks. I'm glad it was useful. I think the ones that root the quickest are also the ones that we have the most success with. We keep informal track of what roots well for us on our website. The ones with higher percentage success rate also probably root the quickest... dingdongsgarden.com/pages/rooting-mulberry-success-rates
Just looked at the rooting success list and it’s great info! Thanks and appreciate all the work you guys are doing and great insights you are sharing on mulberries!
Nice project! How is the 7 foot spacing between trees working out?
Thanks! After the first winter of having them in ground at 7ft spacing we decided to double the density. So now they’re at 3.5 ft spacing. Hopefully I can get another orchard video out soon to show where we’re at. What are you growing? -Mark
Do you have any information on Nikita white?
Hi. I don't have any information on Nikita White. We have a few white colored mulberries: Buluklu, Tehama, San Martin, and Beautiful Day. White mulberries may vary a little in size and growth pattern, but I am pretty confident these and all other white colored mulberries probably taste pretty much the same. All sweet and no tartness. - Mark
Loved the information you shared.
Thanks Charles. Not sure how good I am at it yet but hopefully some people are finding it useful. -Mark
Any recommendations for a smaller variety to be grown in a container in Zone 10a ? 😄😄🥰
Hi. I would suggest Maui, Worlds Best, Thai Dwarf, or something like that. It will quickly become root bound in a pot but if you water and fertilize regularly, it will produce fruit. And be sure to prune it back heavily after it fruits. - Mark
Hey Mark,
I wanted to find out what was your favorite tasting varieties so far?
I have a few different types and wanting to get 4 more, but hoping to find some really strong flavored sweet tart cultivars. It sounds like your taste is similar to mine, and I’m not wanting just sweet. Thanks for the input!
Hi! I've always just eaten them off the tree or given them to the family so it's hard to keep track what tastes good (the family aren't very discerning and seem to be happy with whatever is available!). That said, I think we'll have the quantity we need to do some semi-official taste tests this summer and some official taste tests down the road. Until then, my favorites are... Kip Parker, Gerardi, & Black Prince. White mulberries look nice and the birds miss them, but they are just honey sweet without tart. We're going to grow a lot though because I think sprinkling them on a basket of dark mulberries would look neat. So, sorry, not much info on taste now but hopefully more info to come! What types do you have now? - Mark
Fascinating 😍
Great tour. I've been curious about the French Syrian. I think first saw it on Bass's site but it's never in stock. I'm mostly curious about DMOR9 and Australian Green. Would appreciate hearing about your experience with those if you had a minute to comment. Thank you!
Hi. We bought two Australian Green a few years back and we put them straight out to the orchard... they didn't make it. Since then, we grow out our trees a little more before putting them in-ground. We don't have any DMOR9. We do have traditional Black Himalayan but they have not fruited for us yet... as the farmer saying goes, 'there's always next year'! Thanks for the support. We're planting out the trees in a high density orchard this winter. Hope to have another round of videos next year.
@@dingdongsgarden Thanks. I saw in the video that you had a nursery for the trees before they good in ground. Sounds like a good plan. Looking forward to your winter scion sale.
I just got some seeds from a neighbor who has a weeping mulberry. Hopefully they do well.
Good luck!
Well unless it got pollinated by a different variety like white mulberry which is dominate
Are Tice and Florida Giant the same variety? If not, how do you tell them apart?
Hi. Great question. They are hard to tell apart. The fruit on Florida Giant seems smaller and the leaves on the Tice seem wider but they may be the same. We keep the name we acquire trees under and don't do any genetic testing but we try to take as many photos and videos of each variety as we can. I'll try to get a video of them for comparison at some point... - Mark
Can i keep my mulin container it whole life what size container would i need if i could thanks
You could. It won’t produce as much and you would have to prune, water, and fertilize regularly, but it will survive.
