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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

My Pecans will not always ripen here in zone 5. If we get an early killing 
frost just before they are about ready they will not open. My earliest is 
October. I have crossed The highly touted Weshke Hickory with my hardy 
pecans. But I probably won't be around to see the outcome of the Hican's.
      Gordon
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29 Mar 2001 12:28:44 +0000

Just which zone are these hardy pecans hardy to?  ...........vic, wishfully
thinking spring in zone 3!

Gordon Nofs wrote:

 > My Hardy Pecans are small, some up to 1 1/2 inches. But they crack out
 > whole, thin shell, very tasty. Like I was told once when a person said 
they
 > are awful small, Doc Goldner replied to the person "Yeah, but there is as
 > much and more there than in filberts"
 >     Flint, Michigan
 >       Gordon
 > *******************************************************
 > Subject: [nafex] Re: Ultra-Northern Pecans - in Minnesota?!
 > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:43:23 -0600
 >
 > He stated that their was a lot of pecans in his area
 >  >but they were small (about small marble size, a little longer) for the
 > holidays and I ask this gentleman where he lived He stated South Eastern
 > Minnesota
 >
 > I found a tree here in Tennessee with pecans about this small, and found
 > they cracked out very neatly, with none of the problems of shell hung in
 > folds or nutmeats breaking up.  The folds were very tight, there was no
 > wasted space inside.  I thought they would be worth having, and certainly
 > the owners of the tree thought so, they said they collect them every 
year.
 > It was a BIG tree.  Donna
 >
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