Gerardi Dwarf Mulberry: The Perfect Backyard Fruit Tree

all right fruit lovers this is Ross ratty and today we're going to talk about mulberries in this video and I want to highlight in particular this variety here behind me I have two trees of the gerardi dwarf Mulberry it is in my opinion one of the most perfect backyard plants for anyone in a backyard Orchard setting it is a variety that is truly dwarf uh and makes it so easy and manageable to grow a mberry because by the way they have about I was just thinking about this they have about three different stigmas that are attached to mulberries or three reasons why somebody wouldn't want to grow a mberry and I think this variety really puts all three of those to bed and solves them first and foremost mobar are invasive without a doubt uh they're also really large trees they grow so quickly and can become too big and unmanageable in a very short amount of time there also typically kind of make a mess so if you just grow this variety you can simply net it and that way the birds can't get in there eat the fruits poop out the seeds and put Mulberry seedlings that will pop up everywhere um and it's also not so gigantic because it tops out realistically at a 6ot x 6t uh size which is the perfect size by the way you'd want for any kind of tree in a backyard setting uh so it really just solves everything now why is it dwarf exactly is it a particular species of Mulberry that's dwarf uh well the answer lies in here if you look at the production of this mberry the production is insane I mean just absolutely wildly productive it's so productive that uh the trees really don't grow all that much because the energy requirement that has to be put into these fruits is so demanding that the trees really just don't grow all that much look at that so yeah this is just in my opinion uh you know it's got everything you'd want and it also has the flavor component I know there's a lot of mberry heads out there maybe watching this video and thinking to themselves oh I have a variety that's so special and so tasty like pakist or you know uh Morris or some other random Mulberry that no one's ever heard of uh but to be totally fair this Mulberry because of the other traits it has and if you think about the flavor of this it's really not that far away from the best tasting mulberries in the world I've eaten them I've grown Morris for years to try to eat it and that's well regarded as like the best tasting mberry it's a different species of Mulberry there's different varieties within it uh and if I lived in the perfect climate and could grow moris sagra I probably would over gerardi because it's also relatively slower growing uh but in general I think this is really not that far away um it has a nice mberry flavor it's Unique in terms of other berries it's sweet it has an acid component to me I think it's got everything and so yeah I'm going to just be eating some mulberries picking them here maybe I'll make some up this year maybe I'll make some Jam uh I don't know what I'll do freeze them but there is so many this year that uh between these two grafted trees I have I'm going to be in heaven oh and by the way if you have any seedlings that do pop up just graft onto them that's exactly what I did with these two trees over here there's a second one back there these were just seedings that popped up and I grafted gerardi right on top of them and uh was probably the best decision I ever made and now I have about five gerardi trees in different places on the property so thanks for watching this guys if you enjoyed this video please hit the Subscribe button hit that like button we'll see you guys for more videos like this take care