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- From: "R. Keith Etheridge" <goatdoc@ctitech.com>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] hardiness zone, heat zone, location
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:40:19 -0500
My location is about same latitude as Indianapolis
but in central Illinois.The plantings face south east ,with the west boundrie
level,
sloping to a creek.About fifteen years ago I bought
a few grafted northern pecans from Les Wilmoth and started bench
grafting
northern,far northern pecans, hicans and
hickories.About three years ago ,I bark, and four flap grafted some seedlings.I
have about
twenty trees bearing age.About two weeks after the
usual last frost we got a killing frost.The farthest west (Between a 2 acre pond
and
a quarter acre pond(highest in elevation )show no
damage,the creek trees frosted 20 feet up.Those in between according to
elevation.
Also those with timber or even just one tree to the
north west of them show no frost.
I'm in zone 5 on maps but Pawnee matured here two
years ago and I think it was developed in Texas.I traded scions with aperson in
Connecticut who was in zone 6 but wanted far
northern because lack of heat units due to the ocean.
Keith
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[NAFEX] hardiness zone, heat zone, location,
R. Keith Etheridge, 06/02/2005
- Re: [NAFEX] hardiness zone, heat zone, location, Lucky Pittman, 06/02/2005
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