Fruits and Nuts: pecan trees, 0 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
Have you seen the size of your pecan nuts? Our local Cooperative Extension County agent has a large chart on the wall with a sample of nuts of each of the grafted varieties recommended for Texas and about 20 samples of native tree nuts. Some of the native pecan nuts rival the grafted size. Ours on the other hand are not worth grafting. The nut size on our trees averages 3/4". I've included a photo of one of our trees to indicate the size of most of our pecan trees. The tree is between 60' and 80' tall. The crumbling tree house is between 25' to 30' above the ground. Grafting the trees would be very expensive since the lowest branch is so high. Grafting would not change the size of the nut produced. As an alternative, I'm trying to get my husband to buy a few of the grafted ones. A local commercial orchard is selling their grafted trees before the bulldozers show up to turn the orchard into a shopping center.

The only way to tell whether your trees produce catkins or flowers first is to wait until spring and compare what your trees produce to the photos provided by this Clemson University website.

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subimages.cfm?SUB=3262