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[Eric Farnsworth <tropicofkansas@sbcglobal.net>]

I had a large mature pecan tree that every year made vast quantities of nuts. 
The squirrels would begin eating them (in a normal year) when they were green 
and just beginning to fill. Even so, there were enough nuts that a good 
quantity would mature. I soon discovered that if I found an intact nut under 
the tree it was a dud with no nut inside - the squirrels had already checked 
and rejected it. So for a number of years I got no nuts at all from the tree. 
Until one autumn when I was re-mulching the peonies near the pecan tree. 
There stuffed into the straw mulch were a couple handfuls of pecans. So to 
get nuts from my tree I had to think like a squirrel, and look where they put 
them. And I learned that they weren't interested in working any harder than 
they had to to hide the nuts.
Good luck.
Eric Farnsworth 
NE KS

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:52:48 -0600
From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Any northern growers have some pecan nuts?
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My trees just started bearing last year (12- 14 years old) but I
haven't found a way to keep the nuts from the squirrels yet.  Its
funny the squirrels don't really bother my buartnuts, perhaps because
they are still in the outside husk when they are on the ground.  The
pecans seems to be separating from the husk & so perhaps are more
attractive to the squirrels.

~mIEKAL