Mulberry Tree (forum)

sue starts with ...
Last year I planted a Hicks Fancy Mulberry tree in my backyard in Melbourne. It took off last spring with fairly light green leaves but lots of vigorous new growth and even berries. This year it started budding ok but has sort of stopped in mid growth with very pale yellow leaves sprouting. Is this normal or is my tree deficient in something?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Sue

Time: 21st September 2010 7:04pm

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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Yellowish leaves on Mulberry trees and especially early fruit drop can be sign that the tree needs feeding, they grow quite rapidly in their first few years after planting. A deciduous tree fertilizer should help get the leaves back to normal, apply after the fruit are finished.

Time: 26th September 2010 8:32am

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sue says...
Thanks so much for the advice, Phil, much appreciated!

Time: 26th September 2010 10:09am

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Phil@Tyalgum says...
No worries Sue. Interestingly, black mulberries have become feral up here in Northern NSW, there are heaps of them growing along roadsides and creeks. Small fruit but at least you can get a basketful without having to sacrifice your own land to a large tree to get them.
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Time: 26th September 2010 10:36am

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allybanana says...
Phil are you sure that

Time: 27th September 2010 6:58pm

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Al\'sMulberries says...
Hi all who have posted.
I have a 70-yr old mulberry (I think black) which has grown to 20 ft high x 25 ft wide. It's a brilliant tree which gives great shade and climbing for kids, as well as 25-30kg ripe dark fruit per summer. I guess you could call it 'neglected', but it was this size when I bought the property. Each year the fruit first ripens between Christmas and early January then runs for about a month.
However, this year, they seem to have begun ripening in the second week of December, with a similar problem Sue describes above with much fruit either falling early or easily knocking off while picking. This has never happened previously. Also one side of the tree has fruit which is quite dry and scrawny, and yellowish foliage with brown spots (southern side).
There has been an unseasonally high rainfall in Victoria over spring, and not particularly warm in December. Also I have never fertilised.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Time: 21st December 2010 9:06pm

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allybanana says...
I have the same problem on my black mullberry dry fruits shedding at red stage and spotty leaves. I hope it is just a one off fungal disease brought on by wet weather and not the mullberry disease "grey leaf spot" a recent introduction to Australia. http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=DN06005.pdf

Time: 21st December 2010 11:14pm

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amanda says...
Is there any way to tell what kind of mulberry tree I have inherited here I wonder..? The fruit is very sweet - but has the most beautiful flavour I have tasted in a long time in a mulberry..? More complex than most...almost a hint of musk-like/spice...(hard to explain)

The tree has been neglected so not sure if the fruit is normally small...it's fairly gnarly also - could be up to 30yrs old...?


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Time: 19th December 2012 10:42am

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peter 1000 says...
hi amanda.
its a black english.
run your finger lightly up the leaf
towards the stem and you should feel
a slight sandpaper effect.

Time: 19th December 2012 12:47pm

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Mike says...
I second the motion...English Black.peter 1000 now that briz David sent me bags I had better use them and send some promised stuff soon.

Time: 19th December 2012 1:23pm

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Tommoz says...
I already mentioned this in another thread, but I bought an unwanted dwarf black mulberry. Grows to 2.5m

If someone is interested, contact **removed** I'm in Sydney.

Time: 19th December 2012 2:11pm

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peter 1000 says...
Hi Mike.
excelent, will wait for their arrival.
those m+m seeds are going extremely well planted them at the same time as other melon seeds and they are the most
vigourous.

Time: 20th December 2012 9:41am

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amanda says...
Thanks peter1000 and Mike :) It tastes more like a cane berry - I am surprised I haven't see more of them around...

Time: 20th December 2012 11:40am

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Mike says...
Great for pies Amanda unlike the shahtoots.

Time: 20th December 2012 2:05pm

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amanda says...
I wouldn't waste this fruit in a pie - far too good for that... ;)
(no sandpaper effect...but anyway - it's really delicious!)

Time: 22nd December 2012 10:26pm

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amanda says...
peter1000 -is the sandpaper feel on the entire back of the leaf? (it has a very rough underside all over and that's slightly brownish - if that what's you mean?)

Time: 23rd December 2012 11:20am

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peter 1000 says...
acually i was refering to the front of the leaf, all my three trees have the
same feel.


Time: 23rd December 2012 9:12pm

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amanda says...
Ah..ok peter1000.. :) they only have a really rough back-side ;-) The leaves are quite small compared to what I am used to seeing. It has quite big and fat/juicy 'berry-cells".
Can't wait for next years crop - now that I have removed banksias and stuff that it was hiding under...has a lot more sun now..
(is it really late for me to be picking fruit this far into summer..? other folks fruit seems to have long gone..?)

Time: 24th December 2012 11:40am

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peter 1000 says...
the picture of the leaf you posted
looks like a normal black english leaf.
although cant really tell its size.
strange it hasnt got the same feel as mine. are you very lightly feeling up
the leaf and not down?
mybe its differant because of its location.

my trees would still have lots of berries on them if it wasnt
for the birds,

Time: 26th December 2012 7:13pm

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Julie says...
I had some mulberries from a friend's parents tree ages ago. It was a Black English, and they tasted like blackberies - juicy and delish!

Other mulberries just don't compare, but I had no success with 30 cuttings. My gardening book says they are usually grafted because they are so difficult to propagate from cuttings.

Time: 26th December 2012 9:18pm

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amanda says...
Think it was the age of the leaf I felt peter1000...the older ones are like sandpaper on the green side - as u said :) I checked more carefully this morning while I was deserately eating "almost ripe" berries - bloody birds (or mice maybe) seem to have a radar for them and the net must need to be more like flywire mesh size I reckon!?

Julie - if I can get cuttings going I will bring u a plant - they are like a very sweet cane berry for sure...I have raided many trees overhanging the dunny cart laneways in Perth and Freo over the years - I think this one is very good...but it could be because it's been neglected..? You know how that can 'tighten up" the flavour of some fruits (and tomatoes) somehow...?

(ps - how juxtaposed is it to be picking sapodillas and grumichamas alongside mulberries and apricots - gotta love weird WA weather and microclimates for sure...a blueberry still flowering along with the mangoes...? Baby lychees forming and a banana passionfruit going mad..

I reckon anything is worth a try these days...?!

Time: 27th December 2012 1:14am

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dizzydeb says...
My Black Mulberry has lost all its leaves..but the trunk is still green..It had started to get regrowth a few weeks ago and then we had a deluge of rain over 2 days and all the leaves are now gone..Any ideas?.I have had it for a couple of years and it is probably 3 meters tall.Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong and what to do about it?

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Gidge says...
I am looking for a Mulberry the same as we had on our farm it was about 20 years old 45 years ago, it had very dark green leaves which were very dull looking. It was quite a small tree but this could have been the dry conditions my Uncle had a massive tree with the same leaves in Bassendean.the fruit was quite large and very tasty. Have only been able to find the tree with lighter green shiny leaves.
Would like to have the older variety if I can find one.

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peter30001 says...
hi gidge,
are the leaves the same as ammandas
post on 19th dec?

Time: 15th January 2017 5:04pm

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