My Edible Fruit Trees: Mulberry Trees WA

Mulberry - Hicks Fancy (Cutting) ^3/10

Comments: - Removed this one as I didn't like the tree or the fruit much. Get's huge and looks ugly if pruned. Didn't handle storms well. Fruit inspid, I thought. Very dissapointing tree.

Fruiting Months January and February

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release organic chook pellets

When I Fertilise: Spring

Mulberry - Black English ^8/10

Comments: - Was planted by previous owners. A gnarly looking tree that fruits well. Lovely complex mulberry flavour and is my favourite of our types. Very messy fruit though - and the birds love them too. 

Fruiting Months February and March

Planted: 2012

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release organic chook manure pellets

When I Fertilise: Spring

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Fairly easy going to grow although needs support when young, and a sheltered spot -  and to manage the top growth via pruning as it tends to grow faster than the roostock. Fruits prolifically so tends to drop a fair amount to compensate. Can get second and thrid flushes of fruit in summer, after the main crop - especially after some tip pruning. Fruit is very tasty - but quite sweet. A drier fruit than the Black English type - so very little staining. 

Fruiting Months January, February, November, December

Planted: 2014

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Acid lovers, balanced

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Mulberry - White Shahtoot (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - A big vigorous deciduous tree with a lovely arched branching habit. Fruits prolifically and holds it's crop well. Large fruit that are very sweet, I think they taste a bit liek honey. Too sweet for some folk but if they are picked when still a touch green then more tolerable. Can get further flushes of fruit over summer - especially after some tip pruning.

Fruiting Months January, February, November, December

Height 6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release organic chook manure pellets

When I Fertilise: Spring

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

Comments: -

I love the fruit they are always nice, sometimes fruits 2 times yum. likes perth climate.

Fruiting Months October and November

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 20% in Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

hand removal of slugs

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

possums broke the tree this year grrrr think it might survive.

Mulberry - White Seedling

Mulberry - Black Seedling

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot

Mulberry - Black English

Mulberry - Hicks Fancy

Mulberry - White Shahtoot

Mulberry - Black English

Comments: - doing well, give it a radical chainsaw haircut each winter

Planted: 2008

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mulberry - White Shahtoot

Comments: - from Daleys-doing well, give it a radical chainsaw haircut each winter

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

tasted fruit from this? I'm wondering about this tree - sweet I believe

I only got a couple last season as it was it's first year and they were really sweet-is just starting to fruit now.

Mulberry - Black English (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: - Bargin purchase as very root bound. Planted into clay and gravel location #3 of orchard

Planted: 2017

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control: Chickens

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Mulberry - Black

Mulberry - Black English (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

I have no idea what variety of black mulberry I have but they are absolutely massive and I have never seen any bigger.  Mine was grown from a cutting given by a friend.  I hack the tree back every year after fruiting and bend down all the fruiting wood in winter to keep it at picking level.  They are so yummy when cooked and juiced.  So low maintenance and prolific!

Fruiting Months October and November

Planted: 2006

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 5000 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 12 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Mulberry - White Shahtoot (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

very fragrant and sweet and yummy when fully ripe.  A lot of fruit will drop before ripening though which is disappointing.

Fruiting Months January, November, December

Planted: 2008

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 12 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

any ideas how to minimise fruit drop?

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot ^7/10

Comments: - IT has heaps of fruit on it this year.

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot

Comments: -

I will transfer this tree into a large winebarrel soon. Hopefully,it will be a prolific bearer like the white shahtoot. I've eaten it's berries and they taste like honeyed rasberries.

Planted: 2012

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Mulberry - White Shahtoot

Comments: -

This is the only tree that has any room in which to grow. It has been a magnificent bearer and the long berries are absolutely delicious. I'm going to prune it a little bit this July to keep it compact and the berries accessible.

Planted: 2009

Height 3.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Comments

Mulberry - Hicks Fancy

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 0.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Mulberry - Black English ^8/10

Comments: -

Purchased this in 2008 as I enjoy mulberries but don't have the room left in the yard for a full sized tree. Growing this in half a wine barrel will keep the tree dwarfed and I'll still get a "taste" of fruit off it.