Sorry it took me so long to respond! I sometimes lose track of all the notifications we get. -Mark
Hey which one of the white ones taste sweetest and produce a good yield I want to buy from you? as a child in iran I would go around the neighborhood with a blanket and shake the white mulberry trees and catch them and eat them want one in my house in California
I responded to your comment on the other video but here it is again!... Hi. They all seem to do well. Buluklu, San Martin, and Beautiful Day produce similarly sized berries. Tehama produces larger berries. I can't really taste the difference between them. For me, all the white colored mulberries taste similar... a honey sweet taste that doesn't have any of the tart balance that you find in the dark colored berries. I didn't grow up with mulberries but many people I talk to that grew up back east in the U.S. did! They have similar childhood memories of climbing trees to pick mulberries. Thanks and have a good week! - Mark
You sell cuttings?
Hi Mark, do you have the Taiwan long that grows all seasons?
Hi. I wish. No we don't have Taiwan Long. We had a sharp cold spell that did severe damage to our more sensitive mulberries this winter. So I'm not sure Taiwan Long would work here. - Mark
Which varieties of mulberry would you suggest that would grow & fruit well in the tropical Caribbean whete there's NO chill hours NO snow?
Hi! I think any of the everbearing types like World's Best, Thai dwarf, or Maui would do fine. Also, there are a bunch of trees that come out of the humid southeast like Tice, Florida Giant, Valdosta, etc that should work. You should check out Jan Doolin's channel. She's in Florida... much closer to the Caribbean than we are! And she has a wide variety of mulberries. www.youtube.com/@jandoolin6675 - Mark
@@dingdongsgarden ok great thanks again Mark
I have a white pakistan mulberry that I bought recently, it's a rooted branch that is already very tall (2m). It has new shoots but no fruits at all. Is this because of the problem you speak about that some varieties do no fruit from the trunk?
Hi. I don't have any direct experience with White Pakistan fruiting (ours didn't make it through the winter here). But it might be one of those mulberries that is shy about fruiting. Sometimes those shy mulberries have no fruit on the trunk, no fruit after rooting, or no fruit after pruning during mid season. Everything varies by climate condition and people might have different experiences but it might take a year or two to fruit. Good luck and I hope this helps! - Mark
@@dingdongsgarden Thanks!
I have a question about the Mulberry that I have growing in my yard. I have several trees. One is the female, which produces very black berries. The male tree has leaves that are very fuzzy. They’re large, but I feel my male mulberry trees are extremely invasive I live in Maryland. I am constantly digging up roots and shoots everywhere and I have a roots system that gets into my flowerbeds that literally chokes anything growing, and I’ve become to hate the mulberry tree, I do not know the variety I have. the trunk is more smooth with lots of knots. The leaves are large and fuzzy. I wish I knew what kind of mulberry tree I have. I like the female but the male is invasive in my yard.
Hi. Hmmm. I don't hear of many grown male mulberry trees in yards but there's not many in the wild around here either. We only have a few male mulberry cultivars in our orchard and the flowers are catkins. Is it possible that tree is something other than a mulberry? As for keeping that tree out of your garden, I'm not sure what to suggest. Trees planted near our garden are always an issue too. You have our sympathy. Sorry I couldn't help more! - Mark
I am looking for a variety that starts white but turns purple as it ripens. it is sweet but it does develops a flavor as it ripens. can you help me find what variety that is?
I'm terrible with judging taste but I do know the lighter the mulberry, the sweeter and less tart. White mulberries are like honey, all sweet, no tart. Easter Egg is a lavender mulberry but my understanding it remains sweet without much tart. Riviera Mulberry is lavender and continues to turn dark if left on the tree. If I remember correctly it had some tart. There's other lavender varieties as well. Even some white varieties if left on the tree will take on the lightest shade of purple... I've seen Tehama do this. I hope this helps. Sorry I couldn't be more definitive. - Mark
@@dingdongsgarden Thanks Mark. looking through your pictures i also saw that San Martin looks visually like the variety i am looking for. i will order cuttings from these varieties and try them out when you guys start shipping again. Thank you. - Mike
Hi I’m in zone 6B , I wanted to chance planting a Pakistani black , black mulberry of Spain , & a Shangri la next spring , I got a worlds bes this summer, any thoughts?
Hi. Our only experience is in zone 8a. When we first got Pakistan, Noire de Spain, and Shangri La we planted them directly in our field and they suffered. Now we leave our new trees in a pot for a year and, where possible, under plastic in a hoophouse. When we plant them as larger trees, they seem to survive the winter better. There's some great threads about cold hardiness of different mulberry cultivars over on growingfruit.org. Hope this helps! - Mark
@@dingdongsgarden Thanks
It is my intention to have every variety of mulberry on my Ranch... 😏
I wish you the best! We had the same plan until our cold snap last winter but have now re-evaluated our dreams. If it's useful, here's what survived and didn't survive under specific conditions at our place here in zone 8a... ua-cam.com/video/SXeLLGA72kY/v-deo.html - Mark
Do you worry about the non native verities escaping? I want to grow some but heard people say it's a nono to some people
Hi. That’s a great question that I’ve thought about lot about over the years. Mulberry trees are native in many parts of North America. And if I remember correctly there is only one state that restricts importation of Morus Alba only. So it’s native and not disallowed in all but one state and it’s not considered invasive in most places so the only thing I can think of is that the fruit can stain sidewalks so local HOAs , suburbs, and local municipalities put restrictions on planting them. Not much of a theory but I can’t think of any other reason. Do people give specifics when they say it’s a no-no? -Mark
Yes I've done some research some people specifically on reddit complain that they ruin fences and crack foundations with their roots. I'm strongly considering trying to make a living fence around my property in the way that people do with willow. I'm just apprehensive about potential problems for me later. @@WooShoo-26
@cajunhimself Right! Now I think I understand. By escaping you mean spreading roots beyond where you want them. I apologize I thought you were referring to mulberries in the first question. Yes! All trees if put near a foundation or plumbing may cause long-term problems. Roots follow moisture gradients. Willows are well known for doing this. Since we coppice our willow yearly, the root system can't spread far but I wouldn't recommend putting any kind of large tree right next to a home. Hope this helps. - Mark
which one is the tastiest?
I have a volunteer mulberry tree is there a way I can identify the virility? It is vigorous in growing. I've cut it down when it was young and it would just come back. So I identified it as a mulberry with a plant ap on my phone. It did have a few small fruit on the mature limbs but never ripened before falling off. It is maybe 2 years old now.
Hi Lori, unless you can confirm it was planted by someone it is difficult to identify newly discovered mulberry varieties. Volunteer mulberries that grow from seed are frequently different than the parent mulberries they came from. So it may be completely different from known varieties. Fruit drop is something we experience on young trees as well. Perhaps the fruit will develop more with time? Hope this helps. - Mark
@@dingdongsgarden Yes it does. Thank you.
Great video. I am a Texan with Pakistani roots. I was wondering if you sell those plants or you just grow them for your personal use. I live in West Texas in zone 7b, to be exact. I want to purchase a couple of authentic Pakistan King Mulberry plants (King red and King white Mulberries) so we can plant them on our land here. Let me know in the comment section if you would be willing to sell them. Thank you!
Hi! Thanks! We don't sell trees but we do sell and ship cuttings of Mulberry and other plants. All of our cuttings will go on sale this year in early January. Unfortunately we don't have Pakistan cuttings for sale this year, but when we do, they will be listed here: dingdongsgarden.com/collections/mulberry-cuttings. - Mark
@dingdongsgarden Okay, thanks I'll keep checking here.
What is the best variety to grow in pot?
Hi! They all seem to do about the same. But like anything in a pot, consistent and sufficient watering, along with fertilizing is crucial. We're hoping to get all of ours in-ground but if I were to grow a mulberry in a pot long term, I would choose an everbearing like World's Best or Issai or Jan's Best because they don't grow as aggressively and would take longer to outgrow a pot.
Thanks Mark.
There is a very special variety of mulberry that for what I know it grows only in that country the Persian name is “SHAH TOOT “ which means king of toots or king of mulberries. Anyone knows how to find them here ? They taste sourly sweet and they sweeter as they ripen more is Burgundy/ dark red in color and taste like pomegranate .
Hi. Can you describe the size? Was it long and cylindrical? There's a mulberry called 'Pakistan Mulberry' here in the U.S. I've heard referred to as Shahtoot before. - Mark
@@dingdongsgardeni have grown 4 trees of white Shahtoot brought in dried mulberries. I soaked em in water for a day colled seeds and there i have now 4 6 feet tall now ! I am waiting for cuttings from North Pakistan this year !
@@Clark4EC That's exciting. What zone are you in? We had a couple of White Shahtoot when we first started growing mulberry trees and they didn't make it through the winter. - Mark
@@dingdongsgarden zone 7
Do you have a variety called morus nigra? Or is that just a way to describe more than one black variety of mulberry?
Hi! We do. The names of our three Morus nigra are Black Beauty, Noire de Spain, and Persian. They are pretty small, but you can see them in this video: ua-cam.com/video/j9ddUTYBTv4/v-deo.html. Morus nigra is one of the three more popular Mulberry species. The other two are Morus rubra and Morus alba. Unfortunately the nigra, rubra, and alba names have nothing to do with fruit color which leads to a lot of confusion. Also, my understanding is that all of the circulating cultivars of Morus nigra might be genetically identical so the three Morus nigra that we have are possibly the same plant. But we maintain the names the way we received them. Hope this all helps... probably way more than you were interested in hearing but it is a confusing topic!
Thanks that makes sense,I have heard that morus nigra was best tasting mulberry and a long lived tree so was looking to get only a couple of varieties of mulberry since I already have a bigcollection of fig and pomegranate varieties...also I don't believe I have male mulberry near my area, would I need to have male mulberry to get fruit.
Any fruitless mulberry around wil do...they pollinate like crazy
@@dracodempseyeisenhart3804 mulberry tree does not need male pollination plant. They produce fruit without pollination.
@@valerie8217 I have heard differently- that you don't need one because there are so many mulberries trees growing that chances are there will be a male within a couple of miles that what i read dont know if its accurate, I'm probably 30 miles away from a mulberry right now. My fruit did drop the first year without ripening
What do you think what is the most productive and sweet mulberry?
I haven't produced large enough quantities to be definitive but I think Illinois Everbearing and Kip Parker consistently taste good. Once our little orchard starts producing a lot, we hope to do taste tests. In terms of production, I think the everbearing types like World's Best and Thai Dwarf spend a lot of energy on making fruit instead of growth. Hope this helps! - Mark
Is there a variety hardy enough for zone 4?
Thanks for reaching out. We don't have any experience with mulberries in colder areas but there's some varieties listed at zone 4 and below on www.growingmulberry.org/. Another good resource is the 'Mulberry Growers' group on Facebook. With over 30,000 members, there's tons of collective knowledge.
I live in zone 4 and thrs tons of purple or black mulberries, i have a bunch in my yard and a white or hybrid one right n between my property line fence.
can i buy some?
Hi. Yes. We don’t sell trees, but we sell cuttings to root or graft seasonally. It’s typically available on our website in the winter around the first of the year.
@dingdongsgarden great!! do you have non dwarf american mulberry aka red mulberry?
Most of our mulberries are hybrids or Albas with a few Nigras. I don't think we have any north American native Morus rubra. We go by the name we received it under and have done our best to list the scientific names but without genetic testing, it's often hard for me to tell the difference between a native rubra and a some of our hybrids. - Mark
Hello..how do you turn a male mulberry into a female..thanks,..
Graft
I have three males i will try to graft soon.
I threw a pack of seeds one year around my fence line and now I have mulberry trees everywhere but back in the 1800's, my area was known for the wild blackberries and mulberries>>>>I HAVE the red, white and black on my property>>>going for their cousins the che fruit or chinese mulberry>>>we will see
That's great! Good luck!
You should take the tree and graft them for better taste
You sell cuttings?
Hi. We ship cuttings within the U.S. during the dormant season... usually late fall through winter. Here is a link to our cutting page: dingdongsgarden.com/collections/mulberry-cuttings
Whoo hoo!
Please also put all possible varieties in the genetic repository at University of California at Davis.
Can you send cuttings to CA egally?
Hi. Yes. We are a licensed nursery in Washington State. We can ship mulberry cuttings throughout the lower 48 states.
@@dingdongsgardendo you ship to Hawaii. Thank you
Hi @@wsmaga . Sorry, we don't ship to Hawaii. - Mark