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Sue Campton starts with ... My Dwarf Mulberry is coming into its fourth Spring with a bumper crop, however, every year the fruit ends up drying out and turning black. It is starting to happen again this year! The tree is planted in a large free-standing corregated iron tub and I believe has adequate sun, fertiliser and water. Regards, Sue | About the Author Sue Campton Albury 24th September 2007 1:01pm #UserID: 331 Posts: 7 View All Sue Campton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Leona Perth 24th September 2007 7:15pm #UserID: 315 Posts: 42 View All Leona's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Woolloongabba, QLD 25th September 2007 9:45am #UserID: 326 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Sue Campton Albury 25th September 2007 10:13am #UserID: 331 Posts: 7 View All Sue Campton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Sue Campton says... Thank you for your responses. I'll increase the watering, but I don't relish having to replant! I have other fruit trees in pots doing well: lemon, mandarin, fig, apricot and nectarines as I have a small yard. I'll be digging up the dwarf weeping avocado and putting it in a pot - two years' old and still struggling - frost and hot sun. | About the Author Sue Campton Albury 25th September 2007 10:21am #UserID: 331 Posts: 7 View All Sue Campton's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Sue Campton Albury 25th September 2007 9:35pm #UserID: 331 Posts: 7 View All Sue Campton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Greg says... Hi Sue, this may be a climatic response or drying out when fruit are developing, the plant naturally aborting the young fruit. The dwarf black mulberry sets parthenocarpically ie without pollination and hence no seeds. Such fruit is very sensitive to being aborted. A suggestion would be try pruning after first fruit set to encourage a 2nd flowering when a little more warmer and see if you can get fruit to hold. Would be interesting to get feedback from colder regions with the dwarf black mulberry fruit set. | About the Author Greg Kyogle 25th September 2007 10:05pm #UserID: 28 Posts: 32 View All Greg's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Sue Campton Albury 26th September 2007 9:02am #UserID: 331 Posts: 7 View All Sue Campton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Paul Ridding Kendall, NSW 26th September 2007 9:21am #UserID: 43 Posts: 10 View All Paul Ridding's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Sue Campton Albury 26th September 2007 12:31pm #UserID: 331 Posts: 7 View All Sue Campton's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Kingo says... I have one of these and while it was in a pot it would fruit heavily and do the same thing, the way i fixed it was to pull off half of the fruit then the remaining fruit flourished to about the size of my thumb. It seems that they fruit so heavy for a small tree that they just can't develop the fruit to full.I have just planted it out so I'll see what happens next year. | About the Author Biloela 26th October 2007 11:49pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
Sue Campton says... Thanks for the email Kingo - I improved the pot culture by adding water saving granules and cristals, a couple of litres of liquid chook poo, a layer of fine bark and increased the water supply. I have collected 2kg so far for jam and eaten heaps. Fruit is small to medium size so when the 2nd crop comes along I will experiment with removing some of the fruit as it forms. Couldn't possibly bring myself to thin out my first real crop!! | About the Author Sue Campton Albury 29th October 2007 8:17am #UserID: 331 Posts: 7 View All Sue Campton's Edible Fruit Trees |
