Pear and mulberry cuttings seem to be thriving...

I needed to take out a mulberry and prune a pear over at my yarden.
To assuage my guilt,  I tried starting the cuttings,  and I think it's working!

Looking good!  I've gotten very excited about propagation by cuttings and am trying to do a lot more of it.  Free plants for everyone!

I'm always reluctant to cut trees  down or even prune them,even when they are not what I want or were I need them to be.
It's a feeling of "a tree in the ground is better than seeds planted" or something.
With this experience,  I am encouraged.
The mulberry I chopped back to a bun has grown new leaves and the pear I pruned is looking better than ever.

Next up is air layering for the fruit trees.
All of my pear trees have been left to grow as they wish,  leading to crowded centers,  crossed limbs and inaccessible fruit.
I want to top them,  but I hate the idea of wasting all of their work.
I'm hoping to grow big rootballs on the central leaders,  then cut them off and plant them.

I would be interested to see if there were any success stories doing this with things like Oak Trees or tree's that have extensive tap roots.  Mulberries are VERY hardy (at least where i am) most people can't get rid of them lol and i planed one from seed 2 yrs ago and it's over 6ft tall.  This is awesome work though.  I'm interested to see it keep going  Keep us updated.

Great job, very nice!! I am looking forward to seeing how the pears do since I have a Moonglow & a wild pear that will need to be pruned soon.
With mulberry, I kind of learned by accident how to root them. My parents had one growing right next to their peach tree, so my dad cut it out with the chainsaw last winter and dumped it on my brush pile. A couple days later I noticed the wood was still green, so I pulled out some branches and sticks, then stuck them in the ground around the poultry coops and barn. Almost all of them put out leaves in spring and the majority have made it through the summer with lots of new growth; including the branches that were about 5 ft long and 3-4 inches thick. They are paper mulberry, so not sure if the original tree is male or female but, if it's a male, at least the leaves will be good fodder for the poultry and rabbits.

Let us know how they continue growing!

Any luck with the cuttings?

Funnily enough, no!
I am back here in permies, searching for information and I can across this old folly of mine.

For what it's worth, I plan on pruning a mulberry tree this week, and starting those cuttings.
My reading indicates that winter cuttings take better,spring is a good time for air layering and summer is a good time to prune to reduce vigor.

I do seem to have mastered the art of propagating black locust.
I simply dig up the same tree every year, and it comes back from the root, every year!

Someone gave us a black mulberry start years ago in the Dominican Republic and we wanted to take a start with us when we moved to Puerto Rico. But one cannot take live plants through the airport. So, we cut some woody stems (bark covered, rather than green stem), and packed them in our moving luggage with the chopsticks and bamboo cooking implements, where they passed muster as sufficiently dead-looking. A few days later, we stabbed them into moist dirt and kept them watered for a while (a month or so, as I recall) until they sprouted. They have each survived three years in poor soil and begun to bear fruit.

Mulberry, as far as I can tell, do not produce seeds (though my experience is limited to Morus nigra). So they are not the sort of plant that agricultural agencies need be worried about invading a non-native habitat. They are very robust - in north america they are found from the tropics to the latitude of Vancouver, though not in the northern Rockies so much. In europe they prosper from southern Spain to Denmark. In asia they live north to northern Japan and China. In the southern hemisphere, they are found south to Argentian, South Africa, Tasmania, and southern New Zealand. I guess in a sense, they have invaded quite well . . .

I rooted mulberries ( Pakistani and dwarf everbearing) with early summer green wood cuttings. Just stabbed in the pot in the shade and the cuttings took roots in a few weeks. They had time to grow big enough root balls before being planted in ground the same year.

Right now I have some dormant cuttings (1yr wood) indoors and they are budding out. I just want to check how fast different varieties come out of dormancy and if the plants will be fruiting this year. I doubt these will root.

Figs are the opposite for me, 1year dormant wood roots but not the green one.

I have taken cuttings from a friend's black mulberry (morus nigra) for many years at different times without success, however I may have finally succeeded with the last batch that I took in late summer 2024🤞

This variety produces viable seeds that I have managed to germinate but not been successful growing on. I have been too neglectful of the seedlings.