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Originally Posted by echinosum
After several attempts, and numerous sticks stuck in trenches in the ground and pots indoors and out, I now have, to my astonishment, precisely one cutting of my Black Mulberry growing in a pot indoors on the windowsill. It has one leaf, which is growing from the node nearest to soil surface. The rest of the stick above it looks fairly dead. There are a couple of small buds coming from the old wood near the leaf base, where I am expecting some more growth.
Having got this far, and with only one, I don't want to mess it up. What do I do next? When would I transfer it outside and pot it on?
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I've not done mulberry cuttings though I've done fig, and I have a mulberry tree.
I wouldn't pot it on until I can see roots coming out of the bottom of the pot. Let it get a good strong root system before disturbing it.
You probably should aim to get it outside sometime this summer, so that it is ready for the winter - otherwise you'll have to keep it indoors over winter. But this is dependent on getting good growth.
A useful thing to know about mulberries are that they are very late in coming into leaf. My tree (Yorkshire) is not yet in leaf, although the buds are elongating.
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