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["O'Barr, R. D." <topgun@otelco.net>]

Thanks Lucky for your views. You know with some pecans, such as Jackson and
Desirable, there is some overlapping of staminate and pistillate blooms, but
not in all by any means. It could be similar with Butternut. Maybe someone
knowlegeable will weigh in on it.
Topgun
Zone 7 at 1200 ft MSL.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fwd: Protecting the Butternut Tree


> At 11:13 AM 6/29/2005, Topgun wrote:
> >Does the Butternut tree require 2 varieties for pollination?
>
> You know, I'm not sure.
> I've got a number of butternut seedlings - some of which are quite likely
> to be hybrids, as some of the seednuts came from a friend who has quite a
> collection of butternut, heartnut, Carpathian, and Japanese walnut
> selections, in addition to black walnut in his plantings.
> True butternut and Japanese walnut/heartnut cross-pollenate readily.  I
> suppose that if bloom periods overlap/coincide, Carpathian &/or black
could
> also cross-pollenate, but I'm only aware of a couple of butternutXblack
> walnut hybrids, and a single buartXblack cross, so it may be that their
> bloom periods are not compatible for hybridization to occur frequently
> without some human intervention.
>
> One of my butternut seedlings, grown from seednuts from GA produced
catkins
> for the first time this year, but no nutlet flowers, so no nuts yet.
These
> 'Southern' nuts were quite different from the 'northern' butternuts I was
> more accustomed to seeing - a smaller, more rounded, egg-shaped nut, with
> less prominent external ridges/veins on the shell itself, but internal nut
> structure and characteristics of the seedling are undoubtedly 'butternut'.
>
> Lucky Pittman
> USDA Cold Zone 6
> AHS Heat Zone 7
> Hopkinsville, KY
>
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