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[nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>]

Betsy,
I also live in 7a NC, about 15 miles west of Winston-Salem.  I got two 
Filbert trees through the Arbor Day Hazelnut Project about 9 years ago.  They 
grow and produce well here.  I get about 5 5-gal buckets of nuts in the husk 
- I shell out a couple buckets and give about 3 buckets away to friends and 
neighbors.  the only care I give them is to prune out a few of the oldest 
stems each year, as well as any that decide to stick out of the cluster at an 
angle.
Let me know if you want more info.
Jim Nottke

-----Original Message-----
>From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
>Sent: Feb 3, 2011 12:04 PM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [NAFEX] Hazelnuts in NC  OT?
>
>I have my eye on a couple of the blight immune filberts that One Green
>World is offering.  I now that in my humid eastern climate I need blight
>resistance, but will these plants tolerate the heat and produce here?
>
>Does anyone have experience growing filberts in the south/ southeast?
>
>Betsy Hilborn
>7a NC
>