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Posted by jagchaser 5A Nebraska, Late fr (My Page) on
Sun, Dec 1, 13 at 9:27

We found one American black walnut tree that produces nuts larger than any other I have seen. It is in an orchard that my grandpa planted maybe 30 years ago. All of the other trees around it have smaller nuts.

These walnuts green weigh 1/2 pound.

If it is something special then I may consider grafting from that tree to try to propagate.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?

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I'd say your small one's are smaller then average, the large one's are a good size indeed.

Here is a thread with larger nuts, 9 to 9 1/2 inches in circumference.

Here is a link that might be useful: Black Walnut Size

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  • Posted by glib 5.5 (My Page) on
    Sun, Dec 1, 13 at 11:32

I am familiar with about a dozen BW, a couple near the orchard, one in the front yard, and the rest on my walk to the commuter lot, and those definitely are large nuts, and all trees I see have nuts consistent with the smaller one in the pic. There is one agricultural school in every state. Go talk to them.

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a bit off topic, but do some people like the wild musky taste of black walnut for fresh eating? i can understand baking with it--it's used extensively in banana nut bread correct? but eating fresh??? i've had some fresh been too strong musky for me.

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I have not made banana bread in a few years but use pounds and pounds of them for cooking. They are so useful. I could forage wild ones, but it's too much trouble to prep them, so I just purchase them. I love using them in sauces, adds a special flavor like honey-butter-walnut sauce for roasted figs. Great in scones too with any fruit.
Hundreds of uses for walnuts. Pecans I use a lot too.
Recent studies confirm those who eat nuts daily live longer. I try to eat them daily. One of those basic foods for millions of years our genetic line has consumed. So beneficial. Expensive too, so the cheaper nuts are just as healthy and everybody should find ways to use them.

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You can't really tell if those nuts are big unless the husks are off. Some trees have really thick husks.

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You can't really tell if those nuts are big unless the husks are off. Some trees have really thick husks.

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All of the nuts from this one tree are the size of the one on the left (or bottom). There are others as big as the middle one, and ones from further west in NE are the far right nut. They are really tiny.

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drew i agree about nuts. I was asking for ppl who love specifically black walnuts to chime in... lots of great varieties of nuts, but the black walnut is a tad too different for my palette

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Those are good sized. Have you opened any yet? I had a dream last night about giant black walnuts, the size of your fist.

When I was in high school there was an old dying english walnut across the street from the school kind of growing out of the gutter (I think it predated the pavement). There were maybe only 3 or 4 feet growing above the graft and it maybe dropped a dozen nuts each year. Without the husks, those walnuts were about the size of a tennis ball. I always figured it had some sort of virus or something. A few years ago I went to check on it and it had died. I wish I had saved some of of the shells.

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jagchaser, I just sent you an email

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