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[David Consolvo <fruitopia@nexet.net>]

Thanks, Mark.  Where are you located that your Swiss stone pine is healthy
enough to have produced nuts?  Do you have just one such tree, i.e. is it
self-pollinating?  And how difficult is it to shell the nuts?

David



> David,
> My Swiss Stone Pine was 13 years old before it produced it's first nuts.  It
> is 18 years old now and about 15 feet high.  I have a Pinyon Pine (New
> Mexico seed source) that is even older.  It is only 3 feet high and has
> never shown any signs of making cones.  There is probably a pinenut tree
> that can thrive in whatever environmental niche you have.
> -Mark
>