A Little Issue (Root Rot)

[aml1014]

Ahh, another Mulberry... Can you even kill a Mulberry (Morus Rubra)?

I don't think you can, and if your talking about the seedlings then yeah they are Rubra I also have a dwarf morus nigra.

 

[eferguson1974]

I like the knobby trunk! Is that a veriagated ficus I see on the side? If so mine only wants to grow like that, tall and skinny. No backbuds down low for a chop job so far. I hope to find mulberries someday but I dont think Ive seen it yet down here. Theres a long lanky species of berries that have the same kind of berry. But they grow long and narrow. The fruits taste about the same, very nice. Same family? Do cuttings strike roots easily from yours? In Fl. as a kid I remember climing a big one and eating the berries till we had a stomach ache.. Good times. Do they fruit well as a bonsai?

 

[aml1014]

I like the knobby trunk! Is that a veriagated ficus I see on the side? If so mine only wants to grow like that, tall and skinny. No backbuds down low for a chop job so far. I hope to find mulberries someday but I dont think Ive seen it yet down here. Theres a long lanky species of berries that have the same kind of berry. But they grow long and narrow. The fruits taste about the same, very nice. Same family? Do cuttings strike roots easily from yours? In Fl. as a kid I remember climing a big one and eating the berries till we had a stomach ache.. Good times. Do they fruit well as a bonsai?

It is a variegated benjamina, it back budds down low a lot but I pull them off because I want it to be a tall slender clump. My favorite mulberry i have is my sub tropical dwarf mulberry, I have about 20 cuttings off of it, some up to half inch thick and I've had probably a 98% success rate on them. It flowers and fruits everything it's pruned and it grows so quickly you can have a couple different batches going at a time.

Aaron

 

[eferguson1974]

Thanks, now I will ask around to see if they exist here. I dont know if my ficus is benji o no but it has small leaves and isnt budding low yet. Soon I hope.

 

[bubbly193]

Also, i'm thinking of a flattened Hokidachi style for my stone pines. It's not a classic "pine" style, but it's what's natural for stone pine. It's like (if you've never seen a wild stone pine) what an african acacia would look like.