Mulberry - valuable fruit plant. It is drought-resistant and solevynoslivy. Well transfers also cold temperatures. Adult trees maintain frosts up to-30? C. In the north – photophilous, in the south maintains half-shade. Best of all takes root on suglinkovy soils. Height of adult tree up to 20 m, diameter of trunk more than 1 meter. The mulberry takes root and okulirutsya in the same ways, as apple-tree.
1. Monoecious plants have men's and pistillate flowers. They can are on one copy. Repollination happens within one tree. Pistillate flowers - with pestles, without stamens. Men's flowers have only stamens. They are thick, cylindrical. Women's — oval and shorter. Pistillate flowers after pollination and fertilization expand, and fleshy covers of separate small balsas merge in soplody — shelkovichny or mulberry berry. And men's — dry up and fall down. But the men's copy can be imparted not to waste time for landing of new plant.
2. It is necessary to impart mulberry at the beginning or the middle of April: in one, two weeks prior to blossoming or in time. Prepare shanks in February-March, then you store them in the fridge, it is possible in cellar. As a last resort, cut off shank for inoculation directly from tree, but, it is obligatory before blooming of kidneys.
3. Impart as well as other fruit plants. Use the vegetative, that is extended escapes with well created kidneys. Do not take fructifying - the shortened escapes.
4. The inoculation shanks which you cut off from the fructifying trees will accelerate fructification. You can do vaccination okulirovka: take kidney with guard from the one-year extended escape, same, as well as for inoculation, and insert under bark.
5. Do to Okulirovk or in the spring, in the same terms, as inoculation by shank, or in the summer, here take the sleeping kidney. Terms of summer okulirovka from July 25th to August 25th.
6. You can impart mulberry and growth escapes 10 — 12 cm long. From privoyny shank cut off top kidney and impart in the Tee section of stock. This way will allow you to accelerate the introduction in fructification for 1 — 2 years.
7. If plant adult, inoculation do on 2 — 3 branches. After shanks or eyes take root, form plant of new escapes. Gradually delete the remained unnecessary escapes. In two-three years you will have fructifying large-fruited mulberry which berries are tasty and very useful.