[NAFEX] monkey puzzle
Devin Cooper
willamette at hevanet.com
Sun Apr 13 16:58:06 EDT 2003
We have a tree in our yard in Canby, Or that I am assuming was plantd
shortly after the house was built in 1980. It has had cones 2 out of
the last 4 years. I do not know however if the seed are viable or
sterile. The tree is about 50 feet tall.
Devin Cooper
"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
> Plan on planting this for your grandchildren. In 40 years I have seen
> cones on ONE (1) tree in the NW, and it was the largest tree I've seen
> of the species. I've been watching one in Salem, Oregon that was
> planted before 1985 and it's still not up to bearing size. These
> things make pecans look like speedsters (and they take 10 to 12 years
> to start bearing, and up to 50 to get to full production).
> If you can do the scoring or inversion without getting yourself
> scored by the sharp scales, you'll be doing very good.
>
>
> From: "Mark Lee" <markl at nytec.com>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:11:08 -0700
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers"
> <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] monkey puzzle
>
>
> There are a number of monkey puzzle trees growing in
> Seattle, yet I have
> never seen one produce a cone. The tree is very slow
> growing. It can take
> 40 years to produce its first cone, and at this age the tree
> is typically
> 100 feet tall. And only after this waiting period do you
> know if the tree
> is male or female. For reasons given below, I would like to
> try growing
> monkey puzzle as a nut crop. I want to overcome two
> problems with this
> tree:
> 100 feet is too tall in my neighborhood.
> 40 years is too long to wait.
>
> I have read that bark inversion, scoring and girdling have a
> dwarfing affect
> while inducing flower bud initiation... smaller trees and
> earlier fruiting.
> Any opinions on applying this technique to monkey puzzle?
>
> Here is some facts about monkey puzzle nuts that starting me
> thinking...
>
> ttp://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Araucaria+araucana&CAN=LATIND
>
> "Rich in starch, the seed is soft like a cashew nut and has
> a slight flavour
> of pine nuts. This is a delicious seed and it makes very
> pleasant eating. It
> is a food that can easily be eaten in quantity and can be
> used as a staple
> food in the diet. Fairly large, the seeds are about the size
> of an
> almond....This tree has an excellent potential to become a
> commercial crop
> in the western parts of Britain, it is high yielding, has
> large tasty seeds
> and is easily harvested. Plants grow best in S.W. England
> and along the
> west coast of Britain where they produce seed regularly and
> abundantly.
> Female cones take 2 - 3 years to mature and break up at the
> end of the year.
> They contain up to 200 large seeds. Plants self-sow in
> Cornwall. We have
> records of trees regularly producing good crops of seeds in
> various sites in
> Cornwall, Devon and the west coast of Scotland. We also have
> one report of
> an excellent crop in 1997 from trees at Alvaston Castle near
> Derby and of a
> tree in Bedfordshire producing a heavy crop... Its main
> disadvantages are
> its slow rate of growth and the time it takes before the
> first crop is
> produced - this can be up to 40 years from seed though we
> have often seen
> plants less than 20 years old produce cones. The plant is
> dioecious so at
> least one male plant needs to be grown for every 5 - 6
> females -
> unfortunately there is no way of telling the sex of the tree
> until it
> flowers."
>
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