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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] precocious walnuts

I have one that may be the same thing, bred by someone in Michigan.  He also called it Alpha.  It has female flowers on it the year after germinating.  I have some here in Oregon and have never seen a nut on it.  It produces catkins all the time, even into the middle of summer, but even with other walnuts around it has never had a nut.  I have to assume climate is important in getting it to bear.
-Lon Rombough
> From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:54:09 -0700
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] precocious walnuts

> I have been corresponding with Gordon Nofs about his "Nofs Alpha" walnut.
> He has seen seedlings from this tree produce nuts in 2 years.  That's
> amazing.  I found out about this in one of the mail attachments he sent out
> this week to this e-mail list.  If you have this walnut or descendants of it
> and have nuts you have harvested this year, I would like to get in touch
> with you about sending nuts to me.  I want to start an experiment to see how
> fast seedlings of this type would produce nuts in Seattle.  I would also
> like to hear about anyone else's experience with this type of precocious
> walnut.
> -Mark Lee
>
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