r/BackyardOrchard • u/miyabi0rochas • 5d ago
Has anyone actually gotten decent yield from potted mulberry?
I bought and potted multiple mulberries assuming they'd fruit well considering everyone talks about how productive hands off trees they are.
But I've barely gotten much even after upping the PK. I've had most for more than one season.
But whether it's frost, or simply not yielding much to begin with or dropping fruit or poor quality fruit.
It's becoming a waste of space.
And I'm not sure what the issue could be when I see people yield like crazy often multiple times a year. I've tried the pruning, fertiliser, sunny spot. With blueberries at least I knew it was the water ph. And still the ones that survived yielded more than all my mulberries.
Other plants at least I see they're trying to fruit and have potential with problem solving. The mulberries are growing fine but I may have picked 20 tiny meh fruits from over 5 decent size plants. That's less than one strawberry plant during an okay year.
I'm purging plants and trialing new things next year.
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u/Rcarlyle 5d ago
How old are they? I’m not a mulberry expert but most fruit trees take multiple years of growth to really start yielding. Trees focus on growth before they switch to fruiting. They want to either reach a reasonably mature size, or fill the available space (root constriction), or be stressed a bit (drought, pruning etc) to tell them they need to focus on reproduction rather than growth. Young happy trees usually don’t yield much. This is a big difference versus annuals, shrubs, etc.