How to shape your mulberry tree

Content

• How to shape your mulberry tree
• This is how you prune your mulberry tree properly
• Change the growth form
• Good reasons for a shape cut:
• Tips & Tricks

How to shape your mulberry tree

Unlike most native fruit trees, the mulberry tree does not need a special cut to bear fruit. Due to the relatively fast growth of about 40 cm per year a regular pruning of the tree is recommended.

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This is how you prune your mulberry tree properly

The ideal time to prune your mulberry tree is spring, just before the fruits form. At the beginning you cut out all the weak branches and shoots that grow crosswise or too dense. If you have a grafted mulberry tree, then cut out all the wild shoots that grow out of the underlay, that is below the finish. Only then does the shape cut begin.

With a shape cut you adjust your mulberry tree to its location and limit its growth. So mulberry trees are also good as a container plant. However, a regular cut is required for this. If this work becomes too difficult for you, then you can even plant your mulberry tree outdoors after many years.

In general, the mulberry grows shrubby. A tree-like growth form can be reached by the corresponding cut in the first years. Choose a strong shoot as a leader. He should be surrounded by several side shoots. All other shoots cut off. Over the years, a strong strain will develop.

Change the growth form

In the shrubby growth habit, the cut is relatively simple. Long shoots are shortened to an outward eye. In addition, remove inward branches. Be careful not to remove too many branches. This is especially true for the red mulberry, which has a fascinating charisma with its bizarrely twisted branches.

Good reasons for a shape cut:

Tips & Tricks

Mulberry trees are quite robust and tolerate almost every cut. Since both the old and the young wood bear fruit, you can not really hurt your mulberry tree, if you catch the wrong branch. Only courage! The next cut works better then.