shatut mulberry leaves (forum)

david lambert starts with ...
can anyone tell me the cause of the blackening of the edges and portions of these white king mulberry leaves please??
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Time: 22nd June 2007 8:27pm

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Kath says...
Mulberries are deciduous trees and as such they drop their leaves for the winter. Before the leaves are dropped the tree will start to look a little scrappy and the leaves turn brown at the edges and fall off.

Time: 25th June 2007 3:21pm

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david Lambert says...
mulberry leaves...yes Kath..deciduous and all that ..but this is Black edging.

Time: 25th June 2007 5:57pm

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Bronwyn says...
It could be fertiliser burn.

Time: 26th June 2007 3:00pm

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Steve says...
David are you in a frost prone area. All of my mulberry leaves turn black after a heavy frost and I get black edging on the younger leaves from milder frosts.

Time: 6th July 2007 7:18pm

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Leona says...
Mine did the same last summer. It is growing in a pot so perhaps got a little dry. After it lost its leaves, it has since grown lovely green new ones and looks healhty again.

Time: 18th September 2007 11:30pm

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Leona says...
Mine did the same last summer. It is growing in a pot so perhaps got a little dry. After it lost its leaves, it has since grown lovely green new ones and looks healhty again.

Time: 18th September 2007 11:30pm

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Mike says...
I get this on my black mulberry but normally toward the end of the fruiting season. I put it down to cold as that's when I notice it the most, after a very cold night. I live near the coast so I don't get frost here but nights of 8 degrees and colder seem to cause blackening of the leaves.

Time: 12th October 2007 5:58am

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Mike says...
I forgot to mention that all the leaves on my white shahtoot looked like yours at the end of last summer but this year it has a beautiful amount of new growth and gresh, healthy green leaves.

Time: 12th October 2007 6:00am

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brian says...
My leaves have started doing the same thing, my plant is only 1 mtr high and planted 2-3 months ago. It is a white weeping shahtoot variety. The leaves are deffinately turning black around the edges, do we think this is normal hebaviour or a problem?

Time: 28th March 2008 9:39am

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Anonymous says...
This is a normal phenomina that is occuring all over the place. Is call autumn and presumes a change of season. The trees should have been fed by now so as they can go into a domant state and store the energy up for next growing period, unless you have an unsual event and the trees keep on going. My apricot has not stoped since i poisoned the couch grass and left it there as a mulch cover. Its grown not stop now for two years. But only produced four fruit last season.

Time: 28th March 2008 6:13pm

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Leona says...
Yep, my Shahtoots are going brown at the edges again but otherwise completely healthy. Just a shame they both aborted all their fruit last season...I think it was due to the hot weather perhaps?

Time: 28th March 2008 10:24pm

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Kath says...
I've never tasted the white Shatoots but have a great black mulberry-how do they compare taste wise?

Time: 16th April 2009 9:07pm

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Steve says...
I've only tried a couple of Shahtoots. They are very sweet (even when not fully ripe) but don't have that wonderful tangy taste of a good black mulberry

Time: 20th April 2009 9:35pm

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Steve says...
Leona, I now have a dwarf red shahtoot and it has aborted all its fruit in October for the last 2 years. It can't be the heat here in Armidale so I guess it is immaturity. I don't think it is water stress. Hopefully it will get over it. It has actually produced a lone autumn berry which it is hanging on to currently.

Time: 20th April 2009 9:40pm

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