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Sat, Oct 5, 13 at 16:23
| My sister has several volunteer trees in her yard due to the squirrels. Her hubby tried digging one up for me; it was in the fence line and needed to be taken out. It was about 5' tall and the tap root was deeper than he had time to dig so chopped it off at about one foot. I put it in the ground at our place even though I don't think it will survive. Anyone had any experience with pecans and chopped tap roots? We did get a smaller tree with a manageable root and planted that one here, too. |
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| They can be chopped off at one foot and survive transplanting. Early spring would be a better time than now. If all that fails plant a few of those nuts where you want a tree. Then wait 15 years for a small harvest. |
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| What fruitnut said. My kids and I transplanted about 400 2-yr old pecan seedlings into a CRP riparian bufferstrip in 2000. One tree is producing a small crop of nuts this year; no telling when the others will come into production. |
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