Cheapest place for mulberry trees?

[Dave Weldon]

I live in Los Angeles my children and I started a silkworm colony we buy about every other week silkworm Chow it gets expensive does anyone know where in Los Angeles I can pick some leafs for free?

Howdy,

Other than just poking around the neighborhood, looking for Mulberry trees, checkout your local (older?) elementary school yards. The three nearby me all have mulberry trees . They use them for the classroom silkworm projects.

 

[COASTALSILKWORMS]

Not that this will help any of you right now, but I do sell the most versatile mulberry trees once a year right around the first of the year through spring. I usually sell out before spring, but these are grown from cuttings and will be in 1 gal pots with a year plus of growth around 24-36" tall. These have everything, white mulberry, non fruiting, manageable height so the whole tree is usable, and they grow just about anywhere. You can use them for chameleons enclosures outdoors, tortoise enclosures, ornamental tree in your landscape, you name it. These are not your normal 50'x50' trees. You can sign up for the stock notification on these trees once I have them ready next year. Most people buy multiple trees and come back for extra ones year after year!

http://www.coastalsilkworms.com/silkworms/silkworm-food-5/dwarf-mulberry-tree.html

 

[chrismaynard]

Mulberry Trees?

I Grew mine from seed, they grew fairly quickly and I got the seeds online
from Datreestore.com . you want the White Mulberry Morus Alba.
These are the ones cultivated for Silkworms. Also I live in Las Vegas
where there are a lot of them around in Parks Ect.
the Baby trees where 4' tall in one year.

Another approach would be to take hardwood cuttings you can plant some
1/4'' braches in the ground in late fall and hopefully get roots in the spring.
It worked for me, but later they died because of to much sun to early I
think.