the heck with the stake... here is what i would do ... in October.. after it losses its leaves.. dig it up.. and replant it straight.. and trim off whatever does not allow such ... it either lives or dies ... if i had a nickle to bet.. it was severely root bound from a pot.. and was improperly planted.. and the roots really never went out into the native soil ... and as such.. it has nothing to anchor itself upright .. do you have clay soil .. per chance??? i wish you luck.... get rid of it.. when it losses its appeal .... ken ps: really now.. if it cant anchor itself upright .. then of what purpose is it for you.. to pull it back to plumb.. wont it just keep falling over ????

Does it have a straight trunk and is there a bulge where the crown meets up with the trunk? Like one part of hte plant, enveloping another? If so, it's a grafted tree. The base is not the same as the top portion of the plant. The base may be a simple mulberry tree but do be careful if you are considering to grow the bottom part as regular mulberries can grow to sizes of gigantic proportions. Here;s a link to a photo of a typical grafted mulberry standard. http://www.tree-mendus.ca/Mulberry.jpg Many garden stores will sell many forms of standards that are really grafted to trees of similar species. Like apples to apples, pea shrubs to pea shrubs, lilacs to lilacs, etc... To be certain, check for hte graft union portion. That is the area that requires most winter protection because once that area is injured either by water seeping in, or an insect burring in, fungus, etc.. it will kill off the top portion of the plant. Also with any grafted tree, there will always be situation where the bottom part will try to grow more branches or trunks. It's important to suppress these growth because it takes nutrients away from it's head. It's akin to Frankenstein.

I was trying to decide if I wanted this or a weeping Santa Rosa plum. I went with the plum. Burnt Ridge nursery,Raintree, and One Green World have weeping mulberries, no mention of them being the tea cultivar??

Yeah I was reading about the grafting thing during a break today. Looks like weeping is usually grafted onto a white mulberry. So if i transplant one of the suckers I'll probably just get a white mulberry. Could transplant and attempt to graft off the weeping mulberry to get a new one I guess. But I'm no grafting expert though. On the distance from the house thing. I thought mulberry was one of the do not plant near foundation trees, that has very aggressive roots. Does the stunted "weeping" top work to also stunt the roots. Shouldn't I be concerned that it's putting roots up into the crawlspace. To me it seems sort of alarming that the roots have already breach underneath the footer and come up on the other side.