I am a fruit tree addict. I have over 200 trees on an acre Florida zone 9B. I especially collect mulberries, figs and loquats. I have about 50+ varieties of mulberries. I love hunting for our native old Florida Morus Rubra hybrid mulberry trees. They have natural root know nematode resistance too. I sell cuttings for many varieties and you can reach me at fruittreeaddict@gmail.com
Will the larger mulberry trees like shangri-la and Pakistani mulberry trees kill their neighbor trees like peach trees and fig trees with their aggressive roots? Since they are larger than the dwarves. Thanks
I didn't know that Love-bugs pollinated anything. I guess that they are GOOD for something other than making you wash your vehicle. lol I'm glad that you didn't have too much damage from the storm. Up here in NW Florida, we got a few bands of rain.
Hello from North Georgia.Your video popped up in my recommended videos. Glad to hear that All is well. We are getting lots of rain and strong winds ,but no damage yet.Just thought I would check you out and say hello.God Bless!!!🙂
That strawberry verte is very loaded! I hear rust is a problem in FL because of the rain but it doesn’t seem to be stopping those figs. I usually treat scale by scraping it off with a stick or something.
Yes I’m amazed at the production on them. I have white Madeira 1 and it’s loaded. Thanks for the tip on the scale, good idea I will take a stick and scrape them off too❤️
Great video Jan. Good to see a comparison of these. Do you have the Taiwanese Long? I have dmor9 and exotica, my leaves match yours and I’m looking to add the Taiwanese Long this winter 😊.
@@FruitOfZen I don’t have Taiwanese long because my grafts failed but Marta thinks it may be the same as skinner? I don’t know. I have Naples Himalayan red but my graft is still young.so I didn’t have leaves for that one.
@@FruitTreeAddict I didn’t know know about Taiwanese Long possibly being the same as Skinner, but I do trust Marta since she almost all the Himalayan types. I have a cutting of Taiwanese long from her that I will try to graft once my potted mulberries go dormant. I’m in zone 7 so I have to grow the Himalayans in pots. Marta reported that DMOR9 is the hardiest so Ill try to graft that one onto my Jan’s best 😊 next spring to test its hardiness here.
I ordered a 4 pack of "Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry" trees from Florida last February and planted them in ground in central Louisiana in March. How cold hardy are these? Websites make a lot of false claims about these trees. Some say they only grow 6 feet tall but mine would be over 12 to 15 feet already if I hadn`t repeatedly trimmed them and they`re still about 8 or 9 feet now. I cut the branches back by half at the beginning of the month and it triggered fruiting but none are ripe yet.
@@baneverything5580 it’s hard to say with that one because most of them are seedlings Morus alba or Morus alba hybrids like my Jans best is mixed with something so it makes the fruit a bit larger and it can take down to a zone 5 but I would say they are all a little different. Some have super small bland fruit and some super small but tasty fruit and anything in between depending on what it’s mixed with. Some are very cold Hardy and some not at all but all of them grow 15-20’ if unpruned. Gerardi dwarf which is different from dwarf everbearing is the only one I know of that gets only 6-8’ if not pruned and it is also slow growing.
Put down brown cardboard under the tree and cover it with thick green grass clippings and organic potting soil. Then cover that with more cardboard and continue adding green grass clippings, pine straw, leaves and rotting branches.
In Louisiana we heavily mulch our fig trees until there are thick mounds under the canopy. I add grass clippings all summer, pine straw, leaves, cardboard, rotting branches etc as the canopy widens to protect the very shallow roots. You have to mulch them not only to retain water but to create rich healthy soil to control root knot nematodes. A 3 year old fig tree here would be gigantic. Nematodes may be slowly killing that tree but creating rich living soil will save it. A Brown Turkey cutting I planted March 10 this year is already a huge 9 ft wide bush but they`re very prolific. The parent tree planted at 6 inches tall last year has been trimmed four times but is already about 14 ft in diameter and over 8 ft tall. It will have to be pruned again this winter to control it.
