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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 13, 2015 11:19:42 GMT -5
I would like to plant a couple of pecan trees. How well do they grow in Southern IN? What type would be the best?
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Post by duff on Oct 13, 2015 12:27:34 GMT -5
My daughter brought one home from school on arbor day 2 years ago. No idea on type but it was bare root. It has done great. Read they need at least 2 inorder to bear fruit. Picked up 3 more from Orchiles this spring. They have struggled but still growing. Talked to a nursery last minth and he told me to order some from Valonia was his best advice. Think I will get 6 more.
I hear they take 15 yrs to bear fruit...it will make my first pecan pie that much sweeter :-)
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Post by featherduster on Oct 13, 2015 13:31:00 GMT -5
duff said "I hear they take 15 yrs to bear fruit...it will make my first pecan pie that much sweeter" If your lucky they might be able to serve it at your wake.  |
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Post by duff on Oct 13, 2015 13:57:22 GMT -5
Yea, likely won't live here that long anyways, dang neighbors keep building and I don't want to be in the middle of a subdivsion...Just fun to plant them and see how they do.
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Post by parrothead on Oct 13, 2015 14:38:04 GMT -5
I have 3 in the barn yard and have picked up 5, 5 gallon buckets of nuts. If I could keep the tree rats out of it I would have more.
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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 13, 2015 15:11:30 GMT -5
I have 3 in the barn yard and have picked up 5, 5 gallon buckets of nuts. If I could keep the tree rats out of it I would have more. Are you interested in selling some? |
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Post by bartiks on Oct 13, 2015 17:14:26 GMT -5
duff said "I hear they take 15 yrs to bear fruit...it will make my first pecan pie that much sweeter" If your lucky they might be able to serve it at your wake. Absolutely, they take forever to produce. I think they take longer than oaks to produce that's why they cost so much at the store. |
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Post by kevin1 on Oct 13, 2015 19:23:06 GMT -5
Carya illinoinensis is cold hardy enough for this region, most nurseries carry them.
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Post by nfalls116 on Oct 13, 2015 19:29:34 GMT -5
Pretty sure Woody has a couple also
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Post by parrothead on Oct 14, 2015 5:30:52 GMT -5
I got 2 from Stark Bros and one was a freebee from school. They freebee is doing the best prob 40 feet tall. The people I hunt on go to the farm show in Georgia every fall and bring me back a 50lb bag they are cracked but still in the shell. They were 2 bucks a lb last year. I know mine aren't 15 years old yet. Trying to remember when I planted them. Scrub, I eat a boat load of nuts probably 2 cups a day and give the rest to my mom.
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Post by parrothead on Oct 14, 2015 5:33:14 GMT -5
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Post by parrothead on Oct 14, 2015 5:34:01 GMT -5
Some produce in little as 5-7 years. Starks has a year long replacement too.
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Post by omegahunter on Oct 14, 2015 6:47:32 GMT -5
Some produce in little as 5-7 years. Starks has a year long replacement too. I would plant some in my yard if they would produce some that fast. |
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Post by parrothead on Oct 14, 2015 6:59:25 GMT -5
Call Stark Bros. I have many times to talk and ask questions they are very nice. I just got a catalog yesterday. I think it was for a sale going on.
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Post by parrothead on Oct 14, 2015 7:01:44 GMT -5
Call Stark Bros. I have many times to talk and ask questions they are very nice. I just got a catalog yesterday. I think it was for a sale going on.
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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 14, 2015 14:27:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the info and link. That didn't look like a bad price for 2 trees.
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Post by dadfsr on Oct 14, 2015 19:04:54 GMT -5
We have several pecan and pecan/hickory crosses growing on the main Purdue campus. I would certainly try to find stock that has come from this region (zone 5 if possible)since, I'm sure, the varieties from more southern temperaments would not survive some of our sub-zero winter conditions.
I do know that the pecan trees that I moved onto campus from a nearby private donor had tap roots that were more than 6' long!!! Usually tap roots don't survive much below the oxygen exchange area of the soil but these trees had broken off tap roots sticking out of the tree spade when dug-that Big John tree spade would dig down 56"! ...and again like most nut trees-pecans are typically hard to transplant and are much better if started in a pot and planted from that.
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Post by chubwub on Oct 14, 2015 19:42:52 GMT -5
Don't hicans also have the benefit of being able to cross polleninate with either hickory or pecan?
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Post by dadfsr on Oct 15, 2015 4:40:18 GMT -5
Don't hicans also have the benefit of being able to cross polleninate with either hickory or pecan? They must be able to cross pollinate because the two that I have been watching for years always are full of nuts but I have yet to eat one of them because the squirrels will have them cleaned off the tree before any hit the ground-must be pretty good nuts!! |
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