Taking cuttings

[Fierlin1182]

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Yeah, I do live in Australia

I'd better put that in my location, actually.
Thank you! I hope we do get some success with the mulberries, haven't eaten them for ages...

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

ray's two cents :

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Try using Google for grafting ideas. Typically you use root stock of tree that is easy to grow, and it needs to be hardy. I have heard of almond trees and plums being used. You would then split the trunk of the very young tree, and then you insert mullberry cutting. You really need to look at some pictures to get the way to slice the cutting and the trunk. A rooting hormone is very useful when grafting.

Okay, so it doesn't have to be the same type of tree. That helps!

http://www-intranet.angers.inra.fr/dossiers/haploidie/images/ecusson-eng.gif

This helps a bit, I kinda understand now.​

Yep - this looks like what I tried. Hope it works for you - and wondering whether you can just buy a mulberry tree in case it doesn't!
Good luck -

 

[Imp]

Here's some interesting information about propagating mulberries.

http://mulberrytrees.co.uk/propagation/

http://mulberrytrees.co.uk/vegetative/

Best of luck

Imp

btw- Yes Just Bugged, Raintree is the best.

 

[Fierlin1182]

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Ah, some good information there! Thanks for those links

 

[vfem]

I really want to get into this... but this is what I'm going to do since I'm so dead tired.

The gardening stuff is my FAV! (Check my blog link http://fromseed.blogspot.com)

Anyways... definitely go over to www.TheEasyGarden.com its BYC's sister site you see at the bottom of all the BYC pages. They have a tree section.

Now I know you can root Figs, I've done it... mulberry in MOST cases is a heritage tree and unlikely a hybrid. Long as it wasn't a grafted tree, or set on root stock to be in the area all you need is a deep bucket of loose soil with good nutrients and some powdered rooting hormone. I get mine at home depot in the gardening department.

If you're in a pinch... just crush up Bayer asprin and dip the end of the branch you took in that before putting it into the bucket.

If you did through my blog, you'll see how I rooted grape vines... same theory... but easier!

 

[AquaEyes]

Try air-layering. You can look it up, but I'll summarize the procedure.

1) select a young branch that is just getting woody, but is not older than 1 year or so.

2) take a knife and make a slit parallel with the length of the twig, but don't completely sever the branch.

3) dust some rooting hormone in the center of the cut.

4) stick a wooden match or something about that size in the slit to keep it from closing and healing.

5) get a handful of damp (soaked then squeezed out) sphagnum moss and bunch it all around the cut, to about the size of two hands clasped around it.

6) cover in clear plastic-wrap and tie the ends with string to keep it closed.

7) take a paper bag and wrap that over the plastic to keep out sunlight, preventing the plastic from acting like a greenhouse and cooking the twig.

8) wait.....might be a few weeks, might be a few months, but eventually you'll start seeing tiny white roots forming in the sphagnum moss under the paper bag through the plastic.

9) when you see strong rooting, completely sever the twig and plant it in a pot to grow on before planting in the garden.

 

[dewey]

We used to just plant the cuttings directly in the dirt and keep moist. Nothing else needed & very simple.

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Wow - sure wish I'd seen all these replies before I tried my grafting experiment. Ray, I see mulberries in your future!

 

[Fierlin1182]

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I certainly hope so! The tree they have grows these white mulberries with purple speckles... kinda different from the regular sort, but very tasty.

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

What a description - I've never seen a mulberry like that! Mine are the standard dark purple kind - I'd love to try those. Guess I'll just have to come to Australia then - always wanted to visit anyway, and might have to take some cuttings back with me!!!