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[Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>]

Where do Carpathian walnuts do well on the east coast? I always though 
it was too warm, too much disease here in 7a NC.

Will they thrive in the Appalachians in zone 6?

Betsy Hilborn, DVM
NCSU 1993

On 10/24/2014 12:30 PM, R. Keith Etheridge wrote:
> Hi Mary
> I think quite possibly I'm the oldest NAFEX veterinarian as I 
> graduated from Illinois veterinary college in'53 (second class).
> 3 or 4 years later I bought 80 acres of brush weeds and some worn out 
> farm land nine miles from my residence. I had it cleared for pasture 
> and farm land
> At the time there were no walnut trees and I planted 3 seedlings from 
> the family farm.Later when I dispersed the cattle and put the marginal 
> crop land in CRP Planted numerous seeds
> by stomping in the ground.Along with a few trees I bench grafted and 
> the hybrid seedlings constitute the The genetic material of the 
> thousands of walnuts I have.
> I remember the area I planted the hybrids so will keep looking.
> Keith
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Mary Yett
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:25 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
> > __________________