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  • From: "Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pecan on hickory --> dwarfing?
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:49:17 -0600

Bitter Pecan, carya aquatica, is also slightly dwarfing which causes less
production but is good for wet sites where sweet pecan does not grow well.
R. D. O'Barr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pecan on hickory --> dwarfing?


> At 08:35 AM 1/7/2003 -0600, Richard wrote:
> >Regarding pecan on Hickory. It is reported to work with most hickories
and
> >las 20 years or so even with overgrowth. However there are some
tetraploid
> >hickories and I do not know how they would work.
>
> Well, then, pecan grafted onto a shagbark rootstock might work to keep
size
> down. I don't know that shellbark would diminish tree size, as they tend
> to be quite vigorous growers, at least in my neck of the woods.
> Fred Blankenship tells me that there are some hickory cultivars that
really
> "like" pecan - Yoder, Mitch Russell, etc., while others seem to be
> 'happier' on a hickory rootstock. Wonder if some pecan cultivars would be
> recalcitrant on hickory?
>
> Lucky
>
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