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  • From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid - Carpathian walnut range
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:53:30 -0400

Where do Carpathian walnuts do well on the east coast? I always though it was too warm, too much disease here in 7a NC.

Will they thrive in the Appalachians in zone 6?

Betsy Hilborn, DVM
NCSU 1993

On 10/24/2014 12:30 PM, R. Keith Etheridge wrote:
Hi Mary
I think quite possibly I'm the oldest NAFEX veterinarian as I graduated from Illinois veterinary college in'53 (second class).
3 or 4 years later I bought 80 acres of brush weeds and some worn out farm land nine miles from my residence. I had it cleared for pasture and farm land
At the time there were no walnut trees and I planted 3 seedlings from the family farm.Later when I dispersed the cattle and put the marginal crop land in CRP Planted numerous seeds
by stomping in the ground.Along with a few trees I bench grafted and the hybrid seedlings constitute the The genetic material of the thousands of walnuts I have.
I remember the area I planted the hybrids so will keep looking.
Keith


-----Original Message----- From: Mary Yett
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:25 PM
To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid

This sounds very interesting. I too would love to see a picture. I am too
far north to grow carpathian walnuts ( or at least so far), but black
walnuts do well here on Manitoulin Island ( in Lake Huron - Ontario's near
north, zone 4b). I love to eat black walnuts, but any improvement in
cracking them that grows on fairly hardy tree would be most exciting,

I have around 25 or so black walnut seedlings of local stock started Spring
of 2014 and would be interested in getting scion wood from your tree,maybe
in Winter/Spring of 2016, when my trees are big enough to graft. Would you
be interested in selling me some some day?

It makes me chuckle that I now know of 3 veterinarians who are active in
NAFEX and have been growing nut trees for decades-- you, me and Lucky
Pitmann. Maybe that is because vets tend to be all a bit "nutty'.

Mary Yett ( Auburn, class of '82)

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:06 PM, R. Keith Etheridge <goatdoc@ctitech.com>
wrote:

Hi Jerry
After I posted this I searched the internet and other than the thick light
fibrous husk the nut shows no sign of Carpathian traits.There are other
trees in the area I planted the
hybrid seedlings so I'll start checking the nuts from them.
Thanks
Keith

-----Original Message----- From: Jwlehman--- via nafex
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:21 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid


Hi Keith,

Can you supply pictures?

Jerry


In a message dated 10/14/2014 4:20:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
goatdoc@ctitech.com writes:

Kincaid Illinois is a few miles west of Taylorville Illinois where I was a
veterinarian. It was created as a coal mining town where a large portion
of the miners were Italian immigrants.
One of my clients of Italian extraction had a large Carpathian walnut in
her yard with many dogs.Knowing my interests she shared several nuts with
me. When they germinated
they produced what appeared to be a black walnut seedlings that I planted.
I’m a very poor record keeper but I have a tree thirty or more years later
that produces a pear shape
husk that a appears more fibrous and organized than other black walnuts
and produced a nut that cracks somewhat easier than the run of the
mill.Not
dry enough to evaluate.
I think at one time the USDA had walnut hybrid station that was terminated
due to lack of success.
Keith
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