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["Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>]

David,
I am located near Seattle at about 200 feet elevation about 1 mile from
Puget Sound.  Typical winter days are 30'F to 50'F and wet.  Typical summer
days are 60'F to 80'F and dry.  Record temps in my lifetime are 5'F and
100'F.

I have 2 Swiss Stone Pines growing with branches growing together.  In late
Spring, yellow clouds of pollen can be shaken from the branches.  Maybe they
pollinate each other, I don't know the requirements for that.

Swiss Stone Pine cones are very dense, like chunks of wood or rocks.  I let
them dry, then use a sledgehammer to break them open.  Once they are opened
a little, it is easy to tear the rest of the cone apart by hand.  If I had a
whole bunch of these, I don't know how I would process them.  For now, I
make an adventure of nibbling these nuts with my kids.  I have heard that
roasting the whole cones will cause them to open.

-Mark Lee, Seattle

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of David Consolvo
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:49 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [JunkMail] Re: [NAFEX] Pine nuts and Paw-Paw seeds


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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