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[Tom]

Having no signs of berries or even no berries is a difficult call on Mulberry since it is so slow to produce, 10 years from seed.  It is also hard to identify a male or female tree for the same reason, as well as the fact that the sex might change.

Here is a good article I googled up:
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mulberry.html

[WDH]

Tom,

Very informative article.  I never knew that they (red mulberries) could cross-dress until you pointed it out in another thread.

I eagerly await the month of May when My Favorite Mulberry tree is full of fruit .  Reading the article instantly made me want some ;D.

[SwampDonkey]

When do I get mine?  I mean marbles mulberries. ;D

[WDH]

I will send you some.........

[SwampDonkey]

Do they look kinda like a black berry? 

[WDH]

Sort of, but much longer.  Sweet-tart too, where blackberries are just sweet  Yum .

[Tom]

I think they look more like a Raspberry than a blackberry, except that the stem doesn't come out of a mulberry like it does a Raspberry.  I don't know how it is up there, but down South, the kids are a lot easier to keep track of in Mulberry season.  :D

[SwampDonkey]

You sure won't find them glomming through the black berry thickets. ;D

and glomming is a word despite the spell checker, all be it slang.  ;)

Tom do you glom through the mulberry bushes to gleam the berries? ;D

[WDH]

Glom?  Wasn't that the creature in the Lord of the Rings?  So, when glomming, you shuffle through the blackberries a little hunched issuing hissing noises ??? :.

Next spring, I will have to go glom me some mulberries :D.

[Tom]

Used to be, when I glommed mulberries, I glommed them from the top of a tree.  It lead me to having long arms and a prehensile tail.   Only recently have i evolved away from that and begun to take the form of a degraded modern human. :D

[WDH]

But still simian at heart, no doubt ;D.

[Tom]

 smiley_monkeyfight   ;D