I don't think it's supposed to do this..
My mulberries along with my grape vines, loquats, guavas, chillies, and pretty much every other fruiting tree woke up a few weeks ago.
They should be deeply dormant right now, there shouldn't even be leaves. There usually aren't any in July.
Winter has been unseasonably warm here in Perth. Distinctly warmer nights than previous years. I understand it's not much different elsewhere in Australia.
Lots of people around me in denial saying it can't be true because they're cold in the morning or because we had one really cold night a month ago. Great. It's cold, and also it's warmer than it's supposed to be.
I don't actually need help, there's no flair for discussion.
by EndlessPotatoes
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5 years ago I needed thermals to start work at 6 in the morning. These days I wear a vest that I take off by 8am.
A lot of deciduous trees in my area (Belmont) still have a handfull of leaves on them.
Some of my apple trees still have green leaves, and it’s almost August in Victoria. I think out of season flowering is a stress signal. My lemon verbena still has green leaves and flowers. I really have clue what will happen in spring.
Yep my Apple and peach just lost their leaves, apricot is still losing its leaves. Yet the mulberry has leaves and fruit growing. I didn’t even get time to prune it.
I bought a couple of rootstock apples from Bunnings about a month ago, one is shooting at the moment in temperate NSW. Got tommies flowering. Haven’t had a single frost, hasn’t even dipped below 5°. Things aren’t looking too good.
I keep getting emails from Trip a Deal for Antarctica, I mentioned offhand to my partner I’m pretty sure we’ll never make it because we can’t afford $12k pp over the next couple of years and I don’t think it’ll still be around in 10 years.
I keep tropical plants and I have heaps of stawrberries going. All my strawberries are in flower, and my tropicals haven’t entered dormancy at all this winter, still pushing out strong new growth, and they’re still outside. Very very strange. I don’t know what spring will be like with the strawberries so i’m just keeping them well fed with all the extra work they’re doing out of season.
For the past 5 years all of the fruiting trees in the neighbourhood just stopped, it’s the end times people.
I still have passion fruit ripening, mulberry’s ripening and tomatoes. I have not worn long pants or a jumper this year yet. WTF.
I savagely pruned a strawberry guava after fruiting late last year and its flowering now 🤯
Exactly the same situation, however I’ve noticed my Mulberries coming on unseasonably early for a couple of years now (Sunshine Coast, Qld)….so much so, I got 3 harvests last year. Should only ever get 2 and that’s only if there’s been ideal conditions. I have noticed each year the Mulberries are coming in super early. I used to prune in the last 2-4 weeks of Winter, however I had to do them just before the middle of Winter this year. The new sprouts came on about 3 weeks into Winter 😯 That’s WAY too early. I managed to catch the new shoots just as they were showing green, so it didn’t set them back at all and they’ve just continued to bear fruit and new shoots. You are alot further south than I am, so alot colder too, but I am feeling a little bit better knowing my 5 Mulberry tree pots are behaving similarly to other people’s 🥰 Thanks for sharing
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Our mulberry tree is absolutely laden in tiny fruit at the moment. We’re in Western Victoria, so it’s way too cold for fruiting, and the frost has knocked them around a fair bit, but I’m wondering what will happen with our summer crop this year.
Looks just like mine – QLD, I also still have star fruit on the tree that just won’t stop
My tomatoes and blueberry are flowering fruiting hard while temperature is dipping below 5 overnight in Victoria
I’m in Qld and my mulberry tree did the same – it arrived as bare root stock stating it was “dormant for winter” (it arrived from far North Qld) – they grew leaves and got fruit about 2 weeks ago – the mulberries are getting colour now. It’s my first time growing them so wasn’t sure if this was normal?
I’m also in Perth. I’ve got just over a punnet of blueberries developing at the moment. I was expecting this in September, not now.