I just purchased a Tice from a local grow/seller I know and trust. It is about 2.5' tall and is in a 3 gal. container. I'd love to get it into the ground immediately but could use some guidance and to where to plant it, how to prepare the soil, how often to water... etc. I only use organic fertilizers and soil amenders, so if you have any direction for me it would be of great help. Thank you!
@@hilberto2217 I’ve been told it isn’t very cold Hardy maybe 8a but I also think I saw someone in one of the groups that had one in zone 7 doing good so I’m not sure😊
I am new to Mulberry trees and have just purchased a Tice from a local grower I trust. I live in the greater Tampa Bay area south of the skyway so I'm zone 10a. I noticed you mentioning native Morus Rubra hybrid, but what I wanted to know is if ALL Tice are that specific variety or are there sub-varieties of Tice? I particularly want to know if all Tice are nemotode resistant?
I'm concerned about the mulberry right up near your house. You might want to consider taking a cutting or two and getting them started elsewhere because you may eventually need to cut out this one. There are many warnings about the roots of mulberries being invasive and seeking out water sources such as plumbing and septic systems. I had some dwarf everbearing out front in the corner between the driveway and the sidewalk and the leach field. I dug them out after their first year and moved them out back where I don't have to worry about anything like that. Just food for thought...no pun intended.
I don't think it is correct. I have Gerardi in North Texas, and it fruits in the spring. I only plant low chill hours trees, and from my research, Gerardi requires around 400 chill hours if not less.
@@3CandiesInTX well I don’t know what else would make it not want to wake or fruit andI have many friends with it here and they say the same. There are 2 gerardi with the same name one is fast growing and the real one is slow. I’ve tried several and I believe it wants more chill. 100! isn’t enough. 400 maybe but not 100.
Excellent result. And no matter how many times I planted different plums, I never saw more than 5-7 fruits, since the trees produce male sterile flowers. Our climate zone is not suitable. Three years ago I planted a Chickasaw plum, this year it blossomed and not a single plum. The flowers were again male sterile.
Yes the same with me until this variety I even tried Chickasaw plum and maybe 15 varieties not 1 plum. I get hundreds from my tree each year and only get 100 chill hours.
@@FruitTreeAddict You have intrigued me. When I order mulberry cuttings from you, can I order a couple of cuttings of this plum? I would graft the plum onto my Chickasaw.
mid-Missouri, USA zone 6b Thanks for the update. We have 3 Pakistan mulberry trees that are over 3 years old. They are planted in-ground and looking good. This past winter did kill most of the above ground tree except the botom six inches, which buded out and are now 12 feet tall. Their leaves look perfect; bright green and no spots like on yours.
If you plant a hedge of kei apples nobody will steal your fruit again.They have 4 inch thorns. They are a great eating fruit. They use them in Africa to keep lions out of the villages. If you leave the pomegranate you could put in mango and avocado trees in between them, as well as bananas. Maybe dwarf jackfruit and dwarf coconut and moringas for additional shade. Oh, and Jamun tree.
@@MrOrcslayer I have one and it woke fine this year and has grown well but I’m not sure how it will do. It put on a few fruit and dropped them so I will know more next year.😊
@@FruitTreeAddict In Australia they have dwarf red shahtoot. They graft it, still trying to figure out how they do it exactly. They claim it stays around 12 feet. But the fruit looks same size as shahtoot. I can’t keep the giant mulberries on this property. Dwarf only.
Howdy Jan! I’m in Winter Park, are you selling cuttings or smalls trees. I’m looking to plant tice, jans and Bryce’s world best in the backyard of the house I’m about to buy. If you recommend any other types for central Florida that fruit better, please let me know
@@Rotojawn hi, yes I sell cuttings for the varieties you mentioned and I would recommend maui, Valdosta, Pakistani mulberry too you can email me at fruittreeaddict@gmail.com thanks😀
