When reading posts on mulberries, one name keeps popping up.

 

Grow Mulberries in Singapore
2015 Nov 02 

 

This lady with her bottomless pit of knowledge is Ms. Wisteria Lesley.

I saw her posts in Green Culture Singapore and Urban Farmers (Singapore) quite by accident.

Pictures of her lush plentiful mulberries caught my attention.

I don’t think I ever taste one before or seen these sold in supermarkets!

 

 

How to grow mulberries in Singapore

 

The color of ripe is BLACK for the red mulberries varieties.

Fully ripen, these are very sweet fruits.

 

How to grow mulberries

 

Leaves to brew for tea or dry for tea leaves to store.

 

Mulberry plant leaves are edible too

 

Constant trimming to bald stumps after each harvest made for healthier plants and better fruits yields constantly.

New shoots would grow on the stumps and after only a few weeks, flowers showed.

She often sells her tree-sized (thick) cutting (unrooted) in gardening communities for a reasonable price.

 

 

Grow mulberries in Singapore

 

Flowers showed on the bald stump after every hard pruning.

 

Grow a mulberry tree in Singapore
2015 Nov 25

 

Flowers can show on cutting even before roots appeared in new cutting as it sits in water.

 

Rooting mulberry stems
2015 June 10 

 

On the mature plants, flowers will show in three weeks after a hard prune.

 

Mulberry flowers after hard pruning
Photo – Wisteria Lesley’

 

Flowers are self-pollinating.

 

How to grow mulberry plants from stem cuttings
2015 Nov 25

 

Ms. Lesley has three mulberry trees and they began their journey in 2008.

For bald stem cuttings like this picture, it is best to root them in freshwater until leaves and “good roots mass” appeared.

 

 

How to grow mulberry in Singapore
May 31 2015 – Cuttings from mulberry trees rooting in tap water

 

 

Mulberry stems rooting in water
2015 June 23  – Day 23, rooted in water !

 

These can be planted in a minimum of 15 cm diameter pot until they are more established.

 

How to grow mulberry trees from cutting
2008 – Ms. Lesley’s mulberry trees started with these cuttings.

 

Mulberries can be planted in pots or grounded.

Her trees are planted in the ground.

When their roots became root bound, they coiled around soil instead of the pot.

This plant would pop up of the pot when pressed gently on the soil.

A sure sign that it is ready to move to a bigger pot or be grounded!

 

 

SG STRAWBERRIES JOURNAL

Began on July 19 2016 from cutting.

Each cutting was stripped of leaves and pruned down (made shorter) for the rooting process (in plain water).

Roots did not show but fruits developed.

 

FRUITS CAN show WITHOUT ROOTS! 

 

Grow mulberries in containers

 

 

We decided to plant our cutting without roots and surprisingly they established well in containers without them.

We grew them in our own compost mixed with sand.

 

Grow mulberries in containers
2017 December 23

 

These plants grew better in the ground and can be very tall plants with a thick stem, but are possible in large pots as well.

However, for better fruits yield and size, they were best grounded with as much direct full sun for as long as possible.

When there was an inadequate sun, these plants took a long time to fruit no matter what we do.

In the beginning for our plants, they grew only leaves and become taller.

We constantly pruned them down or as advised, bend (and tie) the thin stems to gain more access to sun heat.

 

OBSERVATION – HARDER TO FRUIT IF NOT ENOUGH SUN

 

Grow Mulberries from cutting in containers
2017 February 12

 

The first sign of fruits in July 2017.

 

Grow Mulberries from cutting in containers
2017 July 6

 

Yield and size of fruits seem to increase over the years, in shaded gardens.

The darker the berries, the sweeter they were.

 

Grow Mulberries from cutting in containers
2019 February 08

 

Our fruits were not very big or plentiful but we were nonetheless, very grateful to be able to harvest them at all.

 

Grow Mulberries from cutting in containers
Natural Ribena!

 

 

Information from http://www.gardenguides.com/ :

  • Full Sun
  • Ground depth should be minimum the same height as the sapling and twice the size of its root ball
  • At maturity, this is a medium size tree, 20 -30 feet
  • Water well after transplant
  • Slightly acidic soil, PH 6.0
  • Adaptable in zones 5 – 9

 

 

 

 

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