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For about five years I have tried to propagate a HUUUUGE mulberry tree in my garden.(At least twenty feet tall)
It’s so tall that it’s impossible to net and so the birds take all the fruit as soon as they start to go pink, so they never get to ripen. I’m not exaggerating when I say that it produces a couple of hundred pounds of pink mulberries every year - and we get almost none!
Every time I go into the garden at fruiting time a cloud of birds take to the air, only to return to the tree again as soon as they realise that it’s just me and that I present no harm!
My husband says it’s my fault for feeding the birds all year and encouraging them into the garden!!
Anyway enough waffle - the question is .....
I have succeeded with air layering a small cutting. Yippee.
When shall I sever it from the main tree ??
Now - or leave it till Spring?
Will it have a better chance of survival if it remains attached to parent plant, or should I pot it up and put it in a cold greenhouse?
Thanks
It’s so tall that it’s impossible to net and so the birds take all the fruit as soon as they start to go pink, so they never get to ripen. I’m not exaggerating when I say that it produces a couple of hundred pounds of pink mulberries every year - and we get almost none!
Every time I go into the garden at fruiting time a cloud of birds take to the air, only to return to the tree again as soon as they realise that it’s just me and that I present no harm!
My husband says it’s my fault for feeding the birds all year and encouraging them into the garden!!
Anyway enough waffle - the question is .....
I have succeeded with air layering a small cutting. Yippee.
When shall I sever it from the main tree ??
Now - or leave it till Spring?
Will it have a better chance of survival if it remains attached to parent plant, or should I pot it up and put it in a cold greenhouse?
Thanks
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