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  • From: David Consolvo <fruitopia@nexet.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pine nuts and Paw-Paw seeds
  • Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:49:02 -0500

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
>





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