Reasonably heavily pruned due to being in pot

Update 2012 the Black English has been planted in the ground- replacing my dwarf red shatoot as it tastes much better than the dwarf red (they are too sweet for me) and it's an excellent flavour. Doesn't fruit as heavily as my seedling mulberry but tastes better.

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 40% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Mulberry - Black Shahtoot? (Cutting)

Comments: -

A cutting from a tree growing wild on an undeveloped block I hope to nurture this plant and put it in the naturestrip. The fruit are delicious (although nothing beats the Black English) and the parent plant has survived years of neglect and no water in unimproved soil (at least 10 metres above the water table) so the cutting should be tough! I'm planning on espilaring it against the fence (in a pot) and keeping a close eye on the berries to prevent paver stains.

Maybe my husband won't notice!

From a 10cm cutting in November 2010 it is now 1m high in October 2011 and covered in fruit. Clearly a tough weed (that will never be released from a pot!) By Jan 2012 it has its second crop of fruit (I've not seen such a thing before) and is 1.5m high. This plant is a weed!! I intend to plant it out on the verge come autumn as it cannot stay in the pot (it will stain pavers and grows too quickly).

May 2012 - the plant has put on MORE berries ... and been relocated to the verge. It was pruned heavily to assist with shape and root growth (as vandals killed the mango previously on the verge - although there are thorny roses planted around the mulberry to discourage this!). The prunings have been turned into about 20 cuttings. Plant is recovering well and hopefully will soon realised that cropping from spring to winter is a bit keen!!

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Comments

BJ you've got to see and try my black mulberry. They are massive and taste delicius esp when cooked. I also juiced them this year and it was totally yum!

Mulberry - Black English ^9/10

Comments: - Our tree is huge and graceful. Its beautiful to look at and beautiful to eat.We prune off the dead canes from the inside each year, and its about 3m2 inside now. My kids use it for a cubby house:)The fruit ripens in waves; raining berries for about 3 days, then next to none for the next 3-5 days. While the berries are falling, we put a sheet under the tree, and the first ones dont have time to spoil before the berry shower ends.Apart from fresh handfuls straight off the tree, we like to blend the berries with a little sugar and pour over vanilla ice-cream. A favourite summer treat!

Fruiting Months January, October, November, December

Height 6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 20% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

Organic Status:Organic

Mulberry - Hicks Fancy (Cutting) ^5/10

Comments: - Large fruit,

Height 2 metres

First Fruited: 1 Years after I planted Cutting

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Mulberry - Black English (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Our black mulberry is where you will find a lot of them- over the chookyard. A perfect symbiolic relationship. It is only a year old and has the first green fruit on its branch. Trying to decide whether to let grow up as a single trunk or prune it to branch it out. I am a very natural gardener so rarely get the pruners out. Hopefully the tree will do well here. I have seen one in a neighbouring property that is 10 metres high. I have memories of when I was a child of my sister and I being caught not only with purple hands and faces but up the neighbours tree.

Fruiting Months August

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2011 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Purchased this in 2008 as I enjoy mullberries but don't have the room left in the yard for a full sized tree. Growing this in half a wine barrel will keep the tree dwarfed and I'll still get a "taste" of fruit off it.

Reasonably heavily pruned due to being in pot. Grows faster than the Black English and isn't as suitable for pot culture in my opinion

2010- I've revised my opinion of this- the vigorous growth means heaps of mulberries off the new growth. Pruned this in late summer when I repotted it into a larger pot (note to self- termites love half wine barrels left in damp gardens). Got an early autumn crop of mulberries from the new growth!!

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 50% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Slow release

When I Fertilise: Spring

Mulberry - White Shahtoot

Planted: 2010

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mulberry - Black English

Pollination: No

Mulberry - White Seedling

Comments

Not sure where I'm going to put this one. Might be a gift for someone when its put on some growth.