Mulberry Tree update

Mulberries collection

Collected 2 session on SAT and SUN:

Total about 30s from the 2 days session and my son was having fun plucking if off from the plant. This time round the fruits are bigger thanks to the fertilizers at work.

This is how it looks a week before (25 Apr 2009).

Mulberries & my Yougurt

Mulberry plant blooming after a "hair cut" session

Update on 3 Nov 08

Botak Mulberry Plant

I was rather upset and angry with the spider growth on the underneath the leaves. Hence prompt me to cut the leaves off my plants. The spider makes my flower turned brown! Therefore, no fruit. :(

I fertilized it today. Waiting to see more fruits.

mulberries flower

I saw some little like growing on my newly sprout leaves. It has been 2 week since I fertilized it. It seems that fertilizer did help in the flowering and fruit.
Must make a point to fertilizer them every 2 weeks.

It's fruit after 1 month of waiting.

Mulberries

Took a photo of the mulberries on Saturday before one of them ended up in my tummy. :P

New discovery - Mulberry Plant

Guess what I discovered last night while I was out getting the medication.
I saw a BIG mulberry plant sitting on the ground. It also have some mulberries fruits on the tree. Very impressive. Thinking now I can have my source of mulberry plant cutting.

Update on Mulberry Cutting

As you know the previous mulberry cutting collected from the forumer died on me.
I re-grow 3 cuttings extracted from my mulberry plant when I did the pruning.
So are only 1 of them is doing well, having 2 green buds.
Hopefully it will root soon and grow into a strong plant.

Mulberry Plant growth

I am so HAPPY today to spot 3 little flower growing on my mulberry tree! This is after I have pruned my tree. Cut the longest one away. Then I potted the 3 cuttings.
Would take a picture later as evidence. :)

22 Jul 08: In fact there is 4 flowers on the tree. Pray hard all will turn into fruits. I wonder how long would I have enough fruits for my baking or snacks.

Mulberry plant growth - update

I took a photo of my plant today to monitor it's growth after 1 month.

Mulberry - Plant Pest

Oh no..today read on the forum, my mulberry plant might have scales attached to its stems. Guess I better work on it faster else my plant would not be healthy!

Guess this mulberry plant is very poor thing - got snails, yellow leaves and now scales. :(

Yesterday alone I already removed 7 snails from the pot.

Search the web to see how to prevent it:
Snails
Plants affected: Almost any soft, lush plant. Hostas are a particular favourite. Hairy or furry plants are usually fairly safe.

Symptoms: Snails climb, so look for slime trails and nibbled leaves, even on plants in pots and containers. Snails devour the soft green bits between the leaf ribs, leaving a ‘skeleton’ behind.
Prevention/Control: Collect by hand and dispose of them. To protect plants, surround them with piles of prickly leaves or really sharp grit. If using slug pellets, apply sparingly. A ring of petroleum jelly around the top of pots can be an effective prevention method, particularly with hostas.

Scale insects
Plants affected: Greenhouse and conservatory plants, especially those with thick, waxy or evergreen leaves. Citrus plants are a special favourite.

Symptoms: Tiny limpets clinging to stems or under leaves.
Prevention/Control: Wipe off the insects with a cotton bud and meths, then wash the leaves with tepid water to remove the sooty mould that’s often associated with scale insect infestations.


Afternote: Need to shop for the alchol or meths to clean up my plant!

Update 1 Jul 08: Last night used summer oil to clean up all the stems of the tree. Hope it will help to reduce the scales on the plant.

Some info on Summer Oil - This lightweight oil (sold under different brand names) provides good control of aphids, mealybugs, mites, scales, and a host of other insects by smothering them. Unlike dormant oil, it can be used year-round (even in warm temperatures), and its not toxic to mammals. Mix according to label directions and spray it on foliage, including the undersides of leaves.

Morus Alba update

Just a quick update on my Morus Alba plant brought from World Farm.
these few days, I notice that the leaves recently grow are getting lighter in colour and now Yellowish!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad that there is a grop of experts there telling me to cut down on my watering.
I shall tried it out tommorrow onwards to see if it helps in improving the leaves quality as well as enabling the plant to bear fruits :P

Longing for the flower to appear then the fruit.

Withering Morus Rubra

Sob sob, I think I have killed my little cutting with my "SMART" idea.
People have use pertile to root the cutting. Since I am unable to locate the pertile, I used the moss instead as it also holds water. After 1 day, the leaves on the plant withered and the cutting looks dehydrated. Now I place it back into water.
Praying hard it will grow well again.

Morus Rubra

I would like to track my Morus Rubra cutting growth since I got it from a forumer on 4 Jun 2008, transported into the water bottle after growing 2 days in the soil :P

Mulberries Benefits

Mulberry Tea:
1. It prevents diabetes,
2. It reduces cholesterol in blood vessels,
3. It reduces high blood pressure,
4. It helps on loses weight,
5. It reduces asthmatic conditions,
6. It rejuvenates your strength,
7. It prevents brittleness of the bones due to it's high calcium content,
8. It contains vitamin A to improve your eye sights,
9. It contains vitamin B1 & B2,
10. It has all the needed 18 amino acids,
11. It has very low caffeine content, only 0.01%,
12. It helps prevent cancer.

Recipe (tried by online friend):
100 mulberry plant leaves to boil with 4 litres of water.
So if you have less leaves, less water so as to have the taste.


Mulberries
Mulberry fruit is classified in the modern Chinese Materia Medica as a blood tonic, and is listed along with herbs having similar traditional uses such as ho-shou-wu (Polygonum multiflorum, root), cooked rehmannia (Rehmannia glutinosa, root), ligustrum (Ligustrum lucidum, fruit) and lycium (Lycium chinensis, fruit). Traditionally, mulberry fruit has been used as a medicinal agent to nourish the yin and blood, benefit the kidneys, and treat weakness, fatigue, anemia, and premature graying of hair. It is also used utilized to treat urinary incontinence, tinnitus, dizziness, and constipation in the elderly and the anemic.

Mulberry Plant - Morus Alba

Read about alot of the mulberries fruit benefits 2 weeks back.
It begins with a craze going on in one of the gardening forum on this plant. Then the "flu" has passed on to me that I got a cutting from HL.

After that got my darling brought me a mulberry plant on 8 Jun 08 from Worldfarm at $12 per pot as I can't wait to see the bloom.

And this is how it looks now, no bloom yet still waiting patiently: