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["Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lpittman@murraystate.edu>]

Mary, 
I can't speak to the cold-hardiness of BW cultivars - Jerry may have a better 
handle on that than me... but many of the 'improved' BW cultivars have much 
thinner shells and higher kernel percentages than the run-of-the-mill 'wild' 
BW - some 2-3X the kernel %. 
'Clermont' has the thinnest shell I've ever seen on a BW...'Thomas Myers' 
probably the best one I grow...  IIRC, John Gordon really liked Emma Kay at 
his place in Amherst, NY, my buddy Gordon Nofs, at Flint, MI likes Kwik Krop 
best.

Lucky Pittman (Auburn Univ. CVM Class of '85)

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Yett
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:26 PM
To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid

This sounds very interesting. I too would love to see a picture. I am too far 
north to grow carpathian walnuts ( or at least so far), but black walnuts do 
well here on Manitoulin Island ( in Lake Huron - Ontario's near north, zone 
4b). I love to eat black walnuts, but any improvement in cracking  them that 
grows on fairly hardy tree would be most exciting,

I have around 25 or so black walnut seedlings of local stock started Spring 
of 2014 and would be interested in getting scion wood from your tree,maybe in 
Winter/Spring of 2016, when my trees are big enough to graft. Would you be 
interested in selling me some some day?

It makes me chuckle that I now know of 3 veterinarians who are active in 
NAFEX and have been growing nut trees for decades-- you, me and Lucky 
Pitmann. Maybe that is because vets tend to be all a bit "nutty'.

Mary Yett  ( Auburn, class of '82)

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:06 PM, R. Keith Etheridge <goatdoc@ctitech.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jerry
> After I posted this I searched the internet and other than the thick 
> light fibrous husk the nut shows no sign of Carpathian traits.There 
> are other trees in the area I planted the hybrid seedlings so I'll 
> start checking the nuts from them.
> Thanks
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jwlehman--- via nafex
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:21 PM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid
>
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> Can you supply pictures?
>
> Jerry
>
>
> In a message dated 10/14/2014 4:20:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> goatdoc@ctitech.com writes:
>
> Kincaid  Illinois is a few miles west of Taylorville Illinois where I 
> was a veterinarian. It was created as a coal mining town where a large 
> portion of  the miners were Italian immigrants.
> One of my clients of Italian extraction  had a large Carpathian walnut 
> in her yard with many dogs.Knowing my interests  she shared several 
> nuts with me. When they germinated they produced what  appeared to be 
> a black walnut seedlings that I planted.
> I’m a very poor record  keeper but I have a tree thirty or more years 
> later that produces a pear  shape husk that a appears more fibrous and 
> organized than other black  walnuts and produced a nut that cracks 
> somewhat easier than the run of the mill.Not dry enough to evaluate.
> I think at one time the USDA had walnut  hybrid station that was 
> terminated due to lack of  success.
> Keith
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