Originally Posted by Tim Tyler

K wrote:
Tim Tyler writes
David Rance wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 Tim Tyler wrote:

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Very good. I like it. However you make propagation sound terribly
easy. I've tried propagating from my black mulberry for many years,
cuttings and seed, but have consistently had a 100% failure rate.

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I'm not sure what to suggest. Perhaps try different seed?

Some of your links were suggesting that some mulberries have male and
female flowers on separate plants (in US many people grow male plants to
avoid the fruit making a mess), so could a female plant produce
non-viable seed?

Black mulberries are monoecious - so this seems
unlikely to be an issue.

Incidentally it seems possible that pinching out
the young male catkins from Morus Nigra specimins
could result in more resources being available
for the fruit. I wonder if this hypothesis is
reasonable, and whether it has been tested.
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