My Edible Fruit Trees: Dwarf Mulberry Trees

Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^10/10

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10/10 for rapid growth and surviving my nice and nephews... Planted this in September 2020 as a tiny Bunnings plant and by the start of Winter 2021, its about 7 foot tall! looking forward to it fruiting.

10.08.2022: This tree fruited 3 times in its first season. The 1st fruit was dissapointing as so tiny and I was contemplating taking it out. Im glad I waited as it fruited 2 more times and the berries were large and luscious. Now sitting pretty at around 12 feet. Beautiful uniform shape and its autumn leaves provide great garden mulch - VERY worthwhile tree for small gardens.

Planted: 2020

Height 7 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Dwarf Mulberry - Black

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Cutting)

Comments: - Excellent tree for anyone. Small size and delicious berries which are hard to find in markets. Fruited in 1st year.

Fruiting Months August, September, October, November

Planted: 2020

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted) ^6/10

Planted: 2018

Dwarf Mulberry - Black

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Cutting)

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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

Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^10/10

Fruiting Months February, March, April, September, October, November

Planted: 2020

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 0.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Mulberry 'Majestic Dwarf' Morus nigra (Seedling)

Planted: 2021

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Grafted)

Planted: 2014

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot (Grafted)

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Osmocote Fruit Trees - Worm Castings

Dwarf Mulberry - Black

Mulberry - Dwarf Black (Cutting) ^10/10

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Very Happy with this tree. Started fruiting 2019, planted in 2018. Loads of fruits. Branches growing all over have to prune to keep it in check.

Usually fruits in August/September. but I saw some fruits in Jan this year.

Fruiting Months August and September

Planted: 2018

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Grafted) ^8/10

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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 - Dwarf Black

Comments: - Dwarf black - planted March 2015 and by Feb 2017 was well over 2 metres.  This one powers along. Fruit keep getting knocked off by the wind.  Is trying to fruit again July 2017.

Planted: 2015

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot ^10/10

Comments: - Would love to try this fruit, fruited in spring but all dropped due to young age. It's growing very nicley and will great shade tree for summer.  * first fruit almost two years later dissapointing hopefully in another year itll be sweeter. Tastes like a not so sweet watermelon for some reason. 

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2018

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 8 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: none

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

Planted: 2018

Growing: In a Pot

Water Given in: Spring

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Cutting) ^9/10

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UPDATE

Flowers every time I prune, without fail. I have mine in a big pot and it gets quite a bit of water and coffee grounds and seems to enjoy.  Is now about 1.8m with multiple branching points. Purchased in May 2018, was under the height of the bamboo stake in the pot at the time.  Now (August 2019) has 4 berries growing at each leaf point - over 150 mulberries on the tree which I hope all go to maturity and I can get before the birds.

INITIAL

Thought I'd grow a dwarf mulberry to see what the results would be. Has put on quite a bit of growth - had flowers appear very quickly but all fell off over Winter - two made it through. Mulberries were quite nice - looking forward to seeing how productive it can be over the years. 

Fruiting Months April, May, November, December

Planted: 2018

Height 1.8 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Coffee grounds, pea straw, Seasol

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

Organic Status:Organic

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

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot

Planted: 2018

Pollination: Self Pollination

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

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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.

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

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Fruited soon after potting into 430mm pot - 2014 crop mainly fell off - i think i tasted 3 - Autumn crop its now holding well and has lots on it - cant wait to tast a few at one time - YUM

2019 - spent 2 years fixing a constricted rootstock with verticle cuts - see pic - now has a good Autumn crop - December crop was dry and terrible - lets see?

Fruiting Months February, March, October, November

Planted: 2013

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

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 (Seedling)

Comments: - Dwarf Red Shahtoot - March 2016.  It has doubled its height since planting last year, when planted it was really just a stick.  Maybe not as vigorous as the other mulberries but going steady.  Fruit late 2017 were just lovely.  Out of the Shatoots this one is my favorite

Fruiting Months October

Planted: 2016

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot

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

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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 - Dwarf Red Shahtoot (Grafted) ^9/10

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Just Planted. Will hopfully be a nice productive tree. had a berry on it arriving from dalys.

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot ^10/10

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Cutting) ^9/10

Fruiting Months October, November, December

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Mulberry - Black ^7/10

Planted: 2002

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Seedling) ^10/10

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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