I noticed TONS of people in my neighbourhood had this same type of tree than I finally found out they were weeping mulberry. So last fall as temps got colder and the trees were going dorment I went around collecting and picking the leaves from these trees. At this point I did'nt have my chameleon and had no idea when I would get him. So i ended up freezing the leaves. I finally got my cham and just bought him some silkies and they are devouring those leaves from the freezer. none of the tree have started to grow back their leaves yet this season.
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little leaf
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did you do anything to the leaves ? or just freeze them- I was told you had to blanch them to keep the vit/ in them - but thats great - I will have to do this in the fall - I dont feed silks all winter because I can never get them to eat the "man made" food for me, but we have several 40' mulberry trees
did you do anything to the leaves ? or just freeze them- I was told you had to blanch them to keep the vit/ in them - but thats great - I will have to do this in the fall - I dont feed silks all winter because I can never get them to eat the "man made" food for me, but we have several 40' mulberry trees
I've seen about blanching them, didn't read necessarily the purpose of it cause at first really had no intention to pick them so just froze em. so not sure if any vits are in the leaves but like I said devoured them. Lucky you have them, I'm confused on what the normal big ones look like. I can easily spot all the weeping ones and they are absolutely everywhere in the city.
nice!!! I know there has to be some mulberry trees in my area but I don't know exactly how to point them out. I always buy the mulberry food and just feed them that. But it sounds like next time those trees start growing leaves you need to get a few trash bags full
I would
oh trust I plan to get quite a bit this summer, its actually quite sad anywhere I drive by I'm constantly spotting them out, but just the surrounding blocks by me theres easily 20+ smaller ones and have one directly across the street from me. It came to the point I got some cuttings to try and start my own but dont think conditions in my house were ideal to grow them from a cutting
little leaf
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the " regular" ones are big, at times with 3 or 4 twisted trunks all growing together - they seem to grow with a " round" top - these are a few of them in my yard from last summer- look for trees like this
if you can find someone who just cut one down, ask for a log - and just throw it on the ground- honest to God, a tree will grow from the log- we have cut these down, and if you dont strip the bark off , a new tree starts - and the stump will grow a tree back too- they are hard to kill ~
