My Edible Fruit Trees: Mulberry Trees QLD

Mulberry - White Shahtoot (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Fruit very sweet. Slow to grow but great in a large pot

Fruiting Months August, September, October

Planted: 2017

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Blood and Bone and pelletised chook poo

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: None needed

Dwarf Mulberry - Black

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Cutting)

Comments: -

Plant arrived in Feb 2020 in great condition with soil still damp. Will plant this into a pot after 1-2 weeks outside and provide updates.

May 2020 - In late April / early May had a small flush of new growth with the beginnings of four mulberries (now tasted - delicious and sweet). 

September 2021 - Now in 45L planter bag, growing well. Growing vigourously after winter, with many new berries forming.

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Native Mulberry

Planted: 2019

Mulberry - Black English

Mulberry - Black English (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: -

tastes good and the kids love the berries

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 1997

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1998 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 25% in Autumn and Winter

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Fruit are firm and quite tart in taste until completely ripe. These are NOT the sweeter more tasty variety you may have had previously. However, this variety is a prolific bearer. In Brisbane I get multiple crops each year with the main being in August and September. My 3m dwarf tree is fast growing and enjoys a good prune after fruiting. This means it is easy to keep small which also makes picking much easier. I fertilize with chicken and urea pellets and water well during fruiting which encourages juicer plumper berries. To manage bird and bat damage pick berries before too loose and dead ripe and don't leave berries on the ground for bats to sniff out. Best picked as they start to turn black and while still a little firm on tree and red in places. Continue to ripen inside. Many will be ready same day with remainder next day. Enjoy!

Fruiting Months August and September

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 15 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 40% in Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Chicken and Urea Pellets

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Winter, Spring

Pest Control:

None

Mulberry - White Shahtoot (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Deliciously sweet and so much cleaner than a black mulberry!

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Moved from pot to soil. Can keep to a medium bush size with a good prune.

Fruiting Months August, September, October

Planted: 2014

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Love the fruit since first taste from a friends garden. Inspired me to try and grow my own. Delivered over a 18 months ago to Sydney climate region.

Stayed in pot it came with until we moved to Bribane region last November and re-potted. Lost leaves over winter. Went into the ground end of winter this year in a 1m x 1m x 60cm deep hole. Used good soil mixed with compost and worm castings (25%).Clay soil so I lathered clay breaker around every surface of the hole. PH Neutral.

It budded well although slow to open. November came and lowest bud produced leaves and immature fruit but then just dropped off after 2 weeks. Still has buds but noticed some have also dropped. Noticed exposed roots so I put a border around it, raised the soil and applied general fruit tree fertilizer  Have applied sugar cane mulch 

Any feedback welcome.

Planted: 2018

Height 60 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Powerfeed by Seasl, worm castings, aged compost

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control: None yet

Organic Status:Certified

Question: Just any feedback from above comments.

Mulberry - Unknown var. (Cutting) ^6/10

Comments: - Removed.

Planted: 2007

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 50% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mulberry ^5/10

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot ^10/10

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Location: RUNCORN Brisbane Southside. Very hot backyard on a concrete slab.

2018: Autumn here, and I adore my mulberries. I have a few, now, and really, the bigger the pot, the better they do. I can force a dormant state in winter if I keep them tucked up under the eaves on the East side of the house from the start of Autumn, but I can kick start a new season of fruiting simply by moving one out into the middle of the yard. I adore the fruit, and it never fails to be tasty, no matter how I treat it. I've been told I need to prune them after they've finished fruiting to get a bigger harvest, so I've done that this year, and the one that had to be moved to clean the eaves has already come out in fruit, in the middle of June! Bloody lovely, and we fight over them when they're bearing.

Unfussy customers, don't mind the heat too much if I give them part shade (shade from 2pm) and don't even care much if I don't water them often. One got totally forgotten about tucked under the eaves with no rain or water for 2 months over summer and did fine with part shade in a 65L pot. I keep them thickly mulched with sugar cane and underplant around the edge of the pot with salvias and parsley, with the occasional lettuce or pak choy shoved in there.

Easy care, fruits well regardless of the attention given it, produces fuss free in one of the hottest, dryest parts of Brisbane, while in a POT, and is delicious- an absolute favourite of our garden.

2016: Recieved as a christmas pressie 2015. Repotted to a 65L pot late January, with cheap bunnings compost, 1/3 bag of cow poo, a block of coir (soaked in a bucket of water with seasol and mollasses), a handful of organic dynamic lifter for veg, a handful of blood and bone, a sprinkle of lime, and a handful of a rose fertiliser called 'Black Marvel' that I bought on a whim that I find does well with fruit trees- it's high potash.

I should not have waited so long to repot. It struggled in the hot summer here, in it's standard little pot, which I knew it would, since I have managed to kill a few before. It took off really well after repotting- I think mulberries need a larger pot if you aren't going to stick them in the ground, because they will die very quickly if they dry out or overheat. Mine has absolutely exploded with growth, though, since I started popping a half a litre of water from our little table-top pond in there every week. We have fishies, so the water is rich with nutrients.

Besides that, I generally leave it to recieve rain water, or toss a half a litre of water on it near the root zone every other day, with a deeper soak weekly. I expect to water more often in dryer or hotter weather. The pot is also shielded from the sun by another pot in front, but the soil and plant recieve about 4-6 hours morning sun, and completely in shade of the house by afternoon.

I have underplanted it with strawberries, garlic, and garlic chives, and I plan to pop some spinach or sorrel in there, too, now that it has cooled for Autumn. Although I have had a few massive Citrus Swallowtail Butterflies hovering about it, I have no caterpillars on it yet. Fruit flies (both the bigger, fly looking ones, as well as the little mite hovering things) tend to hang about and sit on the leaves for some reason, though that seems to be lessening since I planted the garlic cloves and chives. I plan to hang yellow sticky fruit fly traps this Spring, as I have had an infestation of Citrus Gall Wasp in my lemon and limes this last year. We shall see how that goes.

I know that Mulberries are supposed to be deciduous, but in my part of Brisbane, I have never seen them do much more than thin down a bit. Certainly, mine has lost maybe a dozen leaves -two or three at a time yellowing and falling off- but it just seems to bush out furthur despite the cooling weather. I've been told that I will not get fruit this year, because I have put it in a big enough pot that it will focus on leaf growth rather than fruit, but I cannot really see that as a bad thing (the more growth it has, the more likely it is to survive Summer 2016!) and I cannot confirm this anyway. We'll see how it goes.

Really happy with it so far. I've actually had a hell of a time with all my citrus, so I'm looking forward to watching something be actually productive and healthy in my hotbox of a rental yard.

Planted: 2015

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Blood and Bone, Seasol, Worm Wee

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted) ^7/10

Planted: 2016

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Cutting) ^4/10

Planted: 2016

Height 10 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^10/10

Comments: -

Height 3 mts (20/11/2012) I keep it trimmed to this height . 

This mulberry gets massive amounts of mulberries on for its size . Those grey birds with the black head think all there christmases have come at once .

Planted: 2009

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Mulberry - Dwarf Black

Fruiting Months January and February

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 7 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: None

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Cutting)

Comments: - Great pot plant. Yummy as 

Planted: 2016

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - First fruited within a year, now 4 years young. Keeping it trimmed to 2.5m. Trim lightly a couple of times in summer for a smaller second harvest. Espaliers well. Saw a small harvest in Feb/Mar after light trim in January.

Fruiting Months February, September, October

Planted: 2013

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 4 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Mulberry - Beenleigh Black

Native Mulberry (Seedling) ^5/10

Planted: 2012

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

This one fruits every year and it very nice to watch.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Planted: 2014

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

So many ants...

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

It's right next to a dwarf Red Mulberry but for some reason it's never had fruits to full growth. This year, with high drought was the first time it;s grown fruit but the birds ate them all so I never got to try them. The fruits on this one are long but the ones on my Red Mulberry are very short.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Planted: 2015

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Ants keep eating the fruit off the mulberries, but I don't want to spray them because the birds like them too and I feed them to my budgies.

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted)

Comments: - first fruit 2016

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Now planted out, doing well, fruits readily, needs water.

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot ^10/10

Fruiting Months September, October, November

Planted: 2006

Height 6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 30 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Mulberry - Hicks Fancy

Mulberry - Beenleigh Black

Mulberry - White Shahtoot

Mulberry - White Shahtoot (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

in good conditions this is a very large tree. even with heavy pruning the mulberries are beyond reach. fruit is very nice but kind of one dimensional kind of like sugar. whereas a black mulberry has depth of flavour. the problem with such a large tree is there is no way to stop birds as you cannot net the tree. the trees  on the edge of rainforrest so it is basically impossible to get the fruit before the birds.

Fruiting Months September, October, November, December

Planted: 2011

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Question: