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| I'm just a couple years into the hobby of growing fruit, and have found myself wanting to try pecans as well, though they appear to take longer than fruit to produce. Well, just yesterday I was walking around my new little hobby farm and to my extreme thrill and excitement, I discovered that I already have 2 pecan trees about 25 feet tall! I was elated, even though the pecans on these trees are extremely small (I'm talking about the size of 2 marbles; smaller than a quarter. That being said, they are delicious pecans! They are growing in a fence row in such a place that its hard to imagine they were ever planted there. Is it possible these are "wild pecans"? I am in middle Tennessee in a rural area. Also, is there anything I can do to make these trees produce larger nuts? (IE remove all nearby trees, fertilize, plant other pecans to pollinate these, etc). Even though I've learned that including 3 questions in one posts usually results in only 1-2 being answered, I'm going to try a related question. Our local Lowes store has some very large pecan trees in those really tall pecan tree pots to accommodate their long tap root. However, they have a card attached that says "seedlings-not grafted". That would scare me away from any fruit tree, but with pecans I'm not sure. THey have Elliot and Stewart varieties. These will likely go to half price soon, so what do you all think about my planting a seedling pecan? And again, how would this affect my existing, possibly wild pecans? thanks all. |
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| Your existing wild pecans are seedlings which can vary widely in size, shell hardness, ease of shelling, etc. You'll do better planting grafted trees of proper varieties. There was an excellent recent thread about the best grafted varieties for mid TN. |
Here is a link that might be useful: pecan mid TN
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- Posted by thecityman 7a/6b (My Page) on Thu, Oct 23, 14 at 6:14
| As always, fruitnut, that is great information. Thanks! |
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