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mulberry cuttings
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Posted by bakerfw wa (My Page) on Sun, Oct 16, 05 at 3:45
| I have been trying to take some cuttings from a English Mulberry tree now for some years. At last I have three cuttings that struck last year and are just showing leaves again this spring. They are in pots,in quality potting mix.Could someone please advise as to how often to fertilize and with what.
Thanks to all
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RE: mulberry cuttings
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| Mulberries are pretty vigorous and need little or even no fertilizer at all as long as they are in good soil. Different story if it were in impoverished soil. Bit like figs I think... don't give them too much encouragement, but keep the soil moist of course. |
RE: mulberry cuttings
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- Posted by meggs WA Aust (My Page) on
Wed, Oct 19, 05 at 5:18
| My experience with mulberries (and figs) is that they will grow in any soil. Mine grow in beach sand, no water whatsoever and the thougher you treat them the sweeter the fruit. If you treat them kindly, water them and feed them they will grow too big to comfortably pick fruit. Both trees have the ability to send tap roots to the ground water so some gardeners put a concrete slab under their roots to make life a wee bit more difficult for them so the trees fruit sooner and don't grow that big. Hope this helps. |